Public relations, communication and interesting times in China.
Here's one for you:
Saturday morning cartoons and the sugary cereal feast.
P.S. What the hell is Twitter?
Yes! Bugs Bunny-Road Runner show, Cheerios (with white sugar) and Nestle Quick mixed as thick as concrete. Yum!
Yup, I too first saw Star Wars (ep IV) at the Coronet. Oddly enough I also saw Episode I there, opening day. Still one of the best single-screen theatres going. Heck, might eventually be the only.
Wilma Deering. Oh dear. She mighta been my first crush.
Is WAIS anything like WKRP?
@ Hose-B:
Twitter will ask you constantly what you're doing & where you are, and then tell everyone who's interested exactly what you're doing & where you are at all times! Isn't that cool?
No. No, it's really not cool. It's stupid. Because *NOBODY* is interested. And if I wanted to account for what I'm doing every living moment, I'd work at a law firm.
@ Imagethief:
I'm with you, except that it wasn't my parents but my 10 older brothers & sisters had the Hendrix, Cream, Joni Mitchell, Chicago, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, and Traffic records.
Speaking of "Imagethief", have I ever mentioned that every time I see that word, I am happy that the "t" isn't capitalized? Because I weary of trendy InWordCapitalIzation. I get it, I get it, they took two words & shoved them together to make one word. BigDeal.
Uh-oh, the Troubalert is going, I'd better go check out the ginormous big-screen TV & see what calamity has occurred.
I'm 25 but we had b & w tv until 84. Beloit college publishes its annual freshman mindset. Interesting.
http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/
Actually, it's amazing how many people think I've screwed up the name of my own blog and write "ImageThief" or, worse, "Image Thief". I've even ranted about it on the blog. Twice.
So, Bob, what did your parents listen to? Just outta curiosity?
Ok, I won't be 40 for another year!
For me it was John Denver, Neil Diamond, Tom Lehrer and Pachabels Canon.
And don't forget a VCR with an actual tethered remote which allowed you to start and stop the tape!
And, of course, my beloved CPM DOSmachine the Kaypro II.
Wow, I've got nine years to go yet, and still, several of your signs your 40 are signs I'm 31. Then again, I did grow up in New Zealand.
Still, my parents musical tastes are entirely different: Simon and Garfunkel, [shudder] ABBA, [big, big shudder] Salvation Army brass bands. Simon and Garfunkel are cool, but the rest of their music is bloody awful.
My parents (read: my dad) listened to classical, mostly. Pablo Casals was a cello megastar a couple generations before Yo-Yo Ma. I'm sure they had a collected Beethoven Symphonies. A Mendelssohn violin concerto. Some flute concerti performed by JP Rampal (of course). But hiding among all that 19th century stuff was Glen Miller's Greatest Hits, and a Benny Goodman record, too. Pretty much anything and everything written after 1940 was noise to them, which made all the 60's music ideal for my older brothers and sisters.
But mostly, my parents listened to my father, and later, my brother, play the piano. Stacks and stacks of sheet music were piled on the piano & nearby shelves. Chopin, Mozart, Brahms, Alkan, Beethoven, and Bach, the Schirmer's Library publications with the buff covers and sans serif block titles in dark green ink. And of course, Clair De Lune by Debussy. My father sang in the church choir, and accompanied himself on the piano while practicing the Kyrie and Sanctus and hymns.