Just a thought of where the next medium is headed.

Generation MTV

Go on admit it…  The name is the coolest generation distinction name ever.
See our claim to fame, that's right “Generation MTV”,

Once hurled as an insult by crusty old Codgers,

Behind their fancy oak desk with their fancy Bick ball point pens,

They didn’t understand us… We were the “Big Scarrrry Unknown”

Now our negative connotation became our badge of honor.

TV?  How can those kids sit there and watch all that loud crazy…

“Look at there, Look at that,

That ain’t music,

That’s just somethin’ playin’ on the MTV.”

Then there was a new album by Micheal…Thriller!

"WHOO! Don't try to escape it.  You cant hide…

You’re just a Thriller…" 
You know you wanna sing out with it.  WOO, HOO!

If you were a teenager in 1984 then you are the MTV Generation…

Damn those were the days…  Rolling it up and Takin’ a Ride!

Hell yeah, when "Rock On" became "Party On"  

All because Bill and Ted believed in all of US!

We showed them…  Hell we showed them with Purchasing Power… 

Ya’ll ain’t seen nothing yet, wait until they see how we flash the cash at the mall.

Mom and Pops you may have been the Baby Boomers

But thanks to you laying your wallets and purses around the house, 
We are the New American Consumers, cause “I Seen It On The MTV”

There’s the new parachute pants, gotta get those.

See we were awesome…  All future generation should bow down to us.

Just like Garth, say it… You’re not worthy… You’re not worthy.

See thanks to us, the media absolutely knows how to target you,

That’s right, we taught the media that trick, you who are the youth of tomorrow.

We are the proven success of teenagers succumbing crap sold as fashion. 

We showed you how to invent new music, and slang terms…

Cause, Hallelujah the Lord knows, that was never done before the MTV.

That's right all us rebellious MTV kids, we did it all.

There are no Rebels before us, there are no Rebels after us…

You are all just jealous of our now, given name.

And you’ll a be even more jealous real soon,

Especially...  When we start to get our Social Security checks.

Girl in Landscape = Literary?

I think it’s just because Jonathan Letham may write a “coming of Age” book well may not make it a good book.  See I was so indifferent to this book that I actually went ahead and experimented with ordering the Audio Book format just to keep getting through this book.   Is it a Genre Novel?  Well before this book was in my sights I would have said in this day and age there really isn’t a great deal of book that are genre book.  Wow…  Would I have been wrong. 

The book did a lot of he said she said to illustrate the characters depth…  Or in some the lack thereof.  This story deals with the downside of earth in decay and dreams of a better future elsewhere.  Then in the ultimate ending it shows us that life is what you make of it where you stand right now. 

Now is it literature… Nah.  I’d say it’s definitely genre.  SyFi with a bit of spaghetti western, coming of age-puberty, strife, racism projected via human vs. alien, voyeurism, sexual identity and power struggles.  All of these are just a work that when he wrote the story in 1998 were directed to an audience in not much more than pandering to a base that he knew would purchase his book.   Is this literature for the fact of trying to write a great story that someone will someday say “Now that Novel is a great literary work”….  Heck No, he was just trying to sale a book…  Nothing wrong with that either, everyone needs to put food on the table.

Anyway the adapt, hit the road again for greener pastures or just plain die existence of the character situations works well for the semi-trapped teens in the story.  I was kind of surprised (I think it’s funny in a cheezey way) to see that by the end of the novel how Pella who was written as a really rebelliously independent character ends up fawning for the “Bad Boy” to return.

Hell I guess it grew on me and I’ll have to listen to it again the next time I’m up for a long drive.  But is it a Literary work of art I doubt it but hey if had that crystal ball I’d be down at the dog tracks instead of here trying to learn something.