Yesterday i saw a classic absurdist play from 80s Quebec: Les Voisins.
It's.... well, i'll start off by translating the play's most iconic line: "Mayonnaise tastes so good. I can't tell what it tastes of. But it's good with anything."
That's the intensity it reaches.
It's basically a play about how devoid of meaning suburban life is. The main characters pretty much don't have character traits. Sure, they have likes and dislikes but calling them one-dimensional would be exaggerating their depth. One character can be described as "happy" and can basically speak only in meaningless pleasantries. It's like "what if King of the Hill, except literally nothing happens". Straight up half the script is awkward silences. It's somehow still very funny. I found it to be pretty genius how it worked out.
Like, 50% of the play is awkward silences and 40% is just lines completely devoid of meaning. stuff like the mayonnaise thing or exchanges like "I thought i looked bad in this dress" "Oh, it doesn't look it." OR "Well, been a while, eh" "Yeah, what have you been up to?" "Been to Canadian Tire" "You serious?" "I'm telling you"
There's two characters with any depth and they barely appear in the play. One's the daughter of one of the main characters and the other's a used car salesman who's womanizing and has a heart attack. The heart attack is pretty much glossed over entirely despite being one of the major events in the play.
The actors we pretty damn good, too. They were extremely stiff and looks uncomfortable as hell which worked marvelously.
I give it a 10/10.
Québécois Ionesco, I take it?
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Yesterday i saw a classic absurdist play from 80s Quebec: Les Voisins.
It's.... well, i'll start off by translating the play's most iconic line: "Mayonnaise tastes so good. I can't tell what it tastes of. But it's good with anything."
That's the intensity it reaches.
It's basically a play about how devoid of meaning suburban life is. The main characters pretty much don't have character traits. Sure, they have likes and dislikes but calling them one-dimensional would be exaggerating their depth. One character can be described as "happy" and can basically speak only in meaningless pleasantries. It's like "what if King of the Hill, except literally nothing happens". Straight up half the script is awkward silences. It's somehow still very funny. I found it to be pretty genius how it worked out.
Like, 50% of the play is awkward silences and 40% is just lines completely devoid of meaning. stuff like the mayonnaise thing or exchanges like "I thought i looked bad in this dress" "Oh, it doesn't look it." OR "Well, been a while, eh" "Yeah, what have you been up to?" "Been to Canadian Tire" "You serious?" "I'm telling you"
There's two characters with any depth and they barely appear in the play. One's the daughter of one of the main characters and the other's a used car salesman who's womanizing and has a heart attack. The heart attack is pretty much glossed over entirely despite being one of the major events in the play.
The actors we pretty damn good, too. They were extremely stiff and looks uncomfortable as hell which worked marvelously.
Yesterday i saw a classic absurdist play from 80s Quebec: Les Voisins.
It's.... well, i'll start off by translating the play's most iconic line: "Mayonnaise tastes so good. I can't tell what it tastes of. But it's good with anything."
That's the intensity it reaches.
It's basically a play about how devoid of meaning suburban life is. The main characters pretty much don't have character traits. Sure, they have likes and dislikes but calling them one-dimensional would be exaggerating their depth. One character can be described as "happy" and can basically speak only in meaningless pleasantries. It's like "what if King of the Hill, except literally nothing happens". Straight up half the script is awkward silences. It's somehow still very funny. I found it to be pretty genius how it worked out.
Like, 50% of the play is awkward silences and 40% is just lines completely devoid of meaning. stuff like the mayonnaise thing or exchanges like "I thought i looked bad in this dress" "Oh, it doesn't look it." OR "Well, been a while, eh" "Yeah, what have you been up to?" "Been to Canadian Tire" "You serious?" "I'm telling you"
There's two characters with any depth and they barely appear in the play. One's the daughter of one of the main characters and the other's a used car salesman who's womanizing and has a heart attack. The heart attack is pretty much glossed over entirely despite being one of the major events in the play.
The actors we pretty damn good, too. They were extremely stiff and looks uncomfortable as hell which worked marvelously.
I give it a 10/10.
Québécois Ionesco, I take it?
I'm not very cultured so i don't know? Maybe?
Ionesco was a Romanian-turned-French Absurdist who wrote mostly in the 50's and 60's and my French class read his most famous play, La Cantatrice chauve which is about characters engaging in nonsensical and absurd conversation and it's the sort of absurdity that makes you question whether or not you're having a stroke
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Yesterday i saw a classic absurdist play from 80s Quebec: Les Voisins.
It's.... well, i'll start off by translating the play's most iconic line: "Mayonnaise tastes so good. I can't tell what it tastes of. But it's good with anything."
That's the intensity it reaches.
It's basically a play about how devoid of meaning suburban life is. The main characters pretty much don't have character traits. Sure, they have likes and dislikes but calling them one-dimensional would be exaggerating their depth. One character can be described as "happy" and can basically speak only in meaningless pleasantries. It's like "what if King of the Hill, except literally nothing happens". Straight up half the script is awkward silences. It's somehow still very funny. I found it to be pretty genius how it worked out.
