29 July 2010

more on saving - dvr edition

I'm pitiful. The DVR is filling up quick. I hoard tv shows and movies and assume or expect I'll watch them soon. Not sure why I find it necessary to continue recording two episodes a day of The West Wing on Bravo. Two a day. And I've seen the series three times. And it is a great show, especially the first four seasons when Sorkin wrote the bulk of the series ("bulk of the series, Dude"). And it does give me inspiration in writing. Or I think it does. But really. How necessary is that? And movies that I dearly love - miller's crossing, 4 weddings..., vanilla sky, legend of 1900. If they've been sitting there untouched for months, how necessary is it really? Well, they're not.

I'm still not erasing them though.

27 July 2010

what's the use of saving

And I'm not talking about money. Though I'd never be accused of that either. Just saving in general. My problem - as if there were but one - is I want to save freaking everything. I have magazines from 20, 25 years ago - i might need an article in there someday; concert t-shirts I haven't worn in 15 years, nor will I ever again - maybe there will be a use for that Poison/Warrant shirt from '88, but there's still a little life in that Dylan 93 rag of cotton; cassette tapes for heaven sake, and thousands, literally thousands of CDs. I'm all for nostalgia. And I'm not quite of the "hoarding" variety. But keeping every last remnant of nothingness is messy, unnecessary and definitely unhealthy. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

16 July 2010

politics suck

I can't follow politics. It's not farfetched to say anyone holding political office is a liar, a moron or likely both. Obviously that's a gross exaggeration - like saying all doctors are competent and human, or all cops are part owners of strip clubs - can't make goofy ass generalizations of the like. But it seems for every numbskull on the left, I have to listen to a similar arugment from the right. For every liberal egghead with a pen and an opinion, I have to balance it with the opinion of a dim-witted conservative. It comes to this - they're all the same. They are the same in different ways and different in the same ways. A politician equals a politician. Left or right, I can't tell anymore. They want the general public to believe they are right and good without just cause, without reason and sadly without dignity and humanity.