If I had more discipline,
I could stop existing in a Richard Linklater flick.
Because smoking too much will make you kaf…ka?
I’m feeling so Gen-X’d lately,
I could be played by a young Ethan Hawke.
I’m pretty sure Jack Kerouac and I aren’t going to be as cool as we once were once I finish this paper. I don’t even care that he likes cats.
Overtired essay writing on This Is Spinal Tap leads to
Hello, my name is ——— ——-. I’m a college student. I write a lot of screening reports. That Tristram Shandy report where it’s comically analyzed with lots of digression? That was mine. In 1984 I went down to a theatre in Tucson, Arizona called “The Acoustic Plantain”– don’t look for it, it’s not there anymore. But that night I saw a movie that, for me, redefined the word “meta-comedy.” I remember being knocked out by its…its metaness – its raw self-reflexivity – its comic timing. That movie was Rob Reiner’s now cult-legendary This Is Spinal Tap. Twenty-eight years, five re-releases, two albums, one made-for-TV sequel, and a definitive anthology later, This Is Spinal Tap is still going strong. And it’s earned a distinguished place in movie history, as one of 1984’s funniest movies. So in the late spring of 2012 when I heard TISP was being discussed as part of ENGL496A and was going to be the first time it would be assigned as homework in almost six years to promote that class’s discussion topics – well, needless to say I jumped at the chance to write the screening report. The, if you will, “metascreening report” that you are about to read. I wanted to capture the…the wit, the satire, the humor of a self-reflexive comedy-film in my head. I’m not sure if I got that. I probably came short. Real short. But hey, whaddya say? Let’s boogie!
Sup, sun?
I see we meet again. Yes, I’m still doing my homework just like I was when you left. No, I don’t care if you claim to have a ‘bright idea’ for one of my papers.
I thought of that old joke, y’know, the, this… this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, “Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy; he thinks he’s a chicken.” And, uh, the doctor says, “Well, why don’t you turn him in?” The guy says, “I would, but I need the eggs.” Well, I guess that’s pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y’know, they’re totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and… but, uh, I guess we keep goin’ through it because, uh, most of us… need the eggs.
— Woody Allen
Fuck you. You’re dead.
(Source: atheistangel)
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else
— John Cage
