Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Two Different Corners of My Mind.

The things I usually find funny, nobody else does.
For example, I love the show Flight of the Conchords. It already has a kind of cult-following because it's very specific kind of humor. Sometimes I find it hard to believe they even have international success, outside of New Zealand and Australia because their humor is very Wellington, which Australians tend to catch onto. But success in the United States and United Kingdom? That's like Colin Lane and Frank Woodley doing stand-up comedy in the Netherlands or something.
What I mean by 'The things I usually find funny, nobody else does' is that I always find myself laughing during scenes of Flight of the Conchords (for example) that everyone else just kind of nods along to. The more witty, genius side of the comedy rather than the obvious jokes.
I'm not one for jokes. I don't find jokes laugh-out-loud funny. If you tell me a joke, I'll probably just smile and say "That's clever" rather than have to hold my sides and bite my tounge to stop myself from laughing up a lung or something like the person telling the joke.

I was just thinking about that. So I thought I'd write it down.
I know that this isn't exactly touching on the kinds of things that I normally write about in this blog, but I don't care. Just like the person that I am, this blog doesn't have a theme, a stereotype or any kind of flow whatsoever. It's just a place where I can gather my thoughts sometimes. Usually read back over on the odd occasion and wish I could delete like several pages of my coming-of-age diaries and journals during my teenage years.
But I don't really believe in tearing out pages or deleting posts. The contents may not bring back happy memories, and may even be embarressing at times. But so is life. You can't erase the past. You can't chop out a memory, or twist or shape them. You can't stop remembering. So I don't try to.

I just went from light-hearted to deep-thoughts in 7 minutes. It's a talent.

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