"Retro:"

(mylife_onceaday has optional "assignments," photographing something on a theme - the title in this case)



":relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of the past."

I couldn't remember whether "retro" referred to actually old, or newer, but made to look old. Turns out it's both, so I have examples of both less than a block each direction from me. The above is my high school, which last year celebrated its 100th birthday - although these buildings are twenty years younger than that. Oddly, when I googled these buildings, the tower kept being referred to as the "clock tower" or the "bell tower." However, it didn't get clocks or "bells" until the late 70's when I attended there. And the"bells" are fake- just a faux bell visible through the upper windows and speakers that play the typical clock tune before striking the hour, or quarter hour (the bulges at the bottom of the lower windows). It only chimes during the day on weekdays.

( retro, but new... )

"Retro:"

(mylife_onceaday has optional "assignments," photographing something on a theme - the title in this case)



":relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of the past."

I couldn't remember whether "retro" referred to actually old, or newer, but made to look old. Turns out it's both, so I have examples of both less than a block each direction from me. The above is my high school, which last year celebrated its 100th birthday - although these buildings are twenty years younger than that. Oddly, when I googled these buildings, the tower kept being referred to as the "clock tower" or the "bell tower." However, it didn't get clocks or "bells" until the late 70's when I attended there. And the"bells" are fake- just a faux bell visible through the upper windows and speakers that play the typical clock tune before striking the hour, or quarter hour (the bulges at the bottom of the lower windows). It only chimes during the day on weekdays.

( retro, but new... )

Music news...

The song that just came up reminds me; when John used to work as a meatcutter at Food 4 Less, he got pretty sick of this track as it was repeated over and over on the store Muzak system. That and "Six Weeks in a Leaky Boat" bySplit Enz.

Thing is, that was in Watts and Compton - inner city Los Angeles. Funny, those songs barely got any radio airplay, and whoever programmed the system was pitching the Finns to the hip-hop crowd.

I'm ecstatic to hear Neil Finn is getting Crowded House back together for a tour, but less than thrilled that their first appearance is at the Coachella Music Festival. The last time I saw them was at a the WOMAD Festival at Cal State Dominguez Hills, which one of those deals where if you had to go back to your car, you couldn't get back in, and by the time they came on, the porta-potties were overflowing and drunk kids were barfing everywhere. The music was great (Peter Gabriel and other world music groups were there, too), but the audience experience wasn't all that pleasant. If you happened to own a bladder needing emptying periodically, that is.

I haven't been to the Indio venue, but it's out in the desert at a time of year where it's getting hot, and again, you can't take anything in with you and they charge $6 for a bottle of water, never mind anything else. I'm getting too old for that kind of thing - I wasn't all that excited about it when I was younger. Sigh. Sure a lot of acts I'd love to see though...I sure hope they play some other places near me.

Mmm, there is a live webcast, though...makes up for some disappointment...

Music news...

The song that just came up reminds me; when John used to work as a meatcutter at Food 4 Less, he got pretty sick of this track as it was repeated over and over on the store Muzak system. That and "Six Weeks in a Leaky Boat" bySplit Enz.

Thing is, that was in Watts and Compton - inner city Los Angeles. Funny, those songs barely got any radio airplay, and whoever programmed the system was pitching the Finns to the hip-hop crowd.

I'm ecstatic to hear Neil Finn is getting Crowded House back together for a tour, but less than thrilled that their first appearance is at the Coachella Music Festival. The last time I saw them was at a the WOMAD Festival at Cal State Dominguez Hills, which one of those deals where if you had to go back to your car, you couldn't get back in, and by the time they came on, the porta-potties were overflowing and drunk kids were barfing everywhere. The music was great (Peter Gabriel and other world music groups were there, too), but the audience experience wasn't all that pleasant. If you happened to own a bladder needing emptying periodically, that is.

I haven't been to the Indio venue, but it's out in the desert at a time of year where it's getting hot, and again, you can't take anything in with you and they charge $6 for a bottle of water, never mind anything else. I'm getting too old for that kind of thing - I wasn't all that excited about it when I was younger. Sigh. Sure a lot of acts I'd love to see though...I sure hope they play some other places near me.

Mmm, there is a live webcast, though...makes up for some disappointment...