Post 1434, Day 146 of 2015
- 1,607 days since I started this blog -
- 1,607 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
I get that I'm old enough to have seen a lot of changes, especially when it comes to what people find entertaining, and I admit to being out-of-step, old-school, old-fashioned, whatever. I don't like it.
It's nothing new. as I entered my thirties, I realized there was a generation about fifteen (plus or minus) years younger than me, who liked things I didn't, who found relevance where I found none, enjoyed music, movies, tv shows I found boring, distasteful, or just unenjoyable. Not entertaining.
That's the danger of having lived through times where technological change created generational shifts at historically shorter intervals.
There's a lot of that in music. I don't enjoy music where the singer screams at the audience. Dancers on stage with the band are not a welcome distraction. I grew up valuing the beauty in music, not the spectacle. House and rap music isn't that interesting to me, mainly because I don't understand the lyrics, and without that, what's the attraction. Dance music/euro pop/disco similarly leaves me cold. It seems to mechanical to me, not enough feel.
Television and movies are, in general, and with many exceptions, uncomfortable for me to watch. They are too violent, and I don't find graphic violence entertaining. I understand its function, I think, but if its purpose in the visual media is to shock or titillate, I want no part. I dislike slasher movies, or movies that rail against violence while glorifying it. I don't need any artificial fear stimulants, thank you.
And fashion. I dislike current fashion. That not only includes what people are wearing, but what they think is fashionable. I don't pay much attention to it, but the current fashion of body art is a total turn-off to me. Piercings are nothing new, but the extent now is beyond anything I ever saw in the first two-thirds of my life. And tatoos? I find nothing about them attractive.
I wish I knew less than I do about women's shaving, too.
All this makes me seem like a dinosaur, a curmudgeon.
Yes, you're right: I want you kids off my lawn.
Food and Diet Section
Today's Weight: 208.2 lbs
Today's Weight: 208.2 lbs
Previous Weight (5/22): 206.2 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain: + 2.0 lbs
Diet Comment
I gained a couple of pounds over the long weekend. Not bad, I think.Diet Comment
A cocoa-hemp-kale protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kefir, kale, large organic egg, whey powder (36g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, fermented coconut water, chia gel, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon, celery and stevia-inulin blend.
Lunch
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| Salmon salad (Wild Alaska pink salmon, celery, mayonnaise) on baby kale, baby spinach, chardand cole slaw mix. |
Snack
Liquid Intake
Coffee: 24 oz. Water: 56+ oz.
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i find almost all pop culture, including that of our generation, completely unsatisfying. i find some of it mildly amusing, and a relatively tiny portion of it moving and meaningful. i experience it as shallow and superficial, devoid of real content and unconnected to the deeper internal side of being. It in no way reflects the whole of which i know us to be a part of. i think we only seem like dinosaurs to those who only know popular culture. i think we only seem like a curmudgeon when judged in terms of that pop culture.
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I agree, for the most part. Although I like pop music a lot, I tend to gravitate to the feel-good things I liked as a teenager, whose content and relevance is now secondary to the emotional connection evoked by the more soulful things I listen to - I still connect with these things. Nothing to hold onto with the glossy/slick/computer-generated Teflon modern stuff.
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