Jhonen Vasquez, breaking barriers?
Just re-read comics 3-6, and read the #7 for the first time in the last little while. I was attempting to continue working on my marketing project but...well...I gave up!
(Hah I'm not worried, I'll get it done before wednesday. It's funny. First it was due friday, then its due thursday of the next week, and now its due WEDNESDAY of the next next week. Fisher really doesn't know what the hell she is doing.)
Comics......hell reading. No wonder why I'm getting dumber. ALL this year I haven't taken the time to snuggle up with a good book. It has been even longer since I've snuggled up to a comic. It felt good. I was in the mood for some bizarre comedy, and it hit the spot.
Thinking back...there is so much I used to do that I don't know. I have atleast $400 worth of magic cards, hah Tyler Twitchel reminded me of thier existance, and then asked to "borrow" all of them. I basically gave him the finger...(not actually)
Here is a list of all the hobbies I've ever had, since as long as I can remember...
__________
-Mighty Max (OLD SCHOOL!)
-Farside/Garfield/Spy vs. Spy
-Batman/Superman/x-men comics (cards too..back in the day man...)
-Collecting Rocks/Shells
-Hoarding random nic-nac's...you name it I have it
-Ninja Turtles, Heman, Silver Hawks, and...?
That was all before I was even 10 years old
I went through a lot of that stuff threw away a ton of it too...*sigh*
Going to sell or donate the rest
Its a trip to remember that far back...
I'm going to hate myself later for actually admitting to myself I was into that stuff...even though I was under 10...*shrug* Oh well
__________________
Anyhow even after a good 3 hours of trig makeup (holy crap I have never graphed that much in my whole life I did about 80 detailed graphs) I still have friday's math assignment, random history assignments, plus the rest of that marketing project. I think I'll just finish the math, and hope that I can get the rest of the history done at school before 5th period. Damn I hate having 3rd lunch.
Still even though its 11....ish? That still doesn't phase me. JTHM even satisfied my philosophical urges, I was especially suprized at the content of the last 2 issues. Jhonen Vasquez has a extremely interesting outlook. In my opinion his comics cannot be taken literally which is why he introduced the stalker fan in #6...or #7?
I'm guessing he noticed the cult of comical death worshipers he enduced and decided to throw it in thier faces. There is so much more behind his work then a few issues and some homocidal jokes.
When I started reading them I thought it was part of pop culture but it's sunk in that Jhonen Vasquez is a genius. He may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but he sure understands a thing or two about the real world.
Anyways I wont get too deep. I feel like if I explain how his philosophy relates to mine I'll be destroying it by admitting it. So I guess I'll just have to remember. I think I might buy my own copies, instead of borrow Jonni's.
ANYHOW I'm doing okay, I think I'm getting a relapse but I don't mind. I'm ready for a cold now.
I need to take a few days. I REALLY need spring break. I'm getting more and more ansey, I can tell by my writing. Yes I do read what I write. These journals are for me, not for you, my guiltness reader.
Whoa, just accidentally clicked on "rich text mode" man I'm an idiot. I've been wondering for weeks if there was any way to use bold or underline. *shrug* I don't think I'll use it anyways though. I'm still lazy. Which reminds me, I've got to get cracking on the rest of that hw.
Awww just a few more minutes? Sure.
Why not? I'm going to wake up tired tomarrow anyways right? At this point it doesn't matter how late I stay up as long as I'm productive.
I'm sad that there was only 7 issues *cries* Phew. I've just added something new to my list of to-do's. I need to start on my booklist. Everytime I see a book I really want to read I write it on a list I have. The list is huge. It's been about a year since I've indulged myself in text. I've been reading for english here and there...but I never get into a book I have to analyze page by page, chapter by chatper. A book is more fulfilling taken on as a whole.
Red, White, and Blue Ashes just popped into my list, cannot believe Aleta is in a band still. Probably the most shocking thing a girl has ever told me. (I really don't know why...and I've heard some strange stuff from women)
Speaking of my list of to-do's. Ugh I've been coming up with schemes to make money recently. Never in my life have I ever desired to make, hold, use cash. Even when I was a little boy and wanted toys. I never wished to BUY them. I hate the process, I hate money, it sickens me. Only Alan understands my feelings on this...haven't really explained it to anybody else, don't care to.
