Dentist

[ss396]

Feeling a little sorry for myself today. Had to go into the dentist for an emergency visit after I cracked a molar last night. One thing leads to another this morning and I end up having to have the tooth extracted. I knew it was bothering me and that I had to go in, but I was hoping to get a few more bills paid first. So much for that. Now I'm

Comments

[jonox]

i think your New Year's resolutions are all wrong.
you have a trend of saying there is a problem, and the solution is you need to look more to yourself, more inward, more get back to yourself, more to the person you are, etc etc. I think thats the problem. You want to assure yourself that you are an entity unto yourself and hence you look to you and look to you and when you hit an obstacle, your solution is to retreat into you and get back to you. Your YOU is becoming unnecessarily repressed and condensed.

As your psychologist, I think you should look more towards everything else, or things you wouldn't usually consider, and then steal them and integrate them into your own personality. Preferably non-decadent things.

[jonox]

so what did they do with the molar they removed? is there just going to be a permanent hole in your mouth now? do they make white teeth they can replace it with?

[ss396]

It's like removing a wisdom tooth. Since it's the last one, they don't replace it anyway I'm told. And it can't be seen either, so it could be worse...

[jonox]

i think you should start thinking of yourself as a critic, first. not as a critic who has anything to say to other people. but just in your own mind. people who see themselves as artists are hopeless. lou reed was an artist who wrote dumb songs about heroin and waiting for the man and loving rock and roll that inspired a generation of poseurs and addicts. who cares. sigur ros bring the gentle and sleater-kinney were critics who made good art out of an ability to see what was wrong with the world.

i've figured out lately that the world is such a snafu that even the best intentions can backfire or have horrible consequences, like the velvet underground, and particularly some of the movies i've been watching. ii think the only solution is to read a lot of Harold Bloom, especially Genius, The Western Cannon, and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

[ss396]

Your comments as my psychologist are interesting and provocative as I hadn't considered things from that angle before. Maybe since I was already working on a new look such a step isn't that far off.

[jonox]

oops, I had a Markxian slip. thats Canon, not Cannon.