I think my tastes are retreating into a comforting consverativeness.

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I realized that my taste in poetry have become more cold and rigid in form and warm and nostalgic in tone. My taste in Music is verring towards middle aged queen MOR stuff. I am liking the impressionsits again and Holbein and heaven forbid a touch of rococo. I have grown weary of theory heavey irony ridden art, nonsense absurdity, difficult for the sake of being diffcult poetry . Noise and Cacophony in Music . Even at the beggining of the year i hadnt noticed this change , but i do now and it frankly scares me , when do i turn in my avant garde card with its clever t shirts and its Cowboy shirts and wear the navy suits . When do i trade in my black specs for bifocals ? Am i getting old ?

― anthonyeaston, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, anthony! Don't give in! Not to Roccoco!

― turner, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anthony, I no longer enjoy listening to my Bathory cd. I can relate.

― toraneko, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe this means you have transcended avant garde, not fallen from it. Maybe this is your calling to invent the next plateau. Perhaps your bordedom with experimentalism and your fear of conservatism means you are pivotal to blazing some unprecedented awesome trail into the next dimension. I could be wrong.....

― Honda, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Isn't it great? It's more to do with being mre comfortable with yourself and not having to prove to yourself or others that you can push it further or harder (cf. fisting) than anyone else.

Fundamentally, the things of highest inherent quality are what people enjoy doing at the peak of their experience but before senility sets in, i.e. fisting, long walks in wellies, wearing comfy grey slip-ons, bridge, sitting in armchairs, reading JR Hartley etc.

― Mark C, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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