![]() Maybe it was bound to happen, you can only arrange three chords so many different ways, but Rock'n'Roll has become something akin to Dixieland, i.e. I'm more of a Graham Greene type, and the subjects he addressed- loyalty, duty, etc. Dick novel, except I'm not much of a Dick fan. Each day is more and more like living in a Phillip K. The skills we don't need (human relations, face to face contact, etc.) have atrophied, welcome to product driven man. I think the outbreak of autism just may be the human race mutating into the type of creature it will have to be to survive in the future. I guess life, or at least social life, has moved into cyber space, which leaves old timers like me more than a tad alienated. What would I do if was eighteen today? I have no idea. I came here in 1977 with $200 in my pocket, and had a job and an apartment within a week. Priced out by high rents, the city that was once a playground for the cool and the crazy is now a mall for the entitled. For lack of a better word, "bohemian" life in NYC is a thing of the past. One thing is for sure, the world I once knew, and inhabited, is long gone. By the time I've done that, the roaring 20's should be here. When in doubt, run photos of Bebe.As the end of the first decade of the 21st century closes in, it's time to make some sense of what happened in the last ten years.
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