when i was a kid...

Game boys, 24 hr cartoon networks, dvd players in the back of your head rest, Blues Clues, Baby Einstein... whatever. What the hell happened to all you parents out there? Did you forget your roots? You wanna know what your kid is missing?

A Sense of Wonder.

(and yes, i did put a freaking Zepp cover on my blog. Why? That album cover there, along with many more in my mom's collection, is probably why i became an artist at all. These covers were sacred when i was little. I would flip through them thinking i wasn't allowed, or that someone would stop me at any moment because i was glimpsing the truth too early. There was this world of possibility in these squares... no way did a person make these... i never once thought of the artist... it was as if they conceived themselves.

I'm not a kid anymore --though i still can feel that way when i look at these covers-- so i don't know what gives kids that feeling anymore?

What is there today? a big generation of Bubble Children who are waited on hand and foot, given every possible distraction so that they won't face a minute of sadness, forced by law to wear a helmet if they are to touch anything that might have a wheel on it.

Anyway, what am i getting at here... I dunno. But maybe it's just to remind that there was a time when you would see a blind black genius jam what is a very adult song for 8 minutes on a children's TV show. Maybe it's to point to that child at the top of those stairs in this video that is absolutely consumed with this sound. Maybe it's to say that "less _____" is not what our children need right now, that they are capable of processing, and rely upon, these experiences for whatever might be coming their way later on.)