ASK TREESHIP whats your favorite gilmore girls episode

isn't the 'new sincerity' a thing now?

what's between it and the old emo

clear-eyed no romanticism can't lose?

new sincerity has BEEN a thing & we had enough convos about treezy's level of sincerity last year, ilx 2013 kinda embarrassed itself with endless earnest debate about whether t was too earnest

new earnest debate was 2013?

treezy pulled it off, as did other ILX characters.

how's tricks, tree?

xp wrt treesh it was, & to be fair it was probably only like a month last year, but all month, on every thread, and just super lame like u felt hands were being literally wrung

my question was not about treezy's level of sincerity, it was about his self-reflection about that level vis a vis our grim jaded world. it was a question for the heart.

^ilx has heart problems, though

xp fair enough just felt like old material to me

that is ilx's problem. here one speaks directly into the heart of the treeship.

hands will have been wrung all over the site since imma say 2009

^you're being generous

its my nature tbh

i've gone through a lot of corny phases in my life, j. please don't go back and read my responses to similar questions nakh asked me last year.

treesh do u have any opinions on the music of richard wagner

no, but i enjoy the music of Bathory and have assumed i could get the gist from that. which performance of which piece by wagner should i listen to on spotify?

treesh: how do you feel about the baroque movement? and rococo?

where do you put james joyce? in what category?

idk if it is available there, but anything with the tristan prelude & liebestod
if you can get this lp in particular than do it

http://www.allmusic.com/album/wagner-orchestral-music-mw0001837745

Where did Treeship go?

to the men's rights thread

Oh okay.

Thank you.

I was starting to miss him

still posts fairly regularly I think, just not quite at the rate of his peak output

<3

treesh what is the most hateful sincere opinion about any subject that you have ever encountered? (flagrantly inflammatory, hateful or discriminatory opinions excluded)

treezy tell us abt the last time you checked your privilege

nakh, this question is difficult. it's hateful when people say that suicide is a "selfish act" or that it is usually motivated by a desire to "get back" at others. i've heard this many times. related to this, i think, is any opinion based on a general assumption that people only ever have base, selfish motives for their actions. less serious than the suicide example but connected to this idea are people who think having an interest in the arts is just a way to acquire "social capital".

now can you somehow mix the two together to create the ultimate hateful sincere opinion?

isn't that that one al alvarez book

ha I have that book

treesh what is the most angry and/or aggressive you can ever remember being

I had a really bad political argument with my father while visiting him in Singapore last summer. I don't even remember what it was about but I remember arguing in a really unfair way, with personal attacks and just in general being a dick.

is your father a laissez-faire type?

Essentially. I don't want to get into it here. He's a good person.

that is very treeshian, for your most intemperate moment to be about political principles, and to hold yourself responsible in retrospect

i assumed your answer would be about hitting someone when you were 14 or something like that

in the wake of recent alt-lit rape scandals
have you ever been in a sexual situation that you now regret or feel weird about

seriously?

the answer is no, unequivocally, but i am disturbed by the ambiguous wording of the question. "regret or feel weird about" could mean a bunch of stuff, but due to the first part of your question if i said "yes" it would imply i did something morally wrong.

also, i thought we were chill dylann.

have you ever been in a sexual situation that you now regret or feel weird about

surely he was only asking from experience

we're chill

kinda fucking with you maybe. but reading about stephen tully dierks or whatever his name is and similarly behaving guys, i definitely run through my memory of sexual encounters looking for questionable behavior on my part.

treemonisha: have you noticed a palpable difference in temperament or attitude or w/e between academic types who grew up in a household that values intellectualism (e.g. parents are college professors/some other kind of academic/artist/etc) and those who grew up in largely blue collar surroundings?

this is a tough question. the sharpest academic-types i know (not all involved with universities necessarily) tend to be from some kind of "interesting" background, so weren't born into the yuppie intelligentsia. the people i am thinking of have unconventional left wing political beliefs that are rooted as much in experience as in theory. academic-types i've known whose parents were professors tend to have more predictable views. but this is such a small sample size, and there are so many exceptions, that it's hard to generalize.

what have you observed on this front?

a certain sense of boredom/blasé attitude towards a given discipline in the former group; a somewhat refreshing anti-authoritarian streak and sometimes a less attractive tendency towards aiming to impress in the latter

why do you post to ilx?

because it's the only message board that matters™

and when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless and ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity--then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions only one thing: whether you have posted to ilx, or not.