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bimo

Everything Old Is New Again

Dec 30, 2003 12:03

aka Some Slightly Belated Christmas Musings and a Tiny Bit of HighlanderI guess, by now it is safe to say that I survived Christmas in pretty good shape. Trying to achieve just the right mixture of activity and peaceful seclusion has worked out surprisingly well. I prepared, did, enjoyed and had guests, but also found the time to grant myself a ( Read more... )

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TV cavendish December 30 2003, 04:30:44 UTC

Hi there!

Opening the cupboard and grabbing just exactly the Highlander tapes that I wanted (early Methos episodes, from "Methos" till "One Minute Past Midnight", "Indescretions", "To Be"/"Not to Be") filled me with an intriguing sense of familiarity and a fuzzy kind of warmth that I had not expected. No offence meant, just bewilderment ( ... )

blackkitty13 December 30 2003, 07:03:56 UTC

I absolutely share your feelings about Christmas, also realizing how much it’s „celebration“ has changed throughout the years. It’s becoming more and more personal, individual… Remembering the “traditional Christmas-orgies” with relatives when I was a kid isn’t causing any warm feeling in me, or longing for experiencing it again. I like Christmas, just like the way it is now, just celebrating it with my parents at home, never being involved in this “clan meetings” again where there’s just important to look pretty, have a boyfriend, being rich or famous or whatever. Sounds like a celebrity meeting, and yes, looking back I know it was one.

Hehe, yeah, I won’t give up on supporting Duncan, although I loved the episodes with Fitz, too. He always made me laugh. I felt more sorry for him when he died, as I did for Richie (I can’t help it, Ron Weasley’s ALWAYS reminding me of Richie). But still I thought of buying the DVD box of Highlander… just to re-watch the show. ;)

on a friendlier note :-) cavendish December 30 2003, 15:01:33 UTC

Hi there!

Just read your entry again, made me want to comment a gain ;-).

For a pessimist, you believe in things incredibly optimistic:
That there might be a "universal beauty" is a concept which I tend, well, long for and doubt at the same time, if this makes sense. Is there really one? It would strangely comforting if there was one. The Romantics believed strongly in this, btw. ;-))
Anyhow, one of the (many) good things about you, your writings, long conversations, etc., is that you share these glimpses (only some of them, I'm sure ;-) ) with other people. And those glimpses are real and important. You have the talent to put them into words so that their beauty is transformed, altered, of course, but not diminished.

Maybe, it is exactly this tendency to keep and to cling, which causes me to collect and archive things the way I do; regardless whether it's books, videotapes, postcards or coffee mugs Rewatching an old TV episode, a record or s.th makes us, for 45 odd minutes, forget that our life is based on change, that nothing ( ... )