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The other host at my service club will double-talk people. He got sick of hearing this one woman sing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" with the same ending ad-libs every week. He told her something like "we had to reprogram the computer, and we lost that one". He'll reprogram it in a couple of weeks and she will get it back, but he thinks she'll probably lose "Black Velvet" in the process. I will confess I don't agree with it (nor have the chutzpah to do it).

I removed all the Adam Sandler and Tenacious D from my computer, and won't buy SC8117 or SC8700. One guy just walked out when I told him that. On the other hand, several non-singing drinkers stopped walking out, which they did when the previous host had SC8700 with "Ode To My Car" and "At A Medium Pace".

I too, really enjoy reading civil war era letters and even WWII era writing. It is so refreshing to read that. I am always trying to better my writing skills and spelling. It's a lost art these days especially when you see boys spelled boiz or the word "for" substituted with the number 4. Once in a while it's entertaining or even quaint, but all the time, it gets annoying.

Another idea which came to me- as was previously pointed out, some feel that today's society seems to be experiencing a literacy crisis. Are we experiencing a music crisis as well when we have to depend on swearing for entertainment? I cannot help but think that the gratuitous use of swear words is somehow meant to substitute for quality music (both from performance and songwriting standpoints) in order to provide entertainment. Is the music industry trying to "dumb" society down in its taste for REALLY GOOD original music; music which can stand the test of time rather than being mega-popular for a few months at best and then passing into oblivion?

I know that I said that I try to maintain a live-and-let live mentality, but I just wanted to throw this little rant out after getting booed off the stage during a karaoke performance (I wasn't singing something considered popular by today's standards, and the crowd was very young; the majority of the crowd seemed to range in age from the 20's to the very early 30's).

I don't know about a "music crisis" Phoenix. What I do know, as noted in my previous post, is that younger comedians nowadays don't think they can be successful without unleashing f-bombs. And the change in the tone of comedy long preceded the current "music crisis". Meanwhile, the use of obsecenties and vulgarities, and lewd behavior is now pervasive throughout the entertainment industry, and throughout the younger generation!

And let's not ignore the reality that it is the youth who support the noted changes in the entertainment industry with their pocket books. Only with that support would such deterioration have been possible. As we know, members of the "younger" generation tend to march in lock-step as to: dress, hair style, music, language, etc. Many of us, I believe, would suggest that the current younger generation has chosen the "worst" role models to emulate - "gangsters" from the "hood".

With that premise of who/what the youth emulate, what does one expect would be reflected by the entertainment industry?

I do two places. Neither have an issue with language. Although one night one owner thought the F word was used too much and asked me to cut it back if I could. My next show at the other place someone sang Rage Against The Machine's "Guerilla Radio". I lost count of how many times the F word comes up in that song. Cracked me up.

I won't even watch a movie unless it's rated R.

You must miss a lot of good movies, then.

I can't begin to tell you how many top quality movies that have been made that are rated G or PG. And these ratings alone scare off so many people-- what a real shame. What is our society degenerating to?