"Sad Man in Him Room" is the best summary of existentialism I've ever encountered.
particularly in practice.
But this thread made me happy. :)
― kenan, Sunday, 6 April 2008 06:24 (sixteen years ago) link
ILX: a source of light underground
― kenan, Sunday, 6 April 2008 06:27 (sixteen years ago) link
E5: Him sad in his room? E3: Yeah, pretty much. E5: Where him friends? E3: They went away because he was mean to them. E5: Him get mad? E3: Yes, sometimes he gets mad. E5: (thinks for a moment) Read to me?
this is more or less the conversation i had w/ the professor who taught the "nietzsche & heidegger" seminar i took last year
― max, Sunday, 6 April 2008 09:32 (sixteen years ago) link
OH MY GOD BURL IVES SONG ON THERE
Edward your daughter is the best and this thread had filled my lungs with glee.
― Abbott, Sunday, 6 April 2008 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
it makes me want to have cuet kids, but it makes me worried that there's no guranantee they'll have special insight on existentialism or anything. i'd end up with the kid that just repeats all the profanities i accidentally let slip from time to time.
― tehresa, Monday, 7 April 2008 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
That's pretty awesome too though.
― Eppy, Monday, 7 April 2008 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
today...
E5: what do you think the goo goo muck looks like? E4: I dunno, a basilisk?
― Edward III, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
tehresa I was once anti-reproduction but luckily somebody talked me out of it
― Edward III, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
oh i still want to have kids, but yours make me want to have CUET kids!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I love kids, they're so weird.
^^^ this was the best part about hanging with 3.5-5 year olds all day. if you sort of pretend that they're adults some of the time, their behavior gets a lot more interesting, if only because it's so bizarro and erratic.
― gbx, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link
okay, it was an ancient roman writing plays about the greeks. the little old green book is a 1929 edition of the 3 comedies of terence: andria, adelphi, and phormio. literally translated.
http://www.amazon.com/Three-comedies-Terence-translated-introduction/dp/B0013HNMFO
― Edward III, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― Edward III, Monday, April 7, 2008 8:37 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol!
― genital grinder (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
there are so many bizarro exchanges that go on in my household on a daily basis, I feel derelict in not being a better documentor of them
― Edward III, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i love this thread.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i have taken to calling Dostoevsky "dusty-dusty" in my head.
This is awesome!
― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
last saturday, cleaning her room, found 4 of the 5 scooby doo action figures...E3: where's daphne?E5: I threw her out.E3: why? E5: because all she cares about is her hair and not about other people.E3: and what about velma?E5: velma can stay.
― Edward III, Monday, 12 January 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Wisdom!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 January 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks e5!
― Velma can stay (Oilyrags), Monday, 12 January 2009 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
favorite thread
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Monday, 12 January 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
my fave thread. your kid is awesome. :-)
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Recently:
Ophelia *coughs* Me: Put your hand in front of your mouth when you cough, Ophelia.O turns around, looks at me seriously and replies:"But I don't have anymore coughs!" Grrrrr. :-)
When I play my music: "STOP PLAYING THAT MUSIC. NOT FUN! STOP DANCING!"
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I get yelled at if I put on anything too slow or quiet... "THIS IS NOT ROCK N ROLL, PUT ON ROCK N ROLL"
― Edward III, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Wise words!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Phew! Glad I saw this thread, I started reading "Notes from the Underground", now I don't have to.
― jel --, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ don't even have to read the Cliff's Notes now
― snoball, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
haha this thread is awesome. not least because i have the same copy of notes from underground!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 06:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Dusty Dusty!
Stop playing that music!
I <3 this thread.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 06:38 (fifteen years ago) link
E5 sounded out and wrote down her first word today
no, it wasn't cat, or moo, or run
'poop'
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG, she's better than most of the posters here already! :-)
― StanM, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://tinyartdirector.blogspot.com/
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
haha that's awesome
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
this is my favourite thread to revive. I think of it whenever I'm/her sad in her room.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
awww, the 24th was her birthday
this morning...
E5: I can't get married. because one, I'm not growed up, and two, I'm craaaazzzzeeeee
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 27 February 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
You did actually name her E5, yes?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 February 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
yes. I anticipate a dystopian future state and the name will help her fit in at school.
