Sunday, March 06, 2005
Like most of the blogs out there, this one is pretty much a ghost town. But for some reason Jay wants a link to it anyway, and I feel like you do when your friend announces he's on his way to your house so you rush around to clean stuff up as best you can. So here is my "clean up" post.
In the movie "Adaptation" one of the main characters is this guy John Laroche, and he's one of those sort of "crazy genius" types. All his life he has these different hobbies, and he doesn't half-ass enjoy them - he goes completely fucking crazy getting into them. For instance, he goes through a "turtles" phase, and in that phase every room of his house and garage and backyard are just filled with different types of aquariums with turtles because he's obsessed with collecting every single kind of turtle in the world, which he eventually does. After years of loving and collecting and learning about turtles, one day he decides he's done with them, gives all of them away, and doesn't give a shit about every seeing another turle again.
Another time he collects tropical fish and he learns to scuba dive, etc so he can get them himself and he collects until he has every rare and exotic kind of fish he ever wanted, and he spends lots of time diving just to observe them. And...well let me just post the quote from the movie:
John Laroche: Then one morning, I woke up and said, "Fuck fish." I renounce fish, I will never set foot in that ocean again. And there hasn't been a time where I have stuck so much as a toe back in that ocean.
Susan Orlean: But why?
John Laroche: Done with fish.
I'd like to be able to say that I live out my life as passionately as John Laroche, but I don't. However I'm very similar on a less grand scale. I always go through these phases of really getting into stuff, then I get bored with it and I usually don't care if I ever do it again. For instance:
Table Tennis (I joined the USTTA at 15 and once held a national ranking)
Fishing (I was member of B.A.S.S. and spent every dollar I earned for 2 years on fishing equipment)
Poetry (I used to attend "poetry slams" and write a lot. But I sucked HARD)
Cars (at the height of my car phase I had subscriptions to at least 3 car magazines and could tell you the size in cubic inches of most engines)
Those are some of my phases. The phase I've never gotten out of is my "music phase" - but even within my music phase I go through phases of different genres, and on several of those I've gotten way into them, then said "fuck fish." Here are some, in a sort of chronological order:
CCM (that's right baby - contemporary christian music)
pop
hardcore/deathmetal
folk
classical
euro-dance
trip-hop
downtempo
as you can see, I've recently ended my trip-hop and downtempo phases. It's too early to tell if I'll ever come back. Right now, I could give less of a shit if I ever hear Zero7 again. To this day, I could give less of a shit if I ever hear Black Flag or the Rollins Band again.
I do still have some music phases that have been on for years and have never ended. Most notably anything resembling Radiohead -OK Computer in that it sort of fits the "space rock" genre - and Brit Rock/Brit Pop. I don't see either of those phases ever ending, but who knows.
So what has been the point of all this? No point, really. This is my blog, and I'll post whatever the fuck I want. If I want to say vagina, I will.
In the movie "Adaptation" one of the main characters is this guy John Laroche, and he's one of those sort of "crazy genius" types. All his life he has these different hobbies, and he doesn't half-ass enjoy them - he goes completely fucking crazy getting into them. For instance, he goes through a "turtles" phase, and in that phase every room of his house and garage and backyard are just filled with different types of aquariums with turtles because he's obsessed with collecting every single kind of turtle in the world, which he eventually does. After years of loving and collecting and learning about turtles, one day he decides he's done with them, gives all of them away, and doesn't give a shit about every seeing another turle again.
Another time he collects tropical fish and he learns to scuba dive, etc so he can get them himself and he collects until he has every rare and exotic kind of fish he ever wanted, and he spends lots of time diving just to observe them. And...well let me just post the quote from the movie:
John Laroche: Then one morning, I woke up and said, "Fuck fish." I renounce fish, I will never set foot in that ocean again. And there hasn't been a time where I have stuck so much as a toe back in that ocean.
Susan Orlean: But why?
John Laroche: Done with fish.
I'd like to be able to say that I live out my life as passionately as John Laroche, but I don't. However I'm very similar on a less grand scale. I always go through these phases of really getting into stuff, then I get bored with it and I usually don't care if I ever do it again. For instance:
Table Tennis (I joined the USTTA at 15 and once held a national ranking)
Fishing (I was member of B.A.S.S. and spent every dollar I earned for 2 years on fishing equipment)
Poetry (I used to attend "poetry slams" and write a lot. But I sucked HARD)
Cars (at the height of my car phase I had subscriptions to at least 3 car magazines and could tell you the size in cubic inches of most engines)
Those are some of my phases. The phase I've never gotten out of is my "music phase" - but even within my music phase I go through phases of different genres, and on several of those I've gotten way into them, then said "fuck fish." Here are some, in a sort of chronological order:
CCM (that's right baby - contemporary christian music)
pop
hardcore/deathmetal
folk
classical
euro-dance
trip-hop
downtempo
as you can see, I've recently ended my trip-hop and downtempo phases. It's too early to tell if I'll ever come back. Right now, I could give less of a shit if I ever hear Zero7 again. To this day, I could give less of a shit if I ever hear Black Flag or the Rollins Band again.
I do still have some music phases that have been on for years and have never ended. Most notably anything resembling Radiohead -OK Computer in that it sort of fits the "space rock" genre - and Brit Rock/Brit Pop. I don't see either of those phases ever ending, but who knows.
So what has been the point of all this? No point, really. This is my blog, and I'll post whatever the fuck I want. If I want to say vagina, I will.
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