Are we all just a bunch of wayward Star Wars/Treckie nerds? - General Tiki

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Fri, Feb 7, 2003 7:09 PM Geez BC, you hit music, race, surfing, politics, the media, and class envy all in one post! Back to the subject title, in case anyone thought I might be a geek too, I'll remove all doubt with the following over-analytical reply... A Black man in the '40s could fight for equality all week, but in the end, he needed the love of a woman, the taste of hard liquor on his tongue, and the soothing sounds of the Bop. Are you sure you mean bebop in the 40s, or more like the birth of "Cool" in the 50s? (Be)bop was just about as far from soothing as you could possibly get! That was the point: fast tempos, crazy melodies, rapid fire chord changes, etc. Either way, are you saying that's the first time anyone was cool? I don't get it. All of the buildings and bars that we like now we still there in 1975. By 1980, they were torn down, and mini-malls were erected in their place. The thing is, the original buildings you're talking about were built for the same reasons and with the same intentions as the mini-malls of the 80s and beyond: to attract customers and run successful businesses. Styles change, but I don't really think business motivations do. I wasn't alive in the 60s or earlier, but from all accounts I've heard, people liked money back then just as much as they do now, irrespective of any media influence. Seems to me that one difference is that even though people still like money, these days we're supposed to feel more guilty about it. -Randy

Geez BC, you hit music, race, surfing, politics, the media, and class envy all in one post! Back to the subject title, in case anyone thought I might be a geek too, I'll remove all doubt with the following over-analytical reply...

A Black man in the '40s could fight for equality all week, but in the end, he needed the love of a woman, the taste of hard liquor on his tongue, and the soothing sounds of the Bop.

Are you sure you mean bebop in the 40s, or more like the birth of "Cool" in the 50s? (Be)bop was just about as far from soothing as you could possibly get! That was the point: fast tempos, crazy melodies, rapid fire chord changes, etc. Either way, are you saying that's the first time anyone was cool? I don't get it.

All of the buildings and bars that we like now we still there in 1975. By 1980, they were torn down, and mini-malls were erected in their place.

The thing is, the original buildings you're talking about were built for the same reasons and with the same intentions as the mini-malls of the 80s and beyond: to attract customers and run successful businesses. Styles change, but I don't really think business motivations do.

I wasn't alive in the 60s or earlier, but from all accounts I've heard, people liked money back then just as much as they do now, irrespective of any media influence. Seems to me that one difference is that even though people still like money, these days we're supposed to feel more guilty about it.

-Randy

Post #22347 by aquarj on Fri, Feb 7, 2003 7:09 PM