Tay Tay's Clever

[Le_Regard]

Also THIS happened

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ ... -nazi-idol

[Pixie Dust]

Those are great observations, Le. You know, I don't pay much attention to what famous people are doing. It's all like a huge blur of information. Our military recently lost millions of dollars in weapons... I'm more interested in the things that don't make the front page.

JJ once wrote about the use for distractions in our personal lives. Distractions are to turn the head from one thing, and those who are effective understand there are many uses for such a skill.

You're looking the wrong direction. Celebrities are the kiddie pool. Swim deeper. The info is already out there if you would stop getting distracted with the front pages of everything you read.

[Le_Regard]

Pixie Dust wrote:Those are great observations, Le. You know, I don't pay much attention to what famous people are doing. It's all like a huge blur of information. Our military recently lost millions of dollars in weapons... I'm more interested in the things that don't make the front page.

JJ once wrote about the use for distractions in our personal lives. Distractions are to turn the head from one thing, and those who are effective understand there are many uses for such a skill.

You're looking the wrong direction. Celebrities are the kiddie pool. Swim deeper. The info is already out there if you would stop getting distracted with the front pages of everything you read.Huh. I'm sorry, I thought we were diving into the kiddie pool on purpose.

Even the kiddie pool gets deep if you stare at it long enough.

[Le_Regard]

It just doesn't make physical sense that the depths and the shallows are completely different. There's no obvious barrier between them.

[Le_Regard]

Thinking about, for the average person there is probably an "over your head". That would probably be it. Deep and shallow are really measures of how likely you are to drown in it.

My favorite Taylor Swift song is this one.



Followed by this one.



But to be entirely fair I haven't heard any Taylor Swift songs that aren't SO POPULAR they're inescapable and you can't even go out and buy groceries without hearing them at least once. But seriously, these two are my favorite so far.

[Le_Regard]

I recommend watching Never Getting Back Together FIRST and Style second though, because doing it the other way is very depressing.  Don't you just hope they get back together?  I mean that guy seemed like a terrible boyfriend, obviously... but... sigh...

[Le_Regard]

See it's all about appearances. It doesn't even matter if they're perfect together. They LOOK perfect together. They're as perennial as red lips and white t-shirts, etc. They're a matching set, everyone else thinks they belong together. It's unclear what THEY want, but inner conflict resolution is maybe not what sells albums. You just KNOW they're getting back together.

[Pixie Dust]

Le_Regard wrote:
Pixie Dust wrote:Those are great observations, Le.  You know, I don't pay much attention to what famous people are doing.  It's all like a huge blur of information.  Our military recently lost millions of dollars in weapons... I'm more interested in the things that don't make the front page.  

JJ once wrote about the use for distractions in our personal lives.  Distractions are to turn the head from one thing, and those who are effective understand there are many uses for such a skill.  

You're looking the wrong direction.  Celebrities are the kiddie pool.  Swim deeper.  The info is already out there if you would stop getting distracted with the front pages of everything you read.
Huh.  I'm sorry, I thought we were diving into the kiddie pool on purpose.

Even the kiddie pool gets deep if you stare at it long enough.

It's....complicated.  Yes, look deeply into the kiddie pool.  Yet, know there's an adult pool, a lake, and an ocean.  Look anywhere you want.  All I was pointing out was that what you're doing with the kiddie pool has little value.  On the other hand maybe you're just processing and acclimating.  Maybe I was just being impatient.  That was wrong of me.

Go ahead.  Count the tiles.  I'll wait.

[Pixie Dust]

Le_Regard wrote:
It just doesn't make physical sense that the depths and the shallows are completely different.  There's no obvious barrier between them.

think of it like how a typical American thinks of Asians. At first, all Asians look the same. With experience one sees the barriers that distinguish Japanese from Korean from Chinese and so on.

I see what you mean though, how it all blends together.

[Pixie Dust]

Le_Regard wrote:
Thinking about, for the average person there is probably an "over your head".  That would probably be it.  Deep and shallow are really measures of how likely you are to drown in it.

