June 2010
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Existentialism v.s Post Structuralism. Friend or...
Recently, I found myself engaged in a drunken disagreement; the topic: Existentialism and Post Structuralism/Determinism.
Now let me first clarify—we were nice and drunk, and neither person was very good at expressing himself (Personally I found that drunken struggle to convey meaning almost comically exaggerating the very argument at the heart of Post Structuralism). However, an almost...
May 2010
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You know, I used to check this every day to see if you had posted something. I was nursing this stupid fantasy that maybe one day we’d end up together or something.
I don’t check it so much now. I dont have to any more. I guess it wasn’t so stupid after all.
iPhone
Guess who got the tumblr app?
March 2010
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Old Lady English
Sean Walsh: english can be a jealous language
Sean Walsh: it needs its litting hands in everything
Sean Walsh: like my brain
NocensLupus27: i like to think the english language is one of those upper crust dames who marries for status and knows there's no real love in her marriage. and she puts up with a lot as a result. the little dalliances (adopting words from other languages, slang). but she starts getting older and her brat children (leetspeak, lolcats speak) are nothing but a burden and her husband isn't there anymore. so she takes to drinking
NocensLupus27: just martini after martini
NocensLupus27: and she gets bitter and she flirts with the pool boy (british english), who shuns her overly botoxed ass
NocensLupus27: and finally she just snaps one day when she catches her husband with his hand on Cyrillic's ass
NocensLupus27: and she goes on a murderous rampage
NocensLupus27: and just butchers everything
NocensLupus27: and leaves their bodies to rot on the internet, floating in the forums, bits and pieces of language and words. snippets that don't make sense
NocensLupus27: like badly translated subtitles
Sean Walsh: ...
Sean Walsh: this
Sean Walsh: was the most beautiful thing ive ever read
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When do you feel the most at home and feel like...
Hanging out in my apt, alone, with music blasting through the place, tea or coffee simmering on the stove, sitting on my couch surrounded by a nest of books and papers and diet coke; armed with a laptop and a few hours of free time.
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2 part question:
Going back through the storied...
The greatest single human act of all time is Rufio’s death sequence in Hook. It was so powerful that it blew peter pan back with a gust of spontaneously generated wind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBe4f076fwA&feature=related
Part 2
Squirrels taught George Washington Carver how to make Peanut butter. This isn’t all that extraordinary, however, it did allow for the creation of...
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Are you a man of your word?
I try to be, everyday.
Sometimes a little artifice can go a long way, and sometimes it is better for everyone that way.
But when push comes to shove, I do my best to always do what I say I will
(hence a minor issue with ever fully committing to some things…)
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Who is the king of the hipsters?
No one knows his name. He’s that guy at the back of every small show two years before you knew about the band you like so much.
He can’t stand anything ‘bigbox’ so instead makes* all his own clothing and accessories.
His references are so obscure that the only people who would get them are the artists and authors referenced, and even then they’d be hard pressed....
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Idea Chicks
ClueDragon15: have you any idea how a raven is like a writing desk?
Sean Walsh: ???
Sean Walsh: a raven?
Sean Walsh: like a bird?
ClueDragon15: yes
ClueDragon15: i've been trying to figure it out all day long
ClueDragon15: i don't think there's an answer
Sean Walsh: i guess if it were an enouous raven i could fly it and conduct my writing upon is massive back amoungst the solitude of the sky
Sean Walsh: or
Sean Walsh: u can tear that shitty poe poem out of his book and creat a nest about you with the crumple pages from which you will feel secure like mother bird until your brain eggs hatch and your idea chicks fly
ClueDragon15: i like the last option
ClueDragon15: i think we'll go with that one
ClueDragon15: it makes the least amount of sense, which is the best kind of answer for a nonsensical question
ClueDragon15: the only concrete answer i could think up applied to all birds...it references the raven specifically
ClueDragon15: i also like "idea chicks"
ClueDragon15: though, the image is making me slight queezy
Sean Walsh: hahah
Sean Walsh: i imagine an athena-esque situation
Sean Walsh: only with little birds
Sean Walsh: and the bad ideas cant fly
Sean Walsh: so they just fall out of ur head and on to the ground
Sean Walsh: where they try to recover their little broken idea bird bodies
Sean Walsh: but its useless
Sean Walsh: and they die
ClueDragon15: i'm just flashing back to an episode of Untold Stories of the ER
ClueDragon15: where a woman had two little holes in her scalp and little black worms were ClueDragon15: poking through the holes
ClueDragon15: so, my image is of chicks coming out of little holes in your scalp
ClueDragon15: and flying away with brain goop on them
ClueDragon15: and then you have a nest resting on your brain where the baby birds were hatched
ClueDragon15: and you are forever brain damaged
ClueDragon15: the end
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Thesis...?
