Sachin, AR Rahman indha maadhiri samaththu pasanga irukkangalE. Exceptions of course and point.
Junta generally trying to be balanced with the "he was a superstar but..."
Anyway I'll use this inopportune moment to quote my fav. MJ joke I just bought a new car stereo... When you shout out "Soul", it plays soul music. When you shout out "Rock", it plays rock music. Some kids ran in front of my car, and I shouted "fucking kids!", and it played Michael Jackson.
dagalti: Here's a story that I don't remember too well, but anyway ... During the American civil war some of the disgruntled seniors in the military went to Lincoln and complained about General Grant - his foul temper and his drunken ways. The military genius of General Grant was not lost on Lincoln and he apparently asked for the same kind of whisky that General Grant was fond of to be given to these other gentlemen.
Terrific quote that from MJ. I still remember buying 'Bad' from a small (under the staircase) shop in town hall road and listening to it when my father was not around.
Regarding samathu geniuses, while there's no taking away anything, let's say we are generally a lot more fawning and cut them a lot of slack. We don't have biographies, only hagiographies. Since we are so seriously wedded to the idea of geniuses being perfect in every respect, we do what Churchill says when we discover something that does not tally with the 'perfect' image: Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened
It's a very painful realisation that the icons we revere so often turn out to be sub-human in real life. 'Flawed' is an extremely kind and generous word to use :-) When we encounter them(esp sportsmen and filmstars) for real, all we can do is laugh at our own stupidity.
What FakeIPLPlayer wrote and hinted is every bit true ;)
It's more than a year since I watched any sport or movie. The things and people that interest me the most are perhaps too normal and 100% everyday to write about...
ttm: Good point.Celebrity mythology won't die so easily - it's what keep the tabloids alive. It's so flawed at a fundamental level - competence of any kind is generally not fungible, nor does it imply a moral rectitude - but we tend to believe both. So we often end up asking, "He is such a fine actor, how could he ever have committed a rape ?" or much closer to our own experience "He spent fifteen years in the US, so why did the project fail ? " :-) and so on.
Not trying to defend MJ or anything, it's just that it's irritating to watch the media erect and pull down straw men so regularly.
P.S. Whether actual good gets done by "good" folks, about the tyranny of unintended consequences, etc - all that is too vast a topic
ttm: BTW, "Intellectuals" by Paul Johnson deals with the not so well known side of intellectuals like Marx, Russell, etc - highly recommended. It's not just sports stars and movie stars ...
//The things and people that interest me the most are perhaps too normal and 100% everyday to write about...//
adhukkaga ?
Check out this post by S.Ramakrishnan about something very everyday. Cliched senti. But hey that's how things are as he saw them. Why aestheticize it by de-embellishing ? Still brought the a heavy feeling to me followed by 'heck, am I so vulnerable' momentary instrospection before moving on to Rangana Herath bringing Pakistan down.
Looking back I see I have been reconciled to a heroless existence early on. I am able to recall only viral-vittu eNNakkoodiya instances of feeling disappointed by celebrities.
Old fat rasigan: aNNE neenga enna saapdureenga GM as SilpA kumAr: naan unakku aNNaNa.... nee enna saapudurE OFR: sOru dhaan 'NE SilpA: adhaiyE thaan naanum sApudarEn
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Sachin, AR Rahman indha maadhiri samaththu pasanga irukkangalE. Exceptions of course and point.
Junta generally trying to be balanced with the "he was a superstar but..."
Anyway I'll use this inopportune moment to quote my fav. MJ joke
I just bought a new car stereo... When you shout out "Soul", it plays soul music. When you shout out "Rock", it plays rock music. Some kids ran in front of my car, and I shouted "fucking kids!", and it played Michael Jackson.
dagalti:
Here's a story that I don't remember too well, but anyway ... During the American civil war some of the disgruntled seniors in the military went to Lincoln and complained about General Grant - his foul temper and his drunken ways. The military genius of General Grant was not lost on Lincoln and he apparently asked for the same kind of whisky that General Grant was fond of to be given to these other gentlemen.
Terrific quote that from MJ. I still remember buying 'Bad' from a small (under the staircase) shop in town hall road and listening to it when my father was not around.
Regarding samathu geniuses, while there's no taking away anything, let's say we are generally a lot more fawning and cut them a lot of slack. We don't have biographies, only hagiographies. Since we are so seriously wedded to the idea of geniuses being perfect in every respect, we do what Churchill says when we discover something that does not tally with the 'perfect' image:
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened
dagalti, bnb:
It's a very painful realisation that the icons we revere so often turn out to be sub-human in real life. 'Flawed' is an extremely kind and generous word to use :-) When we encounter them(esp sportsmen and filmstars) for real, all we can do is laugh at our own stupidity.
What FakeIPLPlayer wrote and hinted is every bit true ;)
It's more than a year since I watched any sport or movie. The things and people that interest me the most are perhaps too normal and 100% everyday to write about...
ps: btw, for every Shiney ahuja case that comes to light, 1000s of similar cases go under the carpet...some of them are from our very icons.
ttm:
Good point.Celebrity mythology won't die so easily - it's what keep the tabloids alive. It's so flawed at a fundamental level - competence of any kind is generally not fungible, nor does it imply a moral rectitude - but we tend to believe both. So we often end up asking, "He is such a fine actor, how could he ever have committed a rape ?" or much closer to our own experience "He spent fifteen years in the US, so why did the project fail ? " :-) and so on.
Not trying to defend MJ or anything, it's just that it's irritating to watch the media erect and pull down straw men so regularly.
P.S. Whether actual good gets done by "good" folks, about the tyranny of unintended consequences, etc - all that is too vast a topic
ttm:
BTW, "Intellectuals" by Paul Johnson deals with the not so well known side of intellectuals like Marx, Russell, etc - highly recommended. It's not just sports stars and movie stars ...
//The things and people that interest me the most are perhaps too normal and 100% everyday to write about...//
adhukkaga ?
Check out this post by S.Ramakrishnan about something very everyday. Cliched senti. But hey that's how things are as he saw them. Why aestheticize it by de-embellishing ? Still brought the a heavy feeling to me followed by 'heck, am I so vulnerable' momentary instrospection before moving on to Rangana Herath bringing Pakistan down.
Looking back I see I have been reconciled to a heroless existence early on. I am able to recall only viral-vittu eNNakkoodiya instances of feeling disappointed by celebrities.
Old fat rasigan: aNNE neenga enna saapdureenga
GM as SilpA kumAr: naan unakku aNNaNa.... nee enna saapudurE
OFR: sOru dhaan 'NE
SilpA: adhaiyE thaan naanum sApudarEn
Another rasigan: makkaLukku enna karuththu solla virumbureenga
SilpA: karuththu....hmm.. naan indha varusham 10 padam nadikkarEn...aduththa varusham 15 padam nadikkalaamnu irukkEn....ellAthayum pArththu 'theLivu' aayidunga
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