I don't hear about new stuff as much as I did, unless I make a conscious effort – music, films, even news.
I think that's a good thing -- at least, I know it's a good thing for me, and I think it could be seen as a positive thing by other people. I'd like to have fewer rivers of information flowing through my head, and make more conscious effort to go out and find the good stuff when I'm in a stuff-receptive mood, rather than just thinking "Oh god YET ANOTHER folksy singer-songwriter/film about gay cowboys/whatever" and feeling jaded and fed up with the morass of mediocrity all the time. I suppose it's sort of part of the whole mindfulness thing that I'm slowly trying to train my brain into (though in danger of boring other people to death long before I get there).
The downside, I guess, is that when I do find something good, everybody else will already have heard of it; but I think I can live with being square. 8-)
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Date: 2006-05-03 04:06 pm (UTC)I think that's a good thing -- at least, I know it's a good thing for me, and I think it could be seen as a positive thing by other people. I'd like to have fewer rivers of information flowing through my head, and make more conscious effort to go out and find the good stuff when I'm in a stuff-receptive mood, rather than just thinking "Oh god YET ANOTHER folksy singer-songwriter/film about gay cowboys/whatever" and feeling jaded and fed up with the morass of mediocrity all the time. I suppose it's sort of part of the whole mindfulness thing that I'm slowly trying to train my brain into (though in danger of boring other people to death long before I get there).
The downside, I guess, is that when I do find something good, everybody else will already have heard of it; but I think I can live with being square. 8-)