--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Today I rectified a big failing with my Paris Image. Almost everyone I > pass on the streets or ride with on the Metro is "jacked in" to their > mobile phones, wearing ear buds or real over-the-ear headphones, boppin' > along to their favorite music, their stride-and-strut matching the music > that only they can hear. > > Me, I arrived in Paris with an iPhone containing mainly Bruce Cockburn > or classical music. As much as I love classical, it's not really > bop-down-the-street music, and neither are most of Bruce's songs. > > So today I set about downloading and installing on the iPhone some > Walking-Around-Music, tunes that I can 'bop to. > > So, having watched "Despicable Me" again this morning with Maya, I > settled on a number of songs from those movies' soundtracks. I've been > walking around Leiden today, or sitting in cafes, trying them out, > giving them the full Walking Around Music test -- are they 'bop-worthy > or not? Do they put a smile on my face, and occasionally on the faces of > passersby as they look at an old guy 'boppin' along groovin' to music > only he can hear? > > The verdict is in. Here are a few excerpts of the tunes I'll be boppin' > to in Paris next week, narrated by the guy who wrote them and one of the > guys who made the film: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9XzdwycIio > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9XzdwycIio>
I am, at the moment, about 6km from Princeton, New Jersey. That is Judy's home state. Therefore I must be cowering in terror. But as she seems to live close to a beach somewhere, I am probably safe. I found the following on Wikipedia 'Some psychoanalysts and writers make a distinction between "healthy narcissism" and "unhealthy narcissism"...the healthy narcissist being someone who has a real sense of self-esteem that can enable them to leave their imprint on the world, but who can also share in the emotional life of others.' >From my perspective, if you have narcissistic traits as has been implied here, >this would seem to be the kind narcissism that you would have, that is, >basically what normal people have. You seem to have a well balanced >confidence. But having read about this particular subject a bit now, I do >think that your tagging Robin with the label NPD seems to be in the ballpark, >and that your initial response to him here was dead on; I don't think he ever >recovered from that. There is something else I think I have noticed in the two years I have been on FFL. Do you experience the tendency to reference your past in interacting with others dropping off? There are situations where we do have to do that, but I have noticed it is getting significantly harder as time goes on to think about what happened before NOW, and it seems in your writing, that tendency is falling away. This more a feeling about what is happening than explicitly what you write. PS A search on FFL for the word 'vicious': authfriend: 393 turquoiseb: 88 This of course includes re-quotes from other posts. To bad we cannot search only original posted material. I have never seen 'Despicable Me'. Have you also noticed, that as the past falls away, it becomes easier to watch a movie you have just seen again, with about the same level of enjoyment? Time to close up shop and begin driving. A cloudy sort-of-sunny day. A terrific thunderstorm on the New Jersey Turnpike last night. Barely see the road.
