hockey

Why I feel like watching playoff hockey...

1) eye/brain candy
  • keep your eyes on the puck!
  • fluidity of movement: seemingly random, game-changing events happen unexpectedly, yet observation of patterns and energies allows for anticipation in the moment, ie: hope*
  • temporal mind fuck: time speeds up and slows down in a variety of juxtapositions with the ticking clock

2) narrative structure
1st period2nd period3rd period
regular season starts off exciting, ends boring long and boring, ends the same way the 1st period ended final 7-3 minutes may or may not be interesting
play off hockey exciting tense like a chess match tense like a chess match played by exhausted people
(all hell breaks loose)
sudden death overtime
aaaugh!

*note: I say "hope" because I usually don't care very much who wins and just want to see the hockey players do cool stuff. For real fans that would have to read "hope & dread."

- sally mckay 4-26-2011 2:05 pm


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