And now for something completely different...
No, nothing to do with Monty Python this time... two films with a couple of my favourite Sesame Street characters. I've been watching Sesame Street on and off since 1969, when it was first introduced in Australia. I've always loved the way in which humour and serious learning stuff were all mixed up together, fooling around with wordplays and double entendre's as well.
Sesame Street is also a good way to cheer me up when I'm not feeling so good about myself. In a quiet way it lets me poke fun at myself by convincing me that I shouldn't be taking myself all that seriously occasionally. Life is about feeling happy and laughing, and although there are rotten, depairing moments, I should do more occasionally to dispel the dark and negative stuff which roams around my mind.
It's been a good day so far, with lots going well for a change. The frost seems to agree with me, even though it's bloody cold indeed. Time to go for a run, warm myself up completely and find out if my leg is doing any better than a week ago.
Keep well...
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Sesame Street is also a good way to cheer me up when I'm not feeling so good about myself. In a quiet way it lets me poke fun at myself by convincing me that I shouldn't be taking myself all that seriously occasionally. Life is about feeling happy and laughing, and although there are rotten, depairing moments, I should do more occasionally to dispel the dark and negative stuff which roams around my mind.
It's been a good day so far, with lots going well for a change. The frost seems to agree with me, even though it's bloody cold indeed. Time to go for a run, warm myself up completely and find out if my leg is doing any better than a week ago.
Keep well...
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posted by bart | 12:03
8 Comments:
here is a bit of trivia for a sesame street fan -- big bird was 'born' in 1969. so you have been watching for his entire life!
to keep you young at heart -- in 1991 big bird turned 6 -- his current age.
be well,
storm
p.s. i love the 'count'!
I can so relate to the Cookie Monster:-)
Hope your leg has improved Bart.
Stay warm!
i remember watching and enjoying a few episodes of sesame street although i was never a huge fan.
well, there weren't many episodes here either...
haha, thanks for the trivia storm, i appreciate that :-))
the count is also one of my favourites, probably because of his very foreign but also very friendly voice
cookie monster and grover were the first two i could well relate to lane, i think because they represent things in many people which they themselves might prefer to forget :P
i went out for a short run today without any difficulty so i'll be going for a longer one on saturday if all goes well... keeping warm is a definate chore at the moment, for the first time in 25 years i've been wearing long johns again :S
i think many of the sketches have a very anglo-saxon appeal polona, although there are a few very silly approaches which i imagine would have anybody roaring with laughter... sesame street is localised in all sorts of ways around the world, i could imagine that a lot of the jim henson stuff mightn't be as comprehensible or accessible in many countries though...
Some times it does you good to regress to childhood. Sesame Street seems like a good way to do it.
it does, doesn't it helen... i can't imagine anything more boring than being all serious and adultish for more than a few hours at a time ;-)
I missed Sesame Street as a kid because my mom thought it was too noisy and pretty much educationally useless. Both my parents, and especially my dad, always liked watching The Muppet Show, and Dad was particularly fond of Kermit singing "It's Not Easy Being Green."
I love Grover. I'd walk through fire for that furry little monster.
oh dear zilla, that's a serious omission in your upbringing although i expect your mother had all the best reasons at the time for doing so... i was a bit too old sesame street from the beginning and could value it more for it's subtle combination of the ridiculous, sublime and educational...
the muppets were/are great, with a lovely exuberance and nonsense value of monumental proportions :-)
i could always relate to grover for some reason, his character has a reasonable overlap with mine occasionally :P
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