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Show Community J By Dixie Brunner L- My 4 -J music good-the- Our teenage son and I were having our standard debate last week as we drove to the mall. Switch. Lady, when Im with you Im smiling. Give me all.. .all ...all your love. Switch. I am a head, I am advanced, I am the first mammal to wear pants. Its evolution, baby. Switch. I I I I Im not your stepping stone. Switch. Make em say uhhhhh. My sons think listening to the music I like is punishment akin to rubbing salt in a wound. The minute I switch stations, they whine. Mom, you dont like us, do . . music bad ir Shes a he, mom, corrected one son quietly. He intends to look like that. You dont have to Just look around and well talk to you when we get out in the car. The boys quickly walk away from me, attempting be so loud. . to distance themselves from my musical retardation. Left to my own device, I begin to scan the names on the pop music chart. You sure cant accuse them of not being creative. Alice in Chains, Rage Against Machine, Too Short, Puff Daddy, Snoop Doggy Dog. Lets just hope they dont look to these guysgirls as role models, I dont think any of us want our kids aspiring to be a Beastie Boy! Back out in the car, I continmusic ued my Then why are you making us rhetoric. I read some of the lyrics inside those CD jackets. They listen to your music? Because my music is enjoy- should sponsor some sort of conable and entertaining, whileyour test to see what musical group music sounds like a bunch of al- could come up with lyrics for an entire song which didnt involve ley cats loose in the garbage cans. roll, curse, words., Most of your jnugic Oh'please, one. replies, is so depressing and negative. ing his eyes. Celine Dions CD from the Music has always been a ma- Titantic was popular for awhile, jor contributor to the generation one offers. What was wrong with gap. Kids today do not seem to that? understand the simple concept They drowned. Look mom, I bet your parents that with age comes wisdom.. .and with wisdom, bet- used to gripe about your music ter taste in music! Translation-m- y too. They liked it.. .for the most music, good; their music, bad. But being the really cool mom part.. .but the point here is that I am, (or attempt to convince the music from my era had profound boys I am), I accompanied them messages, I lecture. Songs had to the music store, and tried to something important to say, they I thought Id had meaning. . .they had a point. be I clicked on the radio to my so brow through some of the just titles, so I could communicate station as a statement. with them on their level, as it Baby...baby...dont get hooked on me. Baby...baby...dont get were. Marilyn Manson , I blurted hooked on me. Thats really profound, mom. out too loudly, what kind of I know, Im totally inspired, music does she sing? That is the ever seen! woman Ive agreed another. ugliest I switched back to their staShe may want to invest some of her profits into getting herself a tion. Some issues just arent worth the argument. beauty makeover. you? Oh course, I do, why? anti-moder- , n v r. . When you travel oyer the river and through the woods this season, take along your camera, Grandmas House i?: the subject of this years photo contest sponsored by the Utah State Historical Society and Utah Preservation magazine. The best photographs of Utahs fine old homes will be featured in the 1999 edition of Utah Preservation and will be exhibited in the Societys photo gallery as well as other locations. This is the second annual contest, following last year s Bam in Utah photo contest that generated over 350 entries, The contest encourages people to look at old buildings, and appreciate some of their SALE b Homespun Treasures Great Buys on Antiques Gifts Crafts b Lots of Christinas Gifts under $10 Many Sale Priced Items! 9 157 N 300 W Kanab N promotion works like this-fi-" out 6nfe ' ticket J for eacl) $ 1 0 ' worth of goodfe purchased atJ any of the above participating ll ; retailers, and deposit tickets into the traveling drum at the following locations: Sound Room-Novemb- 16 to 28, Fron- er tier Movie Town-Novemb- 29 er to December 5, Honeys 6 to 12, ACE 13 to 19, and 20 to 26. On the last day the drum is at the location, there will be a draw- - u in nd thfenairies pidkd will wiri the prices for that w6ek. Mark your calendars for the first drawing, this Saturday, November 28, at 1:00 p.m. at the Sound Room. Remember-yo- u must be present to win! This is to remind consumers . Creek, Kanab Floral, J.C. IGA-Decemb- Dukes-Decemb- er 1 H.A.M. Appliance, CC Auto for them, six days a week and Parts, Glaziers Foodtown, twelve months a year, says Kanab Wonderstone, Cedar Post Cunningham. By shopping at Pawn, Zion Drug, Sports Club, home, friends and neighbors can Jackman Glass, Amoco Gas, enjoy a rewarding holiday, supXpressweb, Colemans. Exxon, port the local economy, and Fernandos Hideaway, Hogi more importantly, win terrific Yogi, Cellular One, South Cen- prizes! tral Telephone, Escobars, Pizza Hut, Creative Cuts. Kanab Corq-jpuie- c, PasymVfenaVCityr Kanab Chamber' of Cbmmerce; Garkane Power and Kanab Power. Cature 's Showcase HH HH HH & Western MiCCs 0H HH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE HH : er Penney, Dennys Wigwam, that our local retailers are here . HH er Hard-ware-Decemb- ' . featuring... - - . : HH HH HH HH HH HH HH HH HH f HH HH Everything in the Store through December 24! HH HH IFAILIL home environment, a trip to Mesquite arid a' 6,0 inch bi screen color TV have in' corn- mon? They are some of the many prizes to be awarded in the Southern Utah News and KONY Hometown Holidays Christmas shopping promotion! Hometown Holidays coordinator Dillon Cunningham says the promotion is geared to remind local consumers that there really is no place like home for the holidays. Shop locally and you can win prizes when you enter the Hometown Holidays! ' The SUN arid KONY are proud to announce the following sponsors for this important event: ACE Hardware, Sound Room Radio Shack, Honeys IGA, Frontier MovieTown, Dukes, Willow Roger Roper, historic preservation coordinator for the Society. And buildings that people admire and take an interest in are more likely to be saved. Amateur and professional photographers alike are invited to submit their best photographs of old Utah houses that are either their grandmas actual house or simply look like a grandmas house should.1 The deadline for entries is December 31, 1998, Send photos to Grandmas.House Photo Con- -, testy UtaH StateHistoriCalSo-- " ciety, 300 S. Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, UT 84101 fA The Hometown Holidays freely-charge- d ' aesthetic qualities, notes open-minde- d. 0 What do a . HH 7 ;, 1 Hometown Holidays first drawing this Saturday Grandmas House photo contest Domestic Blitz SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS -f 'WEDNESDAY ' NOVEMBER 25, 1998 , HH HH HH HH HH HH HH HH HH HH HH ear Qive Mother Mature 's Most BeautifuC gift cIftis HH HH HH HH HH HH 288 West Center - Kanab - 644-239- 6 644-263- ?.. ..vjVH" vh-- ( 1i fT V H j ; 'A1. Ut noliJi'i ioiv. J.W J fajf ifif'irhi. -- HW? H" i- ' fj.w HH HH HH |