FALLING IN LOVE

I AM. I'm falling in love. WITH BOOKS. :)

Augusten Burroughs: Dry. Fabulous. I mean, autobiographical genius. I'm pretty sure if he's truly who he's accounting himself to be. We would be friends. His sober self and I, rather, would be friends.

Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs-A Low Culture Manifesto
Ok. Chuck. There's something about these new 2000-age writers who tell it like it is, and don't sugar coat anything that I'm starting to fall in love with. There's something to their hard-hitting, all-up-in-your-face opinions that I just eat RIGHT up. But, really. There's poetry to it, even in the parts where fuck is more of the substance of the sentence than an expletive. Anyway, I'm sure I'll be sharing with you more on Chuck's writing. But, for NOW:

"Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum. That's what accelerated culture does; it doesn't speed things up as much as it jams everything into the same wall of sound."

"In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of itself.' "

"If we all took media messages at their absolute face value, we'd all be sleeping with our best friends. And that does happen, sometimes. ('Sometimes' meaning 'during college.') But herein lies the trap: We've also been trained to think this will always work out over the long term, which dooms us to disappointment. Because when push comes to shove, we really don't want to have sex with our friends...unless they're sexy. And someteims we do want to have sex with our blackhearted, soul-sucking enemies...assuming they're sexy."

"People just have no clue about their genuine nature. I have countless friends who describe themselves as 'cynical,' and they're all wrong. True cynics would never classify themselves as such, because it would mean that they know their view of the world is unjustly negative; despite their best efforst at being grumpy, a self-described cynic is secretly optimistic about normal human nature. Individuals who are truly cynical will always insist they're pragmatic. The same goes fo anyone who claims to be "creative." If you define your personality as creative, it only means you8 understand what is perceived to be creative by the world at large, so you're really just following a rote creative template. That's the opposite of creativity. Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time."

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