Thursday, July 21, 2005

yea. creativty is dead.

per eitan's request: a story about abso-fuckin-lutely nothing. go easy on me, eh? only had 15 minutes to write this:

Tried and true to reason, some things are better left omitted from the manuscript. Regardless, the gut feeling is always the right feeling, and in any event, it is a promise to yourself that is on the brink of being broken, and all you can do is sit there and stare out into the nothingness that is a grey board covered with papers, post-its, and reminders for things you’d never really forget anyway, but smack on up there just so you look busy and on top of things. Let the countdown begin, you think, it’s only a matter of time before it all unfolds into the debacle you know it’ll be, and yet, like the ignoramus you are you garnish whatever muster you have and sprinkle on a little hope as you carry on into the bold unknown. Why? Because that’s what people do, even though you, specifically, don’t want to—no, rephrase, you don’t know how to.

Cut to two years ago when you were aglow with the spirit and vivacity to endeavor farther then you ever thought you could. You opened up the toolbox and plotted away, building the perfect schemata to fit the mold dictated by such an endeavor. The result? Nothing. Nothing but it being thrown back at you with the caption “It’s not good enough”, and a feeling.

Cut to now. That same feeling. You sit in a livid match of thought, while you stare at the grey board. The feeling is back. To learn from the past and jump on it, or to let it slide and find yourself in the position of being captioned once again. It’s a tricky lesson, this thing called life, and you can’t seem to shake the feeling that either way you are fucked. Not just any fucked,
proper fucked.

Cut to three and a half years ago when the caption was “It’s just not worth it to me”.

Abscond isn’t the right word, but it’s the first word that comes to mind.

But you sit, like the jackass you are, and revel in the post-mortem glory of whatever chance you had at being saved from the inevitable six-peat you are now deciding to collide with. I’m overreacting, you think to yourself, and the feeling that you’re desperately trying to shake recoils, for a moment, and then comes on even stronger. It’s the feeling of a chance just not being worth the effort you’re proposing. It’s the feeling that nothing good can ever come, and even still, you sit there with that silly little smirk on your face at the prospect of things going as planned. You like the idea of pulling out the tool box: building the perfect schemata again. You’d sell your soul to the devil, you think, if it would make it all smooth sailing, instead of having to barter with the demons of hope and, even worse, faith. You’d give it all away to prescribe to the opiate aura of mutual adulation forever.

Cut to last year when the caption was “There’s a lot better.”

It’d be scrumptious, you think as you walk down the unlit hallway. Much like your sanity, the hallway has been abandoned but for a tiny straggler trying to find a way to make it all connect. The straggler? Trust. Hope and faith, they are easily forged, but trust? Trust is a goddamn miracle. You set up the fight. Weighing in at each and every shambled captioned moment and its affect on you, in the right corner is that Feeling, and weighing in at a miniscule obscure miracle in the left corner is Trust. You side with Trust.

Injudicious isn’t the right word, but it’s the first word that comes to mind.


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utter crap eh? told ya the creativity was dead. anyway a few ponderings:
1. ambien on an empty stomach has the same effect as drinking 50 shots of tequilla, and then spinning around. bleh!
2. is it really...like honestly...possible to "be real?" ....especially in a house with 7 fuckin strangers?
3. how fuckin awesome is the word bukake? how much do you want to do an angry dragon to a girl just so say you did it?
4. could jessica simpson look ANYMORE different than she did when she started out into this bubble-gum-pop world? lay off the collagen dear...and for christ's sake, eat something.
5. is there anything more annoying than listening to a song and hearing, repeatedly, the singer take in a breath? drives me fucking nuts.

124 comments:

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DZER said...

I need to take a vacation. I can't read anything these days without mentally editing it in my head, complete with red pen and AP proofreader marks.

Distracted isn't the right word, but it's the ... what was I saying?

da buttah said...

elle=gramatical idiot. read the first post i ever wrote guys...all explained haha

DZER said...

my comments were general ... the book I'm currently reading (which sucks), TIME magaine, Yahoo! News ... I'm afflicted with editor-itis.

