I mean, I know people whose entire bookshelves consist of the NPR-approved reading list, plus maybe Bukowski for the drunks and Burroughs for the druggies. No Henry James or Thackeray, no Dashiell Hammett or Agatha Christie, no Yeats or Keats or Eliot, no science or history. These are people who don't love reading, they just love being seen with books. Fuck them.
Eh I got Henry James, some Yeats, Keats, and Eliot, and I haven't read the James and I hate the poets. Most books and tastes and such are all for show regardless.
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I mean, I know people whose entire bookshelves consist of the NPR-approved reading list, plus maybe Bukowski for the drunks and Burroughs for the druggies. No Henry James or Thackeray, no Dashiell Hammett or Agatha Christie, no Yeats or Keats or Eliot, no science or history. These are people who don't love reading, they just love being seen with books. Fuck them.
In fairness, Henry James is a fucking chore and there's not a lot of point of reading more than one Agatha Christie book.
Continental philosophy is a term that originated among English-speaking philosophers to describe various philosophical traditions strongly influenced by certain 19th and 20th century philosophers from mainland Europe. The term is typically used in contrast with analytic philosophy. The traditions comprising continental philosophy include German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism and its antecedents, hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism, French feminism, and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and some other branches of western Marxism
wut?
Continental philosophy is the philosophy that doesn't do anything. It's kind of, kind of, kind of like history of philosophy. Kind of. It's about doing philosophy.
Analytic philosophy is philosophy of science, logic, etc.
damn. just when I'm getting to think Mark Mckinney or Bruce Mcullogh (all that is spelled wrong) are my favorites, the fucking hecubus skit comes on. so good.
and then there's scott thompson. GODDAMN IT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
I recognize Bruce McCulloch as the true guiding light of the group, although they're all great. That's largely based on his comedy album, and based on interviews and such, with the subsequent watermark of his you can see on the truly brilliant material from the show.
he was the first one I recognized as a true genius. you can feel his effect on shit more than the others.
I'm halfway through season two and I've pretty much dropped the chance of Foley or McDonald to be my favorites. Scott Thompson is sometimes absolutely amazing, but I think his character acting is better than his writing, as far as specifics go.
Then comes McCulloch and McKinney (now spelled correctly!). They are both clearly twisted, just enough to be fantastic skit writers. On top of that, they do damn fine character pieces, and are able to stretch ideas out over entire skits (something I felt was missing from Foley and McDonald's work in the beginning of season 2 at the very least, besides the Hecubus bits).
so it's between them. In the past I always looked down on McKinney because of SNL, but I realize now (10 years after having formed the opinion at far too young an age) that that's not even remotely fair or reasonable.
I could talk about this for hours. I probably should rewatch Mr. Show after I'm done with this season, until I order 3-5.
I mean, I know people whose entire bookshelves consist of the NPR-approved reading list, plus maybe Bukowski for the drunks and Burroughs for the druggies. No Henry James or Thackeray, no Dashiell Hammett or Agatha Christie, no Yeats or Keats or Eliot, no science or history. These are people who don't love reading, they just love being seen with books. Fuck them.
Eh I got Henry James, some Yeats, Keats, and Eliot, and I haven't read the James and I hate the poets. Most books and tastes and such are all for show regardless.
Keats is good. Eliot is pretty great. Yeats is hit-or-miss. I guess all three are important. I generally have a hard time enjoying poetry - it's a lot of effort to really get into it, and there's no way of knowing beforehand if there's a payoff or if you're just wasting your time.
Continental philosophy is a term that originated among English-speaking philosophers to describe various philosophical traditions strongly influenced by certain 19th and 20th century philosophers from mainland Europe. The term is typically used in contrast with analytic philosophy. The traditions comprising continental philosophy include German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism and its antecedents, hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism, French feminism, and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and some other branches of western Marxism
wut?
Here's continental philosophy in a nutshell:
Take a logical, well thought argument
Drink tequila until you're blind
take in a donkey show in Mexico
bang a syphilitic transexual while you're there
Starting to see again? Mas tequila, Pedro
Write it all up as a Hunter S Thompson-esque travel memoir
Most books and tastes and such are all for show regardless.
Yes, if you're a hipster. Real people read or watch or listen to things they either like or think will improve them in some way.
Man, Yeats ain't improving no one these days, and "The Wasteland" is just that.
There's plenty of people who are "hipsters" that are good people, have interesting tastes, and are good people to know, but people just judge them on their fashion and the fact that they have an opinion that runs contrary to something they like. That's my fucking take on it.
I mean, I know people whose entire bookshelves consist of the NPR-approved reading list, plus maybe Bukowski for the drunks and Burroughs for the druggies. No Henry James or Thackeray, no Dashiell Hammett or Agatha Christie, no Yeats or Keats or Eliot, no science or history. These are people who don't love reading, they just love being seen with books. Fuck them.
