Just bought it today. Haven't started it yet.

My interest in the Casino Royale movie sent me back to re-read the book. So far the movie's better.

why do you hate him? he's got an awesome ear and a way to put pictures in my head that's just extraordinary.

because it has eva green in it.

That doesn't hurt. But honestly everything about the movie is far better--plot, dialog, pacing, even characterization. The book is dull by comparison.

What's great about the movie is you could take Bond out of it & it would still work.

well they are shit books with terrible prose. what did you expect?

yeh, i'd forgotten. i read them as an impressionable pre-teen.

oh yeah also this

I'm reading Mickey Spillane's Return of the Hood. Thought it would be Chandleresque, but it's not:( .

About the same, 5 months or so, but all I've read in the past two is 10 pages. Only 90 to go though. I'll finish it this week, I've decided that I should. After that it's Portrait of the Artist as a young man and Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. at the same time.

Robert Anton Wilson - NATURAL LAW (don;t put a rubber on your willie)


Robert Anton Wilson - QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY

 

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hey, pendelho, welcome back.

good picks there.

ignore the last 1/2 of the birth of tragedy where all he does is kiss wagner's ass. or when you're done, instead, read nietzsche contra wagner. he insults him-- call him an "actor". can you think of anything worse to say to a man?

thanks on both counts.


well, now to be fair, mr. nietzsche was just pissed he didn't get mrs. wagner...

we are all "actors"
that is a charge that can be levelled at every single living and dead human being.

no, tom stoppard writes that "actors are the opposite of people."

of course "all the world's a stage" implies that we are all actors.

the only logical conclusion can be that there are no people.

if everyone has a facade, a mask they wear in the world outside, a mask that, however it is similar to their perceived "true" self still is a mask, then we are all actors.

george peppard said "I love it when a plan comes together"

not everyone loves the stage & being in front of crowds asking for their admiration.

some people like to work in silence.

shut up already.

Sounds like you've been reading Camus, or maybe Shakespeare.


My head has been in these lately:

Kierkegaard - Either/Or Part II
St. Augustine - Confessions
Thich Nhat Hanh - Understanding Our Mind

Hey, I've realized I've lost my Songs of Innocence (Blake), leaving me only with Songs of Experience. Feels appropriate.