In other news, the sky is blue

[sabotabby]

SUVs suck, octopuses rule, and Bush likes killing Arabs.

It's nice to know that the world never changes.

(Hat tips: rackletang for the octopuses, uberbitsch for the Camus.)

Comments

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

thanks. now I've got that fucking Cure song in my head.

[sabotabby]

I like that song. I haven't heard it in years.

[/ex-goth]

[class-matters.livejournal.com]

"It's nice to know that the world never changes."

Sure it does. Last night I went to sleep all warm and snuggly in a nice barricaded building, then I woke up all dead and zombified. And then a nice Sabotabby came by and revived me. It's been quite a day.

Malton IWW? I love it! I totally want in!

[sabotabby]

That was you?! (When you revivify someone, it just describes them as "a zombie," so it can be anyone.)

Add me to your contacts, yo.

[eyelidlessness.livejournal.com]

The Cure:goth :: The Beatles:Oasis

[ocicat-bengals.livejournal.com]

Bless you for finally leading me to the discovery of finding something I've been wondering all these years...the original reference for The Cure's 'Killing An Arab'. The lightbulb is now on. My reading of Camus has been spotty.

[sabotabby]

True, but most goths I knew when I was goth also listened to the Cure. They didn't admit it out loud. Whatever. I looked through their CD collections.

[sabotabby]

Oh, read The Stranger. It's short and utterly worthwhile.

[eyelidlessness.livejournal.com]

They were embarrassed to have someone find something good in their CD collections?

[eyelidlessness.livejournal.com]

Oh, I should add... there is good goth music. It's called Bauhaus.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

I'm alive ........ I'm dead .....

[apperception.livejournal.com]

My favorite book in high school, I resolved myself to have relationships with women just like Mersault has w/ his girlfriend. Also, I had a job working as a shipping clerk at the time, just like Mersault, so that helped.

Also, there was a period of my life where I'd wake up in the morning and lay in bed smoking cigarettes, just like Mersault. It was awesome!

:-/

[sabotabby]

Agreed.

Case in point: I can still listen to Bauhaus even though I'm no longer a goth.

[sabotabby]

I think I'm being teased here.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm fuckin' serious. If I were teasing you, it'd be much more obvious. :)

Ask trioxin4dinner. She and I dated when I was in high school, and she can testify to the fact that I was a complete nihilistic, atheistic shithead who did indeed have a job as a shipping clerk. :)

[violachic.livejournal.com]

My self-identifying goth housemates swear by Sisters of Mercy as well.

[sabotabby]

I still like them too, on occasion, but not as much.

My love for the Legendary Pink Dots has not abated, but they're not really goth, either.

[sabotabby]

Oh, good. I had it in my head last night that I needed to become a postie like Charles Bukowski.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

What's a postie?

[sabotabby]

Postal worker.

[nom-de-grr.livejournal.com]

I listen to goth even though I've NEVER been a goth. And I saw The Dots; they were atrocious live. I mean, it was just embarrassing.

[sabotabby]

Seriously? I've seen them twice now (well, the second time was Edward Ka-Spell solo) and they were awesome.

[sarars.livejournal.com]

Now I feel like reading this book: .

And I wonder what other books Bush read over the summer, or perhaps that was it.

[sabotabby]

Eeee!

And I believe that this was the only book that Bush read over the summer. It took him like three years to get through My Utmost for His Highest

[nom-de-grr.livejournal.com]

I hated it. The show bored me to tears, and there were hippie goths fluttering around like it was a Grateful Dead concert. The "Modern Man" spoken word number was particularly silly. Oh, and when the saxophonist started thrusting his pelvis in some girl's face while wearing a lascivious leer on his old man mug... gross. It was kind of entertaining that Edward Ka-spel performed in his jammies, though.

I'm just glad that Rasputina put on a pretty decent opening act.

[sabotabby]

Were we at the same show? I saw Rasputina and they bored me to tears.

save the great white males

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

bad parking job even...

[nom-de-grr.livejournal.com]

Not unless you made your way down to St. Pete, FL for that one.

[ironed_orchid]

I want an octopus.

Re: save the great white males

[sabotabby]

Protect our coast so I can DRIVE ALL OVER IT IN MY BIG SUV.

[sabotabby]

I want to be an octopus.

Re: save the great white males

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

Yeah, then you don't have to "walk around and look at nature and shit" ( <- actual quote from an actual first/last date )

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

In an Octopus' Garden...in the shade.

Re: save the great white males

[sabotabby]

Eww. Yeah, I can't really see that relationship going anywhere.

Re: save the great white males

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

...and it didn't.

All is fair in love.

Wheeeee!!!!

[class-matters.livejournal.com]

"That was you?!"

yuppers. i was laughing when i saw your name pop up on the screen.

"Add me to your contacts, yo."

done-diddly-done

btw, if you read comics at all you might want to check out The Walking Dead. good zombie comic that focuses more on how people deal with the situation rather then on the carnage (tho it does have a bit of that too)

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

Godot + Camus + the Cure = h0tt. Maybe teh purzident heard Killing an Arab on the Clear Channel last month liked it, and found out through the intarwebz that it's based on a Camus novel, and decided to read it.


Worry not: in AP English, we had to do book reports and 2 of my classmates chose l'étranger, precisely for the same reason that mr.purzident read it: it's a quick read (less than 100 pages, if I remember correctly).

It didn't make any fucking sense to them, they admitted, but they can tell the basic storyline: Man isn't sad when his mum died, man has sex with a girl named Marie, man kills arab, man waits in prison, man gets acquitted and walks out a free man. Except that man didn't walk out a free man.

[sabotabby]

It didn't make any fucking sense to them, they admitted, but they can tell the basic storyline: Man isn't sad when his mum died, man has sex with a girl named Marie, man kills arab, man waits in prison, man gets acquitted and walks out a free man. Except that man didn't walk out a free man.

*sporfle*

Best. Summary. Ever.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Hey, I love the Dots. I haven't seen them in like 5 years...

[ironed_orchid]

That could be good, too.

Although if I had an octopus, I might not want to eat them... and they're so delicious.

[gabski.livejournal.com]

in the NY Times on wednesday maureen dowd wrote an hysterical op-ed on bush reading camus. i love her.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Awesome article on SUV safety, I didn't know it was that bad... I'm getting a boxster for sure now ;]

[sabotabby]

Link?

[sabotabby]

It's a good reason to get a superfast sports car.

Or you could just walk.

[sabotabby]

What's your name?

And yes, I do <3 comics, so I'll check it out.

[class-matters.livejournal.com]

In that game my name is Elias Taylor. Decided to go with the "V" theme.

"And yes, I do <3 comics"

Have you read any of the Marvel universes "Civil War" comics and crossovers? It's very interesting because it's based so much on the whole "war on terrorism" thing.

[sabotabby]

Ooh, no I haven't.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

I swear, both of those guys who (supposedly) read the book independently of one another (they had separate reports, but I think they split the book in half) were trying to convince us that Meursault walked out a free man.

*I* thought Meursault dies in the end. He wasn't going to offer any "reasonable" defense of himself. That makes him h0tt, in theory. Hell, I was even going to christen my bike 'Meursault' once I get 'er painted black and put the luggage rack on.