You had to live through it to understand why the children of generation X are so unusual. Everyone was raised by parents fresh off the 60's, coupled with the influence of kid shows done by aging hippies still in an acid haze. Just rent a DVD of the Electric Company and you'll know why we tend to think differently.
We are a generation raised on the ideals of the 60's, by a "Woodstock Generation" who succumbed to greed later in life. Much to their dismay, the little guys they raised are trained to think 60's from birth. If you've noticed, the former hippies still control pop culture and the only generation rarely represented is ours. To be successful in their world... you're either 17 years old or 60. We're left out because we were trained not to be consumers, but rather critics. In other words, it's hard to sell crap to the very generation they trained to recognize it. Their only option to retain their power... disenfranchise the dangerous generation X. Our only option is to keep being dangerous.
My situation is even more unusual then most Xers as I was raised by an American actress mother and a father that had just come to this country from a life on the Greek Islands. Basically, I'm "Little Rickey"… and proud of it. Between my brother and myself, we were raised with an unusual blend of hundred year old values and 1960's theology. In other words... troublemakers :)
As a kid I gravitated toward music before I could talk. As an infant, I'd point to the grooves on my parents' records to tell them what song I wanted to hear. By the age of 4, I had my own record player and spent much of my days playing the same few records over and over.
In the Happy Special 70's Media Player Of Groovy Fun you'll find some of the tracks you'd have heard from the streets of Whitestone, Queens. They are not the best tracks of the 70's or even all from the 70's...it's just the 70's choices of DJ Niky!
CLICK HERE FOR MY 70'S POP UP MEDIA PLAYER.
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