My favorite Taylor Swift song is this one.



Followed by this one.



But to be entirely fair I haven't heard any Taylor Swift songs that aren't SO POPULAR they're inescapable and you can't even go out and buy groceries without hearing them at least once.  But seriously, these two are my favorite so far.

The depths that cause drowning aren't as bad as the chaos an Act of God can bring. If I'm lucky I'll drown. If I'm unlucky, I wind up depending on you to save my life. I would never hear the end of it.

I've enjoyed Style too. I think you'll hear a song on the new album you'll like better.

[Pixie Dust]

Le_Regard wrote:
I recommend watching Never Getting Back Together FIRST and Style second though, because doing it the other way is very depressing.  Don't you just hope they get back together?  I mean that guy seemed like a terrible boyfriend, obviously... but... sigh...

Lol. I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment and suggestion. I think Tay is just sh*t out of luck when it comes to love. She's the Mistress to the Gods...or... celebrities. Whatever, they're all the same.

[Le_Regard]

Pixie Dust wrote:The depths that cause drowning aren't as bad as the chaos an Act of God can bring. If I'm lucky I'll drown. If I'm unlucky, I wind up depending on you to save my life. I would never hear the end of it.

I've enjoyed Style too. I think you'll hear a song on the new album you'll like better.
Bit off topic, but I liked this song too.



White female American pop singers do all actually kind of blur together for me.

If I ever have to steal your soul AND I don't have any really urgent world-saving use for it at the time, I promise to give it right back to you.

[Pixie Dust]

Le_Regard wrote:
See it's all about appearances. It doesn't even matter if they're perfect together. They LOOK perfect together.  They're as perennial as red lips and white t-shirts, etc.  They're a matching set, everyone else thinks they belong together.  It's unclear what THEY want, but inner conflict resolution is maybe not what sells albums.  You just KNOW they're getting back together.

Lol.  Yeah, yeah.  Things look terrible from here.  Then again, they're both celebrities.  A drug addiction might be able to pull them back to one another.  

I like her new man though.  She was having rumors about her spreading like wildfire.  Her current boyfriend kept her sane.  Loved.  Cherish.  That is nearly impossible to beat.  She seems like she could be friends with past loves....until she writes songs about them xD  

People remember tragedies and missed chances.

[Le_Regard]

Note: my apologies to all concerned but I *just now* discovered that Carly Rae Jepson is a white female *Canadian* pop singer.

[Pixie Dust]

Le_Regard wrote:
Pixie Dust wrote:The depths that cause drowning aren't as bad as the chaos an Act of God can bring.  If I'm lucky I'll drown.  If I'm unlucky, I wind up depending on you to save my life.  I would never hear the end of it.  

I've enjoyed Style too.  I think you'll hear a song on the new album you'll like better.
Bit off topic, but I liked this song too.



White female American pop singers do all actually kind of blur together for me.

If I ever have to steal your soul AND I don't have any really urgent world-saving use for it at the time, I promise to give it right back to you.

I always fall for the LGBTQ ones!  I hate that song as it reminds me of that exact issue.  Girl likes boy, boy doesn't like girl, girl writes love songs about boy anyway.  

I don't believe you about my soul.  You're an opportunist.

[Le_Regard]

So I know this probably doesn't seem like much after all the PM offers to suck your dick and everything, but I want you to know I was willing to google who Taylor Swift's boyfriend is for you.

He's an actor AND he's British.  AND he's not classic white t-shirt anything.  Of course he's British it's the only thing that makes sense.

[Le_Regard]

There's a place in my heart for this one too if I'm honest.



The British guy probably won't last for the simple reason that England isn't far enough away.

But then again nobody's perfect.

[Pixie Dust]

Lol. These days you're Googling celebrity relationships, expanding your pop knowledge, and showing an interest in the materialistic aspect of life.

Who are you and what have you done with my friend?!