For the cost of a nickel a day, you can help someone who has contracted editoritis. That's right, just $1.50 a month can make a world of difference in the life of a journalism professional. Won't you help?

DZER said...

ugh ... and even TIME magazine ... I suck ... preaceth and then misspelleth ... LOL

da buttah said...

morning amateur.


yea the guitar string thing gets annoying....especially on some tracks where it like makes your ears recoil with fear as they move their fingers on the fret of an acoustic. OY!

yea..see dzer...it's contagious

da buttah said...

ever have those days where you're so lackluster it's sickening?

da buttah said...

i wrote a story freshman year?! about what?!!

your cards rocked, i do have to admit =0)

Anonymous said...

I need to apologize, because I stopped about half way through that "story" & just went straight to the list.

da buttah said...

shane! props to you. story sucks balls anyway

da buttah said...

some people do like what they write. i've written things i was okay with....but they usually took more than 15 minutes...and i thought of it on my own.

okay..seriously..someone tell me a joke so i can smile for once today

da buttah said...

haha nice amatuer.

MSYTIC TAN! kinda freaky,...but...for 30 seconds, bearable.

Anonymous said...

Yeah motherfuckers! Props to me! For what?

da buttah said...

you skipped the shit story Shane! PROPS! fuckin deal..you get props. jaysus.

DZER said...

Someone gave me "mad props" once.

Too bad he wasn't black.

He was just some guy that worked at a theater.

ba-dum-bum!

da buttah said...

wow. WOW dzer...leave it at that


awesome joke D =0)

da buttah said...

hey..speed is great...minus that whole pesky life-consuming addiction...

Anonymous said...

Surge soda is an FDA approved version of speed.... so I hear

DZER said...

I don't think anyone is ever completely real when in the presence of others ... unless they're oblivious to the fact that others are present.

A theory goes (and I should know what it is but I don't) that you can't observe something without changing it. Likewise, you can't be observed without changing.

da buttah said...

Amatuer: MSN Messenger? no, why?

Comrad: oh darlin, i don't do love. no no, i barely even do dating. me and emotion are like miles and miles and miles apart most of the time.

Wes: i thought jolt was like liquid speed?

Dzer: agreed. but can you ever truly be yourself around someone then?

da buttah said...

damnit! have to wait till lunch to watch it!

uhh i can do e-mail im-ing at work...but sadly..no aim or anything allowed. on the upside, the song "ma-i-a-ue" by ozone came on..and that makes anyone titter like a bitch

DZER said...

da buttah: I don't think so. But that's just me. =o)

da buttah said...

god i'm such a nerd

but you negated hegel who said it is not possible without such ontological structures as primordial ground of consciousness emererging for the Dasein to find itself in the prsence of pure subjectivity. Thus, with this ontological landscape, thought could not exist, for subjectivity is the clear respect for the line between ontological and existential.

blah blah blah...i learned something in metaphysics!

da buttah said...

Comrad: that's the struggle. i like it cold and distant, but sometimes, it doesn't fly. although, initially the prose are about eitan's bouncing ball =0)

da buttah said...

YOU STARTED IT AMATUER!! i need a cool nickname for you..cause the word amatuer drives me nuts...it always looks mispelled

i shall dub thee: jersey

da buttah said...

eat me like a cream puff amateur! i dub thee hotjerseybiscotti of the awesome east coast. and i won't even hold you being from jersey againt you =0)

MURPH! 'sup bitch?!

da buttah said...

damnit. how about jerseypie?

fuck. can you tell i'm hungry?

da buttah said...

hey..3 days no sleep..and a thought process that not even ambien could break me off. cut me a wee lil slack? or don't..that's cool

jersey it is.

DZER said...

there ya go with the monikers again ...

da buttah said...

a day without murph? *whimper*

hmm i always liked the jungle music station on much music's online radio..not sure if it still exists or not

DZER said...

