Genesis had all this surgery to turn himself into his girlfriend and then she died and anyway-has anyone seen those pictures? Or am I mixing him up with someone else? He’s got boob implants and his face is totally different.
He makes me feel less crazy because he’s so crazy. He comforts me that way. And then he also doesn’t comfort me in that if I think about him too much, I feel disturbed. I will refer to this as DFW’s “bothness” concept.
I want a Dream Machine. I have heard that they’re quite easy to build if you have any kind of mechanical know how I don’t, unfortunately.
I liked this odd collection of things. If you havent heard Anton La Vey’s cover version of Billy Holiday’s “Gloomy Sunday” played on his church organ, with Mrs. La Vey on backing vocals, then you haven’t lived.
Jeff— that was amazing. thanks for sharing. finally getting to see trash humpers next week and this has me that much more jacked for it.
Joseph Young— i quite felt the suffereing of thaddeus, and others, and felt empathy toward him. was what made the book best for me. but some of yours are good points to make, though might, maybe, could use some fleshing out.
Joseph Riippi— Re: Daniel Quinn, I have to admit that the first time I read ‘Ishmael’ it blew my mind. Granted, I was 13. But it remains on the shelf of “those books” with Knowles’ *A Separate Peace* and Gary Paulson’s *Hatchet* and every Calvin and Hobbes...
d— I guess “but it’s funny!” stops working for me at some point. Of course, the patronizing “critiques” of hip hop are the other side of the same coin, especially all the family values/role of the father conservative shit.
David Backer— The one premise I can offer to justify my “whining” is this: In Jones’s book, and a lot of writing I’ve been reading online, there is a lack of engagement with extant-real systems of human organization: economies, households, cultures, societies,...
Genesis had all this surgery to turn himself into his girlfriend and then she died and anyway-has anyone seen those pictures? Or am I mixing him up with someone else? He’s got boob implants and his face is totally different.
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Yep, that’s Genesis.
Hamburger lady…hamburger lady.
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May 26th, 2009 / 3:53 pmpr—
He makes me feel less crazy because he’s so crazy. He comforts me that way. And then he also doesn’t comfort me in that if I think about him too much, I feel disturbed. I will refer to this as DFW’s “bothness” concept.
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I want a Dream Machine. I have heard that they’re quite easy to build if you have any kind of mechanical know how I don’t, unfortunately.
I liked this odd collection of things. If you havent heard Anton La Vey’s cover version of Billy Holiday’s “Gloomy Sunday” played on his church organ, with Mrs. La Vey on backing vocals, then you haven’t lived.
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May 26th, 2009 / 3:52 pmBlake Butler—
i think it may be time for me to try to build one. sounds fun.
i am going to seek out that song now. sounds heavenly. or antiheavenly or something
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May 27th, 2009 / 12:53 amKen Baumann—
build two send me one
thanks dad
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May 27th, 2009 / 12:54 amKen Baumann—
love
dad
for the past two days the internet has seemed weird and scary. but these five videos make everything feel good again.
thanks, blake.
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May 26th, 2009 / 8:37 pmBlake Butler—
glad what helps me helps you too
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If only Jodorowsky could have made his version of Dune
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