Overheard conversation

[petronia]

Sororial Unit: Did he just sing "God is an American"?
Sabina: Yeah. Bit paranoid, really.
SU: Then Satan is British.
Sabina: ...
SU: And he has the voice of Freddy Mercury.
Sabina: ...Funny, isn't it, how Good Omens warps brains.

SU essentially strong-armed me into getting her Queen PMVs for Christmas. Then she gave me HMV certificates. So I sailed out and got David Bowie PMVs, eyetooth for eyetooth as it were, glam rock for glam rock. The cumulative effect - I mean, there's seven hours' worth of viewing or on these discs - is to leave me uncertain of how anyone survived the Seventies at all. Come to think of it I don't know all that many people who survived the Seventies in that sense. XD

(The mind tangents through inexplicable wilds to something jokersama said, re how showing Rg Veda to her mum was much like showing Evangelion to a practicing Christian parent. I don't know what'd do it for my dad: I suspect Saiyuuki. What I do know is that Eroica would effect the selfsame result on Tania's father, in spades.)

So yeah, I've been playing with my DVDs. (There's FotR too.) I know not this "online presence" of which you speak. Catch you on the flip side.

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[(Anonymous)]

The 70's followed the 60's. We were all too high to notice at decade's start and all too stoned to notice by decade's end. This was true even if you didn't do drugs. You can fall from great heights unhurt if you're unconscious when you do it. (Of course everything thereafter seems an anticlimax. Was that what you meant?)
-mjj

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I meant it literally. I don't seem to know very many people of the right age - either too old or too young - and the ones I do, like my parents or Tania's, were Somewhere Else at the time. (Both her father and mine made it to England in time for the early '80s.) One close family friend does come to mind, and I suspect she *has* found the last two decades anticlimactic, so. ^^;

The seventies have always been the missing decade in my cultural understanding of the twentieth century. I'm only now starting to fill it in around the edges.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, well. Useless asking anyone who was there at the time. The 60's made sense in their fashion- they were cohesive at least- but the 70's were all over the place and--- Hard to explain. Everyone was busy doing and nobody was busy narrating, basically, so we didn't know, and possibly still don't know, what it was we were doing. All I remember was a distinct relief at decade's end that thank God that's over and the 80's have to be better. (Insert bitter laughter.)
-mjj