The Police are coming to Vancouver next week and I will be attending the show on Wednesday night. I have not gone to a live musical performance like this since Dave Matthews was in town a number of years ago - and, yikes, was he boring on stage. He was lifeless standing in front of his microphone and singing. Many performers are able to make that exciting and interesting but he was just going through the motions. One knows there is a problem with a performer when one of their band mates is more entertaining.

This is my apprehension about this coming Wednesday. I wish to be entertained but fear, like most of my experiences at a live musical performance (with the exception of chamber music and recitals, I don't know why, it is just "my thing") that I am going to suffer through some level of boredom.

I mean, really, it is The Police! Sting! How could that ever get boring? I am going with friends and I hope this will help my fear to dissipate. But I am feeling like a dork for feeling as though the performance will be less than exciting.

How can one prevent this? Does anyone have any tips for me to "get into the spirit" of watching The Police?  You have until next week to save me.

Tags: the police, gm place, performance, music

According to WebMD, Anakin Skywalker has borderline personality disorder.  This is a kind of disorder when an individual has an extreme view of the world - all things are either black or white.

Anakin Skywalker, the Star Wars character who became Darth Vader, had borderline personality disorder, psychiatrists report.

The news comes not from a galaxy far, far away, but from San Diego, where the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is holding its 160th annual meeting.

Experts from the psychiatric department at France's University Hospital of Toulouse told the APA's annual meeting that Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader could "clearly" be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

Borderline personality disorder is a serious mental illness marked by instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior, according to background information on the Web site of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

The French psychiatrists — who included Laurent Schmitt, M.D. — based their diagnosis on original Star Wars film scripts.

I wonder where the psychologists in the Star Wars universe live.  Those are Jedi, aren't they?  I suppose those archives in the Jedi Academy could have provided some information about his personality.  But, hey, I suppose they don't seem to have much experience when they are controlling other people's minds.

Tags: star wars, darth vader, borderline personality disorder