Class is in Session

Welcome, everyone, to The Internet School of Pop Culture for Millennials and Hipsters!

This will be my forum to encourage younger generations, and the hipsters that just can't be bothered, to experience the pop culture of decades and eras gone by. "Why is this worth doing?", you may ask. Well, I believe that, for the most part, the current pop culture offerings are vastly inferior and we are all being ripped off every single time we visit a cinema or sit down in front of the television. All is not lost though, there are bright spots, that I will champion.

As evidence that we live in a bleak and dismal pop culture vacuum, as I'm writing this entry, the daily Google Trends ranking features "Jon Snow" (#4) from "Game of Thrones", Rik Mayall (#2) of Drop Dead Fred fame, dead at 56, and Carole King (#6) who performed at the Tony Awards over the weekend. The top spot belongs to the E3 Conference, which, while not outside of the purview of this blog, represents what I'd consider to be a very niche segment of pop culture.

These are dire times. The Geico Gecko commercials are more entertaining than many entire television series. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (which I love) is going to be the juggernaut that eventually cripples Hollywood because it's just easier to make all the money on two or three big movies a year instead of making hundreds of small movies a year like they used to. Between constant touring to remain in the collective consciousness, and the preponderance of EP's and singles, bands will no longer be bands in the traditional sense. There won't be many more great albums, except those made by artists who revere the history of music and eschew the business of music.

My thoughts and opinions will be varied, sometimes extreme and iconoclastic, sometimes wishful, and other times I'll sound like a corporate shill. They will all be my honest thoughts on a variety of matters though.