June 22, 2003
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If you are good at something, are you also passionate about it? If you are naturally talented with math, do you also love it? If you are a child prodigy of violin, does it mean you are passionate about music? …
From this article: “Ego, Talent, Reward, and Passion“.
There are more excellent pieces by the same author listed here.
What we watched recently -
The Guru. This was so silly (almost cringey-stupid), but fun. The Bollywood-style singing dancing bits were the best bits! I think we should visit the Indian video rental place on Bourke street soon…
All That Jazz. Awesome. A musical biography by Bob Fosse about the life and death of a choreographer who is based on Bob Fosse. It’s kinda ironic that Bob Fosse would make a movie about his own physical/spiritual degeneration and death, with all the razzle-dazzle melodrama of his famous musicals yet the poor guy ended up dying on a park bench in real-life. Very self-indugent project, you could say, but highly recommended.
Rabbit Proof Fence. Makes you realize how f*-cked up this country is. Depressing but ultimately satisfying ‘true-story’ film about three half-caste Aboriginal kids who escape from a detention center and walk thousands of miles home.
Gypsy. This was the Natalie Wood version. We thought the story was supposed to be about Gypsy Rose Lee, not her mother… Natalie Wood has no oomph and there was not enough Burlesque!
Small Faces. A coming-of-age story about a bunch of Scottish lads set in the late 60′s. Gang-violence. That sort of stuff. We watched this after Quadrophenia and were kinda hoping the “faces” in the movie title had something to do with the Mod subculture, but not at all.
Videos/DVDs hired for this week: Lipstick On Your Collar, The Krays, Count Basie collection, The Harder They Come, Black Orpheus.
Comments (1)
Congrats on the ranking, Dynamic Duo dudes.
Interesting you raising the thing about “do you love it if you are great at it?”
My sister’s son is a born natural soccer player.When he was waste high he could be seen at his Nan’s place barefoot in the backyard kicking a kid’s soccer ball way above the roof line.
He is now in primary school and had started to play. From the first game he showed himself to be a star player and has attracted the attention of a local club who want to sponsor him. BUT he doesn’t want to play seriously. Is doing it at the moment to please his mum, but not too keen.
We are not sure if it is because he is a shy kid, and is having a problem being a star.
His passion at the moment is birds. He spends a great deal of time watching them, leaving out food for them, building little devices to try to catch them.
He recently actually caught – with his hands – a cockatoo from a low branch on the way home from school. I am appalled because I understand that the bird was not bred in captivity and would be greatly distressed. My sister’s attitude is “They are pretty expensive to buy.”I bought him a little book about native birds of the Sydney city area. Hoped it would help him understand the needs of native wild birds a bit better, but…
Apparently it is actually responding to him and has settled. The other bird in the house, my mother’s budgie, is allowed to fly around the house and has taken to Tommie quite strongly. Will come and sit on his shoulder when Tom gives a signal.
So he is a gifted soccer player, an inborn trait it seems.
But his passion is birds. Do they respond to him for that reason?
Interesting proposition!
Sparx
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