a turd derivative
king is considered very good within the genre, though I wouldn't know because the only thing by him I've read is a graphic novel that's just a bunch of pictures of decapitated pigs
I know but the stories he constructs and the criteria in them...are just so fucking boring. It, Cujo, misery etc... I get what he's going for and how he's doing with it but its like saying LOOK I CAN SWIM and standing in a kiddie pool. Its just really really fucking lame to me. Theres nothing controversial or progressive about what he's saying or how he's saying it. I guess I'm looking for more depth behind it? more of a philosophical standpoint or something to make me give a shit? I've yet to find it. Maybe I just appreciate motive and meaning more than the actual words and their placement themselves?
I did like the stand though. I'm using the word "like" very loosely when I say that.
I'm not a nihilist (or at least I don't think I am) but there is no such thing as beauty really. Its just a mental and cultural construct. And these days even that construct is being broken down so that what we are left with is "everything can be beautiful". Beauty, in any context, isn't something we as individuals, or as a species, should aim for.
I don't think so dude. There are things that are inherantly beautiful. A sunset, a sunrise, a starry night, even the way certain aspects of nature and life just seem to fall into some kind of organized fashion. Take a pitcher plant for instance. Its a carnivorous plant with funnel shaped petals that lets off a scent that attracts insects into it so it can consume them. That is so awesome. Thats beautiful. The way that thing just evolved and adapted to life around it, the way it grows and prosphers out of consuming a creature that more often than not's sole purpose is to advance decay and consumation.
Especially human beings though. Sometimes. The way we act individually and socially, the way we adapt and more often than not end up doing things that conflict with our very existance that put us at a disadvantage because of our own mental condition and obligations. Thats beautiful.
To ignore all that shit and be like "beauty is undefined and arbitrary" is a pretty monotonous way of looking at things. I also don't think that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Thats horseshit. Thats our own personal willingness or unwillingness to recognize certain aspects of the world around us.
I've never seen that movie but I prolly need to. I really liked the music, I even had a couple songs off of the soundtrack on my ipod at one point.
I'll admit I literally can't comprehend the idea of being OK to just stop existing. That is not something I can even begin to relate to. I don't even know how to approach concept in order to relate with people who think that, at all.
You'd have to go into a sort of "to cut ones losses" way of thinking. Imagine going down a road, so far down this road you've walked and seen nothing but various things you didn't like and actually tortured you in a way. You know that this road is the only road you've ever known and isn't likely to change, its just the way it is. So far you've learned to live with what it carries you through but after awhile of looking forward and seeing nothing but the same shit that has felt like an eternity of trudging through, you make the decision to save yourself the trouble. I'm not exusing this behavior or saying theres anything right about it. But thats the kind of thought pattern you have to empathize with to "get it".
Not to be confused with emotional suicide which is different I think. Its usually the product of immaturity and impatiance which is why you see alot of melodramatic or sick teens doing shit like that, I think.
