Monday, July 6, 2009

One fewer loose end

Remember when I claimed awhile back that I had an exclusive interview with Jake waiting to be published? Every so often I'll remember that claim, because the part of my mind that manages tasks is evidently out to destroy me. While this portion of my brain should be sending me messages such as "Hey, you better look for a job!" or "Perhaps you should get your car fixed soon?" or even "What exactly are your values and goals as a person? Shouldn't you attempt to coherently express your own belief system to yourself before making any further life decisions? Without a better sense of what you hold to be true or moral, your actions will inevitably continue to degenerate into arbitrary hedonism, your words into mushy platitudes and sarcastic bleatings, and your inner life into a shameful cycle of increasingly desperate rationalizations to mask your own spiritual formlessness", it instead prefers to alert me to things such as "Hey, let's check out the news again and see if there's anything INTERESTING on!" or "Just in case I ever did  start a band, what would be a good name?" or "Whoa, buddy, you never did write that interview with Jake that you promised your audience of millions on your gigantically important BLOG." 

Well ok, to placate that part of my mind, all I was going to say was something like this:

I went to see Jake this weekend, and he tried to fill in all the gaps in conversation by endlessly reciting obscure names for groups of animals that he found from this website. It rained a lot, and we ate excessive amounts of rich foods. One morning, we enjoyed a huge breakfast of fried chicken and doughnuts -- and then later that day, my host bought multiple pounds of steamed crab legs smothered in butter for myself and some other guests. We ate ourselves sick and watched cartoons. For some reason, he also insisted that we watch the movie Beerfest, which is a fucking awful movie. I'm glad I paid him a visit.

10 comments:

Jake said...

You didn't watch the movie.

Yes, it is a bad movie, but you didn't see the one part that doesn't belong in a movie like that.

I'd also like to point out that you happily shelled out 5 bucks to see "The Room" during which you were pelted with debris and listened to people talk over the movie.

Alex said...

i guess this works

Benji said...

I watched half of it -- and I might have had more incentive to finish it if you hadn't gone to sleep immediately after putting it on.

You're right about "The Room", though. I can't argue with that.

Remember, although it's in actuality far far worse than "Beerfest", "The Room" is a movie that everyone else agrees is fun to watch. Nobody agrees that "Beerfest" is fun to watch. That's the difference. Don't you see?

Jake said...

You're doing it again, and it's so bizarre for you. (I mentioned this before concerning your critical rant on Gravytrain).

"Typographical usage dictates that the comma be inside the marks, though logically it often seems not to belong there."

ex: "The Fish," "Poetry," and "The Monkeys" are in Marianne Moore's Selected Poems.

Strunk and White p. 36

As I've said before, it's not like everything I write is always correct, but it seems as if you think that most punctuation does really belong outside the marks. Also, I wouldn't have said anything, but you seem to be interested in matters of form.

Jake said...

Yeah, sorry about going to bed, but I kept falling asleep. Some people agree that "The Room" is fun to watch and some people agree "Beerfest" is fun to watch; everyone does not agree. If you'd like, I could throw stuff at you and yell the next time you watch it.

Benji said...

Well, ok, if that's the way it's done, I accept it. I always assumed it was the other way, I guess. I've never really thought about it.

Jake said...

You have now consented to battery.

Benji said...

How so? What do you mean?

Jake said...

I said " If you'd like, I could throw stuff at you and yell the next time you watch it" and you said "Well, ok, if that's the way it's done, I accept it. I always assumed it was the other way, I guess. I've never really thought about it."

Benji said...

Aha, I see now.