I've never felt a need for it though, but for the first time I've started too. Jonni is always telling me its fine! I don't care, we don't have to go see a movie, we don't have to get coffee. I insist though. I don't know why. I have never had this, ugh. I feel kind of frantic - like I need to scramble for the last cheeto before someone else grabs it.
It's new to me, I mean I've wanted money before but never needed it. The difference is astonishing. I like free stuff. Hah even my CD collection is 80% free. Only about 1/5 or 1/6 of all of my CD's are actual CD's. The rest are burns or mix's. I even refuse to buy inexpencive CD's. I've always called myself cheap but thats not it. I just dislike the capitalist system of marketing. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy the selling process. But just the process, not the gain/loss...I have never cared for that. I just like the power of manipulation. Sounds utterly sadistic no? It is, salesmen are evil. My latest instillment of this are real estate ppl. They are the nicest, coolest, most personable people in the world. Thats why they are salesmen, to sell. It's not even 100% thier intent, its the company...the big machine - the economy. I feel like a Joad who is having his land mowed down by a man on a tractor asking "Who do I shoot if not you?" Definitely my favorite section of the book.
The economy is what I blame. Yet it is showed within every wink, laugh, handshake, and so called "care" that a salesman shows. They indulge the fantasy we live in. I don't want to be indulged. I don't want to be in a fantasy in real life. I want to be a fantasy in my mind, but not in reality. Makes NO sense huh? I'll put it this way...there is nothing like getting lost in a book...yet at the same time living the fantasy of religion just does not cut it for me. I'm believing less and less in a god who cares.
Whoa, at this point my rambles are getting even more pathetic. I need a break so badly. Just downtime so I can straighten myself out. I can sense as I'm writing this that I'm not all here... I'm not! Part of my brain is already on vacation.
Hah I was doing one of those TheSpark Quiz's a week back (just remembered now) and it asked a question like "Do People Know the real me?"
You could check a box that said yes, and a box that said no.
This is one of those random things that hits me. I'm a completely open book to some. SOME, yet utterly cryptic to others. I can usually tell. When I'm easy to read, it almost feels as though I let them see, but choose the things to hide.
I think I'm going to stop while I'm not ahead
Now I leave this place with a line from JTHM
"Thats sad, you are just smart enough to realize the painfulness of idiocy."
-Todd
(Hah I'm not worried, I'll get it done before wednesday. It's funny. First it was due friday, then its due thursday of the next week, and now its due WEDNESDAY of the next next week. Fisher really doesn't know what the hell she is doing.)
Comics......hell reading. No wonder why I'm getting dumber. ALL this year I haven't taken the time to snuggle up with a good book. It has been even longer since I've snuggled up to a comic. It felt good. I was in the mood for some bizarre comedy, and it hit the spot.
Thinking back...there is so much I used to do that I don't know. I have atleast $400 worth of magic cards, hah Tyler Twitchel reminded me of thier existance, and then asked to "borrow" all of them. I basically gave him the finger...(not actually)
Here is a list of all the hobbies I've ever had, since as long as I can remember...
__________
-Mighty Max (OLD SCHOOL!)
-Farside/Garfield/Spy vs. Spy
-Batman/Superman/x-men comics (cards too..back in the day man...)
-Collecting Rocks/Shells
-Hoarding random nic-nac's...you name it I have it
-Ninja Turtles, Heman, Silver Hawks, and...?
That was all before I was even 10 years old
I went through a lot of that stuff threw away a ton of it too...*sigh*
Going to sell or donate the rest
Its a trip to remember that far back...
I'm going to hate myself later for actually admitting to myself I was into that stuff...even though I was under 10...*shrug* Oh well
__________________
Anyhow even after a good 3 hours of trig makeup (holy crap I have never graphed that much in my whole life I did about 80 detailed graphs) I still have friday's math assignment, random history assignments, plus the rest of that marketing project. I think I'll just finish the math, and hope that I can get the rest of the history done at school before 5th period. Damn I hate having 3rd lunch.
Still even though its 11....ish? That still doesn't phase me. JTHM even satisfied my philosophical urges, I was especially suprized at the content of the last 2 issues. Jhonen Vasquez has a extremely interesting outlook. In my opinion his comics cannot be taken literally which is why he introduced the stalker fan in #6...or #7?
I'm guessing he noticed the cult of comical death worshipers he enduced and decided to throw it in thier faces. There is so much more behind his work then a few issues and some homocidal jokes.
