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Hey ~tskaalgard! Would a worse example help to cheer you up? Take me.

I don't watch TV. Any. No netflix and whatnot. No series. Never. Staring at the for 5 minutes evokes the physical equivalent of "wasting time" in my whole body. Then I leave.
I go to the movies maybe once a year, and only because friends of mine drag me there. With mixed results. --- That being said: I had times before I was 34, when I went to the movies every week with a friend. I have fond memories of that time. Ever saw "Candy Mountain" (1987) or "Paris, Texas" (1984), or "Arizona Dream" (1993). That last one moved me to tears. Ok ok, three movies noone remembers are enough.
I don't watch youtube either.

Yes I know, I do miss out on good stuff. And on good books, even though I read some. And on live music, although I go to a concerts once in a while. I do miss out on so much, but hey, the day has 24 hours and none extra. :-)

~bartender? How about tea? With sugar and cream. Yes. Thinking about Arizona Dream and the fact that I spent a complete year (1989/90) there makes me cry. They were good times.

Me walks over to the juke box. Flips through the lists ... hm, how about some "Siegel Schwall Band"? Or "Sammy Taylor and a band called Sam" ... quite unknown to most ... yes I know. Ok, only one song, before the whole place empties and it's my fault.

Smudge? I wanted to cheer up ~tskaalgard and end down an emotional rabbit hole. Isn't that kind of stupid?

Oh well, ~bartender serves a "White Tea", cream and sugar on the side and a few napkins, how mindful! Thanks so much!

Ok, I have another anecdote about completely insignificant movies:

During a film festival (short movies) I watched "Bunkerlow" by Martin Kirchberger. A German production from 1991. It is a bitter satire thing about selling bunkers (military grade shelters) to the rich. And it works like this: The potential customers board a classic air plane (a Douglas DC-3A) to fly to the North Sea for a short round over an island. There is a very short clip at the beginning, where 2 bombs are visible straped to a cargo palette. It is so short, you might as well miss it. I didn't and my brain was asking, whether I really saw this. Sure enough, to sell bunkers they do a TV video conference with a person located in such an advertised bunker and then drop the two bombs on him. My jaw surely dropped, too. The person is all well --- it's a sales show, remember? All good?

Well no. On the last flight they made, the aircraft crashed into a mountain "Hoher Nistler" near Heidelberg. And I can sort of remember this event. So in the trailer, a lot of names had daggers to indicate, that they died while producing this movie.

I would be very surprised to meet someone, who knows the movie and the story around it.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugunfall_am_Hohen_Nistler

As I said, it is insignificant, but I prefer this anecdote over a "modern" telenovela any old time.

Cheers.

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