January 19, 2006
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well, shall we start.
It’s amazing the things you can accustom yourself to. I have
apparently grown accustomed to only having 2 English language channels
on T.V. One is LPTV or more commonly known as MTV. In case
your wondering LP stands for Lame Pop. Much more appropriate
don’t you think? The other is CNN/Europe. Now I know
a lot of people love MTV but they play the same crap over and over ad
nausea until you have to change to CNN. Which also loops the same
“news” over and over ad nausea.What’s really bad is how catchy some of the music is, I always
know I need to get out when I find myself singing …..This is
the Black Eyed Peas in case your wondering (and don’t think Bear isn’t appalled that I know this, he’s just old, lol)
“What you gon’
do with all that junk?
All that Junk inside your trunk?
Ima’ get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you drunk off my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely
little lumps.(check it out)”I hate to be critical but, I ask you, what genius wrote those lyrics?
In retaliation I play the media player on the computer which is hooked into our stereo, I start with “O Fortuna” really loud. A brain purge. Though when I hear it I don’t think of the movie “Glory” (1989) I think of “Excalibur” (1981)
all those knights in shining armor riding thru the apple blossoms on
their way to war. That immediately makes me feel better so I’m
able to restrain myself from the bullet in the brain cure. By the
time my classic at the movies cd is done I feel appropriately
uplifted. Then I go back to my more normal Led Zeppelin or Janis
Joplin. Maybe some Cult, POD or 7 Mary 3, with a little EmmyLou
Harris or Kasey Chambers on the side. Hmm, eclectic? Oh
well you like the songs you like right?CNN on the other hand just depresses me most of the time. It was CNN fault that I recently adopted geese, chickens and part of some tree seedlings. Zhenai reminded me how much I admire this particular charity.
Bear is gonna kill me if I don’t quit doing stuff like that.
I did like the story of Owen and Mzee.
A good love story is hard to beat and I don’t care who you are it’s
just sweet that the old man adopted Owen. It still doesn’t change
the fact that they play the same stories over and over, then reedit
and play them again. Same news, same reporter, different
configuration. Then God forbid a crisis happens because that is
all they will play for the next 3 weeks. (that seems to be the standard
milking time) So we change the name CNN to “The Tsunami Channel,
then the Pope Channel, the
Katrina/Rita Channel then most recently the earthquake channel”.
I
am not hard hearted but really is nonstop coverage of nothing but that
necessary? I really think this is how people get inured to
tragedy. And can somebody tell me why ALL of the news is
bad. I swear when they told about Owen and Mzee it was the first
good news I had heard in a week.That’s all, I’m done. Rant or whatever you might call it, over.
In other news:
I’m still smoke free and Bear quit on the 30th of Dec. so yay for us.
My cold or whatever it was is finally gone except for the cough. But I feel so much better I almost don’t care.
I got all 7 boxes and 2 cards ready to mail and may get them actually
mailed tomorrow. (Sorry Lise and Allie, I’m a failure at
correspondence in a timely manner.)((Not that all of them are for you
two.))
I almost forgot, I bought a pilates dvd. I was going to start it
today but luckily for me something better came up. Whew, that was
a close one.Hope everyone has a great day.
Comments (10)
gaaah. That song gives me earworms. I canNOT get it out of my head for forever.
(BIG congrats on the no smoking! WOOO!)
That is excellent on the no smoking. February marks the 5th year since I have quit. I still have a craving for one now and then….but nothing like that first year.
You know, that box was from all of us, and I took a lot of time to pick out the gifts in there from Me and Tim. Just cause I suck at correspondence too(and you claim it’s a Cline trait only, HA!) doesn’t mean I’m not trying. I ran into Pamela yesterday on campus, she said to give you and daddy love and that she wanted to visit you when she eventually went to Europe.
On a sort of related side note, she saved up money and bought her mom a headstone since I saw her last. It seemed like that had helped her get a little closure with it all, even though it cost her 2 months rent.
Lol I did my pilates dvd once. Just once.
Your music selection sound a lot like mine…I just recently dld O Fortuna…Moonlight Sonata is one of my absolute favourites. And those are stuck in the middle between Metallica, Garth Brooks, Eminem, Dido….
Yay to you for the non smoking thing.
ryc: I think I am having reaction from an herbal cleanse I am doing. It makes you get rid of garbage in the system. It isn’t like the cold my dear hubby has.
When I lived in Taiwan, I was in a similar situation. When old Doogie Howser qualifies as a great TV night, things are pretty desperate. I read more that year than I ever had before … and I wasn’t picky. We even sent away for free brochures, etc. just to have something to read.
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Yay for not smoking! Congrats! ;o)
I found your site in the blog ring.. I enjoyed reading it.
I was born in germany.. my best friend is german (her xanga is assipassi)
have a great day.
I get that also. I try to listen to the radio more than watch tv and it’s the same with the lame pop/top 40 stations. I’ve also had that BEP song stuck in my head. It’s then that I pop on my “Laurel Canyon” soundtrack and am at peace once more.
Congrats to you and bear for being smoke free! My parents were smokers from the age of 15 or 16 and have tried many times to quit. My mom has had success, but for my dad it’s a lot harder. So huge hand clapping and clinking of glasses to you two! :clap: :2beers:
I’m sorry that typed out all wrong, if you could hear me say it I think it would have been a lot more obvious that it was supposed to be joke. I was just being a buttly. a sarcastic buttly. But if acting offended gets you to randomly call more often, I’ll go with it. Me and Allie would both LOVE to talk to you and daddy.
XOXOXO