Why watch TV?

[thoth_moon]

When one has the computer/Internets?  Seriously--between sometime yesterday afternoon and five this morning C.J. and I watched the Escaflowne movie, some Thai martial arts film called The Protector, The King and the Clown, Curse of the Golden Flower, Sensitive Pornograph, part of Enzai, and the first four episodes of Golden Boy.  Hm ... Japanese,

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[akai_senshi]

FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN.

[thoth_moon]

I just found *the awesome* paragraph in the section entitled "The Devil in the Divine Comedy":

"Dante's originality does not lie in his portrait of Lucifer's appearance but in his philosophical conception of his personality. It is here that he begins to make innovations, it is in this that the figure he created is unique." The author goes on to say how the likes of Milton, Goethe, et cetera portray "an active Satan, intelligent and mischievous, with something of his magnificence still clinging to him," but that "Dante's Lucifer is an exhausted creature whose energy is spent, whose history is over. He is forced to spend eternity as the lowest link in the chain of living things. He who was once among the most vital of created spirits has turned into a kind of dull brute. At no point is he referred to as thinking--he has no inner life, no rebelliousness, no passions. ... This being, whose likeness to God is as nearly rubbed out as it can be, does nothing apart from his mechanical movements but keep silence and weep. His silence

[lucidpseudogod]

I kicked through my big screen tv this morning

my mother kept texting me with 'catholic exorcism bullshit'

she has alzheimers and is losing her mind really badly

don't know what's gonna happen with her, though she's getting taken
advantage of by all the pedofiles and shit in the catholic church

she works for free and thinks that the catholic church is good for something

it's really rather not.

well, I'll take a picture of my busted out 60 inch tv later

we can laugh about it.

meanwhile,

[thoth_moon]

You'd be surprised how many people I know who've confided this innate desire of theirs to do something like what you have. How'd it feel?

Recently when the Pope visited the US the morning radio show of one of the stations around here formulated a faux-advertisement for a scent called "Priest":

"It smells like lolly pops and broken dreams."
"It smells like something that's been swept under the rug."
"If you cannot find 'Priest' at a store near you, it's probably been transferred to another store by the Vatican."
"'Priest': for when Father wants to be called Daddy."

[rotynd]

I am trying not to get too caught up in backlogs, because if I do I'll just give up in despair, having abandoned the net for too long straight, but I couldn't resist saying "hallo" to this one, because I want to see this paper when you are done. Anything to do with Anne Rice (I know, I know, but I can't help it; I really like VC, in the sense of "enjoy it and also think it is of quality, damnit") raised my flag, and then I just got invested in the entire evolving concept. So, yes. I want to put in a bid, if you share school papers.

[thoth_moon]

No problem. http://thoth-moon.livejournal.com/144918.html Ah, ignore the funky fragmented first cut--I forgot that cuts don't do quotation marks and then it wouldn't let me alter said cut. The unfragmented idea about VNV Nation and PL is marked in parentheses somewhere below the paper.