Thursday, April 01, 2004

Yurkos song of the day: White Flag- by Dido

Clang offering a bagful of gold: "Psst! Hey, Be-a-tle! You shall have fun, yes?"
John: "Sorry, I'm rhythm guitar and mouth organ. "

Well aint this a peachy deal of a crap stick; this marks the VERY FIRST time ever that ive gone on to another post with the previous one having a grand total of zero, yes ZERO comments. Comon people normally i wouldnt make such a fuss or anything but the fact of the matter is that i know for a fact thanks to the handy little site counter that people ahve been looking at the site so well yah that basically explains itself. On to the more pressing issues such as the lack of a duck on the moon.......

Oh a side note, if any of you people viewing this site have a site/blog of their own and its not on my list of friends sites (and yes this does mean i have to somewhat know you before adding it there (sorry to all my devoted non existent japanese fans)) email me with the adress of the site so that i can put it up here asap.

Hmm, moving on to nowhere i seem to have forgotten much of what i was going to talk about. Meh no worries im sure i can think of enough bull shat to ramble about for a good paragraph. Been listening to the KISS Alive IV cd finally (got it a good while ago, whenceever it came out) but yah ive came to the realisation that well a) KISS is one kick ass rock group, b) they appear to put on one fun live show and c) Ace Frehley is a rather odd one but hey good stuff there.

what else.. Oh ive been putting some more thought into that Saint Maybe novel that ive been reading and well after thinking about what Dan (who suprisingly enjoys the novel) has said ive came to a few conclusions. Yes like pacone said it is an easy read but well doesnt Easy read correspond with Trite and simplistic in some circles? Also as Dan was saying "its like you can imagine everything in the book actually happening.." etc etc. Which made me realise that yes everything is realistic in taht sense, life meandering along at a normal pace. The thing is though all of her books follow that same format, people living in a house, shit happens, time passes they get jobs, the dog dies, they grow old etc. etc. etc. This really struck me when reading the part about the kids coming back after getting married, having jobs and the like and it occured to me "Didnt i read this exact same passage in Homesick restaraunt (one of her other books)?" Which of course brought me to my 2 largest conclusions about why i do not like what she writes and why its literary crap. Firstly if you base your novels around day to day life of people it will ultimatly devolve into situations taht are time and time again extremly similar as i stated above which is no fun to read; its like watching the 18th rehash, spinoff or remake of a popular movie/tv show. Secondly i also realised that well i know that when i read or watch tv or movies its not to divulge into basically what my life could be if i were named Ian but for something a little different, adventurous etc. Usually entertainment is a form of escape for people and well to me anyways somehow escaping the humdrum and boredom and letdowns of ordinary life only to come across a new world in print format that is...just as humdrum and boring and with the same letdowns... is rather pointless and to a very large extent boring. The thing is though, the idea of writing a book as a part of someones day to day life is not a bad idea; it just has to be exectuted in a well interesting manner. Take the works of Phillip K. Dick for instance, this is probably one of the things he really excells at; in all his books it really makes you feel like the events are just a small snipped of these charachters lives and that they were happily living their life before the events of the book and well life will go on afterwards. It just sums up what happened in the book but never the charachters lives, which gives the novels a rather refreshing perspective in that everything is not cut and dry but its like they take on a whole life of their own. But hey if you dont like that i guess you can go read a book about some hopeless shlob whos dog just died/fiancee left him/shot himself in the head because he realised his life is one big plot hole in a crapfest of a novel.

Hmm well im almost typed out, this being a post that has taken me suprisingly long to well type out. Ive came to the realisation that i am unable to write an essay using the pen and the paper method. For some reason i write so much slower than my thought pattern that often all the great ideas that are churning through my head end up on the paper as "The UN is a good thang paw" and well i find that the speed at which i type is much more suited to place my garbled and inconsistent thought process in to literary form but then again i am sure youve been able to figure that out based upon the 40 odd posts ive rambled on in here on the site. But hey thats that, the essay is wrote and there isnt anything that can be done about it minus the still in development time machine ("Damn time machine set me back 40 years.." "Too bad it didnt work otherwise you could have went back and stopped yourself from building it")
Latly though i seem to having moments/days where im just to tired or cant be bothered to deal with human contact. Sounds rather odd/insane/depressed yes but well its not really any of the above more of i dont know just a feeling that id rather mull over my own thoughts than deal with people. But hey what can i say, people are still good fun and all but some days it just gets to a point where id rather be at home reading or watching tv or something.. not to sure what to say about that but hey the point of this is my inane ramblings and well that ranks rather high up there on the inaity scale (yay made up words!). But hey all this means is that yurkos either slowly going insane or well something but the other 6 people up here in the brain wont shut up long enough to let me think....

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

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