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DROPOUT

 
                                              December 5, 2004 
 
  In effect, I'm a 
  mainstream culture 
  dropout. 
 
  I know very little 
  about the latest hit      Missing out on the latest 
  movies, and rarely        hit acts is not something 
  hear whatever's in        I worry about any more. 
  the top 40. 
                               I used to try and 
     Any commercial            be "open minded" 
     radio format might        about these things...   You know the logic 
     sound okay for a                                  right?  It goes like: 
     day or so...  but            But I've pretty 
     how can you stand            much given up.          "Sure, this is 
     to listen to it              Burned too many         probably just more 
     continually?                 times.  Even the        manufactured 
                                  pretty girl bands       commercial crap, 
                                  don't seem pretty       but it's not 
                                  to me...                *impossible* for 
     Doesn't it get boring?                               plastic junk to be 
                                     CREEPING_SPEARS      good in some way. 
     The same thing                                       What about the 
     day after day.      No wonder the                    Monkees?" 
                         kids would rather 
                         shuffle MP3s. 
     
     
     
                                   Dangerbaby is even worse: 
     
                                     She made it through the 
                                     Macarena craze without 
                                     hearing it once. 
     
     
     
     
  I certainly don't
  know anything about
  the latest TV shows.    (Not quite true, I guess.
                          Sometimes I read about
  I haven't watched       them.)
  television of my
  own free will in
  decades...
                       (Well, maybe once or twice
                       when I'm visiting someone.
                       Just to be polite.  If they've
                       got the Classics channel.)
     
     
     
    I don't know why
    everyone doesn't
    do this.                I mean, yeah
                            okay, I haven't
      How can you           seen the
      spend hours a         Sopranos, yet.
      night *watching
      television*?            Maybe I'll
                              rent them
      Where would you         sometime.
      find the time?
     
     
      I actually have trouble understanding 
      the mind-set of people who say things 
      like "Oh, I'm too tired after work to 
      *read*.  I need something more                  I can understand 
      mindless like television to relax with."        feeling at too 
                                                      low an ebb for 
                                                      serious reading, 
          Television, to me, seems                    but in that case 
          really enervating, and                      I tend resort to 
          the idea of trying to                       something like 
          watch television when                       mystery novels. 
          you're tired already is 
          really frightening --                       Sometimes I go as 
          that would turn me into a                   far as to re-read 
          total zombie.                               ones I'm familiar 
                                                      with. 
 
                                                            E.g. Rex Stout. 
 
 
 
 
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