The Holtonian

Poppin Culture

Ok so Roe and I had a pretty big discussion on my view of culture, or at least why I like certain music and movies. He has tried for sometime to get me into more of an indy/alternative scene or at least become more educated. I explained to Roe that I don't necessarily like indy/alt stuff because its not yet popular. But don't get me wrong I'm not one of those guys who buy anything that the radio station or hollywood tells me to buy. For my tastes in music I rely heavily on my friend's opinion. I weigh others more heavily than others, mainly if Crabby would like something I'd put more stock into it than say Rob Holmes. Why? Well Rob's taste in music frightens me, its a little too too alternative and edgy. Its like he's getting so far away from the mainstream that he pulls stuff from who knows wheres. Me, I'm a mainstream man myself. I wait for the powers that control the river of pop culture to float something down stream that I deem "not bad." Cold Play is one band that has floated down my way. I saw them there, out in the mainstream, thought "Sounds good" so i reached into that stream and pulled them out and called myself a 'fan'. The way i view being into the music scene is like you're chillin in front of the water source waiting for something fresh to come along and you get to it before anyone else. Me, I like to get it after its stood the test of time and made it down stream more and hasn't washed up on the shore. Like White Stripes, I remember when the alt people first heard of them a few years ago and were all like, "Man you got get into this man its soooo good..." and I, being a mainstream man, thought, "No... they're too new I'll wait till they pass the test of time...." and sure enough they floated out into the mainstream and so therefore they have been purified and deemed accessible and acceptable for me. Though i still don't want to buy their cd. Then there's a band thats been in the mainstream for too long and has grown stale. I think Pearl Jam has gotten a little stale, their music just all sounds the same now and its about time they wash themselves up on the shore. Does this make sense, it does in my head, though a lot of things make sense in my head but when communicated to other folks sounds more like meaningless giberish. Well, there's a fine line between wisdom and giberish, and for me there is no line, its all Holtonese to me.

For those interested we'll be in Macon with the inlaws this week. We head out tomorrow after visitng the wife's friends tonight that are all in town to see Lynea and Scott two friends of ours who were missionary/students in Kenya and are now moving to Canada to be missionaries up there. They're in town and thus we're in town.
In other news I"m sucking it big time in Tiger Woods, I can't get past this stupid little skank country club girl.
In other news I played Mario Kart for the cube yesterday at Best Buy with ROe and it was awesome, great game... hint hint.
In other news if you're looking for gifts for christmas for the holton, call the wife she knows all.