everybody always talks about things that can influenced, rather than things that influenced can.

the shaggs >>>>> the velvet underground.

the rumour at the time was that this was created by cevin allowing his cat to walk over his keyboards, but it's hard to believe that it's actually true.

deathtokoalas
i personally find the memes a little annoying and distracting, but it's something that is probably necessary to get people's attention nowadays.

the only way to get around this is to teach it in high school. that's easier said than legislated, but it's the harsh reality of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bXpOUYrr1c

Wayne Vernon
The problem is I have never met a high-school economics teacher who understands economics. =P

deathtokoalas
they didn't even offer the course at the school i went to, which was quite large and well-funded. i mean, i took two years of classical guitar and a year of electronic music design (think john cage, not deadmau5).

Wayne Vernon
That is such a shame - I use to teach AP macro, but the class only reached a small minority of students.

High schools need to teach students about money, debt, and financial planning - people make such bad decisions. Every student should know how to calculate the costs and opportunity costs of debt. =/

I do, however, see the value of music also. ;)

the 80s were such a terrible time for pretty much everything, but the result is that the counterculture was more substantial than at any other time in the 20th century. and, comedians are necessarily counterculture. until it was stamped out in the 90s and the dictatorship of capital took hold under the clinton administration - a dictatorship that is going to require a revolution to overturn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ-6TCPdbl0

there were more top notch comedians in this film than i think even exist at all nowadays...

wow. grown-up punk show....ahaha...