Comments on: Why do I think this is my target demo?

By: Janice

Janice — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:52:50 +0000

My daughters know all about “The Prisoner”. Heck, it’s helped them to understand “The Simpsons” (which I understand was popular back in the day). They are also more conversant with seventies’ folk-rock bands than anyone under the age of forty has a right to be.

Raise ‘em geeky, raise ‘em right!

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:28:37 +0000

I hope this kid has got the whole boxed set of the Fugs work from the ’60s. I was about to say a revival tour of that band would be in order, but it would be a real chore, since Tuli Kupferberg is gone a couple of years now, and Ed Sanders doesn’t get out of Woodstock much.

By: Fratguy

Fratguy — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:11:21 +0000

Denver based Nerdcore
Eminem crossed with Wheezer

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2Findex&gl=US#/watch?v=fD3uUIWGYNY

By: Historiann

Historiann — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:51:49 +0000

Let’s hope she has better dentition than Mr. McG. Jeebus.

What is this Flobots of which you speak? Anything like the Fembots, which (come to think of it) would be a pretty great name for a band!

By: Fratguy

Fratguy — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:50:51 +0000

Madeline received a two kid friendly mixes of the Pogues from her uncle two years ago and has been singing along with Shane McGowen since the age of three. She was recently denied club admission on the playground for lack of a Justin Bieber T shirt (I’ve never been prouder). Doomed. I think the current equivalent of TalkingHeadsDevoREMRamonesTMBG would be the Flobots, but I am aware of them so they are probably already uncool QED.

By: Western Dave

Western Dave — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:29:55 +0000

Hey, my twenty-sided dice have come in very handy for the Civil War simulation around Christmastime (only two kids every knew what they were really for).

By: Liz2

Liz2 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:55:16 +0000

My kid loves M.A.S.H. and the Muppets, and old Godzilla movies. Oh wait, but those aren’t “cool”. He also knows all the Rocky and Bullwinkle, will that count? hmmmm….maybe not of the same caliber. He knows the lyrics to the Beatles, Lou Reed, Queen…I’m getting there. Kid will never be hip. Although his dad is a big fan of Big Star and works with the widow of Alex Chilton, does that count?

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:10:00 +0000

This guy may be a little overly-programmatic about it, but I don’t see any basic harm forthcoming from that. Kids will in their own way and good time, rebel against whatever they need to, the good and the bad, and do their own incorporating and mix-taping across the cultural seams. Better for them to down-market at their own pace than to try to upstream at a later date.

By: Shane in Utah

Shane in Utah — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:42:42 +0000

Best episode of the Muppet Show ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTUYJ53XHeo

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:32:23 +0000

This actually sounds a lot like my childhood, though not brought on my parents. As an only child, I generally spent more time with my parents, their friends, and my grandparents. Interested in the stuff they watched and listened to and being myself an avid reader, I never had much to talk about with children my own age. Now that I look back on it, I’m glad I didn’t waste my time on Ace of Base or New Kids on the Block to try and fit in or learn social skills. I got all that from paying attention to my teachers in school. And look, today I’m a functioning adult with a job in my field. With a child on the way now, I have thought about what kinds of media I want my child around or not around. With historians for parents though, our poor kid probably won’t know what century they’re in.