It's My TV….It's My Peanut Butter

It seems wrong not to address today.  But it seems just as wrong to add to the cacophony of variations on the theme.  And since a non-negligible portion of the people reading this were with me 10 years ago for the unfolding of events, there’s just no point in doing my own retrospective here.

Instead, I’m banking on the idea that some, if not most of yo,u are burned out on this by now or you’ve been actively avoiding it all day to avoid reopening old wounds.  I offer not a solution, but an alternative.  Something to look at that’s just not that.

My distractions of choice?  The Amityville Toaster Video, and YouTube Searches on the following:

Duct Tape

Cute Kittens

Cute Babies

Funny Kittens

Baby Animals

German Music Videos

Sometimes a little mindless video opiate is a welcome distraction from the overload of an anniversary like this one.  Got a YouTube search you’d suggest?

In case you missed my whining, and the fact that I haven’t posted on time (again), I’ll tell you that this has been a helluva last two weeks.  I’ve been working long days, on weekends, and generally busting my ass.

This level of sustained activity involved in something I’m not really keen on doing requires a certain level of musical stimulus to maintain my sanity and my energy level.  ”Zeit für Optimisten” by Silbermond has been in my playlist rotation fairly heavily.

If you like fast paced, solid rock music, you will be able to enjoy this song without knowing German.  Musically, I won’t say this is my favorite Silbermond song (I think that would go to “Symphonie”), but it’s got the right tempo to offer a pick me up when Excel spreadsheets are bogging me down.  There’s also the note of, not quite anger, but definitely something less than happy lurking under the upbeat sound, which mirrors my level of frustration just about perfectly.

If you DO know some German, the lyrics complete the package to make this a perfect addition to the job-dragging-me-down playlist.  ”es ist ‘ne schlechte Zeit für Optimisten” repeats the chorus….literally?  ”It’s a bad time for Optimists.”

Ain’t.  It.  Just.

And rather than offer empty hope about improvement for the Optimists, the song takes the bull by the horns suggesting “Also lasst sie uns ein wenig unterstützen / Wer will schon gern alleine sein?” That is, we should help the optimists….who wants to be alone?  That’s right.  Instead of bench warming it with the pessimists (me), we ought to be out there finding a way to make things a little better for those lonely optimists.

A nice sentiment, really.

Of course, being a pessimist I could suggest that the other option for Optimist loneliness is to convert them to pessimism.  Clearly Silbermond has more optimism than me.  And that’s good, because they give me rockin’ songs that make me momentarily think I should abandon my pessimism if I want to see things improve.

Once again, for the daring samplers out there, a legal version is up on YouTube.  The video is a couple of years old.  Don’t ask me about the TV-headed people.  I didn’t get it when the song came out and I still don’t get it, though I am amused by the guy on the crapper and the kid on the mini four wheeler.