Comments | actionjaxon: i wish i wrote "tree tops" by eisley.

actionjaxon

i wish i wrote "tree tops" by eisley.

Apr 28, 2006 12:42

just now i was sitting here in the office and a perfect dancing song came on my little iPod and it made me feel really good so i decided to get up and go outside in the sunshine and dance around where no one could see me because it's ridiculously beautiful today ( Read more... )

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xxbhamxplayaxx April 28 2006, 18:43:29 UTC

reading this makes me want us to hang out, plus the fact that i havent seen you in a good while. these are the sorts of questions i always want to discuss when im just getting to know people. theyre nice. youre nice. hopefully we'll get to ponder these one day before one of us dies.

actionjaxon April 28 2006, 20:18:16 UTC

thanks jacob. :)

i hope we do ponder these questions together. soon. one of us could die tomorrow.

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actionjaxon April 29 2006, 01:14:15 UTC

well, that's good. it's something you should think about. your biology teacher sounds like a winner.

bountycollected April 29 2006, 06:26:15 UTC

God damnit. All of my answers were erased when my browser decided to go back a page on it's own.

I'll answer them again later.

actionjaxon May 1 2006, 02:07:07 UTC

i hate when that shit happens.

so like, why don't you answer them now. after you read THIS. biznatch.

:)!

rearchetyped April 29 2006, 07:02:16 UTC

Re: nature

You might enjoy A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, Whale by Moonlight by Diane Ackerman, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, and Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey.

The best part of Almanac is the essay "Thinking Like a Mountain," which is nothing like the extended anthropomorphic fallacy you might imagine. Whale is a series of essays on animals and probably the most readable of the four. Pilgrim is a post-post-modern Walden, in the sense that only 10% of it is actually important, but it's a very good, thought-provoking 10%. Solitaire is definitely an interesting point of view, which you would expect of something authored by an eco-terrorist.

actionjaxon May 1 2006, 02:04:17 UTC

wow you've read a lot.

all of those sound pretty cool. do you own any?

Pilgrim is a post-post-modern Walden, in the sense that only 10% of it is actually important, but it's a very good, thought-provoking 10%.

haha.

rearchetyped May 3 2006, 04:22:46 UTC

I'm pretty much addicted to reading. I like the experience of reaidng a book, but even more than that I enjoy adding to a collection of ideas and stories that lets me view any given moment in a thousand different lights.

I own them all, actually. :D Care to borrow temporarily/permanently?

Walden is pretty much my most hated book ever. I don't deny that it was important (especially in terms of the nascent environmental movement) and that there are some pretty spectacular moments of insight in it; it's just the useless filler inbetween those points that drives me crazy. The second time I had to read the thing (in undergrad), I pissed on my copy, doused it in Bacardi 151, and burned it. Thoreau was such a poser, too; John Muir owned him at the "getting back to nature" concept in practice.

temp0_260 April 29 2006, 08:37:49 UTC

That was a very sunshiny post!However, because of the time and because of the night that i just had, i am unable to experience the obvious bliss that is in your post. Perhaps when i read it again another day i can smile a little more. I like your attitude. I always told myself that if tomorrow, everything important to me were to just up and vanish, i would go to japan, wander around the farmland, and pass out toys to little children. That would be a totally awesome way to live. Although, you have a point, it is so silly how we play around in our little self made society while all the while we try to deny the lurking truth that we are all just "sophisticated" monkeys. I always like to think, that if aliens existed, what they would think while they watched us do some of the things that we do. Like doing the wave at a football game. They would be like "...What the hell is that!" Anyway, great post.

actionjaxon May 1 2006, 02:01:53 UTC

hahahah doing the wave. oh man that's funny.

i'm sorry about the bad time you just went through, george. it happens, unfortunately. or should it be fortunately. the good times wouldn't be so great if our minds didn't have the bad times to compare them to. you know? or i could just be full of crap but jung could have once thought he was full of crap and never said all the crazy awesome things he did.

you and i are sophisticated monkies. haha.
that's awesome. :)