Well, hey, I don't go quite that far, but I do understand the feeling.
Too busy with extended family & parties to quite worry about films etc.
I do like to choose my own music, however....
& enjoyed Frederick's poem, as usual, for its sharpness....
Doug
On 21-Dec-06, at 10:18 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> You said it, Fred. My thoughts exactly :-)
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 22/12/06, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Season
>>
>>
>> All right we won't go out.
>> The new films aren't great.
>> And if they are, the reviews
>> that say they are are somehow
>> dispiriting. – Not worth the traffic,
>> the parking, the crowds
>> both of the living
>> and those who mewl at the edge of being,
>> wanting to get at us, to get us.
>>
>> We don't have to go out.
>> There's stuff in the freezer.
>> We'll read, make a fire,
>> put on music. It shouldn't
>> have to be said that I love you. Saying
>> "you" halfway through a poem,
>> as mainstream poets do, is like mentioning
>> poetry in a poem – a way of hiding
>> from an ungreat culture,
>>
>> feeling superior, which it hates
>> as much as being superior …
>> I hate this time of year.
>> Their music is the same
>> five imbecile tunes. They scourge
>> their god on film until
>> you'd think they'd admit
>> it is the whip they yearn for,
>> and a chance to hunt and kill.
>>
>> Sunset in an hour.
>> We'll stand by the window, hug
>> and watch it. I may quote
>> La Rochefoucauld, who said
>> that people fall in love
>> only because they hear people talk about it;
>> then immediately think
>> that doesn't apply to loneliness, which
>> predated speech and will outlast it.
>>
>>
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>
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> Andrew
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