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Two things reviewed in Metro that sound good: The San Jose Museum of Art's exhibit "Brides of Frankenstein" and Rebecca Solnit's book The Field Guide to Getting Lost. "That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost."
Not long after the second time I moved here, I went to the free San Jose Jazz Festival and fell in love with downtown San Jose. (I think I also met the SJMA that weekend.) Our affair has cooled--it's not you, it's me, well, some of it's you--and I don't think I've actually attended anything at the festival in three years. But tonight I'm going to try to catch the Bad Plus.
Getting rid of the TV has opened some things up. It's given me more time, which was part of the plan--not just because I'm not watching TV, but because I'm not scheduling around it. And it's also created unexpected space. It's not just that the TV, VCR, DVD, and assorted media aren't there anymore--it's that they're no longer a focal point for the room. There's no need now to have a comfortable chair facing the set; there's no purpose to a computer desk positioned so I can watch TV, you know, "in the background", while I'm "doing other stuff".
Today I moved the desk and the work/web computer out of the main living area, moved the smaller, music-focused computer into a corner, and generally am starting to refashion the (quite spacious, now that I look at it) living room into a dedicated space for music practicing, recording, and listening. What I should have had all along.
Not long after the second time I moved here, I went to the free San Jose Jazz Festival and fell in love with downtown San Jose. (I think I also met the SJMA that weekend.) Our affair has cooled--it's not you, it's me, well, some of it's you--and I don't think I've actually attended anything at the festival in three years. But tonight I'm going to try to catch the Bad Plus.
Getting rid of the TV has opened some things up. It's given me more time, which was part of the plan--not just because I'm not watching TV, but because I'm not scheduling around it. And it's also created unexpected space. It's not just that the TV, VCR, DVD, and assorted media aren't there anymore--it's that they're no longer a focal point for the room. There's no need now to have a comfortable chair facing the set; there's no purpose to a computer desk positioned so I can watch TV, you know, "in the background", while I'm "doing other stuff".
Today I moved the desk and the work/web computer out of the main living area, moved the smaller, music-focused computer into a corner, and generally am starting to refashion the (quite spacious, now that I look at it) living room into a dedicated space for music practicing, recording, and listening. What I should have had all along.
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About two days later I got a phone call, the gist of which was: "uhhh where is your TV?" My floor plans, it turned out, were not much help.
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That book sounds good.
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Anyway, that's fairly low on the list of reasons to un-TV. A few months ago, thinking about the move from many angles, I kept coming to the same conclusion for different reasons. I'm just a little surprised to have done it ahead of schedule.
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Of course, that doesn't mean it doesn't take time to WATCH what it records.
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uh
(Anonymous) 2005-08-18 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)Re: uh
(Anonymous) 2005-08-18 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)Re: uh