I suppose it’s because I’m so old. I stopped listening to radio stations that play current songs quite some time ago. Most because I didn’t like what I was hearing most of the time, and looked forward to when they’d slip in an older song.
Actually, that’s not quite right. I said “mostly because” but it’s actually “entirely because.” I thought I should make that clear.
Anyway, though this song was released over nine years ago, I never heard it until recently. So, why did I hear it after all this time? What were the circumstances that brought about my hearing this song?
You’ll find out tomorrow night. Which should actually tell you tonight. Funny how that works, right?
Enough of that. What you got? Something for the whole group? C’mon, you got something you want to talk about, right? Let’s do it. It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
(hitting desk:) History Lesson! History Lesson! History Lesson!
I stopped listening to currently-produced music around 1984. Techno-what? Rap who?
Obviously, the most culture-affecting stuff still worms its way into TV shows, commercials, and movies, so I was kept abreast of the notable musical memes — until I stopped watching current TV shows, commercials, and movies.
You still get bombarded by the constant references in popular media. Which I’ve ceased reading.
It’s pretty satisfying to be able to read a headline like: “K-2Flav Accepts Grammy, Knocks Trump” and not give a damn and move on with more important things.
There’s only one drawback: you may not understand a reference in MST3K or RiffTrax. I can deal with that, though, because even more of their references are to things today’s kid’s don’t know about.
At some point your musical tastes become mostly “Get off my lawn”.
Tonight’s history lesson……..
Was inspired by a question from Cliff…….
Why doesn’t earths moon have a name like all the other planets? Something cool like Scarface maybe? This question might have gone unanswered except for the due diligence of walruskkkch who found the following (and I quote)…………………………………………………………………………”Interesting question, so I Googled it.”
“Earth’s moon does have a name: In English, it’s “the moon.” The word moon is Proto-Germanic in origin, deriving from a similar-sounding word that came into use a few thousand years ago in Northern Europe.”
“For most of human history, there didn’t need to be a more specific term to differentiate our moon from other moons that orbit other planets in the solar system, and for good reason: we didn’t know there were any other moons. “Until Galileo discovered that Jupiter had moons in 1610, people thought that the moon was the only moon that existed,” NASA’s lunar science website states.”
“After other moons were discovered,” the NASA site continues, “they were given different names so that people would not confuse them with each other. We call them moons because they orbit planets the same way that the moon orbits around Earth.”
“The four biggest of Jupiter’s 64 moons — the ones discovered by Galileo in 1610 — are named Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.”
“In Latin, our satellite’s name is “Luna.” Because a significant chunk of English comes from Latin, many terms associated with the moon are related to this Latin name — for example, the adjective “lunar,” and the noun “lunatic,” an old-fashioned word for a mentally ill person. (Madness was thought to be correlated with the phases of the moon.)”
“In Greek, our moon is named “Selene,” as is the moon goddess of ancient Greek mythology. The English word “selenology,” or the study of the moon’s geology, derives from it.”.
Did you know that if you were on another planet, say Mars, you’d see four planets between you and the sun? At least that’s how you’d perceive it.
The British comedy/info series “QI” had a very funny panel discussion on this, which I am not able to find a link to, because I can’t remember which particular show it appeared on. It was just a segment.
Moderator (Stephen Fry): How many moons does the Earth have?
Panelist: Is this a trick question?
Fry: No . . .
Panelist: One.
Fry: No.
Panelist: But that’s its name: The Moon. [laughter from audience] Surely if there were others, they wouldn’t call it “The Moon.”
[Moderator goes into scientific esoterica about other bodies that orbit the earth.]
I pretty much quit listening to all music when Disco faded away….lolololol
The Hustle. repeat the same 9 beat riff nonstop for 3 minutes, Classic disco. For me it got old really fast.