TOD:
Videowise:
The blurays of Quantum of Slumdog, Millionaire's Solace, and An American in Paris arrived, and der B got the player's software upgraded, so I've watched the "making of" extra of Quantum and the end credits for Millionaire and haven't had time for anything else.
CDs:
I went through a JRB kick earlier this week, what with his disc with Lauren Kennedy, Parade, and Songs for a New World. I can run hot and tepid with this guy.
Yesterday, I put on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Caribou back to back (ties in with our concept discussion earlier). Jamie, who is not that much younger than I, came in during the latter and said "Oh! Elton John!" I told him he'd just missed SPLHCB, and he replied "I don't know from the Beatles - they were before my time."
Huh???
Ties in with my rant from a couple of days ago, that people generally only know from their own time, and don't explore stuff that came out earlier. But were the Beatles all that long ago? That a guy that is at best a decade younger than I am would think of their stuff as "old" and thus dismissable?
And I'm increasingly believing that his POV is not that uncommon, in fact may be standard.
Which is bizarre, because we are now in an age when we have more access to our past, to the music and films and dammit to the information of what has come before, but at the same time all that information has to be instantaneous, now, twitterized, as if lingering and savoring themselves are notions better filed in a museum (and who goes to museums, that's all old stuff...).
And it ties in, as well, with "trendy." No, people of the world, these things that are trendy have been around before, they sometimes were conceived a decade or a hundred years ago, the only thing that is trendy is their rediscovery. That does not make them new! It just makes them new to you, and if you had the slightest awareness of the world around you, the slightest curiosity about where things come from, why they were created in the first place, what makes them tick, you would know this simple fact.
And that knowledge doesn't close doors, it opens them, it leads to new questions and rediscoveries and connections!
I guess I'm just wierd, to be curious... oh, wait, those are synonyms. Never mind. I just explained a lot about myself there.
