It Don't Matter if You're Black or White

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it's a cool video though I am not much of a fan of the later work....preferred the late 70s/early 80s funkier stuff

Off The Wall album is my favorite of his.

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I thought this was an interesting comment...

38, a manager at HBO who grew up on Long Island awash in Farrah and MJ iconography. “This,” he said, “is the moment when Generation X realizes they’re grown up.”

It was a long time coming. Cynical, disaffected, rife with ADD, lost between Boomers and millennials and sandwiched between Vietnam and the war on terror, Gen X has always been an oddity. It was the product of a transitional age when we were still putting people on celebrity pedestals but only starting to make an industry out of dragging them down.

Its memorable moments were diffuse and confusing — the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt, the dawn of AIDS, the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It had no protest movement, no opponent to unite it, none of the things that typically shape the ill-defined beast we call an American generation.... Read More

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This is good too...

The face of change

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38, a manager at HBO who grew up on Long Island awash in Farrah and MJ iconography. "This," he said, "is the moment when Generation X realizes they're grown up."

I should hope so at the age of 38.

I thought we were supposed to have realized we were grown ups when Jim Henson and Dr. Seuss both died within a few wees of each other some time in 1990?

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I thought this was an interesting comment...

38, a manager at HBO who grew up on Long Island awash in Farrah and MJ iconography. “This,” he said, “is the moment when Generation X realizes they’re grown up.”

It was a long time coming. Cynical, disaffected, rife with ADD, lost between Boomers and millennials and sandwiched between Vietnam and the war on terror, Gen X has always been an oddity. It was the product of a transitional age when we were still putting people on celebrity pedestals but only starting to make an industry out of dragging them down.

Its memorable moments were diffuse and confusing — the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt, the dawn of AIDS, the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It had no protest movement, no opponent to unite it, none of the things that typically shape the ill-defined beast we call an American generation.... Read More

(msnbc)

I like the way he said. Being a Gen X he missed the Gulf War. Isn't it Pepsi which popularized Gen X?

And both your link doesn't work, shows error

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I thought this was an interesting comment...

38, a manager at HBO who grew up on Long Island awash in Farrah and MJ iconography. “This,” he said, “is the moment when Generation X realizes they’re grown up.”

It was a long time coming. Cynical, disaffected, rife with ADD, lost between Boomers and millennials and sandwiched between Vietnam and the war on terror, Gen X has always been an oddity. It was the product of a transitional age when we were still putting people on celebrity pedestals but only starting to make an industry out of dragging them down.

Its memorable moments were diffuse and confusing — the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt, the dawn of AIDS, the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It had no protest movement, no opponent to unite it, none of the things that typically shape the ill-defined beast we call an American generation.... Read More

(msnbc)

I like the way he said. Being a Gen X he missed the Gulf War. Isn't it Pepsi which popularized Gen X?

And both your link doesn't work, shows error

Oh sorry...try this one:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31556916/ns/entertainment-music/

You'll the 'face of change' as you scroll down the page.

Pepsi? Hmmm...interesting.

38, a manager at HBO who grew up on Long Island awash in Farrah and MJ iconography. "This," he said, "is the moment when Generation X realizes they're grown up."

I should hope so at the age of 38.

I thought we were supposed to have realized we were grown ups when Jim Henson and Dr. Seuss both died within a few wees of each other some time in 1990?

Jim Henson and Dr. Seuss for more elder statesman to the Generation X'ers than members of that generation, while MJ was more one of us...we grew up together.

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Jim Henson and Dr. Seuss for more elder statesman to the Generation X'ers than members of that generation, while MJ was more one of us...we grew up together.

LOL.........um no Steven..........

Jackson was a Boomer, like me.

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Steven....aren't you a "late boomer"?

Generation X was originally a band with Billy Idol, then a book by Douglas Coupland....I think Pepsi just plugged into the marketing potential.

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Jim Henson and Dr. Seuss for more elder statesman to the Generation X'ers than members of that generation, while MJ was more one of us...we grew up together.

LOL.........um no Steven..........

Jackson was a Boomer, like me.

You can't go just by his age....he connected most with the Generation X crowd. The Baby Boomers go to Neil Diamond concerts.

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Cool video !

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Jim Henson and Dr. Seuss for more elder statesman to the Generation X'ers than members of that generation, while MJ was more one of us...we grew up together.

LOL.........um no Steven..........

Jackson was a Boomer, like me.

You can't go just by his age....he connected most with the Generation X crowd. The Baby Boomers go to Neil Diamond concerts.

Right........................here's the very first band I ever went to see.

Ah - I can still smell the weed........

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Jim Henson and Dr. Seuss for more elder statesman to the Generation X'ers than members of that generation, while MJ was more one of us...we grew up together.

LOL.........um no Steven..........

Jackson was a Boomer, like me.

You can't go just by his age....he connected most with the Generation X crowd. The Baby Boomers go to Neil Diamond concerts.

Right........................here's the very first band I ever went to see.

Ah - I can still smell the weed........

hehehe... so this does nothing for you?

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I love love love Sweet Caroline!!

And on another note, we just added it up that Graham Edge is 68 years old.............

Oh hell, I think I need to go lie down..............

Edited June 27, 2009 by rebeccajo

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Neil Diamond looks like an ape-man in that photo

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Neil Diamond looks like an ape-man in that photo

Neil Diamond is really short.................