Sunday, July 20, 2008

Last Night in a Glowing Hell

Attended the "glow" something or another festival around the S. M. Pier last night, the closest we've ever been to a "rave," & though we have done some raving in the so-called real world (as even the casual reader here will have noticed) this was no doubt the closest we'll ever get to a "rave." And are we tired. As some of our fellow aging wretches noted, this was the first time in recent memory any of us had heard the phrase "last call" used in person. That's right, no "X" or what have you, The Editor himself had only a mere sip of a margarita to remind himself how awful tequila is, but all were rather run down by the midpoint of the 12 hr. festivities. As to the event itself, suffice it to say that by the end of the '60s we were quite over light shows, & those were accompanied by music performed by live humans playing instruments, not the brain-dead, soulless, robotic "Gas Music from Jupiter" that today's young people use to accompany their soulless computer-generated post-random color patterns &...blah, blah, blah, mumble mumble...etc., etc. Nap time.

2 comments:

Glennis said...

Aw, c'mon. "Today's young people?" where's your cane?

I had fun at "glow" but as for "art" it was...meh. I continue to be amused at "artists" discovering basic stage lighting techniques for the first time.

M. Bouffant said...

The Editor Responds:

Hey, we're enjoying being a curmudgeon. We've always been generally contemptuous of people, & if the damn yout' are going to whine continuously about "Boomers," we have to stand up for ourselves. (And when we do get a cane, it'll be lead weighted, if not w/ a sword in it, to show any whippersnappers who get on the [imaginary] lawn.)

Just as our basic freedoms were kept for a few yrs. by the "Greatest Generation" (hack-kaff...) for which we're slightly grateful, those fuggin' Gen X'ers & onward wouldn't have had sex, drugs, or that gawd-awful classic rock shit that remains popular after 40 freakin' yrs. w/o the "Hippest Generation"!! And they should show some gratitude for the trails we blazed for them.

That being said, your dismissal of the "art" aspect beats ours. Good job!!