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Introduction	One day my twenty-something cousin said, “I just made 50 bucks to be in a test group.” I said, “I wanna do that.” He said, “You’re not the demographic they’re looking for.” As in life, I thought that was so unfair. I have an opinion about new stuff. But they wanted people who didn’t base their opinions on previous experience. If you’re under 40, you probably won’t get the references here. The other day, my thirty-something neighbor and I watched Being There with Peter Sellers (Hal Ashby, director Harold and Maude). You may not remember that when Chance goes out into the real world, they play Deodato’s jazzy version of the theme music (Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30) from 2001: A Space Odyssey. That was so cool at the time. But try explaining all those references. Of course my neighbor loved the movie anyway. Who wouldn’t?

Introduction

One day my twenty-something cousin said, “I just made 50 bucks to be in a test group.” I said, “I wanna do that.” He said, “You’re not the demographic they’re looking for.” As in life, I thought that was so unfair. I have an opinion about new stuff. But they wanted people who didn’t base their opinions on previous experience. If you’re under 40, you probably won’t get the references here. The other day, my thirty-something neighbor and I watched Being There with Peter Sellers (Hal Ashby, director Harold and Maude). You may not remember that when Chance goes out into the real world, they play Deodato’s jazzy version of the theme music (Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30) from 2001: A Space Odyssey. That was so cool at the time. But try explaining all those references. Of course my neighbor loved the movie anyway. Who wouldn’t?