Thursday, February 2, 2012

john donne forever alone

"no man is an island" john donne was an asshole
Posted by at 8:28 PM
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  1. Aw, whatcher beef with John Donne?

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  2. lol not sure if you're askin a rhetorical question or you don't follow memes lol.

    You're very internetty so you're probably goofin.

    Just in case you're seriously askin: that's the forever alone guy as an island (usually he's just that amorphous potato-ey face) and he's always alone.

    so it's just stoopy visual irony.

    donne's celebrated line disproved by poor forever alone guy's incarnation as an island.

    explaining meme humor doesn't work does it?

    i sound like an idiot for trying.

    hope all is well with you.

    i am trying to think if i want to try to do something creative or take a pill which will make lose the desire to do something creative and watch t.v.

    i wonder if that sounds dystopian.

    i hope not. cuz i appreciate those options some nights.

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  3. Nah, not goofin--sometimes I'm too literal.

    Some nights a bit of Soma might be just loverly.

    Only moderately sucky today, which is an improvement.

    Still on a bit of a Jussi Bjorling kick--"Viene La Sera" duet from M. Butterfly:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD0b9L7T5hE&feature=colike

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  4. Thanks, I'll check it later.

    I had a health scare and shutdown fast last night.

    I'm still not sure whether I should be worried but it's one of those "time" versus going to a doctor yet things.

    Plus, some nights I see things incorrectly...the illness literally can warp my vision.

    I'll check this out later. Right now Lee is yelling at me to watch some AVP sequel to a sequel.

    It looks sucky too.

    xo

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    1. Alien vs. Predator? Hope it isn't as sucky as you're anticipating it to be.

      Heh, I haven't even seen the first AVP. I forget which Alien sequel lost me...first two were awesome, anyway...and I haven't seen any of the Predators (I'm assuming there were more than one but I have no idea).

      Hope things look better today (literally and figuratively)!

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  5. Thanks, Amy!

    I always typo your name as "May" at first. I like the name May. There was a really cool artist who was in the Visionary Arts Museum named May. Now I forget her story, but it was fascinating.

    There was also a scary movie called MAY I think. I didn't see it but it looked good and I remember thinking at the time was it inspired by the strange visionary (outsider) artist.

    I think she did surreal doll art...and you know it's a short leap to horror movies from surreal doll art. I've seen so many great creepy doll photos on Flickr by people who work almost exclusively with dolls they create...and they use things like animal skulls and stuff...so as you can imagine...bizarre...Brothers Quai type stuff.

    I am actually leaving the house today.

    I almost did it yesterday. But then Lee had to go pick up Chas and by then it was dark and I lost my nerve.

    But today I feel like I want to go to like a dozen stores (mostly dollar stores/thrift stores) and try to visit my Mom and bring her some little prezzies.

    I'll take an extra Ativan (well Lorazepam) so I should be okay

    It's so weird how my nerve to do things like this go up and down.

    Like fifteen minutes ago I had a total crash and said "NO!" to myself.

    And now it's back up again.

    That AVPR movie was bringing me down and sapping my ability to go forward so I had to leave it.

    And then Lee fell asleep right away after saying I had no focus.

    Well how good could it have been if he fell asleep five minutes later lol.

    It had to be made for t.v.

    How many people can you watch get killed in one movie. And none of the characters were anything more than cardboard.

    You have to care about a character for him getting eating by a monster to mean anything.

    I think. Unless you just get off on seeing monsters eat people.

    And I guess I don't.

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    1. I think it depends on the movie. Though I know what you mean; sometimes the characters have so little substance that their deaths have no dramatic impact whatsoever.

      Though occasionally I enjoy gore for the sake of gore. Zombies. Mutant beasties. Alien invaders. Graphic battle scenes. B-movies.

      Apparently the kiddo feels the same way.

      When the kiddo was about six he came into the living room where there was a Creature-Feature-type movie on the SyFy Channel--giant mutant spiders attacking people at a ski resort. I grabbed the remote, but decided to wait a minute to see how he'd react, ready to pull the plug if he showed any signs of anxiety. His reaction? "This is the best...thing...EVER!"

      Which was both funny and sad.

      Of course I wouldn't let him watch Chucky, slasher movies, anything with torture, kidnapping, mobsters, etc. For some reason giant mutant spiders seem less pernicious--perhaps because they aren't real. Wait, neither is Chucky. Still heebie-jeebie-creepy!

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  6. Lol. I was out for a long time. Just got in. I was gallivanting all over the place. And visited with my Mom for a few hours. I had to knock on her bedroom window as I had no key lol.

    I actually saw that spiders movie your son liked. Parts of it anyway. It was freakin hilarious. Most of those made for the Sci Fi channel are hilarious.

    I remember waking up one time in the middle of the night and on the t.v. this t-rex came over to this conquistador who was napping at the base of a tree and he ripped his arm off like it was a piece of chicken.

    It was strangely funny.

    Maybe because it was an asshole conquistador or maybe just the way the whole CGI thing was done.

    They seem to want humor in their "horror" movies.

    Chucky seems all too real to many kids. I think maybe it's the nightmare that the evil kid in school could go the extra step and become like that.

    Or maybe it's everybody's projection fears...that somehow they could be possessed and become like that.

    In any case, the idea of a two and a half foot murderer is disconcerting...maybe just for the physical reason that there's a killer right down on their level when they're very young, eye to eye...and able to "pass" as a normal kid (or doll) to be excused to get real close to the kid (Mother: why ya fussin--it's just a freakin doll!") And then she throws the possessed doll killer on the bed next to the kid lol.

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    1. When I was eightish, I saw what is for me the only truly scary _Doctor Who_ episode: "Terror of the Autons" with Jon Pertwee, which introduces the Doctor's nemesis, "The Master," and features murderous Chucky-sized plastic troll dolls. The special effects are incredibly cheap of course, but somehow the overall effect is quite unsettling. I think part of the scariness is that the things are obviously made of plastic and shouldn't be alive in the first place. That moment when the eyes open!

      I might enjoy seeing a T-Rex dismember a conquistador, LOL--maybe I'll manage to catch that one sometime!

      Kudos on getting out of the house!

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  7. Thanks, Amy.

    I spent 12.99 for a cat toy that was of interest to my cat for approximately .000000238 seconds.

    Now it's over.

    That was a "splurge" purchase.

    I feel like wiring this thing up like a Christmas tree until he pays attention to it!

    AGGGGHHH!!

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    1. Awww. Speaking of Christmas, you could add bows, ribbons, or crinkly paper.

      Or you could rub bacon on it.

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