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OP - July 18, 2011, 09:40 PM

To signify nothing and yet to mean everything; what nobler wish might one have?

These are the ramblings of an ego struggling to escape from under a 50-tonne mountain of shit. Its mission: to invent breathing apparatus.

Before it gets too late, you will find escape.
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Reply #1 - July 18, 2011, 10:14 PM

Fascinating. I could read that again and again and again (I had to, in order to try to stay with you).

I'm not sure why you've chosen to write it, but I do like it toor.

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Reply #2 - July 18, 2011, 10:28 PM

Did you ever watch Suede live back in the day?

I completely missed seeing them then, but I made up for it last night. Absolutely brilliant.

Brett's not gotten over his aversion to 'stay together', though. Which is a shame. I spent years not getting girlfriends to that song.

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Reply #3 - July 18, 2011, 10:41 PM

I.Love.Suede.

They were my second gig, after steteolab (remember them?). It was just when Dog Man Star came out. I love every minute of that memory.

I wasn't a massive fan of Stay Together. I still aren't. That song will never work without Bernard Butler anyways???

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Reply #4 - July 19, 2011, 07:06 AM

Stereolab - now there's a memory. I wonder what happened to them..

I only like Stay Together for reminding me what it was like to be an angsty 17 year-old, tragically inept with the ladies. There was a time that it was my go-to song for yet another rejection.

I never got into McAlmont and Butler, and somehow never quite got as far as listening to The Tears. Too much fear of disappointment. Wussy, I know.

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Reply #5 - July 19, 2011, 08:02 AM

My preferred songs of choice when I was going through a similar phase were 'how soon is now' and ' this is the day' by The The.

Listen toor, I've now noticed that this is a blog, and not just a random thread like I first thought. So, I'll get out of your way and let you tell us your story (in your own unique way, no doubt). What you said in your first post makes a lot of sense now. Can you clarify one thing though: when you were speaking of being in the shit, you were talking retrospectively right? You seem so together now, so I'm assuming you are?

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Reply #6 - July 19, 2011, 08:34 AM

Spoiler warning: overwrought cliches ahoy. If you dislike stream-of-consciousness rambling, look away now.

I'm exhausted.

What there is of a personality to me feels like multiple veneers; baked in the sun over too many summers, now peeling, flaking away to each touch. Scratch it and one might find.. what?

I'm tired of not being able to define my own purpose, of not even being poor enough a liar as to successfully lie to myself.

I'm tired of looking for meaning. I see a void and wish to revel in it, exult in it. And yet, I cannot.

I know there's a joyful self in me somewhere. I've seen glimpses of it. The thought sometimes gnaws at me.

I have a love for shit metaphors. Can you tell?

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Reply #7 - July 19, 2011, 11:48 AM
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Reply #8 - July 21, 2011, 10:15 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGqFJbQ6zjE

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Reply #9 - July 22, 2011, 11:50 PM

MOAR POSTS PLZ
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Reply #10 - July 23, 2011, 12:29 AM

Quote from: toor on July 19, 2011, 08:34 AM
Spoiler warning: overwrought cliches ahoy. If you dislike stream-of-consciousness rambling, look away now.

I'm exhausted.

What there is of a personality to me feels like multiple veneers; baked in the sun over too many summers, now peeling, flaking away to each touch. Scratch it and one might find.. what?

I'm tired of not being able to define my own purpose, of not even being poor enough a liar as to successfully lie to myself.

I'm tired of looking for meaning. I see a void and wish to revel in it, exult in it. And yet, I cannot.

I know there's a joyful self in me somewhere. I've seen glimpses of it. The thought sometimes gnaws at me.

I have a love for shit metaphors. Can you tell?

God Damn! ,now i know why you are JOTM.

"I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

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Reply #11 - August 29, 2011, 09:56 PM

Boredom. A necessary evil. To be sentient is to invite it. Much-derided as a symptom of too much free time, nobody professes to care much for it.

Until now.

I am recovering from being overstimulated by nothing in particular.

Nothing exercises me; any attempt to illuminate my deepest thoughts finds nothing worth the light. Trivia, profundity, nothing penetrates anymore.

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Reply #12 - August 29, 2011, 10:07 PM

Quote from: toor on August 29, 2011, 09:56 PM
Boredom. A necessary evil. To be sentient is to invite it. Much-derided as a symptom of too much free time, nobody professes to care much for it.

Until now.

I am recovering from being overstimulated by nothing in particular.

Nothing exercises me; any attempt to illuminate my deepest thoughts finds nothing worth the light. Trivia, profundity, nothing penetrates anymore.

Support National Impotence Week.

You just need a guy with a stronger dick

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

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Reply #13 - August 29, 2011, 10:16 PM

Quote from: stardust on August 29, 2011, 10:07 PM
You just need a guy with a stronger dick

Astagfirullah.

You're not stardust. She would never boast of having a veiny, pendulous member, the like of which has been unwritten since Alex Haley's failed attempts to make Kunta Kinte into a positive penile role model.

Please send pictures at once. My mouth is watering and my buttocks are all a-tingle. I've not felt like this since MAB was last here.

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Reply #14 - September 06, 2011, 03:33 PM

Before it gets too late, you will find escape.
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Reply #15 - October 07, 2011, 10:15 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

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Reply #16 - October 09, 2011, 01:09 PM

Omg, your sig. (It clicks, people.)
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Reply #17 - October 12, 2011, 09:21 PM

And there I thought this was going to be about game theory.

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Reply #18 - October 12, 2011, 09:33 PM

Zero sum reminds me of this excellent TED talk (from 2008) by Robert Wright, the author of Non-zero:

Robert Wright: How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZFIy2mfyE

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Reply #19 - October 12, 2011, 10:23 PM

Quote from: VHD on October 12, 2011, 09:21 PM
And there I thought this was going to be about game theory.

Sadly, no.

Puns were the best I could offer, as I know next to nothing about game theory. I don't remember studying algorithms in any depth (or I might have been asleep during those lectures - it was a while ago), so I'd never have seen it anyway..

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Reply #20 - October 27, 2011, 08:16 AM

You know how it is: one minute you’re having sex and the next, your partner has been stung and paralysed, and you’re being dragged off to a burrow by your genitals only to be buried and eaten alive.

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Reply #21 - November 11, 2011, 09:32 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=438UKM1Av1g

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Reply #22 - March 12, 2012, 07:04 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinLlMyGnpo

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Reply #23 - March 12, 2012, 10:51 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Oq6QNWoIFSA#t=23s

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Reply #24 - March 14, 2012, 08:36 AM

Before it gets too late, you will find escape.
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Reply #25 - March 15, 2012, 12:08 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=mOwno9o7V6U

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Reply #26 - March 16, 2012, 08:20 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=67egiD8ytOo#t=27s

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Reply #27 - March 28, 2012, 05:30 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUlQFweKLWibdqko2HfeHkBg&feature=player_detailpage&v=teo_5k38pm8

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Reply #28 - May 05, 2012, 01:31 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=5O3QtYlRfLE

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Reply #29 - May 05, 2012, 02:17 PM

Quote from: toor on March 14, 2012, 08:36 AM
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Fantastic. Copied.
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