Back-sliders will be punished
Been in a bit of pissed off mood the past day and a half.
What really triggered this was last night whilst I was sitting watching The Simspons. The 3 random flatmates who live with us (There are 7 people in the flat, me and 3 who chose to move in together, and 3 whom we did not meet until we moved in) just stood in the kitchen bit and made loads of fucking noise, and had a loud conversation that was boring and trite.
I mean, these people can be so fucking boring, they're the epitome of the contemporary early 20s young person, and such people are BORING. I remember one time one of them was saying how he had the option to study abroad in Europe. He indeed named some fairly nice sounding places such as Prague. I half blurted out "What the fuck are they doing try to send people who study Management into Europe?" but my friend gave me a half amused/half alarmed look so I half choked it back so as not to be offenseive to my flatmate. Seriously, I wish they sent me to Europe, but as far as is known there are no foriegn unis that could accomodate me doing PPE, plus I couldn't afford to go to uni in an English speaking uni, and I'm not sure if European ones would do that course.
Anyway, back to what I was moaning about. They just stood having a loud and boring conversation which made watching the TV very hard. Lateron I had planned to watch a couple of programmes that were of mild interest, but then they hijacked the TV was some crappy dumb generic American feel-good "comedy" movie. I was fucking enraged. They have the worst taste in movies, most the DVDs in our flat our pure crap. Utterly vacuous people sometimes it seems.
I went down to the computing labs at the uni, and sat having lacklustre conversations of msn with Barb. Then her flatmate complained that the conversation was boring, and it was. Though I could've asked, if you're so interesting, then why don't you illuminate we bored ones with your delightful and witty conversation?! I''ll tell you fucking why, because you're a fucking boring cliche who also has nothing interesting say, but expects the rest of us to provide for your entertainment. Well sorry, but I ain't always up to something interesting, I got too much studying to do, and I don't have the fucking money to go away to Eastern Europe for a few days even though that's what I want most in the world right now. So til then, I ain't got much to say apart from the regular chit chat of the humdrum boringness of everyday life. I'm fucking bored too, I wasn't even gonna sit and chat to your fucking also boring flatmate, but alas my TV has been hijacked by my boring flatmates, and I am here because I'm fucking bored.
I then went for a swift pint with G, which was good and helped me relax a little.
I then walked back to the flat, and my flatmates were still there, plus Manlius and Chris. We all played that game where you have a name stuck to your forehead and you have 20 questions to ask that can only be answered "yes" or "no" before you have to guess the name on your head. We had three turns having to guess, and I managed to get mine right each time, which helped avoid embarassment.
Today I sat in a philosophy seminar. I hadn't done the reading so I had nothing to contribute. I find most the philosophy archaic and irrelevent. There's one guy in it who I find really annoying, well a couple in fact. This one guy uses the most abstruse language to make the most simple points. If you were to deconstruct half his statements, you'd realise that what he said was most obvious, and could have been made in maybe a line or two. The one girl just strikes me as a dolt who plays at being "profound". The other guyis a bit of a weener, he's very weenerly. He's harmless but he annoys me in an indescribably way. I feel a little guilty in a way, oh, and he two chums seem like dolts too. Like morons who play at being artistic or deep.
Currently just thinking about an old idea I had for a 10 minute black and white film, when I was 17.
It would be a film with people sitting and text mesaging people they know, and sending them boring messages that are trite. The whole film would just be this, there would be no dialogue. The point would be to suggest the idea that excessive text messaging is not as good as, or even detracts from, face-to-face human contact. Nor does it flow as easily or as well as good conversation. Utlimately, maybe it even makes people more boring. Also, what's the need to always be incontact, sometimes you wonder if it's ok to leave you phone off, or leave it at home.
The whole point of the movie would be that to sit and watch other people text is boring. It would be a boring movie to watch.
If I were ever to make it, I'd need a camera, and the ability to use it. So maybe when I'm a little older and have saved money.
I was thinknig that in anythin gI might ever film that did involve dialogue, I would have mycharacters suse in their verbal speech words like "lol" and other text message and msn speak. Though I don't know if this will have any central point in any work, or just be a peripheral detail.
Anyway, I'd better get on with finishing some presentation that Ihave to do for tomorrow.
