I feel as though I've offended a few people due to the age thing.. So I want to clear that up (if I haven't then I'm really glad, but I'd still rather post this because I feel like i have!)

Age is a purely mental thing- I am fully aware of this fact!! I'm 19 and feel like I'm far more mature than my 30+ year old step-brother. And my 30++ aunt is far more "childlike" (in the good way) than most 10 year olds. However, temporally "older" people are allowed to listen to strange music, it's a requirement I think.. But people my age get a whole lot of h@!! from friends/strangers/everyone in general if we step outside the expected norm. (Imagine the looks I got sunbathing over the summer at the beach with some of my tapes of small local singers from the NY Ren Faire.) And I was just curious if there were others who went through this kind of thing, trying tobe a relatively normal (folkie, SCAdian, bookworm, archaeologist in training) "young person" and just finding the music thing made it strange/hard/annoying some time.. (not that I'm complaining really.. it tends to scare off those who are super closedminded, and I don't want to deal with them anyway! :))

And just as a side note, with my view on the world, and having grown up in SCA encampments, then later on joining the Wiccan bulletin boards on P*, some of my favorite people are 30+, people my age can be such TWITS! (which is another reason why I was lookingfor younger people here, hoping that it might be the music that fixed/broke twit levels)

Okay.. I hope that made some sense and wasn't totally rambly.. (or too rambly anyway... I'm sure it was mostly rambly.)

Petra