When I started reading them I thought it was part of pop culture but it's sunk in that Jhonen Vasquez is a genius. He may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but he sure understands a thing or two about the real world.
Anyways I wont get too deep. I feel like if I explain how his philosophy relates to mine I'll be destroying it by admitting it. So I guess I'll just have to remember. I think I might buy my own copies, instead of borrow Jonni's.
ANYHOW I'm doing okay, I think I'm getting a relapse but I don't mind. I'm ready for a cold now.
I need to take a few days. I REALLY need spring break. I'm getting more and more ansey, I can tell by my writing. Yes I do read what I write. These journals are for me, not for you, my guiltness reader.
Whoa, just accidentally clicked on "rich text mode" man I'm an idiot. I've been wondering for weeks if there was any way to use bold or underline. *shrug* I don't think I'll use it anyways though. I'm still lazy. Which reminds me, I've got to get cracking on the rest of that hw.
Awww just a few more minutes? Sure.
Why not? I'm going to wake up tired tomarrow anyways right? At this point it doesn't matter how late I stay up as long as I'm productive.
I'm sad that there was only 7 issues *cries* Phew. I've just added something new to my list of to-do's. I need to start on my booklist. Everytime I see a book I really want to read I write it on a list I have. The list is huge. It's been about a year since I've indulged myself in text. I've been reading for english here and there...but I never get into a book I have to analyze page by page, chapter by chatper. A book is more fulfilling taken on as a whole.
Red, White, and Blue Ashes just popped into my list, cannot believe Aleta is in a band still. Probably the most shocking thing a girl has ever told me. (I really don't know why...and I've heard some strange stuff from women)
Speaking of my list of to-do's. Ugh I've been coming up with schemes to make money recently. Never in my life have I ever desired to make, hold, use cash. Even when I was a little boy and wanted toys. I never wished to BUY them. I hate the process, I hate money, it sickens me. Only Alan understands my feelings on this...haven't really explained it to anybody else, don't care to.
I've never felt a need for it though, but for the first time I've started too. Jonni is always telling me its fine! I don't care, we don't have to go see a movie, we don't have to get coffee. I insist though. I don't know why. I have never had this, ugh. I feel kind of frantic - like I need to scramble for the last cheeto before someone else grabs it.
It's new to me, I mean I've wanted money before but never needed it. The difference is astonishing. I like free stuff. Hah even my CD collection is 80% free. Only about 1/5 or 1/6 of all of my CD's are actual CD's. The rest are burns or mix's. I even refuse to buy inexpencive CD's. I've always called myself cheap but thats not it. I just dislike the capitalist system of marketing. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy the selling process. But just the process, not the gain/loss...I have never cared for that. I just like the power of manipulation. Sounds utterly sadistic no? It is, salesmen are evil. My latest instillment of this are real estate ppl. They are the nicest, coolest, most personable people in the world. Thats why they are salesmen, to sell. It's not even 100% thier intent, its the company...the big machine - the economy. I feel like a Joad who is having his land mowed down by a man on a tractor asking "Who do I shoot if not you?" Definitely my favorite section of the book.
The economy is what I blame. Yet it is showed within every wink, laugh, handshake, and so called "care" that a salesman shows. They indulge the fantasy we live in. I don't want to be indulged. I don't want to be in a fantasy in real life. I want to be a fantasy in my mind, but not in reality. Makes NO sense huh? I'll put it this way...there is nothing like getting lost in a book...yet at the same time living the fantasy of religion just does not cut it for me. I'm believing less and less in a god who cares.
Whoa, at this point my rambles are getting even more pathetic. I need a break so badly. Just downtime so I can straighten myself out. I can sense as I'm writing this that I'm not all here... I'm not! Part of my brain is already on vacation.
Hah I was doing one of those TheSpark Quiz's a week back (just remembered now) and it asked a question like "Do People Know the real me?"
You could check a box that said yes, and a box that said no.
This is one of those random things that hits me. I'm a completely open book to some. SOME, yet utterly cryptic to others. I can usually tell. When I'm easy to read, it almost feels as though I let them see, but choose the things to hide.
I think I'm going to stop while I'm not ahead
Now I leave this place with a line from JTHM
"Thats sad, you are just smart enough to realize the painfulness of idiocy."
-Todd