All of these youtube kids who are making viable careers selling their talent for free on the internet (Bo Burnham and Charlie McDonnell in particular) are making me ache a little
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Re: Indeed, that is out o' the air.theboysgonehomeFebruary 4 2011, 07:25:38 UTC
It's not even about my possibilities, for me. It's about the roads not traveled.
You know I'm in trouble when I start relating to Hamlet. He's a character with whom I always wrestle. On one hand, he's grappling with his mother remarrying after the death of his father, and that's hard on any kid, much less the Prince of Denmark. On the other hand, he's kind of a whiny, emo asshole of a teenager. Which is one of the reasons Shakespeare was so amazing; he captured the spirit of this character in such a way that anyone who has ever been a teenager and felt a little crazy can find a home in him, even if we don't go on to kill everyone and ourselves. I do recognize, though, that when I relate to him most is when I'm also being a whiny, emo asshole. So there's that.
That's, honestly, a theory I've been kicking around in my head for a good long while, now. The final frontier isn't space, it's the infinite space between us.
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You know I'm in trouble when I start relating to Hamlet. He's a character with whom I always wrestle. On one hand, he's grappling with his mother remarrying after the death of his father, and that's hard on any kid, much less the Prince of Denmark. On the other hand, he's kind of a whiny, emo asshole of a teenager. Which is one of the reasons Shakespeare was so amazing; he captured the spirit of this character in such a way that anyone who has ever been a teenager and felt a little crazy can find a home in him, even if we don't go on to kill everyone and ourselves. I do recognize, though, that when I relate to him most is when I'm also being a whiny, emo asshole. So there's that.
That's, honestly, a theory I've been kicking around in my head for a good long while, now. The final frontier isn't space, it's the infinite space between us.
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