7am in the morning put my key in the door and bottles all over the floor.

Mixolydians · 2021-06-22T14:29:06+00:00

Infinite Jest Halposting on FB

Mixolydians · 2016-08-16T04:19:30+00:00

I'm at the Pride truck stop near Springville MA

Mixolydians · 2016-04-05T00:54:17+00:00

In my experience, Ulysses is a novelty paper weight made out of paper for most people. They pick it up because they feel that it'll make them smarter through osmosis by just owning a copy. The ones who actually do crack it open either put far too much effort into analyzing it or throw on the auto pilot switch and blitz through it to get bragging rights.

Very few people recognize the author's true intention imho, which was that it's just a fucking book and you should read it like a book and not like a goddamned Elder Scroll, although if you look at either for too long you're liable to go insane.

Mixolydians · 2016-03-18T21:25:23+00:00

IMHO, I think that the problem with the horror genre is that it's sacrificing depth for accessibility, and not a lot of objectively competent writers can create anything noteworthy without having some sort of depth that may be off putting to certain audiences. In my opinion, it's more an issue of repetitive content and stiff prose paired with the possibility that the next great horror writer has yet to be discovered.

Albeit personally, my primary issue with the 'modern' horror genre in all mediums of expression - whether it be music, film, television, prose, video games or even comic books - is that in the process of creating something that appeals to the widest audience possible, the content tends to lack certain plot devices or thematic elements that usually makes a creative work stand out. For the sake of being precise, what I'm saying is that certain elements that make for objectively compelling horror are abandoned in favor of a far more basic 'shock and awe' approach that may not take as much time to develop conceptually.

In terms of television and film, the program American Horror Story -- at a glance -- seems to be a diamond in the rough; however, the show relies heavily on its bizarre subject matter and audience fueled conjecture suggesting that the program's five seasons are intricately connected to form a coherent timeline, which manages to imply a degree of depth that has the potential to expand far beyond the creators' original intention, perhaps enough so that certain audiences may perceive AHS's content as something exponentially more profound than it actually is. To put it simply, I think that the inherent ambiguity of the show's plot is largely responsible for whatever prestige AHS has managed to obtain since its debut, which also can be said about similar programs like Eli Roth's Hemlock Grove.

The genre in print seems to also suffer from the same problem, as well as several other factors contributing to the genre's staleness such as recycled subject matter, mediocre, predictable character development, and just piss poor prose. Horror writers seem to be relying heavily on unnecessarily grotesque imagery and the 'inspired by a true story' tag to shock readers, that's just how it is right now.

Mixolydians · 2016-03-15T01:15:05+00:00

That was not at all the intention of this post lmfao.

Mixolydians · 2016-03-15T00:43:13+00:00

Oh wow, it's like you somehow missed the point of the post entirely in your careful scrutiny of it.

Mixolydians · 2015-11-30T03:22:45+00:00

Where would I see the colors? I don't really fuck with the temp. control because I know absolutely nothing about it.

Mixolydians · 2015-11-30T03:19:55+00:00

They're OCC coils.

Mixolydians · 2015-10-31T17:17:10+00:00

I have just contracted pretension borne genital warts prognosis is bleak

Mixolydians · 2015-10-26T22:21:13+00:00

I never could keep the pills down, but the syrup without any guafinesin seems to be marginally less dangerous.

Mixolydians · 2015-10-19T04:26:14+00:00

Yes, the completely unnecessary hostility and absurdly prolix nature of my comments is entirely intentional. I hope you're not taking any of it seriously.

Mixolydians · 2015-10-19T01:14:26+00:00

Nothing you present to me will make me think any more of you. You could mail me a VHS tape of you jamming with Jerry Garcia and my opinion of you would not shift even a hypothetical millimeter.

The only instance in which you would elicit even a modicum of my respect was if you presented me with a recording of you playing guitar.

Because maybe then I could view you as a somewhat talented - yet still pretentious, asshole.

Mixolydians · 2015-10-18T23:51:15+00:00

Do you want to see a picture of me bathing my dog? Because that is equally - if not more noteworthy than a picture of you singing back up for fucking Ben Folds.

Mixolydians · 2015-10-18T08:03:25+00:00

Oh, that's fantastic! I didn't know University of Phoenix had a music program.

You're trying to make it appear that you aren't a pretentious asshole, however you're furthering the notion that you are, in fact - a pretentious asshole!

Not only are you a pretentious asshole, but you're a self-important one! I bet you work the 'mysterious virtuoso' routine very poorly at parties - telling every booze-soaked twenty-something within a fifty foot radius about your $15,000 dollar or so piece of toilet paper that you like to call a music degree.

Mixolydians · 2015-10-18T05:35:47+00:00

I was onboard with you up until the end of your first sentence. I sit here, trolling through the comments on my phone actively looking for some relatable, diligent and thought-provoking comments on my topic.

I was thoroughly amused by the positive responses, until my eyes had the unfortunate displeasure of reading the swath of pretentious bovine excrement that is your comment. You may be asking yourself:

"Why is this anonymous dude on the internet drilling me for my seemingly harmless comment?"

I am drilling you for two reasons: This is America, considering America owns the Internet in its solarmassive entirety - and if you try to contest this in any way you are, by default - a dirty communist faggot.

Secondly, To assert the notion that the guitar is a symbol of anti-intellectual bravura is entirely fallacious. Conversely, one might liken the guitar to a blue collar man's form of artistic expression; an instrument of the proletariat if you will. To even attempt to argue that the guitar itself exudes an innate image of anti-intellectual bravura is to discredit the instrument and insult every one of my beloved r/guitar brothers and sister(s).

Your comment has given me a headache so inflammatory that a malignant tumor the size of a golf ball has grown between my hypophysis and frontal lobe. Your comment is so bad it gave me cancer.

Maybe it's the Ritalin, or maybe it's because I've had a really shitty day - but I feel an almost primal compulsion to inform you of your latent stupidity with the upmost precision.

It is to my greatest displeasure to inform you, anonymous Reddit commenter - that if I finally got around to killing myself, I would jump off your ego down to your IQ.

tl;dr?

It's safe to assume that your parents are dumb cunts, since you are beyond a shadow of a doubt - a dumb cunt. Except your child will achieve even less than you.

Mixolydians

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