18 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}
18 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}

I stepped out to buy some dog food for the cat. Of course she called about 3 minutes after that...

by Joe Mobley
12 replies
  • OFF TOPIC
    • |


Joe Mobley
  • Profile picture of the author Zodiax
    Originally Posted by Joe Mobley View Post

    Why do people 40-50 listen to slow melodramatic music like this?

    The only old skool stuff worth listening to is the scatman:

    Signature

    'I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'
    -Muhammad Ali

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10264273].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
      Originally Posted by Zodiax View Post

      Why do people 40-50 listen to slow melodramatic music like this?
      Why are emotionally needy males, 8 - 10 years old allowed to have keyboards?

      You aren't the illegitimate son of a guy named "Carpet" are you?


      Joe Mobley
      Signature

      .

      Follow Me on Twitter: @daVinciJoe
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10264346].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author Jack Gordon
      Originally Posted by Zodiax View Post

      The only old skool stuff worth listening to is the scatman:
      Zodiax, I am shocked. You just introduced me to something really cool, that I somehow completely missed the first time around. I looked him up, he has a pretty interesting story as well. Thank you, I really enjoyed this.

      If you want to go really (I mean REALLY) old skool, check out the original kings of scat. These guys are insanely talented.

      Signature
      Fifteen Lessons I have learned over 15 years and six businesses (or, My 1000th-Post Manifesto)
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10264455].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by Jack Gordon View Post

        Zodiax, I am shocked. You just introduced me to something really cool, that I somehow completely missed the first time around. I looked him up, he has a pretty interesting story as well. Thank you, I really enjoyed this.

        If you want to go really (I mean REALLY) old skool, check out the original kings of scat. These guys are insanely talented.

        The Mills Brothers - Tiger Rag - YouTube
        OK, do you have any video of any of their "insane talent" work? THIS one seems to be of a broken record, which is interesting for video, I mean it isn't like it would be a VCD!

        Steve
        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10264678].message }}
        • Profile picture of the author Jack Gordon
          Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

          OK, do you have any video of any of their "insane talent" work? THIS one seems to be of a broken record, which is interesting for video, I mean it isn't like it would be a VCD!

          Steve
          To each his own, I guess. The Mills Brothers have a body of work that spans many decades, dozens of hit records, thousands of tour dates and millions of records sold.

          You don't have to like them as much as I do, but it is tough to argue against the impact they made on their generation (ask your parents or grandparents - they were most popular from the 1930's-1960's).

          I discovered them about 20 years ago and couldn't get enough for a long time.
          Signature
          Fifteen Lessons I have learned over 15 years and six businesses (or, My 1000th-Post Manifesto)
          {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10264707].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author alistair
    Originally Posted by Zodiax View Post

    The only old skool stuff worth listening to is the scatman:
    I don't think you're very well educated in "old skool stuff" if you think the scatman is the best on offer.

    I'm in my early 40's and my all time favourite old skool and probably of all time track/ record/ song, or whatever you want to call it is below. The early 90's was huge.

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10264409].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    It always amuses me that 40 is considered old.

    I'm sat here in a Star Wars t-shirt, surrounded by an office overflowing with movie memorabilia and gaming machines and whatnot, and currently listening to Beautiful People, Manson.

    I started my day by jogging around the marina, powered along by the likes of AC/ DC, Guns n Roses, Limp Bizkit, Nirvana, Green Day, Coldplay, Linkin Park.

    When I plonked in the office I'd missed several video calls from an indie filmmaker asking for rewrites on one of my screenplays. We chatted. I ate a bagel. Downed caffeine. I managed to talk him out of most of the rewrites.

    I still have all my hair. No wrinkles. This year I'll be returning with the "old boys" to play the current rugby team at my old college. We'll win. I could probably snap the 19 year-old me like a brittle twig.

    I don't feel old.

    - Tom
    Signature

    I Coach: Learn More | My Latest WF Thread: Dead Domains/ Passive Traffic

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10265078].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      What the "young'uns" don't understand is the basic truth of growing up and growing old.

      The older you get - the older "old" gets.

      "Being 40" is youth with wisdom and restraint...and the occasional pulled muscle...
      Signature
      Saving one dog will not change the world - but the world changes forever for that one dog
      ***
      Live life like someone left the gate open
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10265446].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
      Originally Posted by Tom Addams View Post

      It always amuses me that 40 is considered old. ... - Tom
      It is just a matter of perspective, if someone is a good bit younger than 40, then 40 is so, so old.

      You know this is amusing, so just laugh and bide your time till these people are 40 and ever so ancient.
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10266361].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author ThomM
        I'm still trying to figure out how you taught the cat to use a phone.
        Signature

        Life: Nature's way of keeping meat fresh
        Getting old ain't for sissy's
        As you are I was, as I am you will be
        You can't fix stupid, but you can always out smart it.

        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10267515].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Originally Posted by Tom Addams View Post

      It always amuses me that 40 is considered old.

      I'm sat here in a Star Wars t-shirt, surrounded by an office overflowing with movie memorabilia and gaming machines and whatnot, and currently listening to Beautiful People, Manson.

      I started my day by jogging around the marina, powered along by the likes of AC/ DC, Guns n Roses, Limp Bizkit, Nirvana, Green Day, Coldplay, Linkin Park.

      When I plonked in the office I'd missed several video calls from an indie filmmaker asking for rewrites on one of my screenplays. We chatted. I ate a bagel. Downed caffeine. I managed to talk him out of most of the rewrites.

      I still have all my hair. No wrinkles. This year I'll be returning with the "old boys" to play the current rugby team at my old college. We'll win. I could probably snap the 19 year-old me like a brittle twig.

      I don't feel old.

      - Tom
      You kids.
      Signature

      Life: Nature's way of keeping meat fresh
      Getting old ain't for sissy's
      As you are I was, as I am you will be
      You can't fix stupid, but you can always out smart it.

      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10267588].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
        Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

        You kids.
        When my daughter leaps into one of her monologues about a gazillion and four mystifying topics - unheard of bands, unheard of fashion trends, unheard of celebrities - which typically reduces me to a rather pitiable state of twitching, catatonic rocking, moments of shocking revelation where I feel I might understand something only to realize I was mistaken, and in general, utter discombobulation, I'm going to revisit this thread and read Thom's reply. And then maybe put my daughter back in the will.

        - Tom
        Signature

        I Coach: Learn More | My Latest WF Thread: Dead Domains/ Passive Traffic

        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10267613].message }}

Trending Topics