Okay, fine, Vidya. Vidya and I watched 'Planet Earth' last night on the Discovery Channel. It's v. breathtaking - the opening sequence of various animals and landscapes set to some moving world music was just as inspiring as, say, the opening sequence of Civilization. Okay, maybe even more moving, which says a lot! As I told Vidya, I think I want to buy the whole 'Planet Earth' set so that I can show it to my kids someday when we're all living in dome cities.
Not that I would necessarily mind living in a dome city--I've always thought geodesic domes were the bombdiggity. However, I do like going outside occasionally to rapidly burn my pasty white skin, so hopefully they have tanning beds in our geodomes of the future.
Anyway, 'Planet Earth' is pretty cool - there were some dudes who spent an entire year living in Antarctica just to film some penguins. There were also some dudes who spent two months scouring the Gobi Desert looking for a rare type of dromedary. I can't even imagine what it would have been like to be on one of those production crews. The very thought makes the blood sing in my veins and lures me into thinking about suitcases, airports, and adventure in the far-flung reaches of the world.
Today, I went to work, stayed at work until ~9pm, came home, watched some tv, did a bit more work, and now it's time to go to bed. The good news is that I got through a ton of things on my to-do list, and tomorrow looks relatively empty (I have five whole hours in which I don't have meetings! Shocking!), so I could get even more caught up. And that, my friends, is a v. good thing. But for now, it's time for bed!
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Ok, you've pushed past my threshold. Telling you about the new Placebo CD was clearly a horrible idea. Perhaps you might like Jack's Mannequin – Everything in Transit, Fall Out Boy – Infinity on High, or The Killers – Sam's Town. All might release you from your Placebo bonds.
I saw the 'Planet Earth' episodes from this weekend that we missed most of. They were wonderful as well. The beginning of the ice worlds is much like the end that we saw, but the deserts episode is worth using your free ondemand for.
I was waiting for an appropriate post to add this to (Planet Earth rocks!):
Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Bring your production crew to a remote corner of Iowa and spend a year in a corn field filming the life cycle of the European corn borer. For a sequel you can spend a year in a soy bean field recording the life cycle of the flea beetle. Then you could spend a year in remote Mississippi or Oklahoma filming the boll weevil.
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