(November 18, 2014 at 11:23 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:(November 18, 2014 at 10:10 am)simplemoss Wrote: I can't think of a more wasteful, pointless, and idiotic activity as sports. ...
Amen!
My home city has never been known for its athletic accomplishments. We are famous for our support of the arts. Despite being a fairly small city, Louisville is well known across the country among both theater students and musicians. Our Orchestra and Theater enjoy a well-earned reputation for excellence. We also have strong ballet, opera and Broadway companies.
So does our city put more money into what we do so well? No, they wasted a ton of money building a stadium and trying to attract a professional basketball team.
If I shaped our culture, the arts would eclipse sports instead of the other way around.
I can just see it. A group of guys gathered around a television eating popcorn and cheering on their local orchestra, occasionally screaming at the screen what the conductor needs to do.
"C'mon, crescendo, man! CRESCENDO!"
At the final cadence, they're all giving high-fives to each other. Cut to scenes in the stadium audience of two shirtless attention-seeking fans with violins painted on their bodies. Suddenly, the music critic interrupts the celebration by throwing a flag onto the stage and announcing, "Inappropriate interpretation not intended by the composer, two stars only."
The outraged audience begins chanting, "Bull-shit, bull-shit, bull-shit"
The police need to escort the critic safely home.
Competitive musicianship actually angers me much more than competitive sports.
Usually because it's a popularity competition, it's subjective, and most popular music these days in my opinion has an extreme lack of genuine energy, speed and aggression.
Most sports and fitness competition is actually quite calming to me. A lot of times there's no popularity contest, unless one team is cheating there's a clear fair objective, which no one can really argue with.
But then again I'm pretty laid back, I don't even care if England win games of football, some people are so competitive about it they go crazy and violent if their favorite local team loses, even if their local team is local in name only, and is actually owned by an arab, who bought players from around the world.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
