Mostly when I don't like contemporary music I find it come down to: "Damn kids these days and their quiet music!"

We have so many samoas it's ridiculous. Last weekend at the end of boothing we had 20 boxes leftover. I cannot tell you how ridiculous my house looked that day -- boxes of cookies and envelopes of cash everywhere. Ask Kristin or Drew, if you don't believe me.

I can verify this.

But also, tonight we are hosting a game night for a bunch of people in the theatre company that Drew's on the board for (most awkward sentence construction ever), and I'm thinking I may need to restock. Hm.

I don't suppose you have any more of those lemon ones?

So, this morning I got the bright idea of looking at last month's Discover card statement to see if there were fraudulent charges (my adventures earlier this week discovered fraud in this month's transactions). Lo and behold!

Some crook bought a couple of southwest airlines tix, a shit-ton of Legos and bought some shit at a Christian Center in FL. Damn. Anyway, had to call Discover back and add more stuff to the fraud case.

A Christian center....?

Kat, I would be happy to take a box or two of Samoas, depending on how much shipping would be.

Meanwhile, I've recently come to the realisation that it's finally happened. I'm old. For the last couple of months it seems there's no song currently on the charts that I could claim to enjoy. Kids these days.

Semi-relatedly, my coworker went to the Today Show on vacation last week, and there was a Flo Rida concert, and she had never heard of him. In trying to explain something about who he was, I told the story of when he was on the Ellen show and made it rain in the audience. Half my coworkers didn't know that meant throwing money in the air, either! I am well in touch with The Kids Today, apparently.

as well as the understanding that we're faking it for the visit (they MUST know--it's ridiculous)

That's the part that kills me, traditionally. At least in this job, I don't have to dress up for someone else's meeting.

A Christian center....?

right? I thought they called them "churches", but apparently I'm a godless freak who doesn't know Jesus.

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I like a lot of today's music but have a very difficult time with auto tune. Still, there's enough fun stuff that isn't killed by auto tune that I can find: Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Fun., Phillip Phillips, Sara baralles (or however you spell her name), Pernice Bros, Avett Bros, Bruno Mars, Mumford and sons, Miguel, etc.

It's funny because I have never listened to (current) top 40 in my life - with the exception of when MJ was all ove the charts (and grunge; I was "current" with grunge at the time). I've aways been a decade or more behind on everyone else (in the 1980s I mostly listened to hippy 60's/70s music and Motown), in the 90's, grunge and a lot of late 70's (so was listening to a lot of disco and Cobain). I completely and utterly missed the boy bands thing (NKoTB, etc) and couldn't tell you one song of theirs.

I didn't really start listening to 80's music (Duran Duran, the Cure, etc) until mid-1990s. And so forth. It's fascinating to me how different our relationship with music is when we come to it later in life and not in our "formative" years. I love Duran Duran but I don't have memories of making out to it the way my cohort does. And it's not "stuck" in nostalgia for me I think for that same reason.

I've been thinking about this a lot - that we tend to set our lifetime musical taste on what we liked/listened to in the teen and early adult years - and how some people never want to hear new music (or are constantly comparing it to what they grew up with) after the age of 35 or so. I've seen so much evidence of this among friends and family and it's led to interesting discussions.

Did any of you guys become infatuated with certain music after the age of 30 (a different music than what you already loved by age 25)? I would love to hear your experiences.

It's nice hearing that Emmett is trying on all sorts of music, too. He's lucky to have a dad who likes a whole bunch of things, too, and cam share enthusiasm for a thousand different genres.

Did any of you guys become infatuated with certain music after the age of 30 (a different music than what you already loved by age 25)? I would love to hear your experiences.

I'm 45 and I just started listening to The Clash in the past couple of years. I blame/thank fanfic and the silver fox hotness of Rupert Graves.

I MUST HAVE THOSE SHEETS.