My sly little assault is working..........

When I was a kid I devoured old musicals, movies, and tunes.  By the time I was about 20, I was so into my parallel universe of anachronism that I had more in common with my parents and grandparents than most of my peers....weird. Not that it's a bad thing in retrospect, but at the time (the '70s-80s), it certainly made me quite the outsider. I didn't have much desire to be driving around in a Camaro with air-shocks, listening to Zeppelin....I was more into listening to Anita O'Day, learning to mix a good cocktail, finding the right cigarette case to fit my Luckies.....trying to decide if it would be cooler to buy a Packard Patrician or a Studebaker Commander.  Odd, I know.

It's funny.....until recently, my daughter always found the excess of oldness rather intimidating....even embarrassing around her friends.  Imagine, if you will, never having anything in your kitchen that dated past the 1940s.....you can't even make a smoothie without KNOWING that you have to be careful, because it's mom's vintage Osterizer? having to get your OJ made by learning to use the juicer attachment on her '30s Sunbeam Mixmaster? not having Disney prints on your walls, because your mom insisted on decorating it with original pictures from British-invasion era teen magazines.  Sarah's friends thought it was cool, but she was not into it much at all....just kind of immune to it. "Oh, my mom? she collects...ummm, dust....something like that" ;)

So, anyway....I think the chickens are coming home to roost.  All that exposure is becoming interesting, finally.  She'll  actually come home and pop in a copy of "It happened one night", "Flying down to Rio". or "Meet me in St. Louis", instead of turning on her Wii, or hitting YouTube for pop songs on her laptop.  She knows the dance steps to "Like a G6", but is cool with trying to imitate the Nicolas Brothers, too....something like that.

So I'm pretty happy with that, really.  I'm working on this Rosemary Clooney list, and Sarah commented on how she loved that both RC and Frank Sinatra had such impeccable diction, when they sang.  She listened to the Margaret Whiting interview on NPR, and loved it when she talked about how her father's fellow songwriters taught her how to deliver a lyric with conviction, not just sing through it.  I love how when I'm working I hear Sarah singing "Tenderly", and "Mood indigo" in her room....not knowing that I overheard it :)

So my sly little assault is working, methinks.  Shhhhhh..........she's a stubborn bird, though.....it's ALL her idea.....she discovered all of it on her own (Taylor Swift = suckage........Ella Fitzgerald=excellent)........it's all her discovery ;)

 No argument from me on that one...........