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A sign that I am getting less and less cool in my old age

I spent most of my early life listening to Oldies music. In order to prepare my track list for smg's CD swap, I went and got out my old mix tapes from high school and scouted out which tracks I also had in CD or mp3 form. A mix from 1994 includes "Turn, Turn, Turn" by The Byrds, "Bobby's Girl" by Marcy Blaine, "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" by Cher, "Downtown" by Petula Clark, "Oh Sweet Pea" by Tommy Roe and "Walk Away Renee" by the Left Banke as well as a smattering of showtunes and some more contemporary songs. I also went through a Big Band phase around 10th grade where my grandma and I would swap tapes and CDs back and forth. That's weird.

In late high school and college I did catch up a bit with what all "the kids" were listening to those days. Radio reception in Albion was pretty terrible so my access to music was mainly through my peers. But when I went to grad school, I went back to the Oldies stations - but expanded my listening repertoire to include Soft Rock/Adult Contemporary/Easy Listening. Yes, I am cool. My sister will tell you (and has told you) of the joyous times we spent in the car together when like (and yet unlike) those guys who pull up next to you at a light pumping rap music out of their expensive car speakers, I would roll down the windows, crank up the volume and blast "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" for all to hear.

Now that I've moved to Ohio, my radio tastes have changed again. I haven't found a music station I really like, so I usually just tune in to my local NPR station. And right now my car's heating and cooling system is on the fritz (fixing will hopefully come in the next pay period!), so that there are only two settings: Full-Blast or Off. Full-Blast With Airconditioning is overwhelmingly cold, so my normal modus operandi is to roll down the windows and turn the fan on and off as the interior temperature merits. When the fan is on, it is very very loud and the radio volume must be turned up to compensate.

So I found myself stopped at a light today with the windows rolled down, my car radio pumping out... an NPR story about a new production of the Threepenny Opera. It was very interesting and... I am an old lady.

srah - Saturday, 22 April 2006 - 7:10 PM
Tags: driving, high school, music, npr, oldies

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