I meant to write this in the blog I posted earlier, but it slipped my mind and I was in a slight hurry; the bath was waiting. I do see what Greg means about newspapers making him think more, if anything, but I agree with Steve, people do just bury themselves in it. Reading a news article doesn't always invoke deep thought within me, and I usually forget all about the topic by the time I'm home. I'd much rather contemplate within my own mind, think thoughts that are my own. I do listen to music, so I'm not bothered by others around me (well, I am, but I can ignore them a little better), and I suppose this can lead my thoughts in the same way a news article can, only I feel more passionately about music than printed word.
Is it wierd to just listen to music? If I were to sit in a room, doing nothing but listening to music (and thinking again), would I be considered strange? I think I would (perhaps not, perhaps it's me, not society, with the inhibition); but I am stimulating one of my senses. People sit in rooms doing nothing but watching television and this is perfectly normal. They are stimulating two senses, not one, but they are also probably thinking less, or thinking about less meaningful things. This is not to say television is rubbish (I don't love it, though), as there are decent, thought-provoking programmes and some films are pieces of art in their own right, I just don't understand why just listening to music is "wierd" (in the eyes of society (or not, I could be wrong)), but just watching TV is almost expected of people in the western world. That's what I thought about while not reading a newspaper today. Maybe some of you think my thoughts are stupid, maybe I should stop refusing the free papers shoved in my face up to four times on my walk to the tube station.
Lav, insightful as ever, I do agree with what you said about people's comments; it was just phrases such as "i hate that blog it sucks... this is dire" that shocked me and caused a knee-jerk reaction of being offended.
I'm going to bed.
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I suppose it depends what you're reading but mostly I just flick through a newspaper and don't take it in, unless it really interests me which is pretty rare.
I don't think just listening to music is weird at all, I do it all the time and in fact, I'd rather not be doing anything else at the time so I can fully appreciate the music I'm listening to. That certainly makes me think more
Urm that was Steve again, maybe I should get an account on this thing...
tom never mention the daily mirror again- wot a piece of crap you read(sold for 38p into box no 5 at MY shop)
maiyanne (the jew)
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i like newspapers, that why im where i am right now...
i wanna come home-uni sucks
i share a room with an 11 year old-i miss ariege
yay newspapers go the METRO
NOOOOO to the sun and the star and sneak magazine
xxxxxx
hi jacko
the mirror's well good and so is the sun.
tata
xXx
I'm surprised that not one broadsheet has been mentioned, yet The Mirror and The Sun have. I don't have any preference for The Independent, The Telegraph or The Times, but I'd buy them before The Guardian. However, I tend to read all four because I rarely buy newspapers anyway: I just find them on trains.
I'd rather have money than a newspaper. A newspaper subscription would be complete overkill: too much to read. The Economist calls itself a newspaper, which is apt, and if I only read one periodical it would be The Economist. The Week picks the best articles from all the newspapers, and is good.
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