In fairness, Henry James is a fucking chore and there's not a lot of point of reading more than one Agatha Christie book.
If I die without reading any more James, then I have succeeded in life.
I measure amounts of pain in units known as Daisy Millers. For example, getting kicked in the balls is .13 Daisy Millers.
Oh, no, I picked and chose which parts of Nietzsche I liked and said fuck the rest.
Salad bar Nietzschean? :P
Yup. I mean, really the only constant in his "philosophy" is to just do as you want to, and tear down everything.
Salad-bar Nietzsche meshes a lot more with his concept of the Free Spirit than biting hook, line, and sinker.
Was this during your teenage years?
Because that is a stupid time to try and figure out your values.
Have you looked in to more vanilla ethical egoism at all?
Ethical egoism is something I'm only vaguely familiar with, but I'm done with Nietzsche now anyway. I got some useful things out of it, but it sure wasn't worth the price.
he was the first one I recognized as a true genius. you can feel his effect on shit more than the others.
I'm halfway through season two and I've pretty much dropped the chance of Foley or McDonald to be my favorites. Scott Thompson is sometimes absolutely amazing, but I think his character acting is better than his writing, as far as specifics go.
Then comes McCulloch and McKinney (now spelled correctly!). They are both clearly twisted, just enough to be fantastic skit writers. On top of that, they do damn fine character pieces, and are able to stretch ideas out over entire skits (something I felt was missing from Foley and McDonald's work in the beginning of season 2 at the very least, besides the Hecubus bits).
so it's between them. In the past I always looked down on McKinney because of SNL, but I realize now (10 years after having formed the opinion at far too young an age) that that's not even remotely fair or reasonable.
I could talk about this for hours. I probably should rewatch Mr. Show after I'm done with this season, until I order 3-5.
Bruce was esoteric to the point that at times his comedy became indecipherable, but when he's on? It's absurdist genius with just enough edge to really cut into a meaty little bit of society.
Scott's hilarious, but his major contribution is gaying the show up at a time that wasn't so accepted in comedy, and being far and away the best actor in the troupe.
Mark I like, he's solid, but I couldn't recognize the sketches that belonged to him. Before they were ever picked up, wasn't it Mark and Bruce that were briefly hired as SNL writers?
Dave is just the ultimate straight man, and Kevin is the physical embodiment of "funny," but they weren't the idea geniuses that stirred the drink.
Most books and tastes and such are all for show regardless.
Yes, if you're a hipster. Real people read or watch or listen to things they either like or think will improve them in some way.
Man, Yeats ain't improving no one these days, and "The Wasteland" is just that.
There's plenty of people who are "hipsters" that are good people, have interesting tastes, and are good people to know, but people just judge them on their fashion and the fact that they have an opinion that runs contrary to something they like. That's my fucking take on it.
I've known a good number of hipsters that I liked a lot, and some that I thought were poseurs or dickheads or douchebags. I guess it's pretty much that way with any "kind" of people, though it does kind of seem like hipsters are a little more up-front with whatever traits they have that might piss you off.
I mean, I know people whose entire bookshelves consist of the NPR-approved reading list, plus maybe Bukowski for the drunks and Burroughs for the druggies. No Henry James or Thackeray, no Dashiell Hammett or Agatha Christie, no Yeats or Keats or Eliot, no science or history. These are people who don't love reading, they just love being seen with books. Fuck them.
Eh I got Henry James, some Yeats, Keats, and Eliot, and I haven't read the James and I hate the poets. Most books and tastes and such are all for show regardless.
I think Keats is overrated. I mean, I like him and all, I just don't think he deserves all the hype he gets. Agatha Christie is fun, but I wouldn't consider her an essential component of any thinking person's library.
he was the first one I recognized as a true genius. you can feel his effect on shit more than the others.
I'm halfway through season two and I've pretty much dropped the chance of Foley or McDonald to be my favorites. Scott Thompson is sometimes absolutely amazing, but I think his character acting is better than his writing, as far as specifics go.
Then comes McCulloch and McKinney (now spelled correctly!). They are both clearly twisted, just enough to be fantastic skit writers. On top of that, they do damn fine character pieces, and are able to stretch ideas out over entire skits (something I felt was missing from Foley and McDonald's work in the beginning of season 2 at the very least, besides the Hecubus bits).
so it's between them. In the past I always looked down on McKinney because of SNL, but I realize now (10 years after having formed the opinion at far too young an age) that that's not even remotely fair or reasonable.
I could talk about this for hours. I probably should rewatch Mr. Show after I'm done with this season, until I order 3-5.
Bruce was esoteric to the point that at times his comedy became indecipherable, but when he's on? It's absurdist genius with just enough edge to really cut into a meaty little bit of society.
Scott's hilarious, but his major contribution is gaying the show up at a time that wasn't so accepted in comedy, and being far and away the best actor in the troupe.
