"The Scene isn't what it used to be; The Scene was Never what it used to be..."

[wolven7]

Too many misplaced memories, and ill-remembered good-times, in the days of Chamber maids and Diner Night Mornings. You have to make your own fun, isn't it? You have to take what you can, and build a meaning and sense from it, right?

Misplaced nostalgia. Over-priviledge causing a skewed view.

Famous people I like are just people I like, who do something I find awesome, and happen to be well-known, for it. If I meet you, the chances are i want to say "Thank you," and then have a conversation with you. Not about your work, or your influences, or that shit (that's things i ask, before I Meet you, shit i ask at panel discussions at con), but about life and science, and philosophy, and art. The important shit. Because it's all shit, isn't it? The genuflecting worship of the Famous Person, I mean. It's bollocks. But I'm skewed the other way.

I've known too many famous people, in my childhood, had too many really good experiences with getting along with people whose works I've enjoyed, so now I wonder why it doesn't always happen.

You can't like everybody, and most people aren't looking to their fans to make new friends. So there's that wall, which protects from The Crazy Stalker Element™, but which... well. Some aren't stalkers, though crazed they may certainly be.

Time for bed, I think. If I can make it to sleep before two am, that'll be pretty good.

Comments

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I miss the clubs less than I miss the ability to see them as the near-mythic, Poppy Z.-type magick-having places that they used to be to me. Like South street was, and the graveyard, and your stories of here...The reality used to seem so much less Real than it does, and it's the loss of the ability to see that, that makes me sad.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is certainly hard to have that near Holy level of experience, anymore. It seems like there's too much posing, and not enough letting go, giving in to it... But maybe the posing was always a part of it, and I've just gotten tired of it... :\