Dear Diary, TV, family, sport

[samvara]

• Watched the first half of S1 Dante’s Cove with friends, it is awful and hypnotic and I am kind of in love. Active audience participation always helps!
• Stubbed right foot, little toe is a weird size/colour right now - am avoiding closed shoes. If I stub Jutopia does it count as an act of aggression?
• Lunch with brothers and mother turned into a UFC fest with excitable commentary (Nogueira, ouch, Bisping WTF?) followed by some Olympic luge (ouch to Oz performance, whee! to the costumes) and the White Ferns avenging last year’s Rose Bowl loss (women’s cricket, NZ vs Oz). Tried and failed to successfully link Joanna Russ’ How to Suppress Women’s Writing in a discussion about why women’s sports are not nearly as popular. Next time :p
• Finally made a mix to play at the gym, has many songs but could really just contain Clubbed to Death and Requiem for a Dream on repeat – will refine over time. maharetr gave me Remember the Name by The Rising Tied which has the right kind of vibe. This is the kind of mentality that leads to watching UFC isn’t it?
• Talked to lilysea about a bunch of interesting stuff including when to speak out, why we accept 'because' as an explanation for doing things and how we know when we're happy.
• Watched TED talk by Rory Sutherland: Life Lessons from an add man

Comments

Hee! :-D

[elke_tanzer]

Yay Dante's Cove!! :-D

Re: Hee! :-D

[samvara]

Possessed!

Undressed!

[onceamy]

Yay! UFC!

*possesses you to watch it again*

[samvara]

Mom was all 'gah, people hurting each other' and bro was all 'Bisping is evil' and mom was all 'why? shortly followed by the nut kicking and the eye gouge

*wild eyes*

[onceamy]

Ugh, I'd watch the women's cricket but cricket blows. It's so boring!

Um. I'm not sure how to rationalise people hurting each other. It's good to watch? I really need to get back into it - I've slacked off watching as of late. Though, in the interests of rationalisation: I think it's because I appreciate the idea of combining a playbook of rules with the implementation of the human body as a weapon.

[samvara]

Hee, what about men's cricket?

People hurting each other - it's consensual, I firmly believe people can do what they want to themselves. Ialso appreciate people being good at pretty much anything :)

[onceamy]

Just as boring!

Cricket is not a sport to be watched on telly. It's fun to play, but not to watch.

[lilysea.livejournal.com]

Who is Clubbed to Death by?

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Rob D (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RudpFzGLbo) - here's the Kurayamino Mix