a gen-x'er responds to barack
an interesting communique from the other side of the big generational divide.
posted by stashdauber at 9:39 AM
Friday, November 07, 2008
Me / My Bands Online
- my youtube channel
- dennis gonzalez legacy band intro remarks
- thoughts on trout mask replica guitar project
- further thoughts on trout mask replica guitar project
- trout mask replica track by track: dali's car
- trout mask replica track by track: sweet sweet bulbs
- katboy's stoogeaphilia archive
- hentai improvising orchestra on bandcamp
- hentai improvising orchestra violitionist session
- HIO on vimeo
- katboy's HIO archive
- katboy's pfffft! archive
- the occasionals on soundcloud
- mr. sincerity and the dirty lying bastards
Electronic Resume of My Writing
- david breskin interview
- robin sylar bio
- sonic's rendezvous band history
- ron asheton (stooges) interview
- james williamson (stooges) interview
- wayne kramer (mc5) interview
- dennis thompson (mc5) interview
- pat burrows (original mc5 bassist) interview
- robert quine (voidoids/lou reed) interview
- roy loney (flamin' groovies) interview
- marc zermati (skydog records) interview
- greg shaw interview
- mick farren interview
- nervebreakers interview
- latin express profile
- j.d. jimmerson iv profile
- ronald shannon jackson profile
- ronald shannon jackson remembrance
- hosea robinson obituary
- mike woodhull obituary
- gentlemen's bars
- wreck room stories: introduction
- wreck room stories: just the facts
- wreck room stories: brian forella
- wreck room stories: andre edmonson
- wreck room stories: carl pack
- my scrawl in the dallas observer
- my scrawl in the new york observer
- big ugly music: an oral history of the gideons
- haltom city nights: an oral history
- suiciety: an oral history
- bindle bio
- a little mumblety peg history
- the jazz heritage of i.m. terrell
- nick girgenti obituary
- jim yanaway obituary
- dennis gonzalez obituary
- charles buxton obituary
- b.d. trail
- requiescat
Inspirators
- poetry by b.d. trail
- b.d. trail
- b.d. trail's obituary
- mick farren's "complete" works
- charles shaar murray on guy stevens
- paul trynka
- josh alan friedman on tommy shannon
- josh alan friedman on keith ferguson
- david breskin
- greg tate in the village voice
- ethan iverson
- ethan iversion's jazz 1973-1990
- steve smith
- the test tube and the scale (john bargas)
- the upbeat deadbeat (max kutner)
Creative Friends
- meezlady
- jay hardesty
- heather harris
- chris plavidal
- jesse sierra hernandez
- jose serrato
- ashley akers
- frank campagna
- tom vincent
- patti haskins
Music I Dig
- deep purple mk I
- the who concert guide
- pete townshend's gear
- paul butterfield in blues access
- velvet underground
- frank zappa articles
- frank zappa gig list
- captain beefheart
- eric klerks
- max kutner
- android trio
- robert fripp
- john fahey in perfect sound forever
- john fahey tunings
- john fahey on bola sete
- renaldo and clara
- don cherry
- damon short's cecil taylor page
- paul tingen's miles beyond
- dennis gonzalez bandcamp
- kris davis
- pyroclastic records
- sculpting sound: 12 musicians encounter bertoia
- ra kalam bob moses
- satoko fujii
- joe mcphee
- ingebrigt haker flaten
- susan alcorn
- nervebreakers
- patrick flynn
- jim colegrove
- reggie rueffer
- goodwin audio
- matt hembree
- darrin kobetich
- johnny case
- stumptone
- sub oslo
- wire nest
- sarah ruth alexander
- molten plains
- bitches set traps
- elizabeth mcnutt
- sounds modern
- kory reeder
- deep listening
- new media contemporary
- trio du sang
- wendy eisenberg
- sandy ewen on bandcamp
- emily rach beisel
- gabby fluke-mogul
- laura ortman
- caroline davis
- zachary james watkins
- liquid sound company
- pere ubu
- craig bell
- craig bell on bandcamp
- tin huey
- chris butler
- half cleveland
- nick didkovsky
- doctor nerve on bandcamp (includes other didkovsky projects)
- catherine sikora
- marco oppedisano
- jeff mcleod
- the wire
- the wire's "100 most important records ever made"
- the wire's "100 records that set the world on fire"
- trouser press
- musician magazine
Previous Posts
- if i didn't know better...
- last night
- r.i.p. t.f.a.
- the future's here right now, if you're willing to ...
- yeah, it really, really, _really_ happened
- carey wolff in the fw weekly
- national men make dinner day
- jack bruce disses led zep
- yeah, it really, really happened
- da kobe on cd baby
2 Comments:
I read the article as pretty condescending towards what Brokaw calls the greatest generation.
I think the country needed a change of the guard, get the hell out of Iraq etc. but the point of the article that I agreed with most was the concept of believing. Obama has yet to do anything as a chief commander but we have to take him at his word. Let's see what gets done.
Thank you, Ken.
And for my part, I don't think it was condescending. What I read was a pretty accurate description of my grandparents' generation... stoic alcoholics who fought in WW2, came home and raised nuclear families in a cookie-cutter America, with plastic smiles painted on. People who stayed married for 50 years and never admitted that they hated each other. My parents - who are about 10 years older than Ken - were part of the anti-war movement. They picketed and boycotted and marched and tuned in, turned on and dropped out. And I am the tail end of generation X... disillusioned and disappointed in our government, fed up with superficial society, and finally, finally now seeing a leader in this country whom I can be proud of, and for whom I am willing to fight.
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