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31st October 2004

Internet and Howard Shore

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I am truly fascinated by this thing called the Internet…

Today, I was wasting time (my favorite past-time) exploring LJ looking for some Star Trek: Voyager icons (unfortunately good ones seem to be a particularly rare species) and just started clicking on links taking me to different people’s journals.

It’s astonishing how much people reveal of their lives… some blatantly, others in obscure threads throughout their posts. I mean, granted I talk a lot about my personal life–but a good portion of it is put into friend posts–where I can control who sees it.

What’s more amazing is that some of them don’t seem bothered by the fact that they have 500 people that they don’t know reading and commenting on their day to day lives… Take for example epicyclical. I stumbled onto her journal because it’s the personal/HP LJ of the woman who wrote the hilarious “Very Secret Diaries of LOTR.” Her “friends of” list has 2706 people!!

I like it that people are so honest with strangers. It makes me feel good about this world–that (at least when there’s some anonymity) we do allow others to see exactly who we are. I find it fascinating.

On that note: how many of you have RL people reading your journal? Does it make you write different things than you normally would?

A particular gem from http://www.thisfish.com. Her motto is the best:

It’s lovely to be a feminist and all. I have gotten in plenty a tizzy over the inequity of the female role in this bizarre universe. Have even tried out the independent, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle” track, and been quite good at it. Eventually, however, I settled upon this conclusion:

This fish needs a bicycle.

If not for comfort, at least for entertainment’s sake.

I think I am such a fish too…

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(Since I seem to need updating before I ever get an entry posted)

Spent the evening in tears.

Now, now, don’t get worried. I wasn’t (entirely) depressed or heart-broken. In fact, I paid money for these tears.

I just saw Howard Shore conduct his Lord of the Rings Symphony!! With a full choir and children’s choir. A young soprano male with the voice of an angel. And a background of the art and sketches of Alan Lee and John Howe.

I got emotional walking into the hall (a big feat for me actually–am terrified of building and I went alone) where a small group of musicians performed the Fellowship theme. And it just got better from there. It was amazing seeing it “live”–the artwork was amazing and part of it felt like this must have been when HS was first writing it–just going off the artists’ ideas.

Got teary during the sweet Shire music. Cried during the Fellowship themes. And openly bawled during Into The West. Wearing mascara was not the best idea. Looked like raccoon.

Only one complaint: it was too short!

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    behrbemine@livejournal says:

    It’s true that I reveal a lot about myself in my entries. And for some reason, I don’t friends lock them. I have no idea why. I worry sometimes, what strangers who stumble onto my life will think of it, but somehow that doesn’t keep me from putting my heart out on my sleeve.

    I guess some things you’re just not supposed to understand.


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    claidheamhmor@livejournal says:

    I am so jealous! I would love to have seen that symphony… *sigh*


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    avidtvfan@livejournal says:

    That feminist quote will always remind me of Ali’s POGG finale.


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    shyspotlight06@livejournal says:

    I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the concert. Listening to concerts is practically a dying art in some places; I love seeing/hearing when someone expresses emotion through music.

    http://www.livejournal.com/users/shyspotlight06/27536.html
    Do you think people who have online journals see things differently whether or not they have “real life” friends to add or “online” friends to add? Because if you had never done anyhting online before, and you got a journal, wouldn’t you want to show it to you friends? So therefore, you know who reads your journal knows about your life.

    But for me…I knew online friends first. I didn’t have to worry about facing humiliation or getting made fun of from stuff I wrote and be worried if they saw it.

    I just noticed this because I found a lot of my real life friends’ journal are not friends locked…maybe it’s just because either they never thought of having anything friends locked or maybe it’s not logical to have friends only posts because there was never anything for them to hide from.

    As for people with a great number of friends, (I don’t know if that’s the case with the perosn you mentioned, but) I think some people have competitions to themselves on how many friends they can get. *shrugs*

    Strangers can be open to strangers because strangers can’t judge. I find it incredibly fascinating as well.

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