Sinister: Older Gets

[garymaher at xxx.com]

Erm, I mean "getting old".  (Americans who say Erm are posers.  I am
American.  Go figure.)

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:04:49 GMT owner-sinister-digest at missprint.org
(sinister-digest) writes:
> From: Vanessa Roseline Siegl <vanessa.siegl at xxx.at>
> Johan wrote about getting old and not being able to get into new music
anymore.

My experience with this is that it's about time and priorities.  When I
was a boy, I could ride my bike to the record shop after school and spend
a couple of hours browsing and listening.  I'd pick out a record or two,
ride home and lie in bed staring at the artwork, reading the lyrics and
liner notes and listening for the entire 40 minutes (for that was the
standard length of the LP record, RIP).  This continued straight through
college, where I was a happy-go-lucky goof off with plenty of time to
kill.  Law school (yes, I am a Legal Man) sucked up much of the time I
had previously devoted to listening to music (although I stuck with the
band thing half way through school).

But work -- that was the last bullet in the coffin.  Once my career got
in gear, I barely had time to listen to the music I knew, much less keep
up with new music.  Fortunately, I realized this after a year or two and
made the effort -- brought a radio to work and listened whenever I could
and started buying things I thought I'd like.  A couple of years later,
this internet thingy came along and I started learning about mysterious
groups from people who liked other groups I was into.  Now I'm into lots
of new music, even some of the stuff you hear on the radio, but mostly
"obscure" (to most people) power pop and slo-core type stuff.

The moral of the story is that I don't think it's your age itself that
hinders your ability to keep up with new music -- I think it's an issue
of having to make the effort where before it just came naturally.  At
least, it was for me!  So make the effort already -- there's plenty of
great stuff out there!

g
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