2002-02-28 - 4:33 p.m.
Rumor has it the Grammys were on last night. Gee, and I missed them. What a shame.
It�s been at least 15 years since I last gave a shit about the Grammys. All awards shows are Industry clusterfucks and the Grammys are the worst of the lot--but there was that one year where Graceland and The Joshua Tree were both competing for top honors and so I felt obligated to pay attention for once. Then last year--or maybe the year before--Carlos Santana won a bunch of stuff for his duet with the Matchbox 20 guy and the only opinion I had on it ran something along the lines of, "He�s still alive? I thought he kicked off a while ago. Oh, wait, that was Jerry Garcia."
Nowadays it�s all about what J-Lo will wear--and why sit through the show to see that when her picture will pop up all over the Web the next day?
I�ve said it before to anyone who will listen--and to some who won�t--but the best thing that today�s generation of young people can do for Western civilization is to put an end to rock music�s domination of youth culture once and for all. It will never happen, of course, since Boomers and GenXers (yes, GenXers too--admit it) are so pathologically desperate to stay young and hip that they�ll just keep on shoving their music up the asses of their juniors--who will then turn around as they get older and do the same to their children. There was a chance in the early �90s for rap to break the cycle, but since then it�s been assimilated for the most part, too.
Don�t get me wrong, I love my rock �n roll--but I�m an old fart, and there are two more generations older than mine who came of age listening to basically the same music. Conceivably, there are kids alive today whose great-grandparents had sex with Elvis on in the background! An adolescent�s CD collection is supposed to piss off Mom and Dad, not make them all horny and nostalgic.
If anyone under 18 reads this journal, please, just trust me on this: If your parental units barge into your room and ask you to turn up your stereo, something is very, very wrong.
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