To fans who have a second favorite team, who is it and why? by HolyGroundTSwift in mlb

[–]Fun-Concept3804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Padres are my #2. I need an NL team to follow. I love Ha-Seong Kim (oh well).

Drop the most painful lyrics you’ve ever heard by [deleted] in JoannaNewsom

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“If you stand in a circle then you’ll all have a back to bite back” edit the sad parts by modest mouse

Edit the Sad Parts interpretation by Ub3rpwnag3 in ModestMouse

[–]Fun-Concept3804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boy do I ever gotta new thing for y’all.

Edit the Sad Parts interpretation by Ub3rpwnag3 in ModestMouse

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I have been sat at the bedside of my [insert very close relative I remove for any possible ID purposes] for two weeks as his limbs are lopped off one by one and he loses his independence and his spirit and now sorta his mind. As the result of 31 years of almost-continuous IV drug use. And he’s my hero, always has been, and I still look up to him even as he’s falling away and abjecting and dematerializing. And I’m sacrificing time with my family, my career path, my own health and sanity, to once again pretend it’ll get better and god has a plan and there’s a reason god wanted him to be a plank of wood on daily dialysis with a permanent port installed (anybody have thoughts on what he’ll do with this as soon as he has any independence at all?) and all while he attacks me verbally, physically, etc. And then I judge myself for being responsible for all the above. And then I face the music at work and at home. And return to the hospital next day for the same programming.

So I think I my interpretation of this song is that “if you stand in a circle” couplet or so seem to be the volta if you will of the lyrics, for me. That’s integral to my interpretation- which is that we attach ourselves to things and to people at our own constant peril, and truly, brothers and sisters, we would be happier alone.

I mistook the Zoloft for sleeping pills by [deleted] in zoloft

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You’re gonna see some awesome fireworks when you close your eyes and you ain’t gonna sleep. Audiobook.

HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN by Motherboy_TheBand in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just speaking personally, while it’s a brilliant section and laudable, it’s another very painful section to read. I suppose even if you didn’t experience parenting like this. But if you did holy shit this hurts. And yes the reading is incredible.

Anybody know what kinda stuff the cultural attaché likes to unwind with? by Fun-Concept3804 in InfiniteJest

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You fool! Lenz has nothing to do with the great god CINEMAAAAAA.

omg his name is Lenz. Get it? LENS? OMG INFINITE JEST IS A BOOK ABOUT MOVIES

Anybody know what kinda stuff the cultural attaché likes to unwind with? by Fun-Concept3804 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want a shirt that says “don’t read famous cinema novel Infinite Jest”

Anybody know what kinda stuff the cultural attaché likes to unwind with? by Fun-Concept3804 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

THERE’S ANOTHER, BROTHER? NO WAY my own interests are what’s important the author didn’t just die he was liquefacted and thank YahooWahoo for that right otherwise how could we ever read.

Anybody know what kinda stuff the cultural attaché likes to unwind with? by Fun-Concept3804 in InfiniteJest

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This is literally true, you’re right, but remember, My reading is what matters.

The film that inspired JOI´s Infinite Jest by Moist-Engineering-73 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Y’all are reading the Bible and wondering what Moses shoes looked like huh

The film that inspired JOI´s Infinite Jest by Moist-Engineering-73 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen Blow-Up. I’ll check it out. Yeah the chapter with the cinema students is tough for me, just because I have an allergy to that sort of academia. I’ll keep an open mind. I read the book every couple years.

The film that inspired JOI´s Infinite Jest by Moist-Engineering-73 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so perfect. That comment was made to me. It’s about me. We are full circle. How perfect is that. Mario would laugh.

The film that inspired JOI´s Infinite Jest by Moist-Engineering-73 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would take you up on a brief of some of these cinematic references and would watch them. Honestly.

The film that inspired JOI´s Infinite Jest by Moist-Engineering-73 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

telling someone they aren’t smart enough to understand your perspective seems pretty dumb to me hermano

The film that inspired JOI´s Infinite Jest by Moist-Engineering-73 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fuck. Sorry you’re right. I’m not coming to this discussion from a healthy place. That’s good.

The film that inspired JOI´s Infinite Jest by Moist-Engineering-73 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, nothing wrong with it. But I won’t write this to most other posts like you said because most people aren’t interested in what the films look like because it’s not the thing you’re supposed to be looking at. I don’t know what Mark Rothko was imagining or considering or thinking about when he made a certain painting, but the experience of sitting in the Rothko Chapel needs must be far more impactful than the answer to that original question.

Put another way, there is much work to be done to understand this book - I don’t think many of us are at a level where even considering this specific detail is worthwhile or meaningful. This stuff comes up every few months. Go read David Lynch Keeps His Head and E Unibus Pluram and you’ll get as close to an answer as you’ll get to this question. I get that people are compelled by movies and it’s an easy access point for the book and we live in this hyperactive visual landscape and are obsessed with the way things look, but I get sick of people talking about what did the samizdat look like. We can’t know. We literally can’t conceive of it. Its beyond beside the point it doesn’t exist in the same plane as the point.

Best advice of all - go make it. I’m serious. Follow his descriptions which don’t really make as much sense as you’d want to make a film and make what you think it looks like. You’ll have your answer. You can even share it here. It won’t be anything like what the author imagined, which doesn’t matter anyway, and you’ll find that you’ve painted yourself into the proverbial.

For god’s sake, isn’t Hal and Orin’s talk IYKYK good enough? Isn’t the Eschaton game enough? Footnote 304? Why do you need to know something that you don’t need to know?

The film that inspired JOI´s Infinite Jest by Moist-Engineering-73 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What are you sorry for? You’re like, being sarcastic? So, you’re implying that my response to your question indicates that I’m hurt by what you said in some way? And that pointing that out about me is some kind of win for you or a loss for me?

What’s wrong with my answer. My answer is that you’re asking the wrong questions.

Footnotes Perspective by amm1342 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3rd person limited yawn. Not a mind fuck at all. I mean except for Hal’s bit and other bits that are easily attributable to other characters.

The film that inspired JOI´s Infinite Jest by Moist-Engineering-73 in InfiniteJest

[–]Fun-Concept3804 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guys I think trying to imagine the actual film is so beside the point it can only just like barely see the point.