“We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.”

Robert Wilensky

*update- this video is totally worth watching. it can no longer be embedded but can still be seen here.
i am not sure why or how or what needs to be done to get around NBC's shenanigans so this is the best i could do...just click on it for crying out loud.

http://www.carpintariacarlosalberto.com/vespa_daniela.htm

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become? - death (hogfather)

waking life versus the anti hero

i'm reading Choke by chuck palahniuk..the guy who wrote Fight Club...it's okay...so far i have really liked his stuff. i read that it is in a genre of it's own...i guess i could see that...the idea of the antihero bothers me on a level other than intellectual...i don't know what it is...maybe reading praise for an antihero on a book jacket seems...i don't know...to depreciate it somehow. here's the thing, the Donald Kaufman side of me...good old car chase sci-fi bob...has a favorite movie that the intellectual snob cringes to hear...Fight Club...fuckin' love it mate...get's me all squirelly the way i like to be...drinking whisky and smashing stuff...gave myself a black eye while working the night shift as a personal assistant to a C4 level spinal injury, that's quadriplegic, patient after watching that movie...i blamed him.
so anti hero...sounds like an interesting construct to work with yet i hear myself...or some part of myself...saying "fuck that". the part of me that an anti hero appeals to actually...i have this haunting notion that middle aged fathers of three living in the lap of luxury who love Fight Club and dream about the end of this house of cards reality that we call society are kind of ...immature, and again i hear a part of me, after taking a long draw of a cigarette that i don't smoke, say "fuck that".
life goes on.

you are what you love, not what loves you.

Adaptation written by Charlie and Donald Kaufman, directed by mr.jonze himself. where to begin?     how about with an attempted segway...

Susan Orlean: Aww, I wish I were an ant. Awww, they're so shiny.

John Laroche: You're shinier than any ant darlin'

Susan Orlean: That's the sweetest thing anybody has EVER said to me.

John Laroche: Well, I like ya', that's why.

this movie is Shakespearean.

there i said it...perhaps not as a result of that particular dialogue but it blows my frigging mind in every direction. have you seen it? watch it again and tell me i am wrong. if you haven't seen it...shame on you...

go watch it twice ...seriously.

i don't know how to put it into words...do human beings exist that can come up with this many ideas and conceptually weave them into a coherent notion THEN actually get it down on paper...it pisses me off to be totally honest...why does he get to be the infinth monkey eh? why does kaufmans key bashing contain a coherence to boggle the mind......flowers are pretty.

a quick question...does linking a movies name to a download site with it's torrent get one into trouble? it's kind of like pointing out to someone who is broke that there is money in the bank if they needed some. is that aiding and abetting? go to pirate bay yourself i suppose...Hint:search after Kaufman not adaptation...

i'm just sayin'...

i want to mention the horrible font i use on my blog. in the aforementioned Adaptation we meet a character named robert mckee.. an actual person IRL who teaches seminars on story writing..he has a list of ten commandments of story writing...Kaufman breaks most of these commandments..but i noticed that on the list Kaufman's imaginary brother tapes above his workspace as inspiration, the first rule is "thou shalt respect your audience" whereas on mckees original list in his REAL book it's number five...curious...is Kaufman making a statement about mckee's de-prioritizing a writers respect for the audience? or am i a just strange sick little man for noticing? ANYHOO the font is hard to read for "the audience" a.k.a. you BUT i think it looks cool and apparently i don't care about you that much...or enough to sacrifice the look of my page to it's content...how superficial can i be? that superficial. so all you readers a.k.a. no one..who think it is annoying when people use courier...well you don't exist now do you? so that's that.

anyway...life goes on

Oh yeah...here's the preview to Charlies new mind melter.

'Synedoche New York' Theatrical Trailer @ Yahoo! Video