Like, 50% of the play is awkward silences and 40% is just lines completely devoid of meaning. stuff like the mayonnaise thing or exchanges like "I thought i looked bad in this dress" "Oh, it doesn't look it." OR "Well, been a while, eh" "Yeah, what have you been up to?" "Been to Canadian Tire" "You serious?" "I'm telling you"
There's two characters with any depth and they barely appear in the play. One's the daughter of one of the main characters and the other's a used car salesman who's womanizing and has a heart attack. The heart attack is pretty much glossed over entirely despite being one of the major events in the play.
The actors we pretty damn good, too. They were extremely stiff and looks uncomfortable as hell which worked marvelously.
I give it a 10/10.
Québécois Ionesco, I take it?
I'm not very cultured so i don't know? Maybe?
Ionesco was a Romanian-turned-French Absurdist who wrote mostly in the 50's and 60's and my French class read his most famous play, La Cantatrice chauve which is about characters engaging in nonsensical and absurd conversation and it's the sort of absurdity that makes you question whether or not you're having a stroke
Ah, then no.
It's not nonsense texts it's more like..... empty words.
I was sleeping on my fist so I'm now awake at half two in the goddamn morning with a throbbing ear
Nothing like playing "is this pain an ear infection or the obvious result of knuckling my ear for an unknown period of time" in a dark room with just the sound of your cat licking itself for company
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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Quick, try standing up and spin around a few times
If you get dizzy it’s an ear infection
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
in the far off future, will [chat] be a cold wasteland of forgotten posters and infinitely-up-their-own-ass memes? will the wind howl over the dead, forgotten threads that used to be full of life?
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in the far off future, will [chat] be a cold wasteland of forgotten posters and infinitely-up-their-own-ass memes? will the wind howl over the dead, forgotten threads that used to be full of life?
nah I'll come back 20 years later and just stay put and start posting achewood comics for the remainder of eternity
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@Casual Eddy It's good! Had to bump the difficulty down to Veteran, commander was rough. And I've beaten commander war of the chosen on iron man! Veteran seems appropriately tough but not "dear god this is hard" so far. The new classes and alien types are cool, except I hate the little flying drone motherfuckers.
~Casual Eddy It's good! Had to bump the difficulty down to Veteran, commander was rough. And I've beaten commander war of the chosen on iron man! Veteran seems appropriately tough but not "dear god this is hard" so far. The new classes and alien types are cool, except I hate the little flying drone motherfuckers.
Heh, I hear the drones in LW1 were bastards too.
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@ "Casual Eddy" It's good! Had to bump the difficulty down to Veteran, commander was rough. And I've beaten commander war of the chosen on iron man! Veteran seems appropriately tough but not "dear god this is hard" so far. The new classes and alien types are cool, except I hate the little flying drone motherfuckers.
sounds good! do they still have the infiltration thing? I loved that part
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Abby's birthday stream today on Giant Bomb is legit one of the best Giant Bomb videos I've ever seen
She plays the Sims and has a clusterfuck of back-to-back parties with the Giant Bomb cast and some celebrities, including Dobby.
Somehow I've never actually thrown a party in the Sims before, but they seem to really capture the chaos and many microcosms of socialization that exist at a real world party.
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Québécois Ionesco, I take it?
I'm not very cultured so i don't know? Maybe?
Check out my site, the Bismuth Heart | My Twitter
Ionesco was a Romanian-turned-French Absurdist who wrote mostly in the 50's and 60's and my French class read his most famous play, La Cantatrice chauve which is about characters engaging in nonsensical and absurd conversation and it's the sort of absurdity that makes you question whether or not you're having a stroke
Ah, then no.
It's not nonsense texts it's more like..... empty words.
Check out my site, the Bismuth Heart | My Twitter
Also I missed you when you were gone and I’m glad you’re back for however long you deign to grace us with your presence
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I was sleeping on my fist so I'm now awake at half two in the goddamn morning with a throbbing ear
Nothing like playing "is this pain an ear infection or the obvious result of knuckling my ear for an unknown period of time" in a dark room with just the sound of your cat licking itself for company
If you get dizzy it’s an ear infection
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
That was weird to do in a dark room - probably should have turned the light on
Looks like I'm in the clear, though
nah I'll come back 20 years later and just stay put and start posting achewood comics for the remainder of eternity
*posting*
Don't fucking lie to me zepherin
are those supposed to be roleplaying asterisks .
*To be fair it’s mostly just Lindsay Ellis
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
just lapped away at while making groaning noises
it was really something
@Casual Eddy It's good! Had to bump the difficulty down to Veteran, commander was rough. And I've beaten commander war of the chosen on iron man! Veteran seems appropriately tough but not "dear god this is hard" so far. The new classes and alien types are cool, except I hate the little flying drone motherfuckers.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ellen-murray/the-bilbcast
The only fucking lie is cats.
sounds good! do they still have the infiltration thing? I loved that part
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/microsofts-sneaky-plan-to-switch-chrome-searches-from-google-to-bing/
She plays the Sims and has a clusterfuck of back-to-back parties with the Giant Bomb cast and some celebrities, including Dobby.
Somehow I've never actually thrown a party in the Sims before, but they seem to really capture the chaos and many microcosms of socialization that exist at a real world party.
Is there a supercut of Jared Harris scenes so I can excuse myself from the contact embarrassment of the rest of the show
*for my definition of watched, which is to say skipped through most of it
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin