There are things out there that are widely accepted to be great, things that you had been hearing about for months, years...yet, for some reason, stubbornness, laziness, you had never got around to hearing/reading/eating whatever that thing is.
Then, one day, you finally get around to experiencing that thing...and it's just as awesome as everyone said it was.
You're excited about it, you want to talk to people about it, but your excitement is blunted by everybody already having processed that thing already.
-the thing is acknowledged to be great (either by a select group or the populace at large)
-you've known about this thing and its supposed greatness for a while
-for some reason, you've chosen not to experience this thing up until recently
-upon experiencing it, it exceeds whatever expectations you had built up for it.
For example, I've been listening to Eno's Another Green World obsessively for the past couple of weeks. I first heard about it ~10 years ago, have thought about buying/listening to it at multiple times, but never got around to it until recently...and now I wish it hadn't taken me so long to get to it. It's terrific, so good, the sort of thing that probably would have changed my music tastes had I listened to it a decade ago.
This happen to anyone else recently - have you discovered the Beach Boys, or fish tacos? Don't say the Wire (or Cormac McCarthy).
Then, one day, you finally get around to experiencing that thing...and it's just as awesome as everyone said it was.
You're excited about it, you want to talk to people about it, but your excitement is blunted by everybody already having processed that thing already.
-the thing is acknowledged to be great (either by a select group or the populace at large)
-you've known about this thing and its supposed greatness for a while
-for some reason, you've chosen not to experience this thing up until recently
-upon experiencing it, it exceeds whatever expectations you had built up for it.
For example, I've been listening to Eno's Another Green World obsessively for the past couple of weeks. I first heard about it ~10 years ago, have thought about buying/listening to it at multiple times, but never got around to it until recently...and now I wish it hadn't taken me so long to get to it. It's terrific, so good, the sort of thing that probably would have changed my music tastes had I listened to it a decade ago.
This happen to anyone else recently - have you discovered the Beach Boys, or fish tacos? Don't say the Wire (or Cormac McCarthy).
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