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danschank

user interests meme, ahoy!

Oct 19, 2007 18:35

i was tagged by murdermystery to do one of these interest list memes. i like this one better than most memes, so here it is:
"If you comment on this post, I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along ( Read more... )

personal, lists

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they_say_lady October 20 2007, 01:07:51 UTC

oh and im watching the derrida documentary- i find it more compelling than i should. he is such a dreadfully likeable person though. the filmmakers get on my nerves though.
still...

derrida's most compelling asset: HAIR danschank October 20 2007, 06:07:07 UTC

yeah, i liked that doc too. i like how it turns into a game of evading its very "documentary-ness". it's like the filmmakers are trying really hard to get a personal feeling from him, and he's trying equally hard to evade it.

(if you're so keen on me than why am i blown off on gchat? heh heh heh...)

ALSO danschank October 20 2007, 06:12:44 UTC

(a feast of snakes, charles nelson reilly, containing multitudes, marquis de sade, mouchette, nathaniel west, the vaselines)

Re: ALSO they_say_lady October 20 2007, 20:00:21 UTC

a feast of snakes is a harry crews novel and while it isnt my favorite....i just i love the name. i'm also horrified- but take some odd pleasure- in the tradition of southerners pouring whiskey down snake holes and then hunting the drunken reptiles. the book is wickedly funny though ( ... )

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dystempted October 20 2007, 01:19:39 UTC

oh i love the way we communicate....your eyes focus on my funny lip shape....

me and you and lj-sadboyq are apparently the only people who loved "breakfast on pluto" danschank October 20 2007, 06:16:36 UTC

(avenging unicorns, breakfast on pluto, documentary, horrible horror movies, old movie theatres, sideshows, used books)

not sure how to respond to the rest of this comment, since we both live in the internet, right?

mistercreepy October 20 2007, 02:48:27 UTC

chelsea clinton is a hotter cooler minnie driver

fuck interests danschank October 20 2007, 06:18:00 UTC

artofvision wants THAGAMETHAGAMETHAGAME!!!!!!!

myglock_yrface October 20 2007, 02:55:11 UTC

I am reading Imperium right now! It is amazing. I want to read everything by him, my library has Shah of Shahs, Emperor, and a copy of Travels w/ Herodotus is in processing. I may just order a few, though.

my choices read like captain beefheart lyrics danschank October 20 2007, 06:23:26 UTC

(cephalopods, gore gore gore galore, maths, snails and earthworms, things what am bizarro, umbrella guns, witnessing tornados)

herodotus was just re-issued... i was excited to see it in a bookstore when i was in NYC last month. the other two mentioned above are great. the emperor is particularly interesting if you keep in mind rastafarianism (and it's exaltation of haile selassie)... which kapuszcinski doesn't even deal with...

anonymous October 20 2007, 05:22:34 UTC

I'd love to discuss Imperium sometime with you... although I really dug the work as a whole and found it infinitely rich, there are some parts which just seemed to rub the wrong way -- and I'm wondering if anyone else found a moment of skepticism with some of his comparisons and evaluations. Anyway, good list... I hadn't heard of 14 iced bears, so thanks for the mp3.

masculin October 20 2007, 05:22:55 UTC

that was me.

lindsay lohan is in your user interests? danschank October 20 2007, 06:28:02 UTC

i think the kind of writing he does necessitates certain generalities, but what were you thinking of specifically?

(bicycling in the city, catholicism, evo morales, lindsay lohan, orhan pamuk, reader-response criticism [my roommate is writing a paper about this right now], sun ra)

I sure do! masculin October 20 2007, 16:58:31 UTC

One of my favourite lines in Imperium"Westerners lose themselves in the Soviet because they are inclined to treat all reality as it usually presents itself to them: logic, limpit, legible...the Man of the West has the rug pulled out beneath him at every moment, until someone explains to him that the reality that he knows is not the only and - most certainly - not the most important one, and that a plurality of diverse realities exist here (called illogicality or alogicality by those who assume that there exists only one system of logic)." I also liked the discussion of the nature of borders, the nature of the sit-in, and the three types of foreigners ( ... )

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