LaBrava
Experienced
- May 5, 2019
- 265
Music, books and film have given me most of what I've really treasured in the way of life experiences, along with looking at fine art. Sadly as life has become harsher over the years these pleasures have gradually fallen away. Reading went first, as it's something that I've always had to apply myself to a little, I'm a slow reader - also the great crime writers who provided fantastically crafted escapism, like Elmore Leonard who gave me my username on here, have passed on and what remains is just dross. Music I mostly lost a decade or more ago; as a teenager and young adult it was my main passion. I still have about 1200 vinyl records I pointlessly pay for storage on. Current music is just terrible, it feels like a dead form. Film, mostly arthouse and world cinema, became my main pleasure for many years, but lately even that's gone, and I can't afford cinema tickets anyway. Haven't watched a film in weeks, and the queue of new releases I would have seen on opening weekend back in the day just grows. Could download them, can't be bothered. Still, I do remember and appreciate fondly and with gratitude the pleasures these things once gave me.
