CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Not Paying Attention To Critics Makes No Sense

Monday, June 13, 2011

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I never understand it when people say they never listen to critics when it comes to music or movies. Never? Even if it's something that you don't have to spend money on, the percentage of stuff available to the time you have to spend in live is overwhelmingly balanced towards the former-- you just don't have time to experience everything, so why would you waste your time on something bad, especially when someone was there to warn you otherwise? When it comes to something that actually costs money, this goes double.

If you don't listen to critics, then how do you know what to listen to or to watch? For music, if you didn't listen to critics, the only way to music is to listen to the radio, but the music on the radio all sounds the same. And the only way to get any knowledge of movies is to watch trailers. Which actually brings me to a side note. People will often say "I hate how trailers show you too much."

No they don't. That was a criticism from 1978. But it's not true anymore, and hasn't been true for a long time. Nowadays trailers show you nothing. There are about 100 different types of movies in the world. And all trailers turn those myriad types of movies into about four different ones. There's "action trailer", which always has a catch phrase at the very end right before a cut of an explosion, then the name of the movie then the date. There's "horror trailer", which always shows the name of the movie, then the date, then something jumping out at you. There's comedy trailer, which has somebody falling over. Then there's "serious movie" trailer, which are generally just shots of people with furrowed eyebrows.

So if all music on the radio sounds the same, and there's only 4 trailers, then how do you know what to spend your money on, what to spend your time on? Friends? Friends are idiots. In high school for example, I had friends that were sort1 of into the same things I was into.For example, Nine Inch Nails is one of my favorite bands.But any person I knew that liked NIN was also into industrial music in general. And I hate industrial music. It's awful. I am also really into Tool. My friends that listened to Tool also listened to heavy metal, and I hate metal. My friends in high school would get extremely genre specific. They liked one thing and one thing only, and they liked the hell out of it. me: So if I was interested in industrial they could show me the obscure boxed sets of 45' singles from 1984, the shit that there was 200 copies of and that's it that they found in a garage sale. But in my case I would say, "Yeah, but I think Nine Inch Nails is awesome, and I think there's a connection between NIN and, say, Bjork," and they would have no idea what I was talking about.

Now that I'm a grown up finding anyone that has any sort of interest as mine is next to impossible, period. I've officially reached the period of life where people my age do not listen to music outside of the radio or whatever they were into when they were in high school, and most people I know who have taste in movies never get to see them because they have kids. Which makes the whole "I don't pay attention to critics" line make even less sense. Why would you set up a babysitter, pay the money, make this huge deal just to get out to risk seeing some piece of shit dumb movie?
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with love from CRS @ 12:53 PM 

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