Insomnolence (766 hits)
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Submitted by kL (View user info) at 2007-12-09 12:05:12 EST
In Kurt Vonnegut's legendary treatise on the art of fiction, 'Power Writing,' he states that the most important aspect to focus on while writing is excitement; your audience must be continually stimulated forced, through use of suspense, to read on.
Well, fuck Kurt Vonnegut. I have no editor nor do I have a target audience in mind. Why shouldn't I write just for the fuck of it? I warn you: I have no fucking clue what I am about to write in this internet box. If you will bitch later about having 'wasted your time' then leave.
Sometimes, when everything seems pointless, I spend hours searching for meaning; for some way to concretely validate the effort I put in on surviving in 'normal' society. The thing I usually come up with, cliché as it is, is love. And, fuck, you could make a pretty good argument that love is pretty meaningless itself. I mean, you can't quantify it. It's not like increasing your net worth, getting your degree, or spending 30-45 minutes per day 4-6 times a week at the gym, toning and shaping your body until you become, relative to the size of the universe we inhabit, imperceptibly different. But you know what, it might make you happy. And you know what else, as messed as it is, in this fucked-up society of ours, that imperceptible bulk may, indirectly, lead you to love as well.
I really like mornings, though I wouldn't call myself a 'morning person' in the traditional sense. I'm a pretty legit insomniac, and I haven't been able to get to sleep before 7:00 o'clock AM any night of the past week. It's strange being on a different time schedule as everybody else. I'll walk outside into the crisp bright day--nothing quite like morning--and feel exceedingly well-adjusted. I'm jealous of people who can sleep and wake at reasonable hours.
Is it strange that I don't have a burning desire to plaster my walls with posters of Fight Club, Velvet Underground, American History X or whatever other cultural icon university students feel the need to visually associate themselves with? Like, fuck, you weren't alive when 'The Wall' was released, not even close. I doubt that some people have even listened to the classic albums they proudly display on their walls and ceilings. Maybe I missed the boat on dorm room decoration trends, but I think posters are the ugliest way to adorn a room. Like, yeah I have a badass poster of Bruce Lee on my bedroom door at home, but I've lived in that room since I was thirteen.
Isn't it a joke that universities still get passed off as legitimate academic establishments? I can say, with confidence, that in the dorms, more time is spent grinding, rolling, and smoking marijuana, than on studying or homework. You'd think it'd be paradise, right? Maybe, but the whole thing fills me with a strange (in the words of Thom Yorke) 'anonymous fear,' because 'I'm sure I'm supposed to be doing something else.'
It's now 9:00 o'clock AM and I haven't slept since I woke up at 4:00 o'clock last afternoon. The days are all running into each other, and my body doesn't know how to reconcile it's dull sleep pangs with the morning light that's flooding past my shitty regulation curtains. I've got to be off to mingle with the well-adjusted, and then go play piano, 'cuz in some small way it'll make me feel I've improved my life.
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Submitted by Socialist_Joe (user info) at 2008-02-27 06:14:17 EST (#)
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water makes a very poor sub for beer
Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2007-12-10 12:21:33 EST (#)
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Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-12-10 07:08:40 EST (#)
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Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2007-12-10 10:55:11 GMT (#)
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Dude, I love Vonnegut. Everyone is tripping.
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So it goes,,,,
Submitted by TheDoctor (user info) at 2007-12-10 11:48:40 EST (#)
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No.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-12-10 09:43:52 EST (#)
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http://stuff.ubersite.com/9439509985983980/1/bart_coffee.jpg
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-12-10 08:29:04 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-12-10 08:20:38 EST (#)
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Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2007-12-10 13:08:35 GMT (#)
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Oh give it a fucking rest, idiot.
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See below, Captain Irrelevant.
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2007-12-10 08:08:35 EST (#)
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Oh give it a fucking rest, idiot.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-12-10 07:08:40 EST (#)
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Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2007-12-10 10:55:11 GMT (#)
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Dude, I love Vonnegut. Everyone is tripping.
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I'm sitting in a perfectly secure (and comfortable) chair thanks.
This is one of the worst posts I have ever read. Grow the fuck up, your opinions are worthless and largely irrelevant.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-12-10 07:03:12 EST (#)
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Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2007-12-10 01:11:44 EST (#)
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You guys are missing the point on lame poster decorations. If you haven't even listened to an album, why put it on your wall, respresenting yourself. It's obvious, because you know it's cool, or that people you want to be like enjoy the album. it's fucked.
