Grumpy Old Men, Makin Magic and the like.
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apollaArgh. The Sims new expansion pack Makin' Magic has just totally filled my C drive. I had to move all my music files over to the D drive (admittedly like my brother recommended I do months ago and I'm now going through all my Works files to see what I really need to keep.
In the HP folder I found a 33 page unfinished piece of shit about H&H getting the Seven Year Itch and it was going nowhere, so it's gone. Not to mention three gazillion unfinished/barely started fics that all have obvious roots in other people's much better fics. Also found that in some cases I had some of the larger (naturally) files twice over, once as a Works file and once as a .doc file. Am stupid fool.
Also deleted a lot of the music I actually have on CD. No point clogging up my beautiful laptop with music I don't need, I guess. Especially when there's so much new stuff to clog it up with. And by 'new' I mean at least thirty years ago but stuff I haven't learned all the words to yet.
Anyway, that's not my point tonight. Tonight was the fourth and last installment of Grumpy Old Men, which basically got a bunch of famous/semi-famous and very funny men in their late forties/fifties to basically be the grumpy old men that their generation are. Aside from the fact that I've agreed with practically everything they've said (thus further proving my theory I should've been born at least thirty years earlier than I was...) it's been wicked funny. This week it touched rather more seriously on politics and I heard the very best description I've ever heard of Tony Blair.
Said by Will Self, a broadcaster/writer/pretentious ageing stoner:
"Tony Blair is the air guitarist of political rhetoric.
I actually cackled with laughter. It also highlighted another point to me: My generation is the most politically apathetic ever in the history of the universe. There were starving Roman galley slaves more politically active than My Generation. Then I thought of something... I wouldn't mind having a go myself (gotta be better than some involved right now. I actually play the guitar) but I have no idea how one goes about it. I know more about how to get into American politics. I know more about American politics full stop. This is partly because Michael Moore put in a long, detailed description of how one can run for office there, partly because as an American Studies student I naturally learned more about that system of government. But it did get me thinking: how does one become a politician? Surely you don't just walk up to Tony Blair and ask him if you can become a politician? I'm confused by this and find it typical of this bloody country.
See, I'm a right grumpy old man!
In the HP folder I found a 33 page unfinished piece of shit about H&H getting the Seven Year Itch and it was going nowhere, so it's gone. Not to mention three gazillion unfinished/barely started fics that all have obvious roots in other people's much better fics. Also found that in some cases I had some of the larger (naturally) files twice over, once as a Works file and once as a .doc file. Am stupid fool.
Also deleted a lot of the music I actually have on CD. No point clogging up my beautiful laptop with music I don't need, I guess. Especially when there's so much new stuff to clog it up with. And by 'new' I mean at least thirty years ago but stuff I haven't learned all the words to yet.
Anyway, that's not my point tonight. Tonight was the fourth and last installment of Grumpy Old Men, which basically got a bunch of famous/semi-famous and very funny men in their late forties/fifties to basically be the grumpy old men that their generation are. Aside from the fact that I've agreed with practically everything they've said (thus further proving my theory I should've been born at least thirty years earlier than I was...) it's been wicked funny. This week it touched rather more seriously on politics and I heard the very best description I've ever heard of Tony Blair.
Said by Will Self, a broadcaster/writer/pretentious ageing stoner:
"Tony Blair is the air guitarist of political rhetoric.
I actually cackled with laughter. It also highlighted another point to me: My generation is the most politically apathetic ever in the history of the universe. There were starving Roman galley slaves more politically active than My Generation. Then I thought of something... I wouldn't mind having a go myself (gotta be better than some involved right now. I actually play the guitar) but I have no idea how one goes about it. I know more about how to get into American politics. I know more about American politics full stop. This is partly because Michael Moore put in a long, detailed description of how one can run for office there, partly because as an American Studies student I naturally learned more about that system of government. But it did get me thinking: how does one become a politician? Surely you don't just walk up to Tony Blair and ask him if you can become a politician? I'm confused by this and find it typical of this bloody country.
See, I'm a right grumpy old man!
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Date: 2003-11-01 07:01 (UTC)And I missed Grumpy Old Men! Argh! The pull of Orlando Bloom (I'm a shameless fangirl) over on C4 was too much!
*hugs*
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Date: 2003-11-01 15:03 (UTC)The lure of witticisms from Rick Wakeman, Arthur Smith and Rory McGrath was stronger than the pull of Orlando, thus proving my title of Honorary Grumpy Old Man.