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so, television is a kids only form of exposure ? much has changed since I was a kid... |
well thing sure as hell have changed since My youth.For one,not having video games or computers and no MTV meant I/WE actually did something physical.If it was spring/summer then we would toss the baseball around or challenge another neighborhood to a game,or maybe go fishing/camping/bike riding.Fall would mean soccer or football,winter would be ice skating and sneaking beers and trying to lose our virginity (way easier to get some opposite sex body contact when it is cold
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My sons could play video games for ten hours at a clip ! I can not even BE IN THE HOUSE that long,I would go friggin crazy !
Typical scene at racho ricardo-pick any of my three sons-phone on shoulder,MTV on,computer game being played
Music ?The only exposure was top 40 AM radio,FM back then was all about classical,opera,or talk radio.So then as now we purchased whatever was popular at the time.
Anyone remember 45 discs ? I would buy the song,not an entire album.My first exposure to the LP as something I wanted was when at the age of 14 I was blessed with a date with a fine looking college woman of the ripe old age of 19.While at her apartment she put the album Crosby,Stills and Nash on.I do not think I had ever listened to an entire album from beginning to end before that.The next day i bought the album (which I still have) and never went the 45 route again.
So really nothing has changed.When young you usually go with what is popular,it gives you something in common with your peers and something you can talk about due to all having exposure to the same ****.As you get older you get to a point where you define your own taste,you become more of an individual instead of part of a group.It is what makes us different.
Then again,what do i know