to those wondering why i have only a couple blog-links up, and some rather random...
here's a quote from simon reynolds (one of my favorite music critics)...
"i went through a phase recently of feeling nostalgic for boredom, the kind you felt as a suburban child in the uk in the 70s -- the utter sense of privation experienced on a Sunday around 6 PM when it was just religious programmes... the dearth of stimuli... tv used to go off in the afternoons, there was just a testcard... no night time tv... no web, none of the surfeit distractions kids today have... it was almost spiritual, the sense of oppression weighing on the soul, nothing to relieve the tedium... it was enriching in the sense that you were forced to develop an imagination to survive it"
this is beautiful. be on the lookout for the explosion of links...
(ps. happy birthday miguel - a picture is on it's way from your last birthday)
here's a quote from simon reynolds (one of my favorite music critics)...
"i went through a phase recently of feeling nostalgic for boredom, the kind you felt as a suburban child in the uk in the 70s -- the utter sense of privation experienced on a Sunday around 6 PM when it was just religious programmes... the dearth of stimuli... tv used to go off in the afternoons, there was just a testcard... no night time tv... no web, none of the surfeit distractions kids today have... it was almost spiritual, the sense of oppression weighing on the soul, nothing to relieve the tedium... it was enriching in the sense that you were forced to develop an imagination to survive it"
this is beautiful. be on the lookout for the explosion of links...
(ps. happy birthday miguel - a picture is on it's way from your last birthday)
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