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comix64i got an oreo hot chocolate bomb thingy for christmas. i decided to have it now. my mug is currently an incoherent little sludge of oreo and chocolate. not enough milk i guess. attempts to coalece it out of its shelter have proven fruitless.
i know that in Infinite Jest, the years being owned by companies is supposed to be a sort of cautionary kind of thing, like, it causes capitalism to be literally unescapable as a result, and its really sucky, but, i dunno, i kind of like the idea of making up names of new years. when i began reading it, i didnt catch on that they were brands (e.g., i thought Year of Glad was literally the feeling of being glad) and i want to make the year names more like that since it's better than corp. names. nonetheless, i still made up one (1) corp. named year. i also like to make up fictional brands/products, which is also acceptable to me, since you can't advertise what doesn't exist.
Year of the Boilbai Resuscitation and Concurrent Diffusion Checkout System
Year of the Munikiak Arithmet Automatic Lockout Suspension Machinai
Year of the Blacksmith Sixth Millennium Hyperweapon
Year of Impetus
Year of Citrus
Year of Klubnika
Year of Psyche
and, the one (1) genuine corp. named year:
Year of the Cat & Jack One-Size Fits All Long-Sleeve Parka
but, you know, i prefer abstractly named ones more than corp. named ones. i hate corporations.
uh, but, anyway, im excited to go to the temple on sunday. its been on my mind a lot. is this how devout christians feel about church? i havent really cared about religion all my life.
Infinite Jest does a great job, i think, of forcing one to enter that sort of omniscient view on the world, in which they understand how minuscule an individual is, and how intricate lives, are, e.g., how one person's life has a lot of events, and all people combined have a lot of events, and how this comprises the novel as well as the overview-ish grand picture of what life is. Infinite Jest attempts to bruteforce an understanding of sonder by throwing you headfirst into multiple different lives with full detail. i have no idea whether it does it well, since i was already aware of that kind of thing, but i think it's nice to explore anyway.
i got to footnote i think 110 or so, where it shows a typewriter'd piece of mail from the Moms to Orin, and shows the automated card-and-autograph back, and then details a should-be-rushed conversation between Hal and Orin, which is stopped short by Pemulis because of how not-rushed it is on Orin's part. everyone in that book is fictional, and none of it happened, and yet i still chuckled and felt a genuine kind of human connection per se betwen myself and Pemulis when he did that gag with his arm and pretending to be pulled away. the kind of connection you feel with a joke, is all i can describe. it felt like a real thing that happened. i dunno. i don't mean to communicate that i feel like any of it really happened, but it felt like i had read an event for a moment, rather than a choreographed fiction on text. i think footnote 110 is my favorite part of the book.
i saw the music video for Calamity Song by The Decemberists, and i didnt like the music at all, but i think a genuine, full film in the style of the scene depicted in there would be awesome. i think film theorists and studiers and such dont pay attention to their source as much as lit. theorists and studiers do, that is, i think if there were a film it would be a little too easy to digest without caring about the connections and such, but i would welcome it nonetheless, because i find it would be nice to percieve it directly instead of imagining the areas and faces. unfortunately, the state of film in 2025 is such that i dont think it would be a good movie if it were to be made now. ideally it would have already released, in like, 1999 to 2009.
i know that in Infinite Jest, the years being owned by companies is supposed to be a sort of cautionary kind of thing, like, it causes capitalism to be literally unescapable as a result, and its really sucky, but, i dunno, i kind of like the idea of making up names of new years. when i began reading it, i didnt catch on that they were brands (e.g., i thought Year of Glad was literally the feeling of being glad) and i want to make the year names more like that since it's better than corp. names. nonetheless, i still made up one (1) corp. named year. i also like to make up fictional brands/products, which is also acceptable to me, since you can't advertise what doesn't exist.
Year of the Boilbai Resuscitation and Concurrent Diffusion Checkout System
Year of the Munikiak Arithmet Automatic Lockout Suspension Machinai
Year of the Blacksmith Sixth Millennium Hyperweapon
Year of Impetus
Year of Citrus
Year of Klubnika
Year of Psyche
and, the one (1) genuine corp. named year:
Year of the Cat & Jack One-Size Fits All Long-Sleeve Parka
but, you know, i prefer abstractly named ones more than corp. named ones. i hate corporations.
uh, but, anyway, im excited to go to the temple on sunday. its been on my mind a lot. is this how devout christians feel about church? i havent really cared about religion all my life.
Infinite Jest does a great job, i think, of forcing one to enter that sort of omniscient view on the world, in which they understand how minuscule an individual is, and how intricate lives, are, e.g., how one person's life has a lot of events, and all people combined have a lot of events, and how this comprises the novel as well as the overview-ish grand picture of what life is. Infinite Jest attempts to bruteforce an understanding of sonder by throwing you headfirst into multiple different lives with full detail. i have no idea whether it does it well, since i was already aware of that kind of thing, but i think it's nice to explore anyway.
i got to footnote i think 110 or so, where it shows a typewriter'd piece of mail from the Moms to Orin, and shows the automated card-and-autograph back, and then details a should-be-rushed conversation between Hal and Orin, which is stopped short by Pemulis because of how not-rushed it is on Orin's part. everyone in that book is fictional, and none of it happened, and yet i still chuckled and felt a genuine kind of human connection per se betwen myself and Pemulis when he did that gag with his arm and pretending to be pulled away. the kind of connection you feel with a joke, is all i can describe. it felt like a real thing that happened. i dunno. i don't mean to communicate that i feel like any of it really happened, but it felt like i had read an event for a moment, rather than a choreographed fiction on text. i think footnote 110 is my favorite part of the book.
i saw the music video for Calamity Song by The Decemberists, and i didnt like the music at all, but i think a genuine, full film in the style of the scene depicted in there would be awesome. i think film theorists and studiers and such dont pay attention to their source as much as lit. theorists and studiers do, that is, i think if there were a film it would be a little too easy to digest without caring about the connections and such, but i would welcome it nonetheless, because i find it would be nice to percieve it directly instead of imagining the areas and faces. unfortunately, the state of film in 2025 is such that i dont think it would be a good movie if it were to be made now. ideally it would have already released, in like, 1999 to 2009.
