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i am a figment of your imagination; what a strange thing you've made up.
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- What song or movie makes you cry?: i will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie
- What piece of art would you steal?: i dont care for art
- Elliott Bay or Amazon
- Why are people so afraid to learn the truth about building 7?: because they don't want to face the duality of man in the absence of empirical truth.
- What do you like to read when you poop?: iphone
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Jun 29
wittyreference commented on Wanna Be Mournin' Something.
wittyreference commented on Wanna Be Mournin' Something.
quoth achewood:
"he was your elvis, and when your elvis dies, so does the private lie that someday you will be young once again, and feel at capricious intervals the weightlessness of a joy that is unchecked by the injuries of experience and failure."
i'm still perplexed by the public reaction to michael jackson's death; it seems to me as if people have forgotten the last 20 years of bat-shit crazy we endured at his hands, but the quote above provides some context i guess. maybe i thought kurt cobain was "our elvis" (though certainly not my elvis*) and that we had already experienced our generation's shared grieving experience vis-a-vis dead "heroes". at least kurt cobain didn't permanently disfigure his face through self-mutilation go crazy and then fingerbang a bunch of preteen cancer patients. off the wall is a still great disco record, don't get me wrong - but my appreciation for it today is tempered by the experience of having watched michael jackson exist on earth.
birth of a nation and the triumph of the will are both pretty amazing films, and burzum is transcendent music, but you have to be able to separate the art from the artist. michael jackson's music from 30 years ago was incredible, but he was a horrible nightmare of a thing in real life. he was likely the closest thing to a monster that a human being can physically become while still remaining technically human.
you can love the music and it's special place in your life or whatever, but let's not get carried away with the reverence and worship here - michael jackson was a seriously sick and twisted fuck, and i am glad he is dead. i think it's the best thing for him, since he was obviously a seriously disturbed individual, and i think it was like the best thing for his "children". hopefully they have been spared whatever torments he had planned for them and some sliver of normalcy can be salvaged from the ruins.
* the role of MY elvis has been and always will be occupied by alan charles wilder.
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"he was your elvis, and when your elvis dies, so does the private lie that someday you will be young once again, and feel at capricious intervals the weightlessness of a joy that is unchecked by the injuries of experience and failure."
i'm still perplexed by the public reaction to michael jackson's death; it seems to me as if people have forgotten the last 20 years of bat-shit crazy we endured at his hands, but the quote above provides some context i guess. maybe i thought kurt cobain was "our elvis" (though certainly not my elvis*) and that we had already experienced our generation's shared grieving experience vis-a-vis dead "heroes". at least kurt cobain didn't permanently disfigure his face through self-mutilation go crazy and then fingerbang a bunch of preteen cancer patients. off the wall is a still great disco record, don't get me wrong - but my appreciation for it today is tempered by the experience of having watched michael jackson exist on earth.
birth of a nation and the triumph of the will are both pretty amazing films, and burzum is transcendent music, but you have to be able to separate the art from the artist. michael jackson's music from 30 years ago was incredible, but he was a horrible nightmare of a thing in real life. he was likely the closest thing to a monster that a human being can physically become while still remaining technically human.
you can love the music and it's special place in your life or whatever, but let's not get carried away with the reverence and worship here - michael jackson was a seriously sick and twisted fuck, and i am glad he is dead. i think it's the best thing for him, since he was obviously a seriously disturbed individual, and i think it was like the best thing for his "children". hopefully they have been spared whatever torments he had planned for them and some sliver of normalcy can be salvaged from the ruins.
* the role of MY elvis has been and always will be occupied by alan charles wilder.
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