Music and stuff

I had a bit of an awakening this morning. I guess you could count that as two awakenings.

I was recollecting NPR's story about some tapes that some guy (Shel Silverstein's nephew) was going through because they might have contained some Gram Parsons tunes. It turns out that they turned out to contain a few old Woodie Guthrie songs. One of which was a live recording of "This Land is Your Land".

But it wasn't until this morning that I made a few connections. Mainly about sarcasm, how that song is a really irony, how this beautiful and large country can't really be called "OUR LAND" because it is so much bigger and more wondrous then we can stomach. But then that thread led me to another thing that bothered me, which was that it wasn't until recently that I broke ground on that particular "ah-ha" moment, (helped by the song 100 Million by Sunny Day Real Estate) and so I started to feel a little uneasy about the fact that there is probably the majority of an up and coming generation that: 1) are listening to Rihanna, Britney and Ciara, so their musical taste buds are destroyed; 2) are confused by irony and sarcasm; 3) Because of texting, cellphones and 100 MB/s internet connections think that California or Florida is just around the corner. Is it possible that these young adults and teenagers might not realize, and mistake that Woodie Guthrie song for the words it speaks, and not be able to hear the meaning behind them?

The lyrics from the Sunny Day Real Estate song goes: 100 million/fences around us/can we own everything?/including the moon and the sun and the stars?