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I didn't miss the point. It was the reference to someone not being born yet that made you stray from your own point above, which was clear enough. I don't know many college kids with Beethoven posters on their walls, but they wouldn't be posers just because he was born hundreds of years before them.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-12-10 06:06:23 EST (#)
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your audience must be continually stimulated forced, through use of suspense, to read on.
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If one continues lapping away at a ladies cunt after she has come, there is a chance that she will piss herself. In any case, she will not be best pleased.
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2007-12-10 05:55:11 EST (#)
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Dude, I love Vonnegut. Everyone is tripping.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-12-10 04:35:04 EST (#)
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Well, fuck Kurt Vonnegut.
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No, fuck you.
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2007-12-10 04:01:08 EST (#)
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fuck all you ho's.
Submitted by McBain (user info) at 2007-12-10 03:05:52 EST (#)
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"In Kurt Vonnegut's legendary treatise on the art of fiction, 'Power Writing,' he states that the most important aspect to focus on while writing is excitement; your audience must be continually stimulated forced, through use of suspense, to read on..."
you lost me at "aspect." good job keeping the reader stimulated, jackoff. -1 cause your post was shit, and -1 because you look like a douche.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-12-10 01:23:55 EST (#)
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since when did you become the poster police, socrates?
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2007-12-10 01:11:44 EST (#)
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You guys are missing the point on lame poster decorations. If you haven't even listened to an album, why put it on your wall, respresenting yourself. It's obvious, because you know it's cool, or that people you want to be like enjoy the album. it's fucked.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-12-09 23:02:55 EST (#)
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youre a big boy now!
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2007-12-09 22:55:31 EST (#)
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You should be buttfucked for war crimes, you fucking atrocity.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2007-12-09 22:41:41 EST (#)
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I <3 Jeanneee. I</3 you, fuckstick.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2007-12-09 22:33:37 EST (#)
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Wow you are for sure super wise and deep. Also emo. Please, for your own sake, go do something horribly irresponsible.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-12-09 22:01:52 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-12-09 21:37:59 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/113648#2600690
i predicted the first five words of this with 100% accuracy:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/113648#2600690
life is a good thing. enjoy living it, alright?
Submitted by Creepy_guy (user info) at 2007-12-09 13:47:48 EST (#)
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This post reminds me of my roof. I sit on my roof a lot. I've written a lot of songs while sitting on my roof; most of them include very strange timings and very oddly formed chords. Sometimes, I'll de-tune all my strings...but I'll de-tune them all the same amount. I play at coffee houses and small venues like that because I hope to "reach" someone with music. Lord knows if it has actually happened.
Most people that show up will sit around drinking VERY overpriced priced coffee, read city specific magazines about fashion and entertainment and sometimes take pictures with their cell phones cameras. They very rarely ask questions about timing, chord structure, or why I wrote lyrics the way I wrote them. They come for the cheap entertainment and they leave. The ones who DO ask find out that I write at 7am-9am on my roof, with a de-tuned acoustic, after what has usually been a very, very long night. My roof at 7am is the only place I can escape from average.
Submitted by sadie73 (user info) at 2007-12-09 13:05:18 EST (#)
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Study more and roll fewer joints. Maybe then you can spell and write.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-12-09 12:23:32 EST (#)
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I have a picture of John Lennon in my office. And a Brandon Webb bobble-head doll. And a Beatles poster. And a photograph of the wife white-water rafting the Arkansas River. She put that one there.
When I was your presumed age, I had posters of Led-Zeppelin in my room. Lots of them. And one of Ritchie Blackmore.
I was alive when The Wall came out. I made my dad buy it for me.
I liked the third paragraph.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-12-09 12:17:24 EST (#)
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"Fuck Kurt Vonnegut"?
Fuck you.
"Like, fuck, you weren't alive when 'The Wall' was released, not even close."
What the fuck does the release date of an album have to do with someone's right to appreciate it?
"Isn't it a joke that universities still get passed off as legitimate academic establishments? I can say, with confidence, that in the dorms, more time is spent grinding, rolling, and smoking marijuana, than on studying or homework."
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2007-12-09 12:06:03 EST (#)
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Fuck not sleeping, I just looked at this for two seconds and saw typos.