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.

[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!

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Yes. Books are grand escape sometimes.

[starrynytes4me.livejournal.com]

There is something special about costumes and hand made cards that makes it worth the fact that they aren't free. Especially when you add 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.

[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.

[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!

[sallysimpleton.livejournal.com]

Me too! Except I think she had a recipe last week I actually want to try. It must have been spaghetti related (which is why I'm still carrying around that issue of Gourmet I was talking about). I do not know why that dish got back onto my radar like it is. I blame comfort food PR people.

[cigale.livejournal.com]

what's odd is that I rarely mix both, well unless the music is unbearable.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[sahara-harp.livejournal.com]

Party time!!

[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.

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."

[sallysimpleton.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time at a job long ago, I had a small "meet the management" breakfast with some very important types at work. We had these icebreaker questions to get the conversation flowing, like, "If you won $10 million, what would you do?" The most senior VP there replied, "Disappear. I'd move my money off-shore and run away with my wife to the Caribbean."

I supposed I shouldn't have been surprised when he was fired a few weeks later.