Comments on: Must Have Forgot My Meds

By: Kung Pow Pig

Kung Pow Pig — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:11:00 +0000

Eric,

I think the more you know about yourself, the better you can operate in the world. The better you know yourself, the easier it is for you to change, even control your perception of the world. And I think perception is a great part of reality.

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:27:00 +0000

Melissa,
Yeah, having fully conquered yourself (I’m starting to lose touch with what exactly that means) seems like a boring state to be in. But then, I haven’t achieved nirvana except for that one weekend in a Ketchikan hotel room with a cocktail waitress and a case of J&B, and I don’t really remember that, so I can’t say for sure that I wouldn’t like it.
As for Melissa’s Chaos Theory, you are an inspiration to me, and I mean that.

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:10:00 +0000

j_
You’re right. The “universe” may be within us, but we still crave to connect outside of ourselves. The impulse is so universal that I’m prepared to stipulate that it is real and we have to go for it.
No good reason to conquer the world — see my previous comment. We do it because we think it’s more important than inner understanding. More tamgible. More babes and Cuban cigars.

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:58:00 +0000

Kung Pow Pig,
To conquer oneself is truly a huge accomplishment, maybe one that we can only strive for, and never achieve. In the meantime, some are conquering the world around us, and promoting the belief that THEIR victories are the more important ones. Maybe it’s a guy thing but it seems as if a lot of us have accepted that belief, and feel diminished because our victories are within, and not readily visible. Oh, you want an example? George W. Bush was a C student at a school that only let him in because of his family’s money. He doesn’t have an original thought in his head and his life is almost certainly unexamined. Yet he will be remembered in history because he “conquered” Iraq. I may conquer myself or I may not, but either way my memory dies with me. So, even though I wouldn’t talk to Bush for two minutes at a party, I envy him.

By: She-Hulk

She-Hulk — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:42:00 +0000

and if you ever reach the point of having conquered yourself, then you’ll have nothing more to live for, because that’s the essence of life.

and the whole point should be to live life as if you are dying, that way you really experience it, as much of it as you can.

larry, i say to just fucking own your chaos, love it, revel in it, create even more of it, bathe in it, breathe it in, suck it down, lap it up, blow on it, lick it, kiss it, and finally, be it.

me personally, well, i kinda like my little storm surges of chaos…a bit like pig pen on charlie brown, except i’ve got chaos following me around rather than dust bunnies.

By: jericmiller

jericmiller — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:29:00 +0000

but if it is true, why makes friends? why marry? why go outside, if it’s all in there? and what is the point of conquering the world? what does that even me? the best any one can hope for is to control the way he or she sees the world. to create better lies and more pleasing illusions.

L.–Beautiful Losers is a strange read.
And yes, I have the first two albums, and all that came between then and now.

By: Kung Pow Pig

Kung Pow Pig — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:44:00 +0000

“Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god & devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there!”

That’s from Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles. I think it’s true.

Maybe to conquer one’s self is to conquer the world?

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:25:00 +0000

j_
I can’t own Leonard’s new CD, as I am still undergoing therapy from listening to his first two LP’s (in the 1960’s), and reading “Beautiful Losers.”

Why should we want to look inside? Some say that’s where everything is. I just wish I could find my way around better in there. My ideas are lying around on the floors of dusty closets, hard to find and organize, and there are scary things lurking at the ends of darkened hallways.

By: jericmiller

jericmiller — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:36:00 +0000

do you have his new album? some fitting lyrics on it as well. but then again, all his lyrics are fitting.
and yes, i think everybody is running from something. it’s not so much running, it is just that we’re making noise. anything at all so that in the quietude we don’t have turn inward. and why should we want to? what’s so fantastic there?

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:45:00 +0000

Ron,
Is it warm in here? Yeah? That’s what I thought. I’m going outside.