My name is...
Shake zula
The mic rula
The old schoolah
You wanna trip? i'll bring it to ya


... sorry ... stuck in my head

da buttah said...

YES!! SING IT DZER*
*raises the roof*

murph's flying somewhere!

da buttah said...

i have the urge..so y'all can bite me:

"so what seems to be the problem?"
"uhh..fire shoot out of my dick when i pee"
"so you're feeling a burning sensation?"
"naw. fire straight shoot out of my dick when i pee"

heh!

DZER said...

by special request ...

Frylock and im on top rock
you like a cop
Meatwad you up next
with your knock knock

Meatwad get the money, see
Meatwad get the honeys, g
Drivin' in my car livin like a star
Ice on my fingers and my toes and im a Taurus

Cuz we are the aqua teens
Makes the homies say HO
and the girlies wanna scream
Cuz we are the aqua teens
Makes the homies say HO
and the girlies wanna scream

Haha aqua teen hunger force number 1 in the hood G


peace. i'm out.

sassinak said...

okay i have to go google ambien. that happened to me with a muscle relaxant once... slept for like 18 hours

reality is impossible regardless of how many strangers you live with. Even with sisters or best friends you don't necessarily let your entire thought process out.

bukake sounds like fun to say but i'm not so sure i like what it seems to mean when i google it :)

she could dye her hair brown?

i hate that breath thing i really do... the occasional breath sure but otherwise no no no. (that said, also guitar strings are nasty) ... i do like when the singer laughs or something and they leave that in.

morning elle

i'm sad you got played dude but remember that that particular play will never work on you again

da buttah said...

Dzer..i heart you man!

Sass: morning! and lesson learned. and an occasional breath is fine..but like, for example, gwen stefani is seriously guilty of just making to much noise when she sucks in a breath!

DZER said...

"You ever kill anyone?"

"I hurt someone's feelings once."


that's it for me ... it's time to drift off to the soothing operatic violence of Boondock Saints ... night, kiddos

da buttah said...

"i'im gonna get me some african bitch...with a big ol african bush bitch fro...and a plate in her mouth...UNFUFU!"


awesome movie dzer. night sweets *mwah*!

sassinak said...

teresa naomi: thanks darlin' i like you guys too :)

elle: if you're fucking gasping for breath then maybe just maybe yuo should quit smoking or reconsider your career as a singer. alternately, EDIT IT OUT!

da buttah said...

word to the bob dylan (i think that's who it is)

da buttah said...

that's what i'm sayin Sass!

alright jumping on the lyrical styling bandwagon:

You want to estimate
The distance that it takes
To find a lover lover
You want to rectify
This mad look in my eyes
Then find your other lover

I found out how to be perfect for you my dear
While I was bumping around bumping around

You want to estimate
The distance that it takes
To find a lover lover
Come on let's rectify
This mad look in my eye
Come on yes let's discover

You don't want to face me when you
You don't want to make me when you
You don't want to take me when you


One day you'll hold your head
So dark and withered dead
Wish you were here
A simple task to feed
Of unforgiven greed
Wish you were here

I found out how to be perfect for you my dear
While I was bumping around bumping around

You don't want to face me when you
You don't want to make me when you
You don't want to take me when you
Fail

You want to rectify
This mad look in my eye

I found out how to be perfect for you my dear
While I was bumping around bumping around

One day you'll hold your head
So dark and withered dead
Wish you were here
A simple task to feed
Of unforgiven greed
Wish you were here

You don't want to face me when you
You don't want to make me when you
You don't want to take me when you

Anonymous said...

