Re: "older than dirt"

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From: cdale@silly.techmonkeys.net
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 11:10:14 PST


Well, I don't know how that fishheads song was sugar-coated, but okay.
But I remember when it was mostly music and not mostly <other stuff>.
C

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Gregory Alan Bolcer wrote:

> MTV has never been anything more than sugar-coated
> mind-swill corporate sponsored pseudo rock. I'm
> not exaggerating either. Have you ever seen them
> take a real risk on MTV?
>
> Greg
>
> cdale@silly.techmonkeys.net wrote:
> >
> > My daughter gets a kick out of my MTV story. When I was a teenager, we
> > used to sit around and get high and watch TV with the sound down and the
> > stereo on, and say "whoa, did you see that?" whenever something on TV
> > seemed synched with the music. One day after school, I went to one of
> > local "old school" stoners' houses, sat down on the couch, and we were
> > all smoking. I was high already from the ride over, and was sitting
> > there zoning, watching the TV and the music just -stayed- in sync with
> > the video. I kept watching, waiting for that to stop, and it just
> > didn't! I jumped up and started yelling "DO Y'ALL SEE THAT? WHO DOSED
> > ME? WHAT'S GOING ON?" When I finally figured out what was going on, I
> > thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
> > Damn. I hate MTV now.
> > C
> > P.S. That was back in the days when I'd never heard of or seen shwag. Le
> > sigh, the good ole days. (:
> > --
> > "Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself." --Doris Lessing,
> > British writer
>

-- 
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself." --Doris Lessing,
British writer


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