Hobbes' Choice wrote:Would I be right in thinking that you consider "politics" to be something you do in a booth every four years with a pen?
I try to not even do that any longer--because I'm trying to avoid jury duty, and the people I'd vote for are never going to win anyway. (I'd be voting for Libertarians and Greens mostly.)
Re "politics" I'm fine with definitions like these: "activities that relate to influencing the actions and policies of a government or getting and keeping power in a government," and "the opinions that someone has about what should be done by governments."
Hobbes' Choice wrote:Would I be right in thinking that you consider "politics" to be something you do in a booth every four years with a pen?
I try to not even do that any longer--because I'm trying to avoid jury duty, and the people I'd vote for are never going to win anyway. (I'd be voting for Libertarians and Greens mostly.)
Re "politics" I'm fine with definitions like these: "activities that relate to influencing the actions and policies of a government or getting and keeping power in a government," and "the opinions that someone has about what should be done by governments."
Avoid jury duty?? Just how likely is that?? In my book avoiding jury duty and not registering to vote still counts as a political act.
Hobbes' Choice wrote:What do you not like about the prospect of Jury duty - are you on the run?
It was just a pain in the ass. You only need to serve once every three years, but I was getting notices every 2-3 months that I had to send back, and it was getting to be more of a pain than it had been to document when I'd not be able to serve because I'd be on the road.
Oh, sure, many people feels like that, too. Can't blame them, nor we can blame the ones that are pleased with it.
I'm a sucker for Bossa Nova, but the emotionalism and cheesey instrumentation in other Latin forms can get to me.
Interesting. I can't stand Bossa Nova for more than a few seconds. Emotionalism and cheesiness is almost a universal characteristic of today's mass media-produced music. From certain points of view (quite legitimate) it is a defect, and from others don't.
Conde Lucanor wrote:
Oh, sure, many people feels like that, too. Can't blame them, nor we can blame the ones that are pleased with it.
I'm a sucker for Bossa Nova, but the emotionalism and cheesey instrumentation in other Latin forms can get to me.
'Cheesy' is unforgivable to me. Cheesy and syrupy. I could never stand the Blue Danube waltz for that reason.
Well...we could get into a very long debate about what is and what is not cheesy. The boundaries are quite subjective, I think, and the definition of the word itself is not always the same when critics apply it. And sometimes cheesiness does not come in the music itself, but in the spectacle that surrounds it.
Hobbes' Choice wrote:
I'm a sucker for Bossa Nova, but the emotionalism and cheesey instrumentation in other Latin forms can get to me.
'Cheesy' is unforgivable to me. Cheesy and syrupy. I could never stand the Blue Danube waltz for that reason.
Well...we could get into a very long debate about what is and what is not cheesy. The boundaries are quite subjective, I think, and the definition of the word itself is not always the same when critics apply it. And sometimes cheesiness does not come in the music itself, but in the spectacle that surrounds it.
True. Cheesy can depend on fashion trends. 'Cheesy' Doris Day is now pretty trendy and 'retro'.
Two 'cheesy' songs I have always LOVED:
I have no problems with cheese as long as it's fun, intentionally or otherwise. I don't like music that's headache-inducing these days. As a teen that my main aim was to make an exciting (to me) racket :)
