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@jellokatt As you might have guessed, I was a teenager during the Sixties, and I was, of course, disappointed by how reality subsequently dashed the hopes and ideals of that decade. But I agree with your reply. I'm not suggesting that we give up.

I was 16 when this song came out, and of course it was controversial. What I remember most was trying to explain to my English teacher (who was otherwise brilliant) that this song is poetry, much in the tradition of TS Eliot and "The Waste Land." I was never able to open his mind to this.

Perhaps unfairly, I find myself using Blade Runner as a sort of character test for evaluating people I don't know very well. If they haven't seen it, that's OK. Many people haven't. However, anyone who has seen it and not been moved by it in some way, I generally dismiss as uninteresting. Somethi...

I'm not even British, and it makes ME proud.

@Mirani2 Because you have the insight and honesty to admit this, I suspect that you're probably a pretty decent person. Regarding Wagner, I feel that I have one foot in the Cult group, and the other foot planted firmly in the category of music lover. It probably isn't really possible for me to fu...

The brilliance of the human spirit is great indeed.

This piece was used to great effect in the 1991 movie, starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, called Frankie and Johnny. (No relation at all to the Elvis movie.) One of the most poignant love stories I've ever seen.

@davemunrothumb "nationalistic facists? No.

Fallible, infinitely mysterious and flawed? Yes.

@6mass1occur7 I used to like weed, but damn the stuff now. It really does give a more imaginative and intelligent high than alcohol (no comparison!) and makes the mind work in fascinating ways. But when it wears off, I get a thick-headed feeling for a day or two. I compare a stoned brain to a wat...

@loveetwilight69 My predicament in hs was similar. Here is what I did. I decided to stay in school. I studied the difficult subjects, and concentrated on preparing myself for a good college -- FAR away from the hs jerks. It was a good strategy. In the game of life, no one cares about who you were...

@nonthere For me this guitar piece is defining. It's evocative. It invites the listener to imagine and to dream and to soar. For many, the 60s were about "class struggle," but for me the 60s were about learning to think and feel in new ways. In that sense, this piece defines that decade.

I was 16 during the Summer of Love, and of course I miss things about the Sixties, especially the music. However, when I'm honest, I also remember the agony of that time. For example, I remember when my older brother and I drove up to San Francisco in 1969, walked through Haight-Ashbury, and we c...

And we were running through the graveyard

And we laughed, my friends and I

And we swore we'd be together

Until the day we died.

I don't recall hearing this work when I was a child. However, hearing it brings back so many of my childhood memories, it seems mysterious to me.

@Kopfschmerz86 It's still not too late. Europeans should assert themselves and their cultural inheritance, stop apologizing for it, and take their economic medicine (a decade or so of austerity). Maybe we in America might follow your example.

Perfect combination of technical brilliance and passion. Flawless.

This song always reminds me of the following by T. S. Eliot, taken from The Hollow Men.

Between the idea

And the reality

Between the motion

And the act

Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception

And the creation

Between the emotion

And the response

Falls the Shadow

Life i...

@tekkenjam Defending Nixon? The things Nixon did caught up with him and had their way with him. It was right that he was forced out of office. Who's defending Nixon?

As for Grace, I wonder how it must feel to hate someone so much that it might be pleasant to see that person "curl up into a fetal...