Leo
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Arent you succesful yourself?
I have managed to shovel six inches of snow from the sidewalk in front of our building today, but besides that, no.
Arent you succesful yourself?
Do you mean six inches depth of snow, or did you just clear a six-inch-wide path?I have managed to shovel six inches of snow from the sidewalk in front of our building today, but besides that, no.
Because to be honest, that's just the sort of minimum-effort thing I'd do.Do you mean six inches depth of snow, or did you just clear a six-inch-wide path?
We were actually talking about Max Headroom yesterday evening.such a fucked up head shape
Just been speculating on this as well. Yesterday we met Pete Kember from Spaceman 3 and afterwards we've sort of being thinking about fame and what it does to you. Also life after fame, in that his peak, meaning no disrespect to the man, was probably in about 1990 when he was 25 and playing big gigs and so on... what happens when you have that and then it goes away or diminishes and becomes a more and more distant memory, slightly awakened when some ageing rocker comes up to you in the pub and tells you how much your album meant to them when they were 17. My guess is that fame is awful and people genuinely find huge aspects of it uncomfortable and they are not lying when they moan about it... but they would and do miss it when it's gone. Wilde writ large "the only thing worse than being famous is not being famous".i was wondering yesterday if it's possible to be friends with a successful person. not mega successful, just moderately. i think probably not, not really.
it's the plural...I can never ever remember if it's Spaceman 3 or Spacemen 3....
They had well publicised drug problems and a very acrimonious split - I think by the last album they weren't speaking to each other and the album was effectively split with one side effectively a Pierce solo record and the other entirely Kember. I think he's clean now but he has got a kind of facial tic that totally contorts his expression every couple of minutes or so.
Don't most people peak before thirty though? I mean sportsmen and women of course, but also mathematicians who make a major breakthrough normally do it before they reach thirty I understand and I think chess players are normally past their best soon after that (though don't quote me on that one).I've often pondered on what it must be like to be Robert Plant, singer of one of the biggest rock band of the '70s, yet he "peaked" before he was 30... I comfort myself with the thought that I am nowhere near "peaking", and reflect on the loss Robert must feel knowing he is a "has been", and I can revel in the fact that I "never was"
Don't most people peak before thirty though? I mean sportsmen and women of course, but also mathematicians who make a major breakthrough normally do it before they reach thirty I understand and I think chess players are normally past their best soon after that (though don't quote me on that one).
like they are less good at math? after 20?mathematicians are normally "past it" by about 20 from what I understand ( or have been told by a pure maths guy )
like they are less good at math? after 20?
I'm talking about career-wise and professionally here of course, that's just one measure of peaking. I'm not necessarily saying that it's either.Don't most people peak before thirty though? I mean sportsmen and women of course, but also mathematicians who make a major breakthrough normally do it before they reach thirty I understand and I think chess players are normally past their best soon after that (though don't quote me on that one).