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Memes are very strange things but kinda fun. I wonder if any psychologists have written papers on them yet. This one reminds me of the "Viral marketing doesn't work. Tell your friends" t-shirt although it's only really the same in that its artificial. Still, I'll have to check out some of the tests which appear in the stats.
The play last night was a bit mixed I have to say. And really I think the crux of the problem was that play was the wrong word for it. There was very dramatic music - a mix of Indonesian traditional and jazz I think - and the actual show was performed by shadow puppets! They raised a big screen up and shone light through it and did puppets! It was actually pretty cool and the puppetry was incredibly skilled. They started off with shadow backgrounds and then as the setting moved towards now moved to more computer generated slides and the whole thing was very slick. Unfortunately it was rather marred by the plot. They took the traditional tale of Rama and Sita and basically did a "modernization is bad and we should all go back to subsistence farming" message version of it. It was the simplisticness which annoyed me most - there was no attempt made to suggest any other point of view except for a coda in which the 2 main characters cast their votes and it wasn't clear what they were trying to do with that at all. If I go to see something billed as a play I expect a little more subtlety and intelligence than that. Maybe they should have billed it as a dance/ballet or "shadow puppet spectacle" or something then people wouldn't expect so much from it.
Good news for those of you who are fed up with me posting "I'm tired" entries in that the ginseng seems to be kicking in already! I woke up feeling much more rested this morning although I did have more odd dreams. It was bloody freezing in my room when I woke up - I'm going to have to set the heating on earlier again I think. That's one of the problems with only having me living in the house - I don't generate that much heat on my own. Oh well, I'll just have to have Alex over lots :)
The other piece of rousingly excellent news is that I can have my deposit back on the flat in London (you know, the one that I moved out of 2 months ago!) - they rang me up this morning to get my bank details and even now (or at least by lunchtime) a BACS payment should be winging my way. At last! Finally I don't have to worry about paying my credit card bill.
The play last night was a bit mixed I have to say. And really I think the crux of the problem was that play was the wrong word for it. There was very dramatic music - a mix of Indonesian traditional and jazz I think - and the actual show was performed by shadow puppets! They raised a big screen up and shone light through it and did puppets! It was actually pretty cool and the puppetry was incredibly skilled. They started off with shadow backgrounds and then as the setting moved towards now moved to more computer generated slides and the whole thing was very slick. Unfortunately it was rather marred by the plot. They took the traditional tale of Rama and Sita and basically did a "modernization is bad and we should all go back to subsistence farming" message version of it. It was the simplisticness which annoyed me most - there was no attempt made to suggest any other point of view except for a coda in which the 2 main characters cast their votes and it wasn't clear what they were trying to do with that at all. If I go to see something billed as a play I expect a little more subtlety and intelligence than that. Maybe they should have billed it as a dance/ballet or "shadow puppet spectacle" or something then people wouldn't expect so much from it.
Good news for those of you who are fed up with me posting "I'm tired" entries in that the ginseng seems to be kicking in already! I woke up feeling much more rested this morning although I did have more odd dreams. It was bloody freezing in my room when I woke up - I'm going to have to set the heating on earlier again I think. That's one of the problems with only having me living in the house - I don't generate that much heat on my own. Oh well, I'll just have to have Alex over lots :)
The other piece of rousingly excellent news is that I can have my deposit back on the flat in London (you know, the one that I moved out of 2 months ago!) - they rang me up this morning to get my bank details and even now (or at least by lunchtime) a BACS payment should be winging my way. At last! Finally I don't have to worry about paying my credit card bill.
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meme papers
Date: November 17th, 2001 11:13 am (UTC)From:not sure how many of them by proper professional psychologists, but i'd guess a reasonable proportion