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Fri, 10 Feb 2006
Original date: February 10, 2006
I decided yesterday and forgot about it. My friend reminded me about it today and now it has to be an active negation.
I decided that I would try to avoid the winter games completely this year. There are a lot of reasons to avoid it not the least of it being the way it gets covered on television. Anyway tonight was going to be a test of my will.
The fact of the matter is that I love the olympics. I stayed up well into the night for the Nagano & Sydney olympics looking things over on their web sites. I think the Athens olympics did such a bad job with their web content that I started lose my interest.
It's probably the same with television as well. The coverage has changed so much from raw information and events shown the way they happened to glossy productions and presentations. I feel like there is much less emphasis on experiencing the reality of it all and focussing on the telling of it - words, images to emphasize what other people want to emphasize, not what I feel as a direct result of viewing the raw event. How lazy do people think I am that I need to be told what to feel?
I have to admit I did break down at the start - I switched to the channel to the networking carrying what I was avoiding. They decided to help me out by starting out with a long intro of the city and country. It probably was a very interesting intro, if only I was paying full attention. And then they said they were going to spend the next 30 minutes on just 3 athletes before going to the opening ceremonies. That was enough for me.
The other channels helped me out too. You know about my obsession with "That 70s Show"(see My first thoughts...) already. I haven't said too much more about it since then. I started writing something more about that yesterday but couldn't get enough good stuff and let it go. Maybe it'll be revived at some future date. And on Fox, there was "Arrested Development." I've only seen a few episodes of this show and only this year. It's a funny show - not great, but still a nice relief. Thank you very much for pitching in to help me out. Even though he didn't show up today (as far as I noticed in my distracted way while working on this and other such activities), how can a name like "Bob LobLaw" not be funny?
I can just avoid it, at least today.
A quick look at their web site indicates it may only be on par with the Athens one. Oh! Well. At least they do have some good pictures so far and they do have the results. And I'll read the newspaper too, of course.
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Tue, 31 Jan 2006Original date: January 31, 2006
You never know what triggers it. It could me a smell, or it could be something you saw in the corner of your eye, or even a person. Suddenly it all comes back. Let's not get too dramatic here - it's usually not in a flood. Once it happens, you usually tell yourself that you need to follow-up on that thought. Once in a while you get lucky and the memory sticks and you can act on it. You remember that you really used to love these and somehow a couple of years or more have gone by without you thinking about them. Most of the time, it slips right out of your mind again. And, some of those times you even remember that there was something to remember, and then, oh! well, it's gone and you move on.
I don't know about you, but I certainly go a couple of years or even longer ins some cases without listening to what was my favourite music.
This latest return was caused by a not-too-old issue of New Yorker I started reading last week. I have a large backlog (I mean really large - multiple years) of issues which I've just saved and am now getting back to a few of them. Anyway, this one was from Feb 28, 2005. Like I said, not too old. I have issues going back to 2002 that I haven't read.
This article was by Jonathan Lethem titled "The Beards." A very fine piece of writing, I must say. He refers to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here". That reminded me that I still think that is my all-time favourite album. He also mentioned Talking Heads and I decided that I would go back to that music.
I had really gotten into Dave Matthews Band the last couple of years and a bit of Santana and even Abba and had forgotten my old favourites. Will they bring the same feelings once again? I wasn't sure. When I went back to them, I found that I still loved them as much I had earlier - it's been at least two or three years since I heard any of those three.
In that article (this portion of it, I only got to today), he refers to how he was mistaken somewhat about his views of some of his earlier tastes. I'm not sure what it means for me that my tastes hadn't changed. Maybe some other things have changed for me, but not this.
I also re-discovered Pink Martini's "Sympathique.". Please do give "Sympathique" a try and you won't be disappointed. That is, if you don't have very specific tastes. It's great for people who like interesting music from all genres as long as it's good. It certainly meets my definition of good music. If you feel like I made you waste your time, send me a nasty note (avoid swear words, if at all possible - another of my quirks!). I can take it, I think.
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