I've been rewatching Gilmore Girls seasons 1-3 (since it's downhill from there, arg) and besides feeling warm and fuzzy and nostalgic and such, it has also made me want to go and buy about twenty thousand CDs. Yes, actual discs that spin and have pictures on them and contain real music. Every time Lane lifts up a floorboard or opens her fantastic closet full of shiny colorful lights and assorted wonderful things (and music!!) it reminds me of the difference between listening and watching digital everything that's just floating around everywhere and easily disappears or gets buried by other invisible files, and actually owning the things you love, putting them together in one place, feeling inspired just by seeing an album cover, being reminded of all the memories and moments associated with those little discs. Also, for visual type people, I think the music is just one dimension and all the artwork and images and colors and fonts associated with it are equally important.
So I guess what I'm saying is that I want a magic little room/closet like Lane's where I can escape into a beautiful musical world. Or maybe I just wish that my discman still worked (that discman was the best birthday present I've ever gotten, I still think about it sometimes, sigh). And that I had more space for CDs and didn't feel guilty about buying more of them because it creates waste, but how can music ever be thought of as waste!! Never :)
In other news, I'm really enjoying this trend of dystopian and post-apocalyptic YA novels and have just started reading The 5th Wave. I finished Divergent before that and quite liked it. In grade 7 I read Z for Zachariah and I think I've been obsessed with this genre ever since. It's also interesting (and disturbing) how many originally sci-fi concepts and technologies are now coming true. I do not want to eat meat that was grown in a lab, but apparently many people think this is an excellent idea, eek. Somehow, I'm still fascinated by all this stuff even though much of it makes me cringe.
On a more positive note, favorite things lately include: cucumber water (refreshing!), ahi tuna, grilled portobello mushroom, botanical garden (butterflies everywhere!), cozy coffee shops, purple articles of clothing, Little Italy, and summer glorious sunny summer!! California still feels like a dream.
Hi Lucy! I agree with you on GG and the downhill trend, and in fact, even though I own the last season, I've never watched it! (Sad :( ) I still have part of my CD collection from the late 90's/early 2000's that I just can't give up, even though they're ancient now. I remember my Discman was my first big purchase in high school and I ended up selling it when my dad moved while I was in college. Sometimes I wish I still had it!
ReplyDeleteHave you read The Giver? It's a pretty common book to read in school and I think of it as one of the first YA dystopians (even if that's not quite true). I just discovered it has sequels, which I plan to check out!
Hope you're having a great week, Lucy!
I love The Giver! I think I still have it on my bookshelf. I haven't read the sequels though...I hope they're as good as the first book. I read A Wrinkle in Time around the same time as The Giver and was blown away by both :-)
ReplyDeleteYou have excellent taste in books! :D
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