tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post40092382215767833..comments2024-03-28T01:35:19.028-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: South American Diary #4: "The life is only once"—TangoNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-42752647435962879932019-04-11T18:54:13.074-05:002019-04-11T18:54:13.074-05:00"Somehow I felt I had glimpsed a path into th..."Somehow I felt I had glimpsed a path into the future. A navigable route up the painful mountainside. This is how one grows old: with dignity, companionship, music, and dancing. It can be done. These people are doing it."<br /><br />Early Boomers, aged 65-70...and beyond, are doing it, too. Right here in America. There are live bands that play nothing but the Top 40 hits of the Fifties and Sixties, the tunes that Boomers listened to on AM radio in cars and bedrooms, and bought 45 RPM recordings of, and danced to at sock-hops and basement parties. <br /><br />My wife and I have been dancing to one of those local bands for almost twenty years. And yes, it does feel like time has stopped and the years do melt away, and the "doo-wop" sound we grew up with goes on forever. But there's no swapping of partners...you always dance with the one who brung ya.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-38052333638591715322019-04-11T12:48:25.091-05:002019-04-11T12:48:25.091-05:00Being in a foreign land and walking through that r...Being in a foreign land and walking through that red door, taking in the scene before me, the music and dancers, the electricity flowing, would have bowled me over. Excellent piece of writing, putting us right there.SandyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14070366627628604352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-92074897132761878852019-04-11T09:33:36.815-05:002019-04-11T09:33:36.815-05:00When the Russians were besieging the German Sixth ...When the Russians were besieging the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, they blasted tango music, on the theory that it was sinister and demoralizing.<br /><br />An odd choice, but under those circumstances, I would have found the "Mr. Rogers" theme demoralizing.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.com