Oops I did it again
Jul. 3rd, 2006 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maypirateYou know you love something too much when.
Watched BDS with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
decken and harukaceles last night. Amy liked it, Gretchen though it was meh, that's all fine.
But today when I walked into work and asked Jason what he thought -because I knew he was going to watch it this weekend- he said it "fucking sucked" and it went straight through my heart and back out the other side. Like hearing that honestly made my chest hurt and bummed me out.
And it's not like I think Jason has fabulous taste in movies, especially since we had that argument about "Far From Heaven," but still, it was such a disappointing thing to hear.
So it got me thinking, especially because of a conversation I had withherongale last week. I know both Don and I tend to appreciate things exponentially - if we love something, we want to share it, and our enjoyment is increased the more people we find who enjoy it too. But often, because you can recommend something to someone only to have them hate it, or overhype it to death, I find myself shying away from recommending things in general, because the reverse happens too. For me, if I'm really hoping someone will like something, and they don't, it's like lending them a favorite doll and getting it back with one of its arms missing. Something that was there is gone. It's not what it was before. That's why I will talk about how much I like something, but very rarely will I feel compelled to say "please watch/read/listen to this shit."
So I pose these questions to anyone who wants to answer.
-Is this a selfish way to behave? By keeping the things you love for yourself so they don't get tarnished or lessened, are you, well...being kind of a douche?
(My thoughts? Probably. I've not considered this before, but I'm going to be pondering it a lot from now on.)
-Does anyone else have these reactions? When you rec something, do you enjoy it more the more it spreads, and/or feel it lessened when someone doesn't like it?
-If you simply enjoy reccing things and can get away with no side effects, what is your secret? TELL ME. GIVE ME YOUR HAIR.
Four Star is open 17 hours a day. I am going to be working 13 of them. Please feel free to answer my questions, spam me with weird shit, come and bring me some cake. I love security tagging VHS. I LOVE IT.
And all this notwithstanding, brace yo'selves for two impending doom posts involving 1) my 5 sexiest movies and 2) my one true TV-land love.
...1.5 hours down.
Watched BDS with
decken and harukaceles last night. Amy liked it, Gretchen though it was meh, that's all fine.But today when I walked into work and asked Jason what he thought -because I knew he was going to watch it this weekend- he said it "fucking sucked" and it went straight through my heart and back out the other side. Like hearing that honestly made my chest hurt and bummed me out.
And it's not like I think Jason has fabulous taste in movies, especially since we had that argument about "Far From Heaven," but still, it was such a disappointing thing to hear.
So it got me thinking, especially because of a conversation I had with
herongale last week. I know both Don and I tend to appreciate things exponentially - if we love something, we want to share it, and our enjoyment is increased the more people we find who enjoy it too. But often, because you can recommend something to someone only to have them hate it, or overhype it to death, I find myself shying away from recommending things in general, because the reverse happens too. For me, if I'm really hoping someone will like something, and they don't, it's like lending them a favorite doll and getting it back with one of its arms missing. Something that was there is gone. It's not what it was before. That's why I will talk about how much I like something, but very rarely will I feel compelled to say "please watch/read/listen to this shit."So I pose these questions to anyone who wants to answer.
-Is this a selfish way to behave? By keeping the things you love for yourself so they don't get tarnished or lessened, are you, well...being kind of a douche?
(My thoughts? Probably. I've not considered this before, but I'm going to be pondering it a lot from now on.)
-Does anyone else have these reactions? When you rec something, do you enjoy it more the more it spreads, and/or feel it lessened when someone doesn't like it?
-If you simply enjoy reccing things and can get away with no side effects, what is your secret? TELL ME. GIVE ME YOUR HAIR.
Four Star is open 17 hours a day. I am going to be working 13 of them. Please feel free to answer my questions, spam me with weird shit, come and bring me some cake. I love security tagging VHS. I LOVE IT.
And all this notwithstanding, brace yo'selves for two impending doom posts involving 1) my 5 sexiest movies and 2) my one true TV-land love.
...1.5 hours down.
