Amusements
Jun. 28th, 2004 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetI was going to write about how yesterday J., her sister, and I took a cranky toddler and a mostly somnolescent infant to the Salem Willows, and how all the rides and video games there were kind of run-down and aging, and that the age of the equipment and the movies that provided themes for the pinball machines and the music playing over the loudspeakers and the big hair and denim were all just so twenty-years-ago that it was kind of a shock that the prizes you could trade your Skee-Ball tickets in for were more or less up-to-date with Harry Potter and internet references.
Well, I guess I have just now written about all that after all, but not with the wit and humor and general "here is an essay concerning a slice of Americana that should be read on NPR with a slightly croaky sensitive-guy voice"-ness that I had envisioned.
I spoke to J. about how parks like that seem to be stuck in the 80s, but she pointed out that it's more like they've finally caught up to the 80s, because in the 80s they (e.g.) played music from the 60s. One did not hear Wang Chung while riding the Himalayan the way one does now in these modern and enlightened times.
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Attention, Boston-area gamers: If you, like me, often fail to bother to catch up with weekend journal posts, I direct your attention to my post from Saturday.
Musical aside: "Hellsville 98" nearly sounds like it should have been on the album Ende Neu, except, you know, with a different singer and different musicians and stuff.
Well, I guess I have just now written about all that after all, but not with the wit and humor and general "here is an essay concerning a slice of Americana that should be read on NPR with a slightly croaky sensitive-guy voice"-ness that I had envisioned.
I spoke to J. about how parks like that seem to be stuck in the 80s, but she pointed out that it's more like they've finally caught up to the 80s, because in the 80s they (e.g.) played music from the 60s. One did not hear Wang Chung while riding the Himalayan the way one does now in these modern and enlightened times.
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Attention, Boston-area gamers: If you, like me, often fail to bother to catch up with weekend journal posts, I direct your attention to my post from Saturday.
Musical aside: "Hellsville 98" nearly sounds like it should have been on the album Ende Neu, except, you know, with a different singer and different musicians and stuff.
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Date: 2004-06-28 01:01 pm (UTC)So to sum it up since Im extremely lazy.
Kids come to the parks. They usually need to be taken by Adults(or not if your some kind of irresponsible person). Amusement Rides in the Foreground, Music Background to kids. Adults must slowly wait for the kids to get off the rides and what not. The genre and time of the music imvokes a sort of nostalgia which gets the parents more in the mood. So they're not in the "Yay, I get to spend $200 tonight for my kid to ride 3 rides, and win nothing again" angry attitude. The music raises their spirits and allows them to reminise. Give out a little more cash, maybe go on some rides WITH the kid.