I only want to record the fun and/or interesting bits, all the rest cannot slide into unmemoried obscurity fast enough for me.

that seems to me like a forward-oriented way of looking at life. like -- leave everything that weighs you down and move on, and find reason to enjoy being here, always.

personally, i prefer recording everything; even in the process of saying you're bored, you realize a while after you've said it that something interesting was actually going on around you... though maybe not TO you. you just couldn't see it at the time. though of course, right now, recording means finding time to sit down and write in your diary; attempting to put everything down is simply not realistic. if only we can have fully interactive multimedia records of our lives, much like fantastic memory crystals that can store all the contents of the human brain -- we'd each have a "truman show"-type tivo blog nobody but us would ever want to watch >P

horrible gastros, i think, bear committing to memory, if only for the sole purpose of never having to go through them again :P

all the properly visual-kei bands I can think of took off in '97

i've been out of the loop too, but i'm with you here.