| Oh, and I should probably mention: |
[Jan. 27th, 2020|05:02 pm] |
This thing's goin' friends only. No worries if you're on my f-list already, I'll probably keep you on.
I might make the occasional public post, but this journal has been increasingly privatized over the past few months and I thought I'd bite the bullet. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Apr. 11th, 2010|08:11 pm] |
If they ever actually make the BLOOD MERIDIAN movie, it'll basically have to be this shot sequence over and over. |
|
|
| SIGH. |
[Feb. 22nd, 2010|10:14 pm] |
|
|
|
| I am not suicidal right now I just think this is good and true: |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|10:27 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | books | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Loose 6313 | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  cold | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | "Speechless"--Lady GaGa | ] |
The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
-David Foster Wallace
One of these days I'll read his stuff. It's just that lately my reading of Misanthropic White Male American Writers has been focused on Pynchon and McCarthy. |
|
|
| My favorite Michael-Toby encounter. |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|04:39 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | tv | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Loose 6313 | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | "History Song"--The Good, The Bad, & The Queen | ] |
"Why are you the way that you are? Honestly, every time I try to do something fun, or exciting, you make it... not that way. I hate... so much about the things that you choose to be."
-Michael Scott to Toby Flenderson, The Office |
|
|
| Belief |
[Oct. 7th, 2009|09:41 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | movies | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Loose 6313 | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | NTHS Concert Choir.... | ] |
I believe that Band of Angels and Magnificent Obsession should be tied for the title of "Most Unintentionally Weird Movie of the 1950s". |
|
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1){kind=small}
aria_muse's journal
