Comments | quixoticmonkey: Diamond in the rough

quixoticmonkey

Diamond in the rough

Apr 05, 2005 02:08

It's not really like I have some kind of "heart knocked good and swelled up, a month overdue to burst, eraserhead for abortion" affliction that it couldn't be helped to let it out now. Frankly the worst thing about writers block is the sedated comfort one can get from the total lack of responsibilities one feels in his life once the employment ( Read more... )

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sweetpea_girl April 5 2005, 13:29:58 UTC

ha, i think i shall need to make you a soundtrack to your resident insanity, love. though putting the thought of a heartbreaking work of staggering genius made me retch a bit. and as for that thin line, isn't it better to walk it while slightly inebriated? helps the balance and all...

quixoticmonkey April 5 2005, 20:02:55 UTC

Hey, don't knock the Eggers.

sweetpea_girl April 5 2005, 20:36:18 UTC

i'm glad every person whose parents dies doesn't feel the compulsion to whine about it for an entire book. it was bad dearie.

quixoticmonkey April 6 2005, 03:39:21 UTC

I don't remember it being as whiney as you say, but I do remember it being very self-referential so he may have talked about that at some point. Either way, it wasn't BAD, as you say, and I think the reason it was so well recieved was BECAUSE every person didn't do what he did. But that's just my opinion... I'm really more attracted to his style, not is character.

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quixoticmonkey April 7 2005, 07:11:19 UTC

Decemberists?
You do realize that I'm going to have to concoct some story about Theraflu and how it can cause vomiting when mixed with orange juice, perhaps making for some kind of stomach virus thing provided one consumes the adequate level of chinese food before hand, so as to get out of yet another day of waiting tables, perhaps meeting, training and molding the new waiter who was supposed to start that day, all just so that I can go to that concert?

Hell, I think it's a great story actually.
Ripe with thoughts of betrayal, excitement, regret, deception, desire... all that that makes for a good honest drama.

Of course I'll pick you up a t-shirt!

I mean, I'll see what I can do.

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onevermind May 26 2005, 03:47:10 UTC

You make me laugh, so I'm adding you, if that's okay. If not, let me know. I figure we can all use friends.

quixoticmonkey May 27 2005, 08:13:53 UTC

You read all that? Holy crap on a stick, I think that qualifies you for membership to an insane asylum... but you ever break out, sure, we can be friends. Lets start with "who are you?" "where you from?" "do you like... stuff?"

Thanks for the add.

onevermind May 30 2005, 03:59:53 UTC

Awww silly, they let me out after the 72 hour observation thingy.
Anyways, I'm Aimee, annnnd I plan to be a very very poor painter when I grow up, either that or a cannibalistic food critic or Tinkertoy. Keeping my options open. I'm from New England, where the people are unfriendly and the weather shitastic. Right now I'm sleep-deprived and I'm trying to figure out the ways one can be a masochistical nihilist, and it's making my head ache, so night!

quixoticmonkey May 31 2005, 11:38:49 UTC

Hi, Aimee... love the French spelling. It is French, no? Can never tell, I think a lot of dem ferren culture's presence is still taboo in the grand state of the union.
Anyway, let me introduce you personally to Chris, an unrealized midwestern genius of extraordinary potential unrealized not of out inability but merely spite towards the human race.
Your head aches because of me... I feel strangely... honored.

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