Oh so nice... hollaaaa

da buttah said...

jersey--i heart you as well now. tricky is my fav. and my "i feel like emotional ass" outlet.

sassinak said...

i was gonna type out the lyrics to my song of the month but instead i'll google it and PASTE them <-- lazy bitch

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever wanna be that way
I don't wanna grow up

Seems like folks turn into things
That they'd never want
The only thing to live for is today
I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up

Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
And I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old Tomb
On Grand Street

When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
Fall in and get married then boom
How the hell did I get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up

[i made the band learn this song :)]

da buttah said...

oh god....i'm going brain dead....

ramones?! no....yea? okay, i think so

da buttah said...

naw dude. no cave...just don't go on mad downloading spree's like ya used to

music is like a mood, i think...should vary accordingly

sassinak said...

elle: nope... but the ramones ROCK so cool beans nonetheless :)

amateur you should listen to holly cole's version of that then :)

da buttah said...

internet? sounds es-pensive

Jabbertrack said...

I long for a good melody and lyrics that don't get in the way of the notes.

sassinak said...

amateur: she does it more like a torch song. some might call her a jazz singer... diana krall with a better voice and nicer arrangements maybe?

da buttah said...

i swear to god..i'm going to host a movie/music party at my apartment..and y'all are gonna come..and it'll be a big boozefest...and we'll just make lists of shit we find interesting from each others collection

yes i'm a nizerrd

da buttah said...

Jersey: hence the booze man. and bring the cd's.

i'm still in awe of john legend...and will be seeing him soon. YAY!

sassinak said...

teresa: i personally love her version of 'i don't wanna grow up' which is the lyrics i quoted above. she's pretty cool though. othercat says some of her stuff is so good it makes you want to jump off a cliff :)

and he says that about cassandra wilson's 'i'm so lonesome i could cry' too. (personally i prefer holly)

da buttah said...

i like cassandra wilson...must check out this holly chick now

Anonymous said...

Bizzle-my-Tizzle! Glad you got your sweater, courtesy of "Shitty Weekend Partner in Crime". Eitan's idea huh? I recalled him talking about a bouncing ball, somehow I think you made it an ounce more personal. S'all good Dudette, your resolution is good, I think. See you Friday! Uch, Albany. It cool if I bring non-evil Chami?

sassinak said...

amateur: nice. it's actually that my best friend in the world (othercat.blogspot.com) is a MASSIVE jazz fan. Like 1200 cds and boxes and crates of vinyl. So, he pretty much exposes me to piles of it and I pick out what I like.

Latest pick from radio othercat... Cachaito Lopez' new album is fantastic... details:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005J9WR/qid=1121961468/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7067096-0995326?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

he's another of the buena vista social club guys but this album is really different. there's even a tune with record scratching! it ROCKS

da buttah said...

buena vista club social! aweomse movie!

Big Pops: mike can come. so me, you, eitan, and mike? should be fine. tell me what you want me to make y'all for dinner on saturday so i can shop.

sassinak said...

how do you guys post links as actual links in comments? when i try it rejects my html :(

Anonymous said...

You know of the non-evil chami?

I'll ask 'em about the food baby girl. No worries, we're there to see you, not to slave drive you. Although, I demand that fuckin chocolate your mom has.

da buttah said...

sass: link name goes here

Billy..Plug Away...my next update of the links comes next week...i'll add ya doll.

Big Pops: roger chocolate..we have lift off! HAHA!!

da buttah said...

oh shit...hold on sass

format is
a href=" "
put that in < >
then you do whatever you want to name the link
then end it with /a in <>

Anonymous said...

Got it. Wasn't sure if you were the one who lived with her or not. All you Cali-ans, hard to keep up. Do not ask. The Chami twins are fuckheads. The result of a rotten egg that split. YAHTZEE!

LIFT OFF HAS BEEN CUT SHORT BY BIG GUY WITH MULLET. Heh. Priceless.

da buttah said...

haha Billy you can take me to grey's papaya when one actually opens in cleveland or chicago! nice plug!

yea..and it won't let you split it up...won't let you post the comment. fuckers!

Jabbertrack said...

I have such a hard time discussing music with people. I typically won't listen to something when someone says 'check this out' because I will over-listen.

