bundle of joy
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- ********0
KingJulien is one of the finest, if not the finest contributor to this board. I wish more people posted stuff like that.
- kingjulien0
gorbie, vespa, rand, i appreciate your support, encouragement and willingness to be open and think outside of the box...especially since i was so befuddled at all the hatred this "snapshot" first inspired...
vespa, your analysis is amazing. it's also incredibly sophisticated and profound--and i like your parallel to the japanese businessman's project, which intrigues me immensely. also, there were parts of your interpretation that i hadn't considered or even thought about, which stokes me (and i guess is the reason why crits are useful in moderation), because i know it will be helpful in future pieces..
i watched napoleon dynamite recently, which everybody seemed to love for its ability to capture the mundane and apathetic. personally, i felt the film was contrived and problematic and not that funny, because there were too many forced attempts at apathy just to be silly--for comic relief (set to the obligatory 80's retro soundtrack), rather than a sincere attempt to capture the mundane sensibility of everyday life, which can, and is very often ridiculously absurd and laugh out loud funny. i guess this story was my attempt to put my own spin on those themes, succesful or not...
as a sidenote, i didn't object to the couple making out for moral reasons, it was just that the girl was a nectar, and i was jealous...
- ********0
and I thought you were having a baby
- fate0
whoah, cool thread. Wish I had something intellectual-like to say, but then I just woke up -_-
- vespa0
as a sidenote, i didn't object to the couple making out for moral reasons, it was just that the girl was a nectar, and i was jealous...
kingjulien
(sep 11 04, 10:59)ha! a few more acutely bitter observations about happy people would really flesh out your character ;) I've just finished Michel Houellebecq's Platform and it's full of such choice insights into the fetish of boredom as:
"I liked holiday brochures, their abstraction, their way of condensing the places of the world into a limited sequence of possible pleasures and fares; I was particularly fond of the star-ratings system, which indicated the intensity of the pleasure one was entitled to hope for. I wasn't happy, but I valued happiness and continued to aspire to it."