Friday 30/10/09: This is it!

I have a ear infection that is causing me a lot of anguish. I have deep sympathy for anyone that is in physical pain. I cannot imagine what it is like, only to say it is the pits. I spent a few hours going around Newbridge today half deaf, with people thinking that I am intellectually challenged, as I just can't follow their moving lips, and having to constantly ask them to repeat themselves. I am not a big believer in pain killers, pain is your bodies way of trying to tell your body something important, but after the last couple of sleepless nights I am just about prepared to renege on this particular belief.Thankfully I am a man of leisure at the moment , and have all the time in the world to recuperate.

I went up to the square on Thursday to see "This is it", which was an eye opener. I would have had to describe myself as an ex Michael Jackson fan. Over the last ten to fifteen years, I thought he was increasingly obnoxious, spending the last decade collecting awards for work he did decades ago. The annoying thing was he had so much more to offer. I remember seeing his concert in Landsdowne Road years ago, and it was a huge disappointment. It was all way too lip synched and choreographed within an inch of its life. There were a few sporadic "I love you" to the crowd but that was the extent of his audience interaction. Apparently he was in Paris, before ourselves even got home. It was wonderful to see him singing live, and he was not the feeble druggie that everyone thought he was the last few years. He had a lot to offer and his concert would have been spectacular without a shadow of a doubt.

On a completely different topic, I was watching ewtn yesterday , and wondered to myself why Jesus is always portrayed in the west as a white man, surely he would have looked more like Osama Bin Laden. Read a book last week that I thought would be very interesting called the Burn Journals about a 14 year old American very unlikeable boy who set fire to himself. Unfortunately he didn’t succeed, but I am sure he is milking this old story for all its worth.