Between the Bars by Elliott Smith is a beautiful but sad song about alcohol addiction. These lyrics about how it robs you of potential while at the same time making you feel like anything is possible really hit home for me.
Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do
You won’t but you might
The potential you’ll be
That you’ll never see
The promises you’ll only make
The House on the Rock in Wisconsin was a lot funner than I thought it would be. I happened to visit when there was hardly anyone there, so that helped greatly. There’s a huge room with a full size whale statue in the middle. And a suspended triangular room with a window on the floor overlooking treetops. Plus all sorts of other random stuff.
See if you can figure out which is which
PRINCE - GETT OFF:
“I clocked the jizz from a friend Of yours named Vanessa Bet (Bet) She said you told her a fantasy That got her all wet (Wet) Something about a little box with a Mirror and a tongue inside What she told me then got me so hot I knew that we could slide”
JEFF BUCKLEY - LOVER YOU SHOULD’VE COME OVER:
“Looking out the door I see the rain Fall upon the funeral mourners Parading in a wake of sad relations As their shoes fill up with water”
rats can’t vomit
flamingos are pink due to diet. otherwise they’d be grey
it does feel brutal, but it also feels cathartic. when it’s spazzing out and just ignoring everything for 5 seconds…30 seconds…1 minute…2 minutes i start feeling like some angry king :“I WILL NOT BE IGNORED BY THE LIKES IF YOU, MACHINE” and i admit i get some vindictive satisfaction from just murdering it then and there.
it’s not sketchy companies that may leak your data, it’s the gate now between you and the internet. more and more locks will be added.
i loved terraria too. especially the base building part of it. you could get super creative with your bases if you wanted. i had a beach base with a lighthouse, ferris wheel & submarine. a jungle base on stilts. a cemetery base with a big skull, a cozy Christmas snow castle base, a cave base with glowing orbs, lava, and a robot, etc
satisfactory took all that to 11 for me. instead of bases it’s factories and it’s a beautiful hand-crafted 3d world, instead if 2d pixel graphics. i had a lot of fun building so many cool things there. my last play through was 840 hours which seems insane to me.
In French class i chose “Guy” from the list because I thought it sounded cool, but then found out they pronounce it like “ghee” which didn’t sound as cool. Malheureusement.
time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana.
why did the little old lady fall into the well? she couldn’t see that well.
holy cow, what a nightmare! long lines where everyone is stressed and angry and powerless…ugh. so depressing and miserable!
I have an e-book reader, so I looked it up: “Mom had her own version of the day I was born, which I never believed, considering she was passed out for the event. Not that I’m any witness, being a newborn infant plus inside a bag. But I knew Mrs. Peggot’s story. And if you spent even a day in the company of her and my mom, you would know which of those two lotto tickets was going to pay out.”
I haven’t read This is Where I Leave, so don’t know how similar it is, but I really liked Demon Copperhead & it fits your criteria - trials and hardship but with some humor.
That was mine too. I hated it. I was playing to feel like a badass in Night City, not to scamper around and hide like a rat until the invincible robot catches me and drills into my face again. I was so happy to finally get out of there. Not because i beat it, but because it was finally OVER.
i took a motorcycle class where they also taught us that second one too: focus on where you want to go, not on what you want to avoid.
i hadn’t considered it in a broader context until your post, but you’re right it works
I was wondering what Vin Diesel and Billy Strings real names were. Mark Sinclair & William Apostol. Then i read about stage names
both are exaggerations to make it sound more impressive than it really was. but “literally” is for the people who aren’t happy with the normal exaggeration so they’re doubling down.
how dare you question my benevolence. to the pits with you.
don’t fight against gravity by trying to fly directly towards the universe. Instead, fly parallel to the universe until you are out of the black hole’s pull, then angle back towards the universe.
A friend of mine really despises Progressive’s “Flo” and that Geico Gekko. I’m no fan myself, but he REALLY hates them and says he’ll never give those companies any business because of those characters.
I worked on the “slime line,” gutting fish in Seldovia Alaska when I was young. One long summer was more than enough for me. Also spent time while i was there “de-byssing” mussels on a raft with my buddies for some side cash. Same as debearding, but the guy called it “de-byssing.”