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Monday, July 12, 2010

"Goddamnit" by Will Lewis

We're gonna celebrAaAte. Oh yeah/All right - don't stop the daancIiIn'!

Goddamnit. Now that I have this song stuck in my head, it's going to be impossible to write about anything unrelated to Daft Punk (besides, of course, some sort of rant relating to writer's block).

But I'm not going to fall prey to that, either! No writer's block freewrite for me today; I've already gotten that written down somewhere as a prompt (don't even try thinking of what to say when it comes out because I'm going to purposefully post it in, like, a YEAR because I just said that). Yet I digress (into a rant about writer's block, no less).

So, I'm sitting here trying to get to work on homework, but I remember that Missile Notes exists, right? I had been thinking about it every once and awhile today but I had COMPLETELY forgotten as to what the prompt was, and I honestly started laughing when I saw it about three minutes ago. Gatdam.

Kay, so none of this pointless freewrite stuff. Let's say something worthwhile... Hmm... Okay, so there's this wallpaper on my laptop's... wallpaper... and it's an illustration from the comic book Johnny The Homocidal Maniac. Have you ever read it? If you ever go to Powell's or Border('?)s or Barnes 'n Noblez or something you'll find it, because for some, really good reason it's just everywhere. It's a comic book (you're most likely to find the graphic novel anthology anywhere you go now) written by Jhonen Vasquez, who you may be more familiar with through a cartoon series called Invader Zim. All of the man's works are exceedingly satirical, and I love it, because I hate me a good human now and again and it's just good to laugh at this crazy situation we're in once and awhile. Y'know, the one where we're writing for some reason inspired by the human spirit or some shit and singing "One More Time" by Daft Punk on repeat (can you sing on repeat?) while, at the same time, not even caring that we're going to post our writing for others to see, whether or not it's any good or whether or not it accurately portrays us as a person (or even as a writer!). That's just the crazy thing - satire commenting on the human race that, by definition, must full circle back to the author, creating an instance of hypocrisy and, therefore, becoming means for more satire commenting on the human race. It's crazy, but it doesn't count to SUCH a great extent in my book, because I'd hope that we'll all agree that there are much greater instances of satirical situations commenting on the human condition and the like. Then again, I'm just some guy that hopes I can get an animation done, a videogame done, a hip hop project off the ground, and a website made to twine all of this together while attempting to create healthy relationships with people and maintain them so that I can have some sort of social security.

Man, what a rant. I'm not even going to read over this at all or ever again. Just going to post it. Then I'm going to celebrate and dance for free. Music's got me feelin' so free *we're gonna celebrate* one more time...

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