Ok, Spring break is far underway and here I am, pounding out a paper.
Here is my thesis for what will become a 10+ (most likely +) page paper. Let me know if you have any knowledgeable suggestions!
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge engaged in a lyrical experiment that would change the face of poetry. I explicitly use the term experiment, because, while they chose to do something...
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Would you bunk with Capt. HYMAN SHOCKER?
Yes, he could help me study for anatomy and electrical engineering.
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But seriously, what do you see as your greatest...
I guess it would be an inability to simply turn off. My mind is always running, always analyzing and worrying. It manifests itself in a number of ways, both positive and negative, but the simple fact is that I really have very little control of it. All my other flaws, and many of my favorable attributes, stem from it.
Perceived?
Stubbornness, arrogance, possibly? If not that then potentially my...
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And by that I mean, I WILL NOT DOLLAR BILL YOU
Swartz.
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And by that I mean, will you let me coerce you...
Fucking
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Why are you such a fuckface?
Matthew
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U R SO INDIE LETS FUKKK
I have four prerequisites before committing to such a course of action.
A) You must first demonstrate a proper degree of indie cred. I suggest an obscure name drop, something like, “Yeah, my favorite Mogwai song is totally Glasgow Mega Snake”
You must put on a brilliant display of hipster plumage. I must be honest, a colorful and expensive display from urban outfitters makes me feel...
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then who was phone?
He was fone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
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formspring.me
Probe your deepest http://formspring.me/BunnyTouchYa
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What did you dream about last night?
I Dreamt that I was enrolled in “intermediate sex” class. Apparently I had passed “basic sex”, a fundamentals course, with flying colors. My teacher turned out to be the enthusiastic and knowledgeable Gabe Ording, from my non dream Insects, Global, and Sustain course.
However, while I can not imagine a more proficient man to teach me the greater mysteries of intercourse,...
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Just in case you are not familiar with the...
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A Nice Primer on Postmodern Literature →
Ever wonder what makes a text Postmodern? What literary devices, themes, styles or other wise jargon buzzwords to be looking for in order to say a work is “Pomo”. Here is nice little Primer with plenty of links in the footnotes! (Oh goodie!)
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I LIKE TO HAVE TEA WITH CATS IN JAPAN BECAUSE I’M... →
prominte:
“Cat cafés are huge in Japan right now…In the past five years, exactly 79 such cafés have popped up all over Japan.”
6yearsdreaming
I briefly studied the Japanese sex industry, but in my research I fell in love with the cultural oddities of modern day Japan. There are so many cultural, economic, psycholgocal, and political reasons some things could only happen in Japan, but...
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1802: A Bromance
Today I am gonna take a brief hiatus from my study of postmodernism to bring you something a little more old school. How about a little Romantic poetry, eh, eh?
I am currently developing a thesis for my midterm in Romantic literature. For the last several weeks we have been focused on a study of Samuel T. Coleridge (1772-1834) and William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Now, while there is much to say...
February 2010
8 posts
Postmodernism and Literary Interpretation →
Postmodernism and Literary Interpretation
Three basic principles underlie the post-modernistic critique of literary interpretation (and, by extension, other social sciences).
First Principle
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PO-MO! UNO!
For the next couple of days I will be working on trying to sort out the mess that is Postmodernism: It’s key thinkers and their contributions; some elements and attributes of postmodern society; and I guess the hardest yet most valuable piece of the puzzle; what can we truly define as postmodern?
