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Re: [bomp] Re: Neil Young Admits Music Can't Change World
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- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:30:17 -0800 (PST)
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I lived that Dictator lyric: "I do my homework in the bar." But it was college homework. Of course, Handsome Dick himself said of college: "it was like high school, only you took a different route."
mykel larson <satchmykels@tconl.com> wrote:
as many people as i see sitting in bars talking on the phone and text
messaging, rather than conversing with the people sitting right next to them,
someone must consider it enjoyable. but i shouldn't point fingers, i'm
usually the asshole sitting at the bar reading a book. errrr, but i only read
when the people sitting next to me are busy talking on the phone...hehe
----- Original Message -----
From: Blair Buscareno
To: bomp@xnet2.com
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [bomp] Re: Neil Young Admits Music Can't Change World
hoodoo3005@aol.com wrote:
> At a certain point, music was such a huge focus for so many kids
> that it had a huge amount of power to influence their thinking. Now,
other
> forms of entertainment vie for people's attention. Example: Cell phones,
> IMing, texting, YouTube, Facebook (trust me, most of my high school
students
> no longer bother with MySpace), and games, to name a few. These things
did
> not exist at that point in time. So while music is still all-important to
a
> few kids, it's only part of what influences them.
>
>
> While I agree with you, I don't know if I'd call IMing, texting and cell
phones "entertainment."
It's weird to think of communication as entertainment, but...Well, maybe
we need to ask the question differently: Can conversation be
entertainment? I sure think so. Much of the conversation in question
is enjoyable to them on some level.
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