Lazy
June 3, 2002
7:30 a.m.
Brigid had a sleep-over at a friend's place this Saturday night, which is all good and well. She came home late Sunday morning with one of those "I could sleep all day" looks in her eye. She had been up until 4:30 in the morning. Yes, I remember those times well. [sigh] In the meantime, Lisa and I got a few things done around the house and then settled in to--gasp--watch TV. Movies, to be precise. Then Sunday while Brigid was napping, I actually spent most of the day watching various stuff, mostly sports--baseball, a little racing, a bio on Vince Carter. The NBA playoffs. Pretty cool. I mean, I actually wasted almost an entire day. It made me feel very lazy ...   Some thoughts I got from watching bits and pieces of things. When she is performing, Annie Lennox may be the most beautiful person in the world. Not beautiful as in "pretty" or "gorgeous" (though her eyes are startling in their clear Scottish intensity), but beautiful as in open and direct. I think she merges with her music when she sings, and in that sense becomes the work's physical manifestation. You don't see that too often in performers. The Lakers are boring. The personality of a baseball game's TV commentators make more of a difference than the personality of a basketball game's TV commentators. Basketball moves fast enough that stupid comments can fly right on by...except during all those last second timeouts. Baseball commentators have to fill a lot of white space. I miss Steve Stone and Harry Carey a lot. Topic: MTV has become television's version of the Web Journal. Discuss... Shakespeare in Love is a pretty good movie, but how it beat Saving private Ryan for the Academy Award is mind boggling to me. (At least I'm pretty sure this is the movie that beat out Private Ryan, or was it American Beauty? Either way, I don't get it. I hope it was Shakespeare in Love, I guess, seeing as I thought American Beauty was tepid all around. I suppose I could look it up, but I'm running out of time this morning. Regardless ... Shakespeare in Love was pretty darn cool in a lot of ways. Gwyneth Paltrow was deserving of her award. Still ... Saving Private Ryan left me literally speechless for fifteen or thirty minutes afterward. Gotta run. Have a great day  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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