I wrote and performed a score for 8-track tapes and players back when I used
to collect them. Unfortunately, none of the recordings still exist but here
is a link to the score
http://alexvcook.homestead.com/files/m48t.htm
enjoy,
Alex
>From: "Melissa McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: FLUXLIST: Age is relative
>Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 06:22:34 PST
>
>This from my *younger* sister....but it's still hard to believe. Perhaps it
>will spur some Flux Projects -- and 8-track in a conservation case taken to
>local high schools with the query "What is it?"...
>
>
>> > Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly
>> > change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts
>> > together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of
>>that
>> > years incoming freshmen. Here is this year's list:
>> >
>> > The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were
>>born
>> > in 1982.
>> >
>> > They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era and probably do
>> > not know he had ever been shot.
>> > They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
>> > Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
>> > There has been only one Pope.
>> > They were 11 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the
>> > Cold War.
>> > They have never feared a nuclear war.
>> > They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
>> > Tianamen Square means nothing to them. Their lifetime has always
>> > included AIDS.
>> > Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
>> > Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums. The expression "you sound like
>>a
>> > broken record" means nothing to them.
>> > They have never owned a record player.
>> > They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of Pong.
>> > They may have never heard of an 8-track. The Compact Disc was
>> > introduced when they were 1 year old.
>> > As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 33 cents.
>> > They have always had an answering machine.
>> > Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have they seen
>>a
>> > black-and-white TV. They have always had cable.
>> > There have always been VCRs.
>> > They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
>> > They were born the year that Walkman was introduced by Sony.
>> > Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.
>> > Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
>> > They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.
>> > Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
>> > They have never seen Larry Bird play.
>> > They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
>> > The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as WWI, WWII and the
>> > Civil War.
>> > They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.
>> > They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
>> > They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.
>> > They never heard: Where's the beef?, I'd walk a mile for a Camel, or de
>> > plane! de plane! They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who
>> > J.R. is.
>> > The Titanic was found? They thought we always knew where it was.
>> > Michael Jackson has always been white.
>> > Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places, not groups.
>> > McDonalds never came in Styrofoam containers.
>> > There has always been MTV.
>> > They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
>> > Do you feel old yet? pass this on to the other old fogies in your life.
>>
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