Watched a show about "Laugh-In." Watched a show about the history of stand-up. Watched Larry David's "Comedy in Dangerous Places." Been listening to some pre-WWII big band music.
The palpable tension we all felt 1966-74 over the draft and the possibility of being sent overseas to fight people we had no argument with, overhung everything that was done during those years. Which also happened to be the peak years of creativity in music, if you ask me. Our parents probably felt the same about 1939-45.
I wonder if war, the fear of war, the dread of war somehow heightens the creative urge?
Peacetime gives us Mantovani and Britney Spears.
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