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]]> By: Hudman http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-822031 Hudman Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:27:09 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-822031 cool picsxx cool picsxx

]]> By: Renaldo Schinke http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-772759 Renaldo Schinke Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:24:44 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-772759 Wow, i appreciate your work Wow, i appreciate your work

]]> By: Uria http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-283310 Uria Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:53:26 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-283310 ×òî òî Àâòîð ñîâñåì ïåðåñòàë ïèñàòü ïîñòû è äàæå àäìèíèòü áëîã? Ìîæåò ÷òî ñëó÷èëîñü? ×òî òî Àâòîð ñîâñåì ïåðåñòàë ïèñàòü ïîñòû è äàæå àäìèíèòü áëîã? Ìîæåò ÷òî ñëó÷èëîñü?

]]> By: Ernest http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-14976 Ernest Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:59:39 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-14976 Cool it, Beaky. Carrie, you loosened up a bit it seems. Was it a raise in salary or email from a suitor? Or both, perhaps? Welcome to America, Alex – a land of plenty of kolbasa for everyone. We are all friends here. Cool it, Beaky.

Carrie, you loosened up a bit it seems. Was it a raise in salary or email from a suitor? Or both, perhaps?

Welcome to America, Alex – a land of plenty of kolbasa for everyone. We are all friends here.

]]> By: Beaky http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-14972 Beaky Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:36:58 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-14972 Ernest, you are full of exaggerated nonsense. That’s called Pursuit of Happiness, American dream, and all that. Haven’t read the Declaration of Independence lately, have you? Besides, many of “them” new arrivals are fairly well educated young people who know from arts and sciences. Furthermore, many embark on brilliant careers with the government to become the planners of America’s future! Lighten up. Ernest, you are full of exaggerated nonsense. That’s called Pursuit of Happiness, American dream, and all that. Haven’t read the Declaration of Independence lately, have you? Besides, many of “them” new arrivals are fairly well educated young people who know from arts and sciences. Furthermore, many embark on brilliant careers with the government to become the planners of America’s future! Lighten up.

]]> By: alex fyodorovich http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-14932 alex fyodorovich Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:21:43 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-14932 vodka and bear heart, never felafel. ... am i right, professor carman? vodka and bear heart, never felafel. ... am i right, professor carman?

]]> By: Carrie the Red http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-14908 Carrie the Red Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:36:01 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-14908 Comrade Fyodorovich, it is the brutal dullness of the 9-to-5 capitalist system that inspires me to such longwindedness. Perhaps, after our next bear hunt, we can discuss it all over vodka and falafel. Za vas! Comrade Fyodorovich, it is the brutal dullness of the 9-to-5 capitalist system that inspires me to such longwindedness. Perhaps, after our next bear hunt, we can discuss it all over vodka and falafel. Za vas!

]]> By: Alex Fyodorovich http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-14907 Alex Fyodorovich Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:19:04 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-14907 Ms. Red you are aptly named. you are indeed a true communist. i salute you. Ms. Red
you are aptly named. you are indeed a true communist. i salute you.

]]> By: Carrie the Red http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-14906 Carrie the Red Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:00:40 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-14906 While this guy gives me the heebie jeebies, I was exaggerating for the sake of comedy here, Wolf Star. A less smart-assed analysis: He's creepy in part for the very obsession with youth culture you're talking about. How often are images of old people used to sell a product not directly marketed to them -- something other than Cialis, Rascal scooters, or Oops-I-Crapped-My Pants underwear? Hardly ever. People don't want to be reminded of aging and death. What makes Six Flags Guy an exception? He looks old, but he's acceptable onscreen because he behaves like a child on a sugar-binge: dancing energetically, making goofy faces, grooving to youthful music, riding coasters. He represents the only acceptable kind of old person: perpetually healthy and childlike. (And given that there's actually an athletic young woman inside this suit, I could even argue -- tongue-in-cheekily -- that this guy is sort of an age-ist equivalent to the old minstrel shows where white performers put on blackface. But if I went down that silly rabbit hole I’d never come out.) Much as I'm tired of the Cialis ads (does every man taking erectile dysfunction drugs have an outdoor clawfooted bathtub and a vineyard?), at least they have a more graceful tone on aging issues. While this guy gives me the heebie jeebies, I was exaggerating for the sake of comedy here, Wolf Star. A less smart-assed analysis: He's creepy in part for the very obsession with youth culture you're talking about. How often are images of old people used to sell a product not directly marketed to them -- something other than Cialis, Rascal scooters, or Oops-I-Crapped-My Pants underwear? Hardly ever. People don't want to be reminded of aging and death.

