a dancing star! » football http://www.writing.adancingstar.com a life's reading Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:44:13 +0000 en hourly 1 weekends http://www.writing.adancingstar.com/2008/football-vs-the-film/ http://www.writing.adancingstar.com/2008/football-vs-the-film/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:10:33 +0000 tom http://writing.adancingstar.com/index.php/2005/michael-greenberg/ Those spans of Christian-time we call “weekends”, stretching from short, shrift Fridays to long lazy Sundays, seldom warrants thinking about; somehow or rather, you savour it, it savours you. Which leaves the remaining four days. Thursdays are lubricated by a reverse spillage from the anticipated Friday. Best described as en-lulled Thursdays. Wednesdays are threshold days, obviously. Mondays are boring, beginning days.

I don’t have any issues with its personality; indeed, I find Monday to be the poster child of the emo generation. However, just to confess: for the first time in a while, I have a genuine conflict of interest this Monday, one that will test – in a grimace inducing way – my entire value system.

The confessional aspect is that I am about to sacrifice my Monday night football (“soccer”) game, 120 blood-and-thunder minutes of the Beautiful Game (with its attendant adrenaline rush) for 129 minutes of “a Macedonia / Germany / Italy / Bulgaria / Spain” cinematic collaboration called Shadows.

It hardly seems fair.

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