Of all the confusion, competing ideas and conflicting abstractions that come with...
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Cowboy Killers.
Oh boy… this is going to suck.
I normally have a rule about announcing my intentions to attempt something before I’m well underway. If you say it, then people have the right to give you shit when you fail, or harass you when you change your mind. It is best to keep some things to yourself, make it about your desires, not others disappointment.
But… Somethings need to be said....
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Hope: A Terrible Liar
I should have just dealt with this yesterday.
I know how this scene ends. I have no clue how it will play out. I just want to get to the part I am familiar with.
I should have dealt with this yesterday. So, now I wait.
This movie sucks.
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Cleansing Nothing
This has been a trying week/weekend.
However there are some silver linings.
Recently I have decided to look into joining the peace corps. It has been bouncing around my brain for awhile, but for whatever reason it this desire crystallized over the last couple of weeks. Just thinking about the possibility—living that life for two years, doing something for the world, making a mark in...
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An Ah-Ha Moment
I’ve been recently immersing myself in my studies.
I don’t mean in a bookworm, stay at home and read on a Friday night kinda way (though it does happen sometimes…) but rather I mean I am living through my studies, they have changed and are changing the way I live and think.
I say living ‘through’ because If I were to be simply just ‘living’ them, I...
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January 2010
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Back in Action
So Sorry for the two week long hiatus.
It’s been something of fevered dream coming back to EL. In a way, a long awaited wish: to somehow recapture something I was missing from the last few years—that fresh start/new car feeling about life—has come true.
Only, not the way I thought it might.
Life really is unpredictable and maddening, and I love it still.
More details...
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365 Photo
I have decided (a few days late) to participate in a 365 photo project. That means a photo a day for the remainder of the year.
More reasons to keep up with this tumblr eh???!
Test
This is test of your local emergency broadcast system.
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High off Portishead
(I thought this was funny, especially after raving about Portishead in my last review)
BlondeMSUDude: speaking of you and music
BlondeMSUDude: so i have one of your portis head cds
BlondeMSUDude: that you let me borrow
BlondeMSUDude: and im driving my mom to work
BlondeMSUDude: and i put it in
BlondeMSUDude: and she listens for like 2 minutes
BlondeMSUDude: and looks at me
BlondeMSUDude: and says
BlondeMSUDude: "seriously.... you need to stop doing so many drugs. this is not good music"
irishblood280: HAH
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Greetings From Abroad
Hey folks, just a heads up: I will be in San Jaun untill late Friday, so you can expect this page to be prticularly quiet until then. As all three or four of you have noticed…
BUT!
When I get back, I’ll be posting about Mitten Fest and some of th bands I got a chance to meet there, as well as shananigans in Puerto Rico.
So yeah, thats something.
Love,
-Sean-
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Living Bridges of India →
A great example of how humanty can live in harmony with nature, while still building bridges to the future.
…
BAZINGA!
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22 x 365 x 24 x 60
I just caught of glimpse of the date on my computer.
It was, unsettling.
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There are a few bands I have found that have that...
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Oh. Good morning, 2010.
New years was a blast. I feel I played my hand well—drank only to where I wanted to be (and stayed there the rest of the evening), socialized a little with all the different groups, reconnected with one of my best friends, and seemingly made some pointless progress in an equally pointless pursuit.
Pointless, yeah. Meaningless? I don’t think so. There may not be the typical meaning...
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Today’s diamond in the rough is anything but...
December 2009
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Kamikazees
Thank goodness for best friends.
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There Are Always Words
Well, let’s be honest for a moment.
There is a lot to say, but no point in saying it.
A buddy put it nicely, and I’ve been mulling it over for the better part of the day.
“Take it as it comes, just take it as a whole for now. You were in a 2 year relationship, it wasn’t want you were looking for in life, you moved on. Cool.”
It’s good advice. It...
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WatchROIAL Improv at the College Improv Tournament regional in Chicago! Check out our footage, as well as the other teams’ videos here! (Compliments of CIT)