Football

I couldn't think of a better way to end my cultural consumption blog than with a post about football.

Last Sunday I watched one of the most exciting football games of all time: Jets vs. Giants. The Jets hadn't beaten the giants in a regular season game since Halloween of 1993 and honestly, I didn't have too high of expectations for my team. With many injuries, including Darrell Revis, and a rookie quarterback, it's hard to have faith in the Jets nowadays. 

All I'm really going to say about the game is that it was a real nail biter and  they won it in overtime. Really what I want to talk about is how the game made me feel (and how every football game makes me feel for that matter). 

I grew up a huge football fan. Football isn't just a program on TV or a sport to me; it's kind of like a way of life. Going to college, however, my Sundays have changed quite a bit. Growing up, Sundays were always a huge part of my week. I'd wake up, get lunch with my family, and then come home to enjoy the big game. We'd sit around the TV, talking, laughing, and most importantly, watching. 

Then I came to college. And my friends either (a) don't like football (b) don't even know what a football is or (c) don't like the NY Jets. 

So....I spend every Sunday now by myself, rooting on my team. I'm watching the same game, but it feels so different. It's an entirely new dynamic and it's weird how much that could change. 

Weekly Consumptions #12

TV 
NYJ vs. NYG football
Keeping Up with the Kardashians

MOVIES
Elf
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

MUSIC
The Intro
Do They Know It's Christmas?

FOOD
Zoodles
Lola's grilled chicken salad

Music

It’s the first of December and I’m not listening to Christmas music.

WHAT?

Lately I have not been able to listen to anything other than 3 songs that I recently discovered:
1. My House – Flo Rida
2. Bros – Wolf Alice
3. Break Up in a Small Town

They are just SO. GOOD. But what does that even mean? What does it mean for a song to be good? Honestly, at this point I feel like everyone’s opinions of music hold absolutely no value. Someone could tell me they recently discovered the best song in the world, but I’ll kind of just shrug it off. And I certainly won’t ask them to insert my aux chord into their phone. Why? Because time and time again I’ve heard “amazing” songs that are “the best of the best” that turned out to be absolute crap. To my ears at least.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the music we listen to and what it says about who we are. To be honest, I kind of disregarded any connection between the two for a while.

I have friends who like every single type of music, I thought. Obviously it’s meaningless.

But then I thought some more and I feel like all of the qualities I don’t like in my friends can be represented by their music.

For instance, the one thing I don’t like about my friend, Sara, is that she can be too loud sometimes. And what do you know…she listens to extremely loud, overly manufactured, crazy music.

And then there’s my friend, Katie. She listens to music without words and by coincidence, it’s her lack of communication that bothers me the most about her.

And then I have a friend who listens to nothing but country music, but I’m not even going to get started on that one…

So I’ve been sitting in my bedroom listening to these 3 songs on repeat and it got me thinking. Our music tastes are almost like our DNA; unique and no two people have the same exact ones.

It’s a pretty weird concept.

Weekly Consumptions #11

TV SHOWS

Grey's Anatomy

MOVIES

Love Actually

BOOKS

The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

MUSIC

My House - Flo Rida

Bros - Wolf Alice

YOUTUBE

Lexi Lombard

FOOD

Avocado salad - La Bottega