"You can't stop the music..........."

Okay, avid readers.
Question?
When the hell did I get old?





I used to live for the Grammy nominations.
I relish the nominations for Oscars.
The Grammy's and the Oscar's.
The gay mans World Series and Superbowl.

WHAT THE F@$%?

I just read the list of nominations for the Grammy's on February 8, 2009. Guess what? I knew about 10 of the nominees! UGGGG.................

Lil Wayne? Lollipop? Have I become so "set" in my Carrie Underwood, Sugarland, 90's Madonna, and Karaoke ways? Have I become my mother who used to sit and listen to the golden oldies station?

WHEN DID IT HAPPEN?
IS IT ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE?

I remember back to my nieces asking me if "I was going to play that old music in the car, if so, they were not riding with me!" The old music was grooves and tunes from the late 80's and early 90's. And that was 5 years ago!

I have always considered myself "up to date".
I usually am clued into the latest "crazes" and fashions.
I used to be the first to jump on any good fad.

UGGG........Not anymore.

Now I am understanding my Mother's and my Grandmother's view on the future.

~~ DON'T GO! ~~

I have always been an old soul. I love "old" stuff. "Old" folks. "Old" ways of life. Nostalgic is the word, I believe. I've come to realize that life comes in waves. For example.



My grandmother loved Dean Martin. Hated the Beatles.


My Mother loved the Beatles, Hated Madonna.



Myself. Beatles SUCK, and we all know how I love my Madge!





What is amazing in this revelation, to me-maybe not to you, is the era in which everyone picks their favorite music. Just stop to think of your favorite songs, and the time in your life when it was HUGE. The music that is.

Remember how it set your life on fire?
Remember how you thought you were going to conquer the world?
"I made it through the wilderness" compared to "she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" compared to "when the moon hits your eye, like a bigga pizza pie"?

Come on. Is there any debate?

NOW....."My making it through the wilderness" is competing with an era of "lollipops" and "thugs"?

God, it makes you miss The Carpenters! (eating disorder and all, she was still "on top of the world looking down on creation!")

Anyone for a tic-tac and a glass of water?