RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Calloway <ifoufo AT yahoo.com>]

 Il Rossi:
 > The thing to keep in mind for your neice, though, is if she is like most 
  children she probably wants major label music which she isn't going to 
find on emusic.  Or I don't know.  Maybe she's way cooler at 9 than 
anybody I knew back then.  Would she be into the Dischord catalog?
 
 this is my reason for asking. she's eleven now. she lives out in nowhere, nc 
where they only things she gets exposed to by chance are things that are 
probably going to cause permanent brain damage if it keeps up. her tastes 
land anywhere between toby keith, green day/good charlotte, and whatever is 
being pushed by the disney channel xm station. her cultural influences are 
already starting to inflict an 
if-i-have-to-think-about-it-then-it's-too-much-effort attitude where she used 
to be incredibly curious about things as recently as two years ago. maybe i'm 
making a big deal out of nothing. i suppose my parents felt the same way when 
all i wanted were beatles records. the toby keith thing really bothers me, 
though.
 
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