Month: March 2024

Kate Bush and the Rubber Band Girl Who Broke

Is Kate Bush a powerful and complex person? Are we more than the labels we deny or accept? Are boundaries important? Is mental health misunderstood? The answer to all of these things is yes. Cloud Busting With Kate Bush Kate Bush is a powerhouse in the music industry. With a voice that is ethereal and…
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March 29, 2024
Cleaning House With Joe Jackson While Being a Real Man

Did Joe Jackson know that not everything is Night and Day? Do we need to ask who the Real Men are? Is it time to keep a promise and make a confession as Editor-in-Chief of Gen X Watch? Yeah. Joe Jackson and the Lost Masterpiece In 1982 Joe Jackson released an album called Night and…
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March 28, 2024
Yearbook Nostalgia and the Artistic Quest to be Kind

Dear Mr. Vernon. We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms,…
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March 27, 2024
Ami Alex: Busking Her Way to Success

Under The Radar Series by Jeremy Ritch One thing that annoys me is the attitude amongst many Gen Xers that there is no good new music anymore. The fact is not only is there great new music, every year, but there is a lot of fantastic artists flying under the radar still. Some of my…
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March 25, 2024
Empire of Soaring Flights To Faraway Lands: Tawnlandia

Can a young girl’s dream of flying to faraway lands forge a career? Can that career change? Will the Woman still go to faraway lands and take us with her? When we speak of Tawn and the Empire of Tawnlandia the answer is of course. She can do anything she wants. What is Tawlandia? If…
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March 24, 2024
Poly Styrene & the X-Ray Spex That See Through Bondage

Could a young woman change punk and inspire Riot Grrls? Would misdiagnosis of mental health derail her? Would she inspire someone to say up yours to bondage? If we are talking about Poly Styrene, the answer is definitively yes! I Am a Cliché Not a lot of you will know who Poly Styrene is, keep…
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March 22, 2024
The Soundtrack of Your Life in a Walkman

Did a man make a wholly unimpressive device just to listen to his tunes on a plane? Did the lack of features worry engineers? Were Sony executives concerned about social isolation? Did the world change and did we all want one? In the matter of the Walkman, yes. Making Plane Trips Tolerable and Accidental Revolutions…
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March 20, 2024
Reagan’s Survival and Changing History

Is history changed in an instant? Does history take years to change? Is it frustrating and scary to change history? Yes. President Reagan’s Assassination Attempt On March 30th, 1981, I came home from school and turned on the TV. Instead of my favorite reruns, the news was on. A man named John Hinckley, Jr. shot…
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March 18, 2024
St Patrick’s Day and the Music of Revolution

By Jeremy Ritch My official title with Gen X Watch is culture and music editor. So that is my focus, of course, but in those areas, the often-uncomfortable space of social and politics collide. With St. Patrick’s Day being upon us, I wanted to write about such a collision as an activist and a person…
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March 17, 2024
Dolores O’Riordan and the Need to Survive

Raise a glass to former lead singer of The Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan this St Patrick’s Day! In the article is an award winning photograph I did with a model shortly after Dolores’ passing and remains one of my best selling pieces at art shows I present at. It was a labor of love and honor…
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March 16, 2024