Plethora of hotfooting
Brian Fenton (fentonb@mathds1.maths.ul.ie)
Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:48:17 +0000 (WET)
Fantastic wrote:
>thought i should share this with anyone else in ireland
>tuesday 28 october, network two:
>12:15pm MY FOOLISH HEART
Fantastic! Oh thank you! Unfortunately, I received that
message on Thursday morning, so....denied!
But then...
>ah, the effin thing wasn't on anyway.
Hooray!!
Although...
>i got out of bed especially,
At 12:15 in the afternoon? Rough. Was the sun still up?
>sat on the sofa (in my bathrobe; *very* seymour), remote in hand,
>ready for action at 12:15 *only* to be greeted by an obnoxious
>voiceover lady telling me that it had been 'postponed until a later
>date'. what a dame.
I hope ya complained, ya gotta complain about these things.
>> it is hard to watch without wanting to throw a brick at the TV.
>DON'T DO THAT! our tv is older than i am. one of the filament thingies
>in it is gone and everything is green. it's freaky. my mom would be
>watching a gardening show and the presenter would say 'look at these
>lovely yellow daffodils' and the flowers'd be *purple* or something. so
>please don't throw a brick at your tv. it's a healthy tv, in the prime
>of its life, don't murder it so shamelessly!
>i blame the parents.
I think it's the drugs myself. Purple daffodils? Yep, that'd
be the drugs.
PS are you any relation to the Irish international soccer team's
manager, Captain Fantastic a.k.a. Mick McCarthy?
onto Alanis..
>the reason i don't like her anymore is because i feel like she realized
>that this "angry chick" (using the term with the maximum amount of
>love and affection and a good chunk of irony) thing was going to be the
>Next Big Thing, and she got on the bandwagon and was seen as part of the
>vanguard.
Time and time again I see this and it always confuses me. You did
like her, then you didn't because her politics changed. Her music didn't
change, why stop liking that? Does a stirring piece of music suddenly
sound different if you become aware that 15 million other people are
getting the same buzz from it as you are?
Don't get me wrong - I'm as guilty of this as anybody; as I said
it confuses me. It reminds me of that faked Vonnegut mail that went around
a while back, peoples reactions to something depending on outside factors.
It IS sad. I guess we just don't trust our own feelings. Why, I remember
completely disassociating myself from The A-Team when I was 7 when I
discovered that my arch-rival for a spot on the under 8 hurling team liked
Mr T and Mad Murdoch too. I couldn't handle sharing my love with another
human being (particularly someone I'd gladly hand over to Mr T bound and
gagged with a note in his note saying "I think mohawks, jewellery and
dungarees are for nancy boys. What are you going to do about it?")
Ah yes, growing up, watching the shackles and burdens of youth
dropping off one's shoulders like drunken sailors off the harbour wall.
Could life be any better at 24?
Anway, Alanis doesn't even write the music for her songs; how
can one take her seriously?
Finally, I don't like angry, I like sad. Any other saddoes out
there?
--
your callipygean correspondent, Brian
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