I had the opposite happen--when I was interning at a recording studio, there was another intern there for a short period of time. We got along okay, and then randomly one day I happened to have my CD wallet brought in from the car*, and he started thumbing through it and finally just made this disgusted face and muttered, "So many things I've never heard of..." From then on, he acted weirdly standoffish with me. It's not even like he hated the bands, he had just never heard of them!


*Oh yeah! It was because the singer of some local band that was recording that day had a "They Might Be Giants" song stuck in his head, but couldn't remember the lyrics so it was driving him nuts, and I had the CD with me so I played it for him.

That's what you get for owning Britney Spears and Willa Ford CDs. ;)

Who? Never heard of 'em.

:)

Clod, it was because he suddenly realized you knew more than he did and from then on was afraid to misspeak and have you laugh either to his face or worse behind his back .

I bet your opinion of him slid a bit then? closed minded guy.... thats what i mean. his attitude is indicative of his personality. SOmeone that pulls a move like that is obviously a douchebag, right? Were later encounters true to course?

You don't need to love the same music, but you need not to hate the "music" they love :D

LJ - yeah, mostly I guess. I kind of suspected he was a douchebag beforehand though. It's hard to say whether the music encounter made me see what I already knew was there, or unfairly colored my opinion, or what... The studio manager made no bones about the fact that he liked me better though. I was there to work and to learn; he was there to hopefully get some of his own music recorded when no one else was using the studio.

I like so many different kinds of music that I can find something in common, musically speaking, with almost everyone. But if someone is so shallow as to think less of me because I'm not an expert or raving fan about their fave music, then I don't much care to waste my time cultivating a 'friendship' with them in the first place.

My experience is that I don't necessarily like people who like the same music I do (classical, broadway, some jazz). In fact I've said before many classical music lovers are stuck-up snobs. (<-- easy straight line for anybody who wants it.)

But... I can kind of see something like... if you like The Simpsons, you probably have a certain sense of humor. That doesn't mean you're going to be buddy-buddy with everybody else who likes the show. But if somebody thinks it's juvenile, crude, and generally offensive to right-thinking people, then that may be somebody you won't get along that well with.

Huge laugh at the Griff res on this.

What's a "res?"

I actually AVOID conversations about music whenever possible because I like music, a lot, but I don't study up on bands and I rarely even know the name of the song/band I'm enjoying. I've had enough conversations with those "shallow people" that they've managed to make me feel BAD about this, so now I just tell everyone that I don't listen to music at all.

I think he means residence, but reservation would be more like it.

That's what I was thinking but it didn't start with res.