a layman's eye

[cris]

It speaks to, perhaps, a certain sense of jadedness and a very specific sense of disconnection, when one is watching one's friends spin balls of flame or enact some sort of aerial ballet and one realizes that they should be more impressed than they are. Or when one is hanging out with friends and one of them says, "yeah, I'm kind of tired of

Comments

[brigid]

i'm not sure how i feel. on one hand there are definitely some performing arts that i'm tired of, but i am not sure how much of it is the art itself vs the people performing as you closed with

[dancer]

Brian and I have commented (sort of) to this degree, when we see conservative/vanilla friends in the 501st amazed by the smallest things. I don't think it discredits your friend's talents to have an exceptional group of friends and think that exceptional things are "normal" sometimes. I'm sure if you stop and think about it (like you are here) you give them their due. :)

[ayun]

Remember when we saw that ART staging of Othello and I was mad? I think the more familiar you are with any art form, regardless of your ability to practice it, the more acute your critical sensibility becomes. 99% of everything is crap, right?

NB: I'm in a middling-to-pissy mood today.