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Call it what you will, but something does happen as we age. Music seems to be a familiar example, since advertisers know what music targets a certain demographic.

At my last concert at the Trubidor, I was the creepy old guy.

I have a MySpace Page, but most of the people my age that are there are only there to keep tabs on their children.

But, as a teen I loved Science Fiction, I read every book, saw every movie I could in that genre. But over time I realized what I really like was good writing and good stories. So reading-wise, I now only read science fiction when it comes recommended to me by someone I trust (LoT). On the contemporary fiction genre though, I subscribe to a quarterly literary mag that gives me short stories to explore new writers.

In music, I still love to sample and will pick up things on a whim. One of the things I love about My Space is the Music pages - I love to go to a favorite band or musician and see what bands they link to and click away for hours finding cool stuff, and passing quickly over the stuff that doesn't move me. The internet has made it easy to weed through a lot of crap and for that reason I think it's kept my love of new music alive.

I think it also interesting to note the demographics of this website, for while there are a number of us in the over 40 category, there are many more below it. There are many my age that still shun computers and the internet - I know becasue I have to work with them. I think they are missing out, but they are perfectly content and comfortable in their ways, so who am I to rock that boat?

Anyway, I think it interesting to see how our "tastes" change as we get older as well as our willingness to try out something new.