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Today: Random string of facts!
Fact: This post-vacation depression has lasted a little too long for my own good. Feeling on the verge of tears for two weeks straight? Uncool.
Fact: Lately, my free time just evaporates. To wit: I just finished setting up my new PC. That’s 2 weeks from arrival. That’s 13 days and 23 hours too late.
Fact: After a couple of years of kicking the habit, and turning into a casual reader, I’ve chain-read 4 of the 20 or so books I bought. I feel as guilty as an ex-AA that downs a bottle of Jack after going dry for a decade.
Fact: Reading is awesome. If they made “Artistic Discipline Deathmatch” and had the arts duke it out, the last man standing would be Literature. I mean, maybe on a case-by-case basis (say, the latest Coheed and Cambria CD vs. How To Be Good, by Nick Hornby) it might not be come out the victor, but, on the whole, the written word wins, Fatality!
Fact: The one movie I really, really wanted to see (Wedding Crashers) gets released in pretty much every single theater, except, of course, the english-language ones. I was dying to watch Wedding Crashers, I refuse to watch “De Boda En Boda”. Every time Vince Vaughan utters a translated “¡Coño!”, Jesus kills a kitten.
Fact: Using outdated pictures to pimp hot friends is just not cool. Next time somebody uses a picture to lure me into a movie theater with a hot chick, I’ll assume she’s put on 45 lbs. since the picture was taken. Note to self: When she mentions she’s put on 45 lbs. since the last time she was in town, going “No shit” isn’t taken as a compliment.
Fact: Spanish people and technology don’t get along well. Some guys from my office got together and bought a bunch of Sony PSPs from eBay for 200€. The catch? 52€ shipping. They paid as much as if they’d bought it in store, but get to enjoy the wonderful world of eBay seller warranty. Note to self: Pointing out a dead pixel on a new PSP makes the owner cry. Especially when he realizes he’ll never get his Hong Kong-based eBay seller to honour the warranty.
Fact: Fuck This Website is pure genius.
Penny Dreadful wrote:
Liked the Fuck Website. A dead pixel in the PSP? That’s a heavy reason to drop a tear!
Posted 11 Oct 2005 at 5:30 pm ¶
edipa wrote:
alvarete
hope your post-depression vacation don´t last these long, for your comfort, the consequences of your visit can´t be quantify yet (that´s a lie, the results are: 5 sad geeks, 3 sad losers, 1 self referred cool guy angry because didn’t make it to your BBQ and a little sad too, and one to three hot woman missing you, one, would be me )
don’t worry about your books , reading it’s about pleasure. Showing off how many books you’ve read, don’t help to get sex anymore ….
Posted 11 Oct 2005 at 6:18 pm ¶
Chito wrote:
Depression is one thing that I´m pretty familiar with. In fact, I´m kinda depressed now due to all the medicine I´m taking thanks to my ulcer and also, the girl I was kinda dating and to whom I was really into, just got back with her old boyfriend. Also, my birthdays is coming and I won´t be able to drink (ulcer). My parents want to get rid of me. They want me to go to Denmark as soon as possible (november 20th). Even more, I´m helping my room-mate with the pre-production of his short film and, since I´m not much of a producer kinda guy, I´m not doing so well. (Pleas don´t tell him.) And on a final note, I´m one of those five geeks Edipa mentioned on her post.
Enough about my depression.
The little advise I can give you my friend to get over depression is: Don´t pay attention to it, beacause it´s like a bully who only picks on you when you look at him. So, forget about it.
Posted 12 Oct 2005 at 12:31 am ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:
I have to dispute your claim that literature would beat out music in a artistic discipline deathmatch. I’ll admit it would be a rough battle but all the same, I think music would defeat literature in the end.
I think the reason literaute is more socially respectable , is that there is a much more discerning screening process. Also, music is perceived as something you play in the background WHILE you do other things, while reading is a complete and focused discipline.
However, despite social stigma and the popularization of these disciplines, I think if you take a step back from them and took the best of the best of each, you would find that music outweighs literature by a narrow margin.
I guess it also depends how much you are able to connect to what you listen versus what you read. I personally am very moved by sound, much more than I am by writing.
I HOWEVER COMPLETELY support your views on Fuck this Website.
F it
Posted 12 Oct 2005 at 6:33 pm ¶
alvarete wrote:
I think that music edges out cinema and literature in the sense that you can listen to the same song over and over again, while neither books nor movies lend themselves to repetition. At least, not the same kind of repetition. However, I don’t think music manages to inspire the same range of emotions. It’s a tough fight, but I’ll have to give the edge to books.
Posted 12 Oct 2005 at 8:05 pm ¶
Blind Willie wrote:
You’re right. Reading can build up your emotions much more than music. It can make you be scared shitless, laugh your ass out, feel anguish, desire, etc. It’s pretty fair to say that whenever you read a good book, the ride should be much more intense. Music is my drug of choice, though, because a good book has an ephemeral effect on me. Once I’ve read it, it’s over. I’m very given to vice, so constant repetition for me is the X factor that gives music a nod.
Think about it in another way. You have to choose between no more Literature (magazines included), or no more music. What’s your pick?
Posted 13 Oct 2005 at 12:46 am ¶
Chito wrote:
Guess I´ll choose no more literature, cuz even though I like to read, I think music have had more influence on me than any other art, even though I don´t play any musical instrument whatsoever (I like to think of myself as a “frustrated musician”).
