Listening to the Talking Heads and drinking a cup of pumpkin soup. Fun times are had by all. And by all I mean me. Man, it's boring not having a job sometimes. I always thought it would be really cool to not do anything with my life, but now that I'm doing that (or not doing that since I'm doing nothing??) it's not so cool.
I remember the most fun night of my life. I was reminded of it last night while fucking Laura. Intense fucking happiness just hanging out listening to records. It's like that gonna get got song (or maybe it was the o, perty much the same people in both bands), I want that feeling back. And if any of y'all know that song then y'all know I mean 2 things by that.
I'm talking to my BFFF on FB and I said something to her that I think works in this post, so I've copied it and I'm going to paste it right NOW
zach (rapper from mtl/kanser/traditional methods/and solo does solo stuff) just wrote a book about twin cities hip hop. it's awesome. he got the idea to write the book about 10 years ago when he was on ecstasy and he did it. which i think is a sign i should be an anthropologist. whenever [edited for content] i think i should be, sooooo maybe i should make that happen
Sometimes I think in what I supposed I would describe as an altered mindstate and I'm not talking about drugs. It's like sometimes I just see the world for all the fake bullshit it is and how people are controlled. When I think like that I feel like I can kind of see humanity from the perspective of an outsider and I would like to study them. Pretty sure that's a great mindstate to be in for an anthropologist. There was an idea for a blog that I had last year that I never made. The plan was to go to Australia and observe their culture and see how it's similar and different from the United States. That way I should have been able to learn a lot about both cultures and humans in general. That didn't happen. The name was going to be something like Anthropological Observations by an Insider Posing as an Outsider Posing as an Insider. I'm an insider because I'm part of the culture I'm observing, but by observing it I have to think like an outsider, and to understand what I'm observing I (an outsider) would have to think like an insider.
There's moments in my life where I have epiphanies about human behavior and that's what I would like to record. The problem is I rarely write them down and sometimes when I try to I realize I'm not that good at getting my thoughts turned into words.
I think this blog is going to be the online home of my random and sometimes anthropological thoughts.
Random Thought
When I was in Australia, me and Laura exchanged something like 22,000 messages on facebook. It gave me an idea. Someday I would like to write an autobiography using emails and chat logs either as like a reference or just edit them into a book. Wouldn't that be kinda neat and gimmicky enough to sell?
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