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[jfb]

Here are some things I watched this weekend, or ignored, or fast-forwarded through:

• The series finale of Felicity, in which the spell that sent her back in time is undone.
  
• The series finale of M*A*S*H, in which Hawkeye tries to get a chicken to stop making all that noise. I've never forgotten that scene.
  
• The "Wanda Detroit" episode of Lois and Clark, in which Teri Hatcher gets to play Lois, Lois's evil clone, and Lois under the amnesiac delusion she's a lounge singer from a pulp novel.
  
• Outdated commercials (imagine being able to find out who's calling you, without even picking up the phone!).
  
• Outdated news teasers (what's this "Prozac" I keep hearing about?).
  
• Reports that an American held hostage in Lebanon has been executed. President Bush called it "an uncalled-for act of terror". The other President Bush.
  
• Two fairly unbearable exercises from the filmmaking class I took a few years ago.
  
• Daria, the musical.
  
• Conan O'Brien goofing around with Andy on the Today set.
  
• Lots of ads for movies and TV shows that flopped.
  
• The Powerpuff Girls, Newsradio, Kids in the Hall, Babylon 5, various Star Treks.
  
• "Codex", a 26-minute dance/video piece in which the choreographer Philippe Decouflé began to set out the flora and fauna of an imaginary world. Aired on Alive from Off Center, a KTCA/PBS series that featured an incredible variety of avant garde performance art. It stunned me to be reminded that something like this used to be on TV, although I suppose what should stun me is that it isn't anymore, or maybe just that I don't know about it. What happened to us, art? We used to be tight.

And now it's over. TV's in the closet. We'll call this a trial separation before I cancel cable, pack up the VCR and DVD, and give it all away.

Also, went through four shelves of books I once thought I would want to read, and picked out the one in four that I might make an effort to read before leaving (or, in a few cases, might take with me). And learned how to make more weird noises with the electric guitar.

Would anyone with the required hardware be willing to transfer my VHS of "Codex" to something digital? I think that's all I want to keep.

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[jfb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that too.

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[(Anonymous)]

The problem is that it sounds that way whenever anyone is making a really large life-transition, and is working through the accumulated detritus trying to figure out what's really WORTH it to keep (because everything you keep costs energy. People don't grok this off the top because it's subtle. People moving coast to coast have this forced upon them because moving Stuff costs $$$ in that case).

I had a friend make the same observation of me years back when I was taking a job in the financial service industry and knew, all at once, that a whole bunch of Things were going to become meaningless and unnecessary in my life.

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[feoh.livejournal.com]

Ugh. This was me.

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Ugh. This was me. <KICKS new 'oh you REALLY want to post anonymously since you're not logged in' behavior. Yes I know it makes sense on the face of it, but it's a big change from when it would whine at you, helpfully in my case :)>