This Valley is my Hollywood

http://www.31fps.com/2008/08/26/this-valley-is-my-hollywood/

by dcurtis • 18 years ago

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swombat• 18 years ago

Good article on the whole.

One fallacy though:

These are the guys that looked impossible in the face and knocked it out in the first round.

They knocked it out in the 50th round, but you didn't hear about the other 49 rounds.

Also, seriously... leave the concert just to meet some guy? Don't idolise people. As the old buddhist saying goes: If perchance you meet the Buddha wandering on a mountain path, kill him.

The author unfortunately has his priorities all wrong...

sdpurtill• 18 years ago

Well the Radiohead concert kind of blew anyways, it was way oversold and I was 500 feet back. And some guy was standing right in front of me so I couldn't see. So that made the decision a lot easier.

Love your buddhist saying :D

SwellJoe• 18 years ago

I have a rule about this: If it's a band that everybody has heard of, their concerts are no longer worth attending.

As much as I enjoy Radiohead, it would never cross my mind to go to their concert. Best show I've ever seen was the Flaming Lips about ten years ago, maybe longer, in a crappy concert hall in Houston called The Abyss (held about 900 people, but only about 400 were at that show...I paid $12 to get in and thought it was a bit steep). But, even though I have exceedingly fond memories of that show, I would not go see the Lips perform today. It'd just be a letdown.

aaronblohowiak2• 18 years ago

It is good to study the "old masters" and to learn the lessons of the successful, but I don't think cults of personality or "celebrity" of the successful is putting the emphasis where it belongs.

LogicHoleFlaw2• 18 years ago

I am reminded of the poem by Matsuo Bashou -

古人の跡を求めず、

古人の求めたるの所を求めよ。

kojin no ato wo motomezu,

kojin no motometaru no tokoro wo motome yo

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the wise;

seek what they sought.

river_styx• 18 years ago

+1 for Hiragana, Romanji, and English comprehensiveness.

aaronblohowiak2• 18 years ago

that's probably a better translation than the one i was familiar with / alluding to: "Do not try to imitate the old masters. Seek what they sought." also, I agree with the above. points for comprehensiveness!

stcredzero• 18 years ago

I'm reminded of a woman's description of what it was like to live in LA. She said it was like "being an ember in this big, blazing bonfire."

gojomo• 18 years ago

Speaking of Hollywood, the term there for people who behave like this is 'starfucker'.

This Valley is my Hollywood

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