I had a couple years of education including some music theory, not to mention the Jazz and Classical education from just performing the music so it's hard to just let my ears go. You find the smallest annoyances in what might be a quality song... just because someone wants you to listen to it and tell them what you think. It's snobbish of me but at least I just have a rule that I don't listen to your stuff, and you don't have to listen to mine.

My taste is freakish anyway, my 'top rated' on iPod will bust through some Russian Choral, Hip-Hop, really crazy Coltrane, some Jazz standards, pop, even vocal jazz groups like The Real Group and some more obscure ones. Then you'd hear some old recordings of Calypso that I dig for their raw-ness, some Vietnamese folk music of the Wulu people mixed with chello... and onto the classic big-names, Mozart, Debussy, Tschaicovsky, Rachmoninov...

I absolutely will not listen to anyone's band if they are in one unless they really want honesty and they probably don't.

Sigh :( such a music snob :(

Jabbertrack said...

holy fuck Ed Froman?

Jabbertrack said...

please tell me someone gets that one....

da buttah said...

Dude: grey's papaya..awesome hot dogs in manhattan. fantastic!

Billy: uhh not a big hot dog fan, but my dog loves 'em! not sure...still in the naissance of my blogging...guess it all meshes..how diverse can thoughts really be?

Jabberstud: naw i'm the same way. people look at the shit i listen to and go "uh...no"

da buttah said...

*raises hand* got it!

Anonymous said...

NY dogs rule man, so do Manhattan Irish Pub Crawls

da buttah said...

word.

Jabbertrack said...

OH YEA ABE!

SUP!

that's freakin hilarious!

da buttah said...

ohh Wes...the pub crawls are awesome!

sassinak said...

okay let's see... when i tried that same code on someone else's blog comments page i got REJECTED!

sassinak's blog

now if it works i just want to know why it didn't work BEFORE! :)

sassinak said...

okay that's just weird... but cool nonetheless :)

no more long amazon pastes!

ps street meat scares me

Jabbertrack said...

nothing to be scared of if it's kept at the proper temps, a good quality dog is not as unhealthy as people think

da buttah said...

i stick to kosher dogs. and seeing as i have a jewish dog, she eats kosher dogs

bah-dum-dum!

Jabbertrack said...

gag

sassinak said...

oh my aching brain
elle that just wasn't NICE

da buttah said...

i have no idea why..but my dog loves hot dogs...watermelon....and eggs.

and seeing as i spoil her rotten...she gets those regularly

Anonymous said...

~backs his ass up, Jake style~

Steppin' On Toes said...

Loving the story chicka. Keep it up.

Jabbertrack said...

and a 64 impala

da buttah said...

and a rabit with a hat....shit i forget

Abreu, Jorge said...

You are truly one interesting gal... I dig the writing.

da buttah said...

to go home..or to sit here and do nothing and feel like ass


what's a girl to do

da buttah said...

i should go home early. fuck. mom-zilla

i could buffer it. go home at 3...then go striaght nap. SHIT!

da buttah said...

coolio!!

da buttah said...

never gotten a thing from my aunts or uncles...and seeing as i'm not an aunt, i can't say. however my parents, for my cousin's 20th birthday, sent him a check for $300....so i think you're dandy!

my bad Jersey. may bad.

da buttah said...

and..for good measure:


REGULATORS! MOUNT UP!

da buttah said...

rollin down the street smoking endo! sippin on gin'n'juice

laaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid back

with my mind on my money and my money on my mind

da buttah said...

LL IS DA MAN!!!

seriously. i love him!

da buttah said...

thanks multiple vagina man!

my brain is mush..i didn't even read it as know..i read it as knock. i didn't even notice till you pointed it out.

Anonymous said...

Z's coming. Don't get to excited!

da buttah said...

Jersey: i like lists cause i'm one of those insane people that has to have everything organized. law school does that to you. info must be organized in an easily recallable manner. and no, recallable is not a word.

Big Pops: are you fucking shitting me?! WHY?!! uchhh. fine.

da buttah said...

here's the thing..we started out friends....it was cool but it was all pretend....yea..yea...since you been gone


her music is like crack.

