Today's Washington Post - Marriage on the Upswing!!

[Sparky Kronkite]

Good! Great! That just means more dissatisfied, horny ladies in the next couple of years. Do tell. And young'uns too. When the Shebabe gets to be 40 - just might trade'er in on a couple of 20's. Get'em before they scar and drop - don't you know.

 

[Latina]

Damn, Sparky! I mean, Damn!

I am married and over 40, and am happier now than I have ever been. I think I look better, too. I may be horny, but I am FAR from dissatisfied--in fact, having better sex now at 50 than I did at 25 or 30! And I am LOVED, which makes me look and feel better and sexier than ever. Two 20-year-olds still don't add up to HALF of what this 50-year-old has going for her! Like the line in Cher's song, "you've been going cheap, she ain't worth half of me, it's true..."

And what's wrong with having kids? We have two kids, both adopted: a 17-year-old girl who is out on her own, has her high-school diploma and a JOB (we finished raising her!), and a 13-year-old learning-disabled and VERY athletic boy who is both a joy and a challenge.

-- Latina

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

AH....HAAAAAAA.....!!!!!!!!

This explains everything - Latina - you been listening to too much Cher!!!!!!!

My god woman! Don't you know what that will do to your brain?

I could lead to cross dressing - crazed plastic surgery - and a strange lisp.

I would advise you to stop - soon.

 

[Latina]

Watching a Cher concert is like going to the circus. She's in the middle singing and dancing, dressed in eye-catching costumes. Dancers are around her, people are swinging from trapezes, and fireworks going off behind her. It's FUN to see and hear! The energy level makes me feel good. She DOES sing about break-ups a bit too much, though.

But I would NOT want to be like Cher. Plastic surgery? Puh-lease, I am 100% naturally beautifully all ME! Wouldn't have it any other way.

I like Tina Turner, too. Such a unique and powerful voice. And legs that look amazing even at her age (what is she now, 75?--just kidding). Tina proves that a woman doesn't have to be 20 to be beautiful and talented.

I like a lot of different kinds of music/musicians, at different times and in different moods. Jazz, rock, classical...

-- Latina

 

[*Eve*]

Not busy today are you Sparky?

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Yeah..... I guess..... if you put it that way....

I'd fuck both of'em. You know, listen to their music and compliment them on it - just to see if they still get wet.

But I wouldn't wear any big fluffy silk shirts! No way!

I'd make'em walk my dog. Walk, walk'n the dog.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Yeah, I kinda fucked up....

But I got a lot more done than I have in weeks.. So the 1st attempt was a success. Of sorts.

 

[Ezzie]

Re: Yeah..... I guess..... if you put it that way....

I'd fuck both of'em. You know, listen to their music and compliment them on it - just to see if they still get wet.

But I wouldn't wear any big fluffy silk shirts! No way!

I'd make'em walk my dog. Walk, walk'n the dog.

I'm so proud of you, Sparky! You finally admitted you'd fuck a musician! This is the happiest day of my life...


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[Guest]

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[Sparky Kronkite]

So.....

They're musicians - are they?

 

[Ezzie]

Well... some call them that

Sparks, I think you and I should just sit back someday and have a discussion of music. Hell, I'd love to see what I could learn from you as well as explain my way of thinking.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Ezz babe.....

I think I have a pretty good handle on what your ideas on music are - I find nothing at all difficult about them. My only hope is that "young music buying people" dig a bit deeper than their wallets - regarding all music.

When I first became enamored with a certain kind of music - that would be the British Blues Invasion - I bought and then began to read. Clapton would say - "yeah in art school we'd hunt down all these old Black, Yank Blues players from the Delta." I'd read that and go hunt down info and recordings on those cats.

And this wasn't just me - by and large, many of us so-called children of the late 60's early 70's - cared enough to research the particular musical genre they were into at the time. It was really rather cool to have old records.

Sorry but I don't think I see much of that today - least not to the degree I believe I/we experienced it. I think kids should have some clue that what they are listening to, in essence, can be traced back to the 70's, 60's, 50's and further. All emanating from Black musicians of there day.

 

[Ezzie]

I'm not all about "Today's music" though

I was raised by my sister who is 6 years older than me. I was taught to appreciate all kinds of music but especially hard rock. Kiss, AC/DC, ZZ Top... bands like that were something I grew to love and really enjoy. As I got older, out on my own and into the music business itself, I learned to adapt to the music around me. Granted that they never have been nor ever will be anything close to what I grew up with, but I developed a taste for the "Anger" in a lot of today's music. (Not referring to the boy bands or Britany Spears' in today's society) What these newer generation bands sing about are things that I'm familiar with, just don't have the talent to put my feelings into song. I greatly respect bands that layed the ground work for today's musicians and I understand that not everyone likes bands like these. But if anything I hope that people can see where they're coming from. This is not an insult to the older people on the board but you all had music that just reached out and sounded like they had written it just for you. Well, that's what a lot of people in my generation are doing also. We've learned that as a part of "younger America" that we have to do things to grab people's attention and cussing, doing obscene things on stage and getting parent's to hate us is just the way to get it. I was 2 when Elvis died but I do remember he did things that parents all over the world hated, his famous pelvis wiggles. Well, nope, this generation of bands and musicians don't wiggle their pelvis' for attention, they'd much prefer to say "Fuck this, fuck that and fuck you" and that my dear Sparky, is part of daily life for a lot of the youth in this country.

But like I said earlier, I love all kinds of music. I don't really care if "fuck" is every other word in the song or it's something sweet and a little sappy. Just give me music, let me dance or sing to it and allow me to write my opinion on it, after all, isn't that what the first amendment gives me the right to do?


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[Sparky Kronkite]

Yeah, I got no problem with "angry"

Been that way ever since I figured out at the tender age of 4 that I would die and that I would eventually become dust. That's when I began to grow old and that's also when I started to form ideas of always trying to "think young."

I certainly don't have any problems with the word fuck and I actually work for free speech advocacy. And as far as "speaking to a generation." Fine - all real.

But there is an element to music appreciation that I've been hedging upon and just not coming right out and saying - that would be "ancestry to source conception" (hey don't ask me I made that up) it means that you're so deep into music, or art or anything that "you want to know it all - as much as possible." When that happens and it's rare - and in my mind getting even more rare - it leads to deeper appreciation and huge amounts of respect "for those who came before."

So, how does that practically affect someone - me?

Even though I still search out and listen to a lot of rock and modern rock too - I mentioned on another thread I think - that I'm looking for a band called Red Stripe and that I'm a bit into Dillinger Escape - I also listen to a lot of vintage Jazz (I would recommend beginners to try Kind Of Blue by Miles) Country (for young'uns try Junior Brown a true modern revisionist) - I listen to "aural paintings" by the likes of Bucket Head, Tone, etc.. And I still listen to bunches of harder to find, not the hits, oldies. I currently have about 1300 CD's and average about 3 per week.

Anyway - ramble - ramble - the only thing is - there's always more to appreciate, more to learn and more to dig. My next stop will be classical.