If this turns into another episode of you getting a bath, in a lake, from a group of slaves...I'm going to be really pissed.

[Le_Regard]

Pixie Dust wrote:Who are you and what have you done with my friend?!

If this turns into another episode of you getting a bath, in a lake, from a group of slaves...I'm going to be really pissed.
I don't know. I'm going to bed now, and I'll give it some thought.

I used to have a lot of "online friends", and maybe you were one of them, I don't know. The music is too new for me to ever be sure though.

We can be online friends (again) if you want. I do actually have a "real" life with a lot more dimensions than that rectangle youtube videos play in, so "online" is kind of the magic word here, but I'd like that very much actually.

I don't know what happened in a lake with some slaves but my gut reaction is that bathing with a GROUP of slaves is suicidal.

[Pixie Dust]

Thanks for the offer to be online friends.  One day we might be.  I've got other things I'm watching and I don't get a lot of free chatting time.  I just wanted to ensure you were well kept.  

As many have noticed, I have periods of activity and inactivity.  I'm not ready for close friends yet.  The last ones I had left me exhausted and my time is better spent elsewhere.  That might change one day.  Who knows what the future holds.  All I know is I'm still depleted from loving people.  I need to stay closed for renovation.

Sleep well.

[Le_Regard]

I know myself well enough to know I'll get bored with this eventually and move on to something else.

But...

I don't even know what my angle is here.  I think it's as simple as you remind me of someone else.  And not just someone else, but all the very many "someone else"s that I've collected through the years.  Not exactly all at once, and not exactly one after the other, but all of them.

I don't know what "not ready for close friends" means, but I'm definitely here right now, and although it is certainly possible that I will let you down, and I really do mean this, I DON'T WANT TO.  I would really, really, really prefer not to, and that's probably a better deal than most people will give you up front like this.

I'll settle for somewhere in between "close friends" and "people you only know from Facebook"...?

[Le_Regard]

Like if I saw you on the bus, and there was an open seat next to you, I would probably say hello and sit in it INSTEAD OF pretending I don't see you.

That seems like an acceptable level of intimacy from my own relatively damaged point of view.  Like we're "work friends".  We can probably be "work friends".  Like we don't know each other's personal lives but we see each other at lunch and complain about management together sometimes.

?

[Le_Regard]

Like maybe if you needed a ride to work one day because your car is being fixed I could pick you up on my way just because we're going to the same place anyway, and we're just barely close enough that all we have to talk about is work stuff but also asking me for a simple favor like that, one human being to another, does not seem particularly weird, and although no way would you ever let me INSIDE your apartment, maybe you trust me enough that my knowing more or less what country it's in is not really a problem for you...

[watergaze]

You are tentative... You are unsure of what you want, and are afraid.  Better stalk yourself as to why.

[Pixie Dust]

Le_Regard wrote:
I know myself well enough to know I'll get bored with this eventually and move on to something else.

But...

I don't even know what my angle is here.  I think it's as simple as you remind me of someone else.  And not just someone else, but all the very many "someone else"s that I've collected through the years.  Not exactly all at once, and not exactly one after the other, but all of them.

I don't know what "not ready for close friends" means, but I'm definitely here right now, and although it is certainly possible that I will let you down, and I really do mean this, I DON'T WANT TO.  I would really, really, really prefer not to, and that's probably a better deal than most people will give you up front like this.

I'll settle for somewhere in between "close friends" and "people you only know from Facebook"...?

I'm not terribly concerned about you becoming bored. I self entertain well enough. Also, you're free. My goal was not to monopolize your time. My goal was to show you something beautiful. I've done that. What you do with that is entirely up to you. Pick up that trajectory or let it end. We choose the stories we want to write and you still have the option, at any point, to walk away. This isn't Men in Black. No one will white light you. You have a gift. It belongs to you now.

I remind people of many people. People like me are like that.

Sure, consider us work friends. That's impersonal enough to be enjoyable.