OK Go - Here It Goes Again
I am kind of in love with this band..........
………..but then I do that. I hear one song by someone I previously didn't know existed and then go crazy and buy all their shit. Did that with Rufus, Travis, Aimee Mann (although I knew about her in the 80's when she fronted Till Tuesday, just never knew she did solo stuff). So OK Go is my new musical obsession and this video is what did it for me (thanks Eddy!).
There was a story on NPR lately telling about some study some professor did about "adventure windows" and how they close on when you get older and you end up being stuck in a musical rut. And even if you're still a youngster I know you know these types…..people that only listen to 70's southern rock or 80's new age even though it's no longer 1972 or 1986. Basically they stop being adventurous about music and stick to what they listened to in high school and college and are like that until they play Miss American Pie at their funeral. I (and the Roommate for that matter) are exceptions to that rule, I keep finding new stuff that I like---case in point OK Go--- and I just keep on evolving musically……….and I'm OLD. So I guess maybe age really is in one's head.
And this is good news since I will be celebrating another birthday soon.
My only problem is I only listen to NPR, so I only hear the news stories about shit like this and don't actually hear the new music that I would love if I only listened to it. I need to do something about that, but I'm kind of a news junky. Looks like it's time for rehab.
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Isn't it true? We just found this new service on our MCE (Tivo) that offers a bazillion music videos on-demand through MTV and VH1. I spent a whole day, yes, a whole day, watching music videos. Will came by at some point and said.. "I feel like I'm stuck in the 80s." I can only guess that it was all the WHAM, old-school Madonna, Yazoo, etc.
It's not that I don't like new music. There is great stuff that comes out every day! It's just that the old stuff takes me back to a time when everything was new and exciting.
Now a days, we have to work harder to keep things exciting and new, because it's really easy to slide into the comfortable and mundane.
Well, it is true you're getting old.
2 years behind you baby...
I actually saw that video somewhere. Pretty snappy for young folk.
iamnot you may have seen it on the ABC evening news, so don't be thinking you're all hip or anything.
The last time I was hip was about 20 years ago, when you talked me in to getting a pierced ear.
Damn little danger of deluding myself after all these years.
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