Ian Butler wrote:
Well, after someone talked it up to me, I went to see 'Amy' today, a documentary about Amy Winehouse. Quite interesting to me since I didn't know squat about here except what was coming over the radio in the last few years.
The docu was as sad as it was interesting.
One thing again confirmed, though: the press and the general audience can break you down so easily and without remorse. Sad to see, really
I agree, but on the other hand, nobody is pushed into show-biz against his own will.
Have you seen the new document about Kobain, called Montage of heck? I would say it is even better then "Amy" and of course another sad story of genius being destroyed by both himself and the surrounding. I was the great fan of Nirvana in my early teenage years, mainly because of my sister who listened to them when they was top of the world in early 90s, so i later tried the music she loved so much and ended with listening all their records again and again.
Btw, that is one of the reasons why i am so sad when i see so many people these days listening to shite pop music. It tells nothing, just empty phrases used million times, not something coming from heart straight to your ears and soul. Like 15-20 rainbow naive words repeated again and again, written by some guy who does it for half of Biebers. And they are paid millions by stupid empty heads, for their empty "art".
Shonak wrote:
Highly doubtful that anybody will remember shitty pop artists decades after they have died though like people do with Cobain, Hendrix or Lennon.
Besides that, I do think that there are many contemporary artists who have great substance.
True indeed, i made it sound like all the actual music is empty shit, but that is not the case. But one needs to search, as the music with soul is buried under the pile of crap.
Ian Butler wrote:
Well, after someone talked it up to me, I went to see 'Amy' today, a documentary about Amy Winehouse. Quite interesting to me since I didn't know squat about here except what was coming over the radio in the last few years.
The docu was as sad as it was interesting.
One thing again confirmed, though: the press and the general audience can break you down so easily and without remorse. Sad to see, really
I agree, but on the other hand, nobody is pushed into show-biz against his own will.
Quite true. But sadly, no one can ever prepare you for 'fame'. You are young, you think you want it. But you can't ever be prepared for it, nor can you ever imagine what it will be like before you have it. So it's a bit too easy to say: "your fault!" for me
I think there are only very few people who can actually handle fame well. Most people, including myself, wouldn't be able to handle it that well. Some look more immune to it, though. I'm thinking someone like Charles Chaplin, who always remembered his roots and didn't went bananas although being the first world famous star (arguably)
Only did ok in the first quiz but got into the 91st percentile on this year's one! Wasted a good few minutes on trying to get 547984 (I could've sworn there was a 1 in there somewhere) but very easily got jph. My apologies go to cio though
I was actually disappointed when it just accepted Avin, I wanted to be a bit of a show-off this time
As for the music, you're totally right about Nirvana. I just re-listened to Nevermind recently, about 8 or 9 years after I first heard it as a young teen and it sounds even better to me now than before.
Ian's very right about the 'fame' dilemma too; some people just think that fame=success=happiness and will do anything to get to that point, but when they have it most just can't handle what it entails.
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Not sure where to put this - but as some of you know I am a sixth form college maths teacher.
In form tomorrow we are supposed to do a session on 'achieving'. I am have been instructed amongst other things to show a video at the end as a plenery.
We finish off by saying 'you too can make marginal gains!'
Help Sky is invading the British education system. Not only is every other cyclist I overtake on the way into work in the morning wearing the blue stripe the 'evil empire' is indoctrinating the kids now!
Last week at school I got a talk about marginal gains as well! It was to about 200 people, all about how Brailsford has revolutionised cycling with his brilliant philosophy of making skinsuits lighter and how we should all aspire to be like him.
I can only imagine what the response would be if someone said that so some member on this forum.
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