I mean, that when I feel depressed, happy, sad or just “regular”, I like to listen to music. I do almos everything with music. A good tune in the background might improve the reading experience. Movies wouldn´t have the same impact if they were with no music at all. Hell, even sex is better with music.
Music makes everything less boring.
Posted 13 Oct 2005 at 3:16 am ¶
alvarete wrote:
Think about it: no written word, no internet.
Posted 13 Oct 2005 at 9:28 am ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:
Precisely. Which proves the point. There was a time when there was no internet and we did fine. Not to say that now it isnt a great thing to have (obviously), but we did manage without it. In fact, for most of human history, reading and writing wasn’t commonly available since only a few could do it/afford it.
Music, on the other hand, has been around forevah! And honestly dude, would you have survived highschool without tunes?
Anyway I guess it is a matter of taste almost (since I dont think a deaf person could give a shit about Led Zeppelin), so my opinion is that music is much more powerfull than literature.
F it
Posted 13 Oct 2005 at 2:16 pm ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:
Speaking of internet: Did I mention I now have 6.0Mbps at home? I am out of control.
F it
Posted 13 Oct 2005 at 10:38 pm ¶
Negro wrote:
motherfucker my post is gone!!!
Posted 13 Oct 2005 at 11:44 pm ¶
Negro wrote:
Yeah there is a god that hates me, and Chito too. He takes my posts and sniffs ‘em like white powder.
Now i am not only depressed but angry too. ARGH!!!!!!!
breathe.. breathe.. dont hit!! It is not your monitor.
MUch better now, yeah depression again, maybe It would be because my 4 mbps is down at home, blame it on the unusual irresponsability from Moi, so I am stuck in this cyber with mold and smoke smell all over. Update! The guy next to me is smoking (did i mention i quit my cigarratte-smoking habits since 2 months ago)
As i kept reading your post i got more depressed, someone crying for a dead pixel, like you would notice it every second, now if it is an evil scratch on your screen like in my psp is a different story, make a mental note, dont put your psp and your keys in the same pocket and start dancing like a maniac, fucking alcohol and its friends, thank lucifer there are third party companies with faceplates for replacement.
Post vacation depression, mofo you better hope is not a lifetime thing, and get stuck in it forevah. You ll get over it, maybe after you cry and your coworkers make fun of you would do the trick.
Chito, dont worry about that, go fuck some danish pussy where your ancestors used, keep the tradition! remeber what biggie said “What do ya do when yo’ bitch is untrue? You cut that hooker off and find someone new” my man there are a lot of hoes out there, and by the way not trying to offens any of the fine ladies that are reading this.
Music is much better than literature, havent you heard Reaggaton?.
Posted 14 Oct 2005 at 12:22 am ¶
Chito wrote:
Thanx for the advise Negro. But I must bitch slap you for thinking that reaggeton is music. C´mon man. There are so-called punk groups here that make better music than that shit. Reaggeton is pure trash. It doesn´t have any logic in it. It´s like a bad essay done by a mentally challenged person about astrophysics. It can be fun, but only for awhile, cuz after that, you´ll star felling sorry for the mofo who did it and think: “I thought I´v seen stupid shit, but this one wins the gold medal”. I just can´t stand it. Even worse are all the tunners in this country that LOOOVE to play reaggeton while rolling in town. Those fuckers should be shot on sight for bad taste and thinking they´re the shit. I remeber one of those tunners saying on T.V. that the only way to be a true tunner is if you listen to reaggeton. What a mayor loser. They really pisses me off, because all the tunners hera are just like that pointless MTV show: “Pimp up my ride”. All they do is take an old car and buy some rims, steering wheel and what not, and say that the car is now tunned. If you want a real tuned car, do it like this other show on Discovery Channel: “Overhauling”. Now that´s real tunning.
Guess that enough for now. I needed to get that out of my system, cuz I had shitty day.
Posted 14 Oct 2005 at 3:34 am ¶
alvarete wrote:
I love seeing cars with NoS stickers on them. Them stickers sure make those rides go faster, yo! In the US they call these posers “ricers”, since they’re usually asian kids. We need a suitable derogatory term for them in Ecuador. A friend suggested “cholo hijueputa”, but I don’t think it encompasses their lameness…
Posted 14 Oct 2005 at 8:36 am ¶
Blind Willie wrote:
It maybe “gogotero hijueputa”, though.
Posted 14 Oct 2005 at 5:39 pm ¶
Schiz wrote:
I find it interesting that those kids are usually asians. You know what they say about asians and their small penises and all…
Posted 14 Oct 2005 at 7:19 pm ¶
Negro wrote:
Hahahaha, Chito, sarcasm.. sarcasm.. that was the flavor of my last sentence. Like once I said i couldnt buy tunes for my mp3 player, like I want to pay for them.
DAmn, my neighborhood is flood with asian peeps, mostly koreans, waiotayotayotayota, and they are so black man, well they try, Dunno who is more a poser, them or the latins.
Posted 14 Oct 2005 at 7:31 pm ¶
Chito wrote:
Wheter it was a sarcastic comment or not, I needed to get that out of my system.
I think that eiter “cholo” or “gogotero hijueputa” as a way to call them is to labour the obvious, but I can´t come up with proper way to call them so I just stick with those two.
Posted 15 Oct 2005 at 3:05 am ¶