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old_blevins

They Wanted a Buzz But I Can Only Bellow.

Jun 26, 2009 11:42

Have I mentioned that I hate hype?
I'm better than I used to be. Back when I was a kid I got so sick and tired of people telling me that Huck Finn was the greatest American Novel that I got turned off of Sam Clemins for decades.
There's nothing like flogging something to death to turn me agin it.
Take football, for example. I don't enjoy football, I ( Read more... )

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bill_sheehan June 27 2009, 01:29:03 UTC

I feel your pain, and share it. As soon as I had dropped off the Unindicted Co-Conspirator, the radio switched stations. Mozart's Symphony # 35 restored my usual equanimity.

natevw June 27 2009, 04:09:41 UTC

*SNERK*

I feel your pain .

As I live @ ground zero , I've been assaulted for two days now....

old_blevins June 27 2009, 11:04:09 UTC

Mozart has that effect as does Bach. I disremember who it was (Mahler?) who claimed to have crawled out of a bout of mental illness by listening to Bach and letting the inexorable logic of the music sooth him but I understand it completely.

miss_prissy June 27 2009, 16:45:56 UTC

It's this modern media. It's all just too much! I mean, I felt like my youth died a little with Farrah's and MJ's passing, but I had my little sadness and now we move on. Well we would anyway if they'd let us.

They need to learn that less is more. I've been a huge basketball fan from the womb, and I can still remember a time before the NCAA tournament was MARCH MADNESS!!!! It was the NCAA tournament and we got plenty hyped about it all on our own. In fact in the early 80s I went to the Final Four in New Orleans and you could walk right up to the window and get tickets for face value! Now they talk about it for six months and by the time it's here it seems a little anti-climactic.

I think that's why people go crazy for movies like "Little Miss Sunshine" or "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," you aren't sick of hearing about them before they come out so you're delighted by the surprise. Very few things sneak in under the radar anymore.