i think i understand old people a bit now

..home alone in this little bubble I live in, obsessively listening to Gabriel Garrido conducting Moneteverdi's Dixit Dominus Secon-- okay okay I'd rather just give a link here, I'd probably forget whatever proper names I type anyway. It's really beautiful. :'D

I want to read a lot, want to know - staring at a map of Europe, reading about Liechtenstein and Luxembourg; thinking of acquiring memoirs of WWII German POWs, GDR and anything about East Berlin; started introducing myself to opera with L'Orfeo (by accident, because I really wanted to watch Italian opera first); looking for books by Josef Kafka; thinking about Russia and Russian films and Tarkovsky and Tchaikovsky, etc.
And that's just for the past two days.

Oh would I even understand half of these things I've mentioned? I'm not forcing myself, they've just really become interesting and are easily more approachable than trying to understand the workings of an F1 car haha. I'm sorry, I love F1 more than football now but it's still hard to understand the technical side. The romantic side of it though, is addicting.

'Old people's tastes' as they are referred to, my guess, are about ballets, opera, old films, and museums probably. After opening my eyes to world cinema, I've realized what kind of films I actually love watching and what books I would really love to read.
Long ago I have also realized what kind of paintings I should be studying (too bad I've been to lazy about it haha....;_;). Well, 10 paintings for this year is what I intend to do, no matter how amateur the result is I must start soon.
These old people, no matter how we thought of them as having boring taste and uptight, actually knew it all along lol. They knew great music, great art.
Why settle for musicals when you have ballets and opera?
Why choose to listen to treble choirs singing pop when there are boy (and girl) sopranos singing hymns?
I can't believe I'm saying these things hahaha! Is this elitism?!
Oh man I hope not, I still love my Muse and Queen and riot songs and the occasional techno song of the moment, not to mention a slash-y show on TV and reading stories on aff.net, but I admit that superior things are just plain superior and it doesn't hurt to embrace them more now rather than when old age comes.