frivolity has its place.

[gfrancie]

Everyday the news is doom and gloom. Everyday someone I know is getting laid off (or having their hours/benefits reduced to nearly nothing) and frankly there is a little too much reality going on. I can really see why in the 1930s that movies (which were often very cheap to go to; especially when they would offer a gazillion promotions to get people into the theater) were so popular. The screwball romantic comedies, over the top musicals and the so on were the perfect escape. It didn't have to do with facing rising health insurance premiums, refinancing the house, paying off unexpected debt or planning for new debt on the horizon.
I am a fan of a little escape now and then.
Obviously I can't go to Capri and have meaningless conversations with the jet set over drinks; but I do like to leave the everyday world now and then and just not concern myself with banal details and common sense.
Even if it is just doing something like buying the most ridiculous pair of shoes that go with nothing I own and are totally insipid by some people's standards -it is worth it. Just the same with buying that insanely ridiculous expensive bar of chocolate or wearing a short skirt on a freezing cold day and privately pretending that it is a pretty day and I want to look good. I suspect there isn't going to be gold stars handed out at the end for being the most sensible and safe person ever. And even if there were -who wants that.
I have to be sensible most of the time, but I need my escape to feel a little more human.

How do you like to escape the doldrums and drudgery of reality?

Comments

[genesisdiem.livejournal.com]

I read travel magazines or coastal/cottage living and daydream about all the places to go and the life of the rich and carefree... movies and books work as well to escape for a little while if you can really get into them.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Yes. Books are grand escape sometimes.

[cigale.livejournal.com]

live music.

or

liquor.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

A girl after my own heart.

[starrynytes4me.livejournal.com]

Tulle. Glitter. Corsetry. Chai Tea Latte. Fancy dishes. Fresh flowers. Sending handwritten cards to loved ones.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Amen to glitter!

[thiscantbesoy.livejournal.com]

I immerse myself deeply and irretrievably in Reality TV.

Or I rip apart celebrities in an effort to make myself feel better than they are.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I love you.
I subscribe to Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP newsletter just so I can make fun of it.

[la-sherazade.livejournal.com]

Escape? You mean there's an escape???

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

There is always escape. Even if it is for five minutes.

[freudian-slip.livejournal.com]

smack.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

hard to justify hookers and blow in this economic market I suppose.

[drcosmos.livejournal.com]

Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere, I can dispense then with artificial stimulants.

[sahara-harp.livejournal.com]

Party time!!

[la-sherazade.livejournal.com]

Okay, then, I guess: watching Buffy, exercising (I get to sing out loud really off-key to 'angry' music), and cooking... No real retail therapy these days, as we are just trying to keep the electricity from being turned off!

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Buffy and cooking make sense.

[sallysimpleton.livejournal.com]

As I'm sure you could've guessed, I dream about travel & food to escape, in good times and bad. There is not end of info to escape into, especially if you have Internet or library access.

If I'd had enough caffeine (motivation), going running or working out helps me tremendously, too. Or walking outside.

But when I'm down and out, it can be really hard to get myself to "escape" into something that will shift my perspective.

I have a feeling movies will become more of an escape for me this year.

Frivolity

[sahara-harp.livejournal.com]

Soy sauce on my brown rice.
Re-soling my trudging shoes.
Going grocery shopping without a list.
Milk on my all-bran.
Darning my dishrags.

Re: Frivolity

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Going grocery shopping without a list is fun. That is how I bring home fun things. "look bitches I brought home prosciutto."

[robiewankenobie.livejournal.com]

Need you ask? *snort*

Okay, so I've been escaping to the gym...not a pleasurable escape, but an escape nonetheless. I've been splurging on lime perrier for my victory drink. Paying for water? Stupid as hell, I knows, but whatever.

My all purpose escape is the stitch'n'bitch. Not only do I have sexay yarn, but other ladies let me molest theirs. Also? We meet at places where both booze and pie are readily available. Hedonistic to the max, baybee.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

See. I totally get you and you get me. You know how to escape.

Escape!

[cutebutpsycho99.livejournal.com]

Well, totally frivolity and fun is going to Chicago to visit friends. But for day-to-day "CALGON TAKE ME AWAY" moments: Dancing around in the kitchen to happy poppy music, hot bubble baths with good books and cocktails, movies and lots of sex to blow of anger. You'll be amazed what a good orgasm does sometimes.

Re: Escape!

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a nice mix of escape.

[lisah.livejournal.com]

Cookies. Seriously, cookies make my day.
CSI reruns (although that's not that uplifting is it?)
Window shopping
And lately looking at baby things.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Any baby things catch your eye these days?

[jess-faraday.livejournal.com]

>How do you like to escape the doldrums and drudgery of reality?



I write porn.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Now that is an answer. hee. I like the chutzpah.

[utsi.livejournal.com]

books, chocolate, tea, long soaks in a tub of hot water... or combinations thereof

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my idea of a good time.

[jessica-dwg.livejournal.com]

My bathtub, full of something that smells good, accompanied by a silly and/or sexy book and a glass of wine. Candles, if things are particularly bad.

Really good tomatoes.

Oh, and planning trips, both real and fantasy.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Good combo.

[scream4noreason.livejournal.com]

I leaf through a copy of Atomic Ranch.or Juxtapoz or Giant Robot.A magazine has become a luxury item now for me.

I draw and I read and basically live in a sort of cocoon.

I watch Star Wars every day.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

You sound like either of my brothers in a way.
One of them watched Star Wars every single day for a couple of years. Another watched Ghostbusters everyday for a few years.

[kaligrrrl.livejournal.com]

British tv.

books.

loud music.

very good chocolate.

torrid, inappropriate and extremely detailed sexual fantasies about one of my students.

[serorobele.livejournal.com]

I spend all day with 9-year olds who, for all their note-passing and cutting in line, are fairly oblivious to the problems of the grown up world. They are more concerned with playing with the parachute in gym and when we are going to make Valentine's mailboxes. :)

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

See that would be fun.
Valentine Boxes are important stuff.

[needlediva.livejournal.com]

movies. movies and more movies. it worked for my dad in 1935, and it works for me.

i highly recommend "my man godfrey."

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

My Man Godfrey cures a lot.
You need to come over and we can watch "North By Northwest" or something. We can knit too.

[homc.livejournal.com]

Working in my yard (look at me, I sound like an old Southern woman!) or watching reruns of the OC and Beverly Hills 90210...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

See now that is proper escape. A good variety.

[artemis-moon.livejournal.com]

Oh, let's see. Last week I bought an organic fair trade coffee for the first time. Also I love coffee house lattes and they made me feel decadent.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

that is a good form of escape.
A good beverage will do wonders.