Mark I like, he's solid, but I couldn't recognize the sketches that belonged to him. Before they were ever picked up, wasn't it Mark and Bruce that were briefly hired as SNL writers?
Dave is just the ultimate straight man, and Kevin is the physical embodiment of "funny," but they weren't the idea geniuses that stirred the drink.
yeah I'd pretty much say you hit the nail on the head there.
I'd really, really like to be a comedy writer. If I haven't made that abundantly clear (and I don't mean by being funny).
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He can't faucking write fora shit
not even in his natve language
jesus chrasit paralel structure problemz arrrrrreeeeghhhhhhhhhhh
In fairness, Henry James is a fucking chore and there's not a lot of point of reading more than one Agatha Christie book.
Continental philosophy is the philosophy that doesn't do anything. It's kind of, kind of, kind of like history of philosophy. Kind of. It's about doing philosophy.
Analytic philosophy is philosophy of science, logic, etc.
Yes, if you're a hipster. Real people read or watch or listen to things they either like or think will improve them in some way.
But he does look like Mr. Burns. You have to give him that!
Salad bar Nietzschean? :P
Was this during your teenage years?
Because that is a stupid time to try and figure out your values.
Have you looked in to more vanilla ethical egoism at all?
"No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of. "
he was the first one I recognized as a true genius. you can feel his effect on shit more than the others.
I'm halfway through season two and I've pretty much dropped the chance of Foley or McDonald to be my favorites. Scott Thompson is sometimes absolutely amazing, but I think his character acting is better than his writing, as far as specifics go.
Then comes McCulloch and McKinney (now spelled correctly!). They are both clearly twisted, just enough to be fantastic skit writers. On top of that, they do damn fine character pieces, and are able to stretch ideas out over entire skits (something I felt was missing from Foley and McDonald's work in the beginning of season 2 at the very least, besides the Hecubus bits).
so it's between them. In the past I always looked down on McKinney because of SNL, but I realize now (10 years after having formed the opinion at far too young an age) that that's not even remotely fair or reasonable.
I could talk about this for hours. I probably should rewatch Mr. Show after I'm done with this season, until I order 3-5.
Adny I maybe had a little too mcuh rum. gotta foxus to read
Here's continental philosophy in a nutshell:
Take a logical, well thought argument
Drink tequila until you're blind
take in a donkey show in Mexico
bang a syphilitic transexual while you're there
Starting to see again? Mas tequila, Pedro
Write it all up as a Hunter S Thompson-esque travel memoir
Bang! It's at least as coherent as Hegel
Kant is a duche.
Synthetic A Priori Knowledge my ass.
There's plenty of people who are "hipsters" that are good people, have interesting tastes, and are good people to know, but people just judge them on their fashion and the fact that they have an opinion that runs contrary to something they like. That's my fucking take on it.
I measure amounts of pain in units known as Daisy Millers. For example, getting kicked in the balls is .13 Daisy Millers.
Yup. I mean, really the only constant in his "philosophy" is to just do as you want to, and tear down everything.
Salad-bar Nietzsche meshes a lot more with his concept of the Free Spirit than biting hook, line, and sinker.
Ethical egoism is something I'm only vaguely familiar with, but I'm done with Nietzsche now anyway. I got some useful things out of it, but it sure wasn't worth the price.
But what about Perpetual Peace?
Fuck A Priori Synthetic Propositions.
I mean jesus fuck everything is better than Elliot
Because I really like Foucault, too.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
yes'm
Scott's hilarious, but his major contribution is gaying the show up at a time that wasn't so accepted in comedy, and being far and away the best actor in the troupe.
Mark I like, he's solid, but I couldn't recognize the sketches that belonged to him. Before they were ever picked up, wasn't it Mark and Bruce that were briefly hired as SNL writers?
Dave is just the ultimate straight man, and Kevin is the physical embodiment of "funny," but they weren't the idea geniuses that stirred the drink.
Now to jump off a bridge
FUCK DAMN IT.
Night.
I think Keats is overrated. I mean, I like him and all, I just don't think he deserves all the hype he gets. Agatha Christie is fun, but I wouldn't consider her an essential component of any thinking person's library.
That was him.
He threw a flux capacitor in that shit, warped back to 1927, moved to England, and wrote Four Quartets.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
WAIT EAIT WAIT
JENNIFER LOZPES IS PRDUCING A MOVIE
WHAT THE SHIT
*not really, but I don't really like them, either.
At his best, Yeats was really good.
But mostly he just wanted to write about snuggly kittens and the leaves turning color at Autumn and a nice fire in the fireplace.
do not get me started on fucking foucault
yeah I'd pretty much say you hit the nail on the head there.
I'd really, really like to be a comedy writer. If I haven't made that abundantly clear (and I don't mean by being funny).