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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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06/07/08
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pillowtalk
The NBA seems scripted now, people love story lines.
06/07/08
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kidgamma
yah i meant street ball, when i roll up on the court with my 23" ghetto blaster, high-cut shorts, robotsungoggles, people know it's on, but i kinda play like silky slim
06/08/08
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populus
I fucking love sports. I love playing them (although I suck) and I love following them, from major league baseball down to fourth division french football. I love the minutiae of stadium regulations and quirky rules and uniform fonts and logos and how damn important it all is to someone somewhere.
Camus loved sports as well, particularly soccer/football. He wrote some really fascinating philosophical stuff about it. I definitely think that sports are an art form, and following professional sports is just a commercialized and easily accessible version of that art form.
bring on the hate. Allez les bleus!
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