What really triggered this was last night whilst I was sitting watching The Simspons. The 3 random flatmates who live with us (There are 7 people in the flat, me and 3 who chose to move in together, and 3 whom we did not meet until we moved in) just stood in the kitchen bit and made loads of fucking noise, and had a loud conversation that was boring and trite.
I mean, these people can be so fucking boring, they're the epitome of the contemporary early 20s young person, and such people are BORING. I remember one time one of them was saying how he had the option to study abroad in Europe. He indeed named some fairly nice sounding places such as Prague. I half blurted out "What the fuck are they doing try to send people who study Management into Europe?" but my friend gave me a half amused/half alarmed look so I half choked it back so as not to be offenseive to my flatmate. Seriously, I wish they sent me to Europe, but as far as is known there are no foriegn unis that could accomodate me doing PPE, plus I couldn't afford to go to uni in an English speaking uni, and I'm not sure if European ones would do that course.
Anyway, back to what I was moaning about. They just stood having a loud and boring conversation which made watching the TV very hard. Lateron I had planned to watch a couple of programmes that were of mild interest, but then they hijacked the TV was some crappy dumb generic American feel-good "comedy" movie. I was fucking enraged. They have the worst taste in movies, most the DVDs in our flat our pure crap. Utterly vacuous people sometimes it seems.
I went down to the computing labs at the uni, and sat having lacklustre conversations of msn with Barb. Then her flatmate complained that the conversation was boring, and it was. Though I could've asked, if you're so interesting, then why don't you illuminate we bored ones with your delightful and witty conversation?! I''ll tell you fucking why, because you're a fucking boring cliche who also has nothing interesting say, but expects the rest of us to provide for your entertainment. Well sorry, but I ain't always up to something interesting, I got too much studying to do, and I don't have the fucking money to go away to Eastern Europe for a few days even though that's what I want most in the world right now. So til then, I ain't got much to say apart from the regular chit chat of the humdrum boringness of everyday life. I'm fucking bored too, I wasn't even gonna sit and chat to your fucking also boring flatmate, but alas my TV has been hijacked by my boring flatmates, and I am here because I'm fucking bored.
I then went for a swift pint with G, which was good and helped me relax a little.
I then walked back to the flat, and my flatmates were still there, plus Manlius and Chris. We all played that game where you have a name stuck to your forehead and you have 20 questions to ask that can only be answered "yes" or "no" before you have to guess the name on your head. We had three turns having to guess, and I managed to get mine right each time, which helped avoid embarassment.
Today I sat in a philosophy seminar. I hadn't done the reading so I had nothing to contribute. I find most the philosophy archaic and irrelevent. There's one guy in it who I find really annoying, well a couple in fact. This one guy uses the most abstruse language to make the most simple points. If you were to deconstruct half his statements, you'd realise that what he said was most obvious, and could have been made in maybe a line or two. The one girl just strikes me as a dolt who plays at being "profound". The other guyis a bit of a weener, he's very weenerly. He's harmless but he annoys me in an indescribably way. I feel a little guilty in a way, oh, and he two chums seem like dolts too. Like morons who play at being artistic or deep.
Currently just thinking about an old idea I had for a 10 minute black and white film, when I was 17.
It would be a film with people sitting and text mesaging people they know, and sending them boring messages that are trite. The whole film would just be this, there would be no dialogue. The point would be to suggest the idea that excessive text messaging is not as good as, or even detracts from, face-to-face human contact. Nor does it flow as easily or as well as good conversation. Utlimately, maybe it even makes people more boring. Also, what's the need to always be incontact, sometimes you wonder if it's ok to leave you phone off, or leave it at home.
The whole point of the movie would be that to sit and watch other people text is boring. It would be a boring movie to watch.
If I were ever to make it, I'd need a camera, and the ability to use it. So maybe when I'm a little older and have saved money.
I was thinknig that in anythin gI might ever film that did involve dialogue, I would have mycharacters suse in their verbal speech words like "lol" and other text message and msn speak. Though I don't know if this will have any central point in any work, or just be a peripheral detail.
Anyway, I'd better get on with finishing some presentation that Ihave to do for tomorrow.
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