tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post6830191871749170533..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Gladiators and NostalgiaPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-955376033067485322008-05-19T07:48:00.000+01:002008-05-19T07:48:00.000+01:00The pic of the rather engaging Inferno was the bes...The pic of the rather engaging Inferno was the best Gladiator photo I could find. Blame google images, not me!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-64123365313838004042008-05-18T23:52:00.000+01:002008-05-18T23:52:00.000+01:00Omigod, another pic in Splintyvision ... Phil, tak...Omigod, another pic in Splintyvision ... Phil, take a pill, fer gawdsake. Arf!Madam Miaowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-22745103348463727242008-05-16T03:29:00.000+01:002008-05-16T03:29:00.000+01:00/// what do you do for nostalgic kicks in the land.../// what do you do for nostalgic kicks in the land of the free? ///<BR/>What is nostalgia anyhow?<BR/>I am today what was built yesterday in my past. I just keep working, trying to make a living here, and when I get some rest, I spend my time reading books or watching documentaries.<BR/>In the land of the "free" (and home of the brave) time still doesn't matter to me. Only capitalists are worried about time, not a socialist :) I'm just being careful on how my life should be managed when I have the choice to manage it. When you grow older, you realize that your present will determine your future, that's the only good thing when you grow older and wiser hopefully.<BR/> <BR/>///Yes, the whole medieval season was very good /// Yes I was very impressed. No wonder why we call this period the "Dark Ages", it was pretty macabre with cerfs and feudalism and religion with their cathedrals. I conserved medieval writings but they are in France in my library. Here is something interesting: during the plague in the medieval ages, people bought diamond rings to get protected from the pest, and we kept this tradition until nowadays. People just forgot what precisely this tradition came from. <BR/>I like the medieval period. When I was a kid I was working in a cloister, and years later I went to study in the abbaye of La Chaise-Dieu (it's the place where you can see the "dance macabre"'s painting) but I did not want to become a monk so I gave up. Talking about nostalgia, that's certainly one of my deepest regrets. And life goes on :) Heir today, gone tomorrow.steven rixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18154964357134050639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-37798088490748836852008-05-15T22:53:00.000+01:002008-05-15T22:53:00.000+01:00Is it an obsession with nostalgia if I just gave u...Is it an obsession with nostalgia if I just gave up trying to keep up with popular culture in about 1996? <BR/><BR/>Whatever happened to originality by the way. When you read womens magazines (yes that's as close as I get to real women) they're always going on about how the fifties look or the hippy look is in this summer. Did all the fashion designers just get bored of coming up with new ideas at some point. Or is it a ploy by altruistic fashion gurus to get us buying all those granny clothes from oxfam.<BR/><BR/>Personally I'm just waiting for the 90s resurgence to kick off in about ten years time so I can be cool again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-57626663470500281462008-05-15T09:47:00.000+01:002008-05-15T09:47:00.000+01:00What are you trying to say Brother S? I watched Gl...What are you trying to say Brother S? I watched Gladiators with a view to writing an intellectually stimulating blog post on the topic. The various states of (un)dress of the female Gladiators was entirely incidental ;)Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-52768830823630681982008-05-15T09:30:00.000+01:002008-05-15T09:30:00.000+01:00Yes, the whole medieval season was very good. Phil...Yes, the whole medieval season was very good. Phil bc is very selective. Lol. Only the best scantily dressed young women for Phil bc!<BR/><BR/>Brother SAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-38084411044667261232008-05-15T09:16:00.000+01:002008-05-15T09:16:00.000+01:00No, I didn't watch the Medieval season. Believe it...No, I didn't watch the Medieval season. Believe it or not, I don't watch that much TV! I'm very, very selective when it comes to settling down in front of the box for a couple of hours.<BR/><BR/>But on the nostalgia thing, not being in the US I'm speaking from a position of relative ignorance, but it's my feeling nostalgia plays as big a part in US culture as it does here. Which begs the question, as a French guy, what do you do for nostalgic kicks in the land of the free?Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-16574790480787104452008-05-14T22:03:00.000+01:002008-05-14T22:03:00.000+01:00Hmmm you are losing me man, I don't even know anyt...Hmmm you are losing me man, I don't even know anything about film's/TV's industry.<BR/>Now if you say BBC2 or Channel4, then we can talk.<BR/>If you say "Sir David Attenborough" or "James Burke", then you da man :)<BR/>I feel it's a loss of time to watch movies - I prefer to let go my imagination on a good documentary since I feel like I need to learn something about life. But then again it's just my personnal choice :)<BR/><BR/>Oh by the way did anyone watch "inside the medieval mind" on BBC TV4 with Robert Bartlet?<BR/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b009s80l.shtmlsteven rixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18154964357134050639noreply@blogger.com