plastic is awful. don't believe? read this, then.
i just finished writing a mini-research paper about the stuff for my "surface materials" class. i will admit that it has some very good applications (i like my bike helmet a lot, it protects my brain) but, wow, a whole lot of it ends up in places it's not supposed to go.
:(
always, carolyn
12.11.07
7.11.07
feels like i'm going to lose my mind
I'm sitting here, in front of this TV turned monitor, sipping my coffee and enjoying it immensely. And what's playing on my favorite LA public radio station? A mellow cover of Madonna's 1984 top 10 hit "Borderline." Awesome. According to Wikipedia (which is always right about everything) "Borderline" was Mrs. Richy's first top 10. File that tidbit away for Trivial Pursuit.
This particular cover comes from a compilation not yet available. But you can pre-order it from Manimal Vinyl. I think I gotta have it. As a young girl, I may have listened to Madonna ceaselessly. I may have every song from her first album still memorized. I may be astonished by that fact every time I hear an old hit and start singing along--I can't stop myself, it's like speaking in tongues. Yeah, all of that may be true.
So, now that I'm on the subject of things subconsciously remembered from childhood, I must include another link. Go here, and don't think less of me for the crudity.
But back to music. It is ubiquitous. Everyone likes music. Have you ever met anyone who will declare, flat out, "I don't like music."? I doubt it. Every now and then there's someone who will admit to not liking art (they should be punched in the face, BTW), or sushi, or Disneyland or something, but not music. Everyone likes music. Everyone has opinions about music. Especially the music they like, or don't like. And seriously, it's subjective. But as Americans, we all feel obligated to argue about subjectives. I got pretty damn exhausted my first year in college debating the merits of Coldplay versus Dave Matthews Band. And then I realized, "Hey, it's subjective." And then I realized that both Coldplay and Dave Matthews Band kinda suck. Then I reminded myself, "That's my subjective opinion."
I delve into this because, as the Madonna cover plays, I think of all the times my mom interjected an opinion about some TV show or movie or band that was popular when she was a youngin (she saw the Beatles play Balboa Park in San Diego) and I totally resented her for being able to comment on it contemporaneously. Like she was one-upping MY feelings because she happened to remember the cultural context that media was produced in. And now I'm thinking to the future, and wondering if I'll think my kids are lame for liking some band I find totally worthless now. Like my mom can't understand why I like Led Zeppelin. Oh God, what if my kids like Incubus?
May I have the wisdom to remember that popular media is a result of countless cultural, social, technological, political and economical factors converging in a place at a time. Or re-emerging somewhere else sometime else, just like this version of "Borderline" by The Chapin Sisters.
always, carolyn
This particular cover comes from a compilation not yet available. But you can pre-order it from Manimal Vinyl. I think I gotta have it. As a young girl, I may have listened to Madonna ceaselessly. I may have every song from her first album still memorized. I may be astonished by that fact every time I hear an old hit and start singing along--I can't stop myself, it's like speaking in tongues. Yeah, all of that may be true.
So, now that I'm on the subject of things subconsciously remembered from childhood, I must include another link. Go here, and don't think less of me for the crudity.
But back to music. It is ubiquitous. Everyone likes music. Have you ever met anyone who will declare, flat out, "I don't like music."? I doubt it. Every now and then there's someone who will admit to not liking art (they should be punched in the face, BTW), or sushi, or Disneyland or something, but not music. Everyone likes music. Everyone has opinions about music. Especially the music they like, or don't like. And seriously, it's subjective. But as Americans, we all feel obligated to argue about subjectives. I got pretty damn exhausted my first year in college debating the merits of Coldplay versus Dave Matthews Band. And then I realized, "Hey, it's subjective." And then I realized that both Coldplay and Dave Matthews Band kinda suck. Then I reminded myself, "That's my subjective opinion."
I delve into this because, as the Madonna cover plays, I think of all the times my mom interjected an opinion about some TV show or movie or band that was popular when she was a youngin (she saw the Beatles play Balboa Park in San Diego) and I totally resented her for being able to comment on it contemporaneously. Like she was one-upping MY feelings because she happened to remember the cultural context that media was produced in. And now I'm thinking to the future, and wondering if I'll think my kids are lame for liking some band I find totally worthless now. Like my mom can't understand why I like Led Zeppelin. Oh God, what if my kids like Incubus?
May I have the wisdom to remember that popular media is a result of countless cultural, social, technological, political and economical factors converging in a place at a time. Or re-emerging somewhere else sometime else, just like this version of "Borderline" by The Chapin Sisters.
always, carolyn
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