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First guitar lesson went fairly poorly. The other two (well, one, since one had some prior experience) pulled ahead and I just sort of sat there trying to wrap my head (fingers?) around things. Still, there was a slight bit of improvement. I'll add this to the (fairly small) list of "things that I'm shit at but I'll try to improve on before giving up like usual" category.
I think it's funny how other people are allowed to get tetchy at me, rant and rave and yell at me, any time something goes bad for them, but when I'm a bit stressed [1] and people are annoying me as I'm trying to do classwork and I get frustrated for the second time in fourteen months and I raise my voice a little, suddenly it's a huge deal and everyone's allowed to be passive-aggressive at me and carry on so much.
[1] IRL, I'm talking about. I'm a bit stressed because I'm trying to get my schoolwork together. But I'm constantly being called away to do other stuff, and people are constantly treating me an idiot, and people stand under fans and call to me in other rooms and then yell at me when they can't hear my answer and then get really pissed off when I raise my voice at them.
^^, ^ That feel.
Must be an Aussie thing.
I stopped doing that because whenever I got anywhere approaching angry or pissed off I was always the one who copped it, from as far back as I can remember.
=/
I don't think that getting visibly angry twice in over a year is such a bad track record, considering how easily I get enraged.
A lot of my anger these days is played up. Usually I'm either somewhat irritated or pretend that I'm angry when really IDGAF.
I do play it up a bit.
i just like writing long ranty posts ok
There's their issue. If you get visibly angry so rarely, then it's more of a thing when it happens.
And one of those times was when I threw my mother out of the house, too :V
Anyway, this is kind of a thing.
It's kind of interesting, seeing a man's life through snapshots of himself. On the other hand, it's kind of depressing- he never once smiles, and the bags under his eyes... he looks so stressed and depressed by the end.
Hypnotic >______________>
I noticed a lot of comments calling him a man with no life.
That doesn't make much sense to me, it would take like, 30 seconds a day.
>Youtube comments
Yo, fans of non-western fantasy. Check this out.
Be not thee swayed by Moslem sorceries, young sir.
But seriously, I heard about this and it seems pretty interesting. Middle Eastern foklore is really cool, and there are few works around today that really take advantage of it. I just hope it doesn't do the whole "The Middle East is shorthand for the desert" thing, since historically, plenty of Middle Eastern lands were actually quite green.
Well, considering the first chapter seems to sway that idea I'd say they avoid that.
I like the ideas of middle eastern fantasy and have read a few of the Sinbad stories and Aladdin is my favorite Disney film. It's nice to see an Arab-American handling the setting and non-white fantasy writers need more exposure at the very least.
Speaking of fantasy and non-white writers, I just found my old Borges book.
:D:D:D
Borges wrote fantasy?
I still need to get to reading him.
malk
are you secretly the author
be honest
....
I dun geddit. D=
Not fantasy per se, but his stories often had a fantastical bent to them, like that story about creating a city with nothing but thoughts or the Library of Babel.
And you should. Borges is one of the few authors who I can stand to read him write about anything. His essay on films and fiction are amazing.
He's not Sabato, though.
^^ Well, it's currently striking me as Resident Evil: Indiana Jones: Middle Eastern Foklore edition which is pretty much the book you'd write if you went for the Shits And Giggles Approach.
ahahaha I see what you see now. Yeah it does have that element of craziness to it I like. Sadly I'm not well-learned enough on Middle Eastern folklore for that to be true.
Really, all my mythology knowledge is really bits and pieces of stuff. My greek myth knowledge is a combination of the Illian and the Odyssey and the research I did online after watching Xena and Hercules.
^^Sounds cool. I really should branch out with my writers more since most of them are European and most of the European ones are British.
...oh god this fits so well it's uncanny.
That is genius.
Who wrote it?
Remy Carreiro for Unreality
I feel article kinda overshoots its praise of Community (It's unique considering today's TV's landscape, admittedly, but it's hardly the first tv show to use references cleverly and across several episodes) , but it manages to pinpoint exactly what's wrong with TBBT.
then again, that doesn't take much effort.
...is that a crossover between Spiderman and Superman or just Toku Spiderman?