What makes Six Flags Guy an exception? He looks old, but he's acceptable onscreen because he behaves like a child on a sugar-binge: dancing energetically, making goofy faces, grooving to youthful music, riding coasters. He represents the only acceptable kind of old person: perpetually healthy and childlike. (And given that there's actually an athletic young woman inside this suit, I could even argue -- tongue-in-cheekily -- that this guy is sort of an age-ist equivalent to the old minstrel shows where white performers put on blackface. But if I went down that silly rabbit hole I’d never come out.)

Much as I'm tired of the Cialis ads (does every man taking erectile dysfunction drugs have an outdoor clawfooted bathtub and a vineyard?), at least they have a more graceful tone on aging issues.

]]> By: Ernest http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-14890 Ernest Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:14:59 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-14890 I can’t agree more in general and "youth" culture in paticular, Wolf Star. Every year a new bunch of them young prats descend locust like upon this wonderful city from each and every provincial hole on the US territory. They share some crappy basement by a dozen during the night while subserviently serving lawyers, lobbyists, politicians and corporations during the day. They visit the National Zoo, Adams Morgan and Black Cat. They hang around Dupont Circle. They learn opinions. Before long the young dolts become deluded to such a degree as to think themselves urban sophisticates. They’re above Virginia and PG County, if you please. They think they have a taste in music while it's quite evident the only taste they have is in their mouths. Doped with consumption and porn and TV, they think they're clever and classless and free. But they're still fucking peasants as far as I can see. Get back to where you belong, yo. I can’t agree more in general and "youth" culture in paticular, Wolf Star.

Every year a new bunch of them young prats descend locust like upon this wonderful city from each and every provincial hole on the US territory. They share some crappy basement by a dozen during the night while subserviently serving lawyers, lobbyists, politicians and corporations during the day. They visit the National Zoo, Adams Morgan and Black Cat. They hang around Dupont Circle. They learn opinions. Before long the young dolts become deluded to such a degree as to think themselves urban sophisticates. They’re above Virginia and PG County, if you please. They think they have a taste in music while it's quite evident the only taste they have is in their mouths. Doped with consumption and porn and TV, they think they're clever and classless and free. But they're still fucking peasants as far as I can see. Get back to where you belong, yo.

]]> By: Wolf Star http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-14853 Wolf Star Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:48:26 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-14853 Dave McKenna's music comments? Why do they let music bigots do reviews? None of the acts he mentioned are lip syncers in concert! They were and are all fine artists! Not everyone will remember American Bandstand didn't have the capability to tape an artists performance for real. So that they used an artist's 45 rpm record recording as the music. Not the same lip synching is notorious today. AB showcased hundreds of amazing up and coming artists. I'm glad to be able to look forward to live bands at an amusement park. Growing up, amusement parks were one of the ways to build a band's career on the way up to stardom. I'll also look forward to those vintage video clips! Wow, Carrie. It's just a commercial. The old guy is meant to show young and old alike can enjoy Six Flags. It's fun, it's a party. I've seen all kinds of kids do goof take offs of the old guy and techno music. They get it. How hateful to say the guy looks like a predator! You can't tell those creeps from their looks, but by how they are in person. Old doesn't mean dead. I'm disgusted with the whole concept of "youth" culture and what is or is not appealing! The old guy is fit, can still dance and was smart enough to invest for retirement instead of spending it all on botox. I like that iconic old buzzard. I will agree on clowns in make up being scary. Dave McKenna's music comments? Why do they let music bigots
do reviews? None of the acts he mentioned are lip syncers in concert!
They were and are all fine artists! Not everyone will remember
American Bandstand didn't have the capability to tape an artists
performance for real. So that they used an artist's 45 rpm record recording as the music. Not the same lip synching is notorious today.
AB showcased hundreds of amazing up and coming artists.
I'm glad to be able to look forward to live bands at an amusement park.
Growing up, amusement parks were one of the ways to build a band's
career on the way up to stardom. I'll also look forward to those
vintage video clips!

Wow, Carrie. It's just a commercial. The old guy is meant to show young and old alike can enjoy Six Flags. It's fun, it's a party. I've seen all kinds of kids do goof take offs of the old guy and techno music. They get it. How hateful to say the guy looks like a predator! You can't tell those creeps from their looks, but by how they are in person.
Old doesn't mean dead. I'm disgusted with the whole concept of
"youth" culture and what is or is not appealing! The old guy is fit, can still dance and was smart enough to invest for retirement instead of spending it all on botox. I like that iconic old buzzard. I will
agree on clowns in make up being scary.

]]> By: Ernest http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-14746 Ernest Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:54:03 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/06/26/the-decline-and-fall-of-theme-park-rock/#comment-14746 Let us just say he looks a tad eccentric. Let us just say he looks a tad eccentric.

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