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Shapes: I had Nannys. It's a horrible term (can never think of anything else, though, much to my frustration) and I hope yr not reaching all sorts of funny conclusions about maids and such. Basically, my Mother was busy on the shoot and at the editing suite for most of my childhood and early teens. Some of my Nannys I tortured horribly (my gorgeous Swiss Nanny Eva became "Swiss-head"), but in the main we all got on royally and at least two of them I consider to be, well, like older sisters.
I don't think I'm anything like Sandy. My comeback would've normally been: "Shut up, the Quo are shit." Sandy disliked new stuff because she was old fashioned and would scratch her head at the idea that Acid House could have been considered music. Basically, she might have a shitload in common with a lot of Gray fans. Y'know, this might be where my knee-jerk dislike of this stuff comes from. I've certainly moaned about it before. I'm still kicking against the idea of "real", or "proper" music, and Gray, at least by popular consensus, falls into this category.
I hate the idea that anyone would stop at Gray's gentle strummings and think "Right here. This is it. This is real!" And, in this case, I made a snap judgement, based on the rest of the wallet's contents, that this is possibly what our anonymous CD owner had done. God, look, I love diversity, novelty and new ideas - like most people here - and I hate the idea that anyone's closing themselves off to that stuff. Because it is, in a little way, closing yrself off to the ability to assimilate, understand and enjoy difference.
I accept that my snap judgement is exactly that, and may be a bit harsh, but it's not half as ego-wanky as it's being characterised. I mean, that's there too, but this sort of thing's an ooooold bugbear of mine and there are reasons for my sarcyscorn. Yeah, yeah, I know it's knee-jerk... But I'm positive I'm not the only lither to formulate the little narrative above, either.
And you can definitely have a CD wallet and not really give much of a shit for music. People are definitely interested in music for a shedload of different reasons and to varying degrees. |
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