Uncle Bob Wants You...to wear black.
Regards, Ivan
Posted on 07/09/2004 1:17:06 PM PDT by qam1
Uncle Bob Wants You...to wear black.
Regards, Ivan
Regards, Ivan
I checked into it, and while it's better, I didn't feel like I was a part of generation Jones either. The following is from the guy who wrote "Generation Jones":
Pontell, 42, is the author of "Generation Jones," set for a May release by Vanguard. He says the members of the generation were too young to participate in the social and political whirlwind that was the late 1960s, though most of them were old enough to understand what was going on, and wanted in on some of the action.
I think that's the key right there. An awareness of the events of the era. I had no awareness of any of the events of the 1960's. Unless you consider napping an event. I feel the way this guy feels about the 60's, about the disco era. I was old enough to be aware of the Disco era, but too young to participate. For example: I couldn't get in to the theater to see Saturday Night Fever, because I was too young.
On the other hand, I remember clearly being 13 years old and standing in line to see Star Wars. I remember the Bicentential like it was yesterday with stars and stripes everywhere. Hell, I even remember going to see the Freedom Train when it came to town.
My wife was born in 1959 (barely, 12-31-59) and even she doesn't feel connected to the baby boomers. However, when I showed her the generation Jones stuff a bit ago, she felt a connection to that supposed generation. She was old enough to have lived through the disco thing as a participant, not a spectator too young to participate.
To make a long story short. My views that I'm solidly generation X has been thoroughly solidified. Screw the numbers...all my experiences are those of generation x, and that's what really defines a generation.
Dat's the way I likes 'em!
I suck . . . but not as much as SKYNYRD SUCKS!
Well you can drive yourself crazy thinking about it, Because no matter how you divide the generations up the very end of one generation is always going to have more in common with the very beginning of the next generation than the beginning of their own (i.e. when comparing someone born in 1964 to someone born in 1965 vs 1946)
I haven't looked up the exact numbers but taking my best guesstimate from what I know if we defined generations by the majority of the parents generation the breakdown would be
Baby Boomers 1946-1960
Generation Jones 1961-1971
Gen-X 1972-1982
Gen-Y 1983-1995
Which ironically if those were the dates accepted, Me being born in 1970 I would knock myself out of my own Xer ping list.
But it could be correct, Because most of my friends my age had parents more like the Foremans as opposed to the Keatons and me personally born in 1970, I've noticed that in "outlook on life" (For lack of better words)I have more in common with people a couple years older than people who are a couple of years younger, It's more than just a maturity thing because I'm still single while most people my age and a little bit older are married so I should have more in common with people slightly younger.
What did one Dead Head say to the other after the drugs wore off?
Man, this band sucks.
Clear is the best color.
Dat's some real fine cloudiness dat color's got there.
Matches my personality, ya might say.
>>Whenever I hear Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd (and most Southern rock), I want to scream, and I always turn the station.
Why are you two listening to stations that play music you don't like?
Get XM.
Opaque is OK but no match for Clear.
Not Oxy Clear, just Clear.
CleaN as a whistle.
Ping over here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1169790/posts
I am going to have to disagree with some of my fellow Gen Xers on this.
I personally think the Beatles are over rated, but so was Nirvana. Dark side of the Moon is a great album and I can listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd
without any hesitation. Free Bird? Mr. Breeze. Obviously this chic has an issue with Southern and is critiquing that instead of the music.
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