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They're very important, apparently. But I don't understand them. Or maybe I do but I just don't like them or I don't care.
I imagine that most of us here don't. I was thinking this morning that the part of my brain that is traditionally devoted to sports teams, plays, and players in normal American males is devoted to artists/bands, songs, and synth manufactures, models, and architecture/parameters. Probably why most of my male friends are either synth nerds or are gay (sometimes both). Come to think of it, it's a little odd that I can't think of any gay friends who are sports fans.
Anyway, I find this a little depressing since I cannot relate to other males in everyday life. Just my small group of friends which is slowly dissipating from Spokane, and you guys (and 3 or 4 gals). Since I don't think that my awareness of different synths is doing me any favors I was thinking maybe I should start studying sports. But that strikes me as even more sad and nerdy. Plus it seems like an all or nothing kind of thing - either you don't watch sports and don't give a shit, or you watch them obsessively, as much as you can.
If I start watching them it would be like an alien studying Earth culture. Plus I would always feel like I was watching The Family Guy ... something intended for a wide audience that somehow doesn't include me that has all aspects of what is widely accepted as entertainment but which provides me no satisfaction on intellectual, aesthetic, or, well, entertainment levels.
The fact that I'm thinking so hard about this seems to tell me that this would be a futile exercise and that it would probably just make me feel more depressed. So here's to finding more gay guys and synth nerds to hang out with in Spokane. And accepting that I'm just another sensitive artfag that will always have trouble bonding with the everyman, which I acknowledge with both sadness and, frankly, condescension. | |
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sweettrip
yghartsyrt said: "i think generally its abad idea, trying to get interested in something, just to keep a social life intact
sounds a little bit like fooling yourself."
yes
be yourself
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tylth
yghartsyrt said: "doN#t"
LOL, BEST apostrophe fuck-up from you ever! 'sup, greasy hands!? (not meant evil, it'S (<- !!!) just amusing)
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license
I think the problem is that I need to get out and see more shows.
And probably I need to muster up the chops, organizational skills & courage to actually play one.
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kidko
SPORTS!
I do enjoy a little flight wheel from time to time. Sand sphere can be fun with cute ladies
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license
LMAO @ helmet touch
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whitecar
Wow. Looks like no one here went to my high school. Did you every see that movie called Heathers? That is exactly what my high school was like. Jocks were basically enemy #1. They were the ones who date raped, regular raped, beat up and tortured us 'fags' and crashed their parents cars on the weekend.
I could go on and on about my experiences with these cro mags but I'll cut to the chase and say the experience has left me quite jaded. When I see or hear anything sports related (I'm really referring to the sports where men move some ball around) All I hear and see is some meathead pushing one of my friends into a mud puddle while saying "say you like to suck big dicks, fag" while his friend stands there and laughs. So we learned to hate them with passion. Oh and no one even remotely interested in anything interesting was into or involved with sports. It was clearly what the morons did.
Years and years later after I moved around and became an adult I met several people who were into sports AND bands lie Explosions in the Sky and Brian Eno etc.. This was so perplexing to me. How could you be listening to 'fags' like the Cure and then say "oh the game is on!" ???
I decided I needed to know so I got the nerve to ask some of my 'sports' friends what gives. What I found out was that my friend had gone to a high school that was almost the opposite of mine. The Jocks at his school were all community minded, stand up kind of guys who would never hurt a fly let alone a woman. They were the 'coolest' kids at school and everyone wanted to be like them.
I met another person who had come to (a school in California) and quickly dropped out of the sports thing because of how embarassed he was to be associated with these people. He was captain of the football team back in high school and was very broken hearted about it.
So in my experience it's all about location. But a sad and informative thing was also revealed in the process which is that I can't get over it. I can't ever see a football player and not think: Meathead. Rapist. Violent Sociopath etc.. I sure do have plenty of reasons for thinking these things. They all happened and if you've ever know someone who was put into a hospital with thier jaw wired shut just because he was walking down he street wearing a Smiths T-shirt and some jocks drove by..
My point is that I have to accept that in a way I am no different than a racist or one of those anti gay hicks. I am like a trained attack dog. Sports? Sports! I'm ready to fight. My body is all tense and I want to start punching. I want to kill. It's really quite wierd.
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Highdropod
imo - it's atrocious how much money goes into college sports vs. academics in this country. it's really a sad commentary on our priorities as a society. think about how much money goes into the average collegiate sports program vs how many professional athletes these programs actually churn out. in many cases the whole sports program consists of <5% of the total number of students and yet these programs often receive the most money.
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Interesting point, whitecar.
I hung out with the goths/"freaks" in high school - basically my group was stoners that didn't smoke pot. The school we went to poured their biggest chunk of change into the marching band. And the band was incredible. In fact, at football games the bleachers were busy at the beginning of games, would swell up to more people than the field could hold at half-time, and after the band left, so did the vast majority of the spectators. There was plenty of hating on "preps", the rich kids, but my high school was so big and so cliquey that we were all just in our own worlds.
Sports didn't even show up on the radar. Except maybe the old "running the bases" sex idiom. I have fond memories of switching the car stereo between mixtapes of Aphex Twin, Merzbow, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, etc. and AM radio static (on purpose), always at full blast, on the way to Denny's to smoke cigarettes, drink coffee, eat grand slams, and talk until 3 in the morning.
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nagrom
i love playing spots, but watching sports is bizarre to me, unless it's an "extreme" sport like skateboarding(...or now all of the sudden fixie riding???)
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airliner
I've never been much of a sports fan, even detesting sports culture as a whole like a lot of people here seem to. But lately I've been watching a bit of Football (the proper kind, not the thing silly Americans call football). I think it helps to separate the appreciation of a well played game from the obsessiveness and other ugly traits that can be associated with sports. I love the action on the field in an intense, fast paced game like football, or hockey, or (to a lesser extent) basketball, but I can't be bothered to remember stats, league politics, rivalries, etc. I find I enjoy the games on their own terms without worrying about the context so much.
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ricemutt
I can have fun watching sports but I can't really stand dealing with hyped up sports fans. Coming from a background where i've had to work in restaurants and deal with drunk morons going YEYEYEYAHAHAHAAARRRRGHGHGH!HH!H!! ! OHHH YEAAAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!! YEAH!!! every time they see their favorite dude scratch their jock strap... I'm mostly full of hatred for sports and sports fans. But I can watch em and have fun if there isn't anything else going on that's more interesting (which meanst I would probably have to be strapped to a chair in an anechoic chamber, but I guess i'm exaggerating)
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kidgamma
basketball is why i make music
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kidko
I got a basketball jones so baby ooo eee ooo!
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tantan
I relate to this, don't give much of a shit either about most sports but... I fully understand the attraction.Everybody loves a juicy story,with exciting twists and turns, highs and lows, etc. Shakespeare, Beethoven, LA Lakers all give you that.
There are few things as exciting as live sports events.
BTW my gay neighbors have football / baseball parties every week that feature cheering audible from half a block away. Of course, they also vote republican, so perhaps they're not entirely typical. Just saying, stereotypes etc.
06/07/08
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tylth
fußball em 2008 starts today
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