Balls and Walnuts
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The post-MTV generation
Jake was watching music videos on YouTube tonight.
“That’s the one that turned me on to the Dandy Warhols,” I told him. “Trent Reznor did a special on MTV, something like two hours of his favorite videos. The stuff he listened to at the time.”
“Now THAT is a great video,” I told him a little later. “It’s a good one because I didn’t much like the song until I saw the video, and then I really liked the song.”
So he was like all meh to the whole thing. We watched a few more videos. I made him search YouTube for “Mark Romanek” and I pointed out that he had seen Romanek’s videos for Perfect Drug and Closer.
Still no interest from The Boy.
“I don’t get it,” I said. “Why are you even watching this stuff?”
“I like listening to the music,” he said.
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