I'm so old I Remember when:

[theoldchick]

I found the movie, 'Daisy, A hen in the wild" horrifying. It was okay until the end.

 

[Sally PB]

This is why some of us still call our music our "tapes." And a previous generation still calls theirs "records," lol!

(Record) Albums. Tapes. Then CDs. Really like the physicalness of those forms. If I have it, I have it.

 

[MROO]

Traumatizing. Red Badge of Courage, The Pearl, The Good Earth. No wonder I'm a basket case, lol.

For the record, those are all very good books ... but not for in-depth grade-school level discussion. Save it for college and let kids be kids!

So - to swing us back to the actual topic of this wonderful thread:
I remember when childhood reading was meant for adventure ... and fun!

 

[MROO]

Lord of the Flies was another one I regretted reading. It's a wonder I even graduated at all, lol. I did love To Kill a Mockingbird, though. Probably because it was written from the POV of a 10-yo girl.

Scout is a hero!

 

[jxp]

I agree. Falkor was freakin' ugly, looked like he was designed by a third grader, and the horse dying in the swamp was the end of the movie for me. Course I hated Bambi and Ol' Yeller and refuse to watch Where the Red Fern Grows, too. What is the matter with people, letting children watch these things and calling it entertainment?

Part of life.

 

[notabitail]

(Record) Albums. Tapes. Then CDs. Really like the physicalness of those forms. If I have it, I have it.

I insist on buying my music for that very reason. I refuse to buy digital if it's not something I can own forever. There is one artist I like, and his albums are all digital, but at least I can download the file and burn it to a CD.

 

[Evadig]

I insist on buying my music for that very reason. I refuse to buy digital if it's not something I can own forever. There is one artist I like, and his albums are all digital, but at least I can download the file and burn it to a CD.

What is it with everyone calling musicians/composers “artists”? An artist paints and draws pictures, not music!

 

[notabitail]

What is it with everyone calling musicians/composers “artists”? An artist paints and draws pictures, not music!

Music is a form of art. It's art you can hear.

I listen to a lot of classical music. Tons of it. It's usually done like this:
The "album artist" can be something like Nobbington Symphony Orchestra. They are the "artist" performing the music.

Then there is the "song artist". This is, in classical music, the composer of the piece, for example, Johann Sebastian Bach.

If it said "composer", it'd be confusing, because it's say "Nobbington Symphony Orchestra". If it said "Musician", it'd also be confusing, because Bach is dead.

Therefore, artist.

Some music apps actually do have "composer" as an option to sort by, but the majority of my CDs do not show up, as nobody uses that field to put data in.

 

[jxp]

What is it with everyone calling musicians/composers “artists”? An artist paints and draws pictures, not music!

Art takes many forms.

 

[Smoked Brisket]

I agree mostly on the books. My daughters teacher suggested 'The Hatchet' to my daughter. Good book, but not for a 6 yo!