Overwhelmed

[poliphilo]

I don't recognise the Bowie references in Life On Mars because when Bowie first appeared I was looking the other way (career, kids, the usual) and I missed him.

And yesterday idahoswede  made a joke about Three Coins In a Fountain and I looked it up on Amazon and realised I hadn't see it and I'd like to

And Amazon were offering it in a package deal with Roman Holiday which- in spite of adoring Audrey Hepburn- I haven't seen either

And- oh sweet Jesus on a barmcake - the world is so full of books and movies and albums I've never read or seen or listened to

And I'm just so ignorant...

So maybe I'll use my "golden years" (ha-bloody-ha) to play catch-up.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

What is the nearest Philadelphia equivalent to a barmcake? Hamburger roll? Kaiser roll? other?

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I've taken it the other way--I've decided that I just don't care about a lot of things. I'm never really going to care about most music, so a lot of it has passed me by, and I'm okay with that. I feel the same way about a lot of literature. I just can't care about it all.

But I *loved* Roman Holiday and Three Coins in a Fountain.

[momof2girls.livejournal.com]

Audrey Hepburn is wonderful in Roman Holiday, and Frank Sinatra (three coins in a fountain) is wonderful too!

[queen-in-autumn.livejournal.com]

Roman Holiday is a sweet, lovely film.

[shullie.livejournal.com]

can you get series two of Life on Mars yet?

[manfalling.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about this stuff recently too. 'Keeping Up' seems kind of like a mugs game, in that if you REALLY mean to do it, and be on top of everything, then you'll just have no time for real life.

Back in the days of 4 channels and a few good movies it would have been easier. But now there's so much choice, and so much of it good quality.

But also- as you get older, I guess a lot of things start to look like things you've already seen more than once.

I'm correspondingly cutting back on TV and wasted Internet surfing hours. If something's really cool it'll filter down to me, I won't need to seek it out. And I'm probably only going to pursue a few shows further, LOST, the new Battlestar Galactica, possibly Heroes.

Books are better anyway.

Also documentaries I think are fine. Anything where you're learning something 'new' is pretty cool. So tech is in, then, as that's always new. At least the broad strokes of tech, anyway.