Johnny Menace said...

So the 50 shots of tequilla with 7 stangers led to bukake? and yes injudicious isn't the right word.

da buttah said...

buying bread from a man in brussels..he was six foor four and full mucles...i said..do you speak-a my language...he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwhich..and he said

i come from a land down under
where beer does flow and men chunder
cant you hear, can't you hear that thunder
you better run, you better take cover

da buttah said...

injudicious: showing lack of judgement. IT FUCING WORKS JOHNNY! now give me your other foot so i can tie that shoe now.

da buttah said...

you want an annoying song in your head?

"stayin alive". 'nuff said.

da buttah said...

mmmmMMM went the little green frog one day

mmmmMMM went the little green frog

mmmmMMM went the little green frog one day

so they all went mmmmMMM ahhh

but we all know frogs go..ladeeeedadeeda...ladeedadeeeda..we all know frogs go ladeedadeeda..they don't go mmmmMMM ahh

da buttah said...

am i the only one who didn't watch full house as a kid?

the frog song! camp classic!

da buttah said...

i have foreign parents. go figure!

Johnny Menace said...

look you should have gotten that fucking shoe while you were down there the first time.

da buttah said...

actually...discovery channel Jersy. or doing math games my dad would think of. god. that's depressing!

Johnny...fine! i won't go down on you again. pig fucker!

Johnny Menace said...

that's great. now i can find someone who can get it done the first time they go down.

da buttah said...

more like.."elka..what's 3 to 9th power, devided by 17, plus 4?" there's a reason i'm nerdy man!

Johnny..you're pretty fuckin ungrateful. it's hot.

Johnny Menace said...

someone should cock slap you. both of you.

Johnny Menace said...

and i couldn't say i would use peanut butter... what kind of dog are we talking about?

da buttah said...

mushroom slap? interesting

border collie. black, white, long legs, eyelashes to die for.

Johnny Menace said...

never been cock slapped... sounds like a new post for you.
if you didn't mention the eyelashes then i don't know.. might of had to pass.. no i won't need pb.. not for a border collie.. maple brown oatmeal will do.. that's where your oatmeal goes by the way.

Pseudo-intellectual lunatic said...

your blog is popular as hell dog

da buttah said...

damn you Johnny. well, least it went to good use.

Johnny Menace said...

damn me all you want. but you need to finally come out and admit you use that oatmeal on your dog instead of this "i can't find my oatmeal in morning and i don't know what i did with it" act.

da buttah said...

i would never do such vile acts with my princess. how dare you insinuate

now with my cat....whole other story.

da buttah said...

*tear* amen jersey..AMEN!

sassinak said...

for annoying songs may i present (bit late i know)
it's a small world after all....

elle if it makes you feel better my dad wouldn't let me get a calculator until my grade 12 math teacher refused to grade my logs work because i was using tables instead of a calc and i got slightly different answers and SHE didn't want to do the work twice.

that said, i'm whiz bang at math now so i think he was right.

Mitch said...

Reading that made me feel like I was back in college passing around the big purple bong and listening to one of the greatest things anybody ever said even though I wasn't really sure what they were saying. Whoa!?!? I truly enjoyed that.

Carl Spackler said...

nice blog...you are super hot!

Johnny Menace said...

ok its not your dog... the oatmeal goes on your cat. Finally, you come clean. I guess aksjesusblog will sort this out.

Arvin Hill said...

I can't condone any of this.






Except for the Ambien.

Jabbertrack said...

well if there isn't any more talk of boobs then I have a new and fantastic housewife rant up on my blog, I also invented a fantastic word

Anonymous said...

There's always boob talk, and for good reason....but yeah, I'm game.

DZER said...

lah-dee dah-dee, we like to party
we don't cause trouble
we don't bother nobody

I miss soooo much when I sleep. Damn you, international date line!!

BadGod said...

comment 224! fuckers!