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 27 February 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
http://bp3.blogger.com/_TcFdN5N0RWc/R2NKcHnOrKI/AAAAAAAAAeY/0Gl3cVfx3B0/s320/fiveintro257.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 February 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
THX-11E5
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 27 February 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
dystopian future, just like in WE by Zamyatin! I actually managed to finish that one.
― jel --, Friday, 27 February 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Would you be kind enough to summarize it for us two year olds, please?
― StanM, Friday, 27 February 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Him sad in his glass room
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 February 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Woo! Thx :-)
― StanM, Saturday, 28 February 2009 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Ned, don't forget, lady make his pee pee feel funny, go bye bye in big machine.
― jel --, Saturday, 28 February 2009 10:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear Santa,
Am I on the good or naughty list? Because I was wondering if I am good or bad.
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 21 December 2009 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like an 1p3'er in training to me.
― ian, Monday, 21 December 2009 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha! This thread reminded me of the mini-reviews two children gave the work of Bridget Riley:
One wrote: “Very interesting and I like it. But there is a bit too much lines to look at in one day.” The other wrote: “Could be boring. Very stripey.”
"could be boring" def. needs to find its way into more criticism.
― Cunga, Monday, 21 December 2009 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link
was thinking the same about 'very stripey'
― =皿= (dyao), Monday, 21 December 2009 07:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Not to be confused with "very Stipe-y," which is a criticism for a lot of late 80s indie bands.
― Cunga, Monday, 21 December 2009 07:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Or "very White Stripe-y," which is a criticism for a lot of 00s indie bands.
― etaeoe, Monday, 21 December 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i literally cried laughing whilst thinking about the children's book title of 'Story of the Eye.'
― And now my dick is where? Oh, this is too rich (the table is the table), Monday, 21 December 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
So this is where the ILB borad description came from. Who knew?
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 April 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
E5 is now reading notes from underground, and also plans to write a parody entitled notes from underpound by fydo dogstoevsky
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, 4 May 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah the biting the fingers off! oh man!― send Lawyers (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:57 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― send Lawyers (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:57 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
UGH STILL THIS SCENE. it's like the scene in the basement bar in inglourious basterds but with god.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 5 May 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
Lol, just coming to this thread now. I'm ready to go back and belatedly read and re-read Dostoevsky (I had the same post-high school Nabokov induced snobbery noted above).
I was talking with my wife about reading more about the historical context in which he wrote alongside the novels. Has anyone read any of Joseph Frank's books on him? Or the abridged, one-volume version? The consensus seems to be that they're the best - English language, at least - on D and his world.
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8976.html
― Federico Boswarlos, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, May 4, 2013 3:47 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
underrated update
holy shit this kid must be in high school now
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
I've read most of the abridged version. It's a combination of biography and literary analysis. The bio stuff is great, he had a wild life. The lit crit stuff is slower going and bogged me down a bit.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
oh so THIS is where "Dusty Dusty Him Sad" comes from!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
classic
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link
Nice, thanks Moodles, think I'll pick it up.
― Federico Boswarlos, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις
!!!
been wondering for a while ...
― the late great, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
Just started Demons the other day. First time. Majorly important writer to me on the basis of The Bros K alone, but it's been a few years since I've read any FD and I'm very much enjoying it.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
sad man in him room is now an injoke between me and some of my record collector friends, used to describe a certain style of singer-songwriter music.
― ian, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
omg i did not know either, and now i do. but it so long past, so even now, the remembering is a kind of shame for me
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:16 (five months ago) link
Anyone read the new Katz Brothers K translation?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 December 2023 08:44 (five months ago) link
Demons an absolutely stunning book
My injoke with friends on singer-songwriters is saying “someone shoulda bought this bloke/lass a diary” halfway through the song. I’d say the same for dusty dusty, but he didn’t even spare us from his diary (diary of a writer, also great, well worth reading if you like dusty)
― H.P, Saturday, 30 December 2023 08:48 (five months ago) link
all time classic thread
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 30 December 2023 10:05 (five months ago) link