Isn't ionized hydrogen (hydrogen missing it's electron) just.... a proton? A proton, floating in space? Can't we just say that protons are nothing more than ionized hydrogen?
A lot of good artists do do their own publishing, and I enjoy buying their CDs, knowing that a substantial portion of the money (~50%) goes to the band. Since they rarely tour through my area, I have to support them somehow!
Why not a Blues Clues movie? Steve was in "Netherbeast Incorporated" and he's put out a f***ing awesome album with Steve Drozd of the Flaming Lips. How could any movie starring him and an animated female blue dog NOT kick ass?
I especially want to see the scene where Steve showers with Slippery Soap, and they have to have a conversation about personal space.
Uhm, I don't believe anyone was believing that doing or not doing activities makes you a unique snowflake, and you've said yourself that you can't create anything unique, since it's all been done before. Anything you create is simply a recycled rehash of something someone else has done.
It hasn't driven the wonder away for any of us... just you. I just think you're looking at this all backwards. Sure, there's lots of cookie-cutter tropes out there. I have four questions for you:
Yeah?
And?
So?
What?
(BTW, I'm 'reusing' that unoriginal bit from Bill Hicks, who was often accused of ripping off George Carlin and Lenny Bruce, who were often accused of ripping off yaddah yaddah yaddah.....)
Tell me, what do you do with all your free time if you're not reading, playing video games, watching TV, learning a skill, admiring art, or spending time with your friends? All of those things are merely unoriginal rehashes of things you've no doubt done before, so you must have colossal amounts of disposable time.
I'm not being sarcastic, I really want to know. Even if I was being sarcastic, you yourself admit what I say is important, not how I say it.
Seriously, though, this is exceptionally lame. "We tried to find your husband.... and, uh, we didn't. All those helicopters, you know those aren't free..."
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, C.C. (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar -- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village".
McLuhan was a fixture in media discourse from the late 1960s to his death and he continues to be an influential and controversial figure. Years after his death he was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine.
A plot device is a... wow, the word's right there. It's a device. It's a tool. It's a means to a creation.
So anything using that wholly unoriginal "written text" is unoriginal? Anything done with paint? OH, any video game where you have to use an input device?
It's entirely possible to write something original. The generic plot points may be recycled, but the method of the writing, the prose itself, and the detailed interactions between the characters, CAN and often is very original.
Yeah... now that all the fun has gone out of abridged plot synopses, writers will actually have to rely on skill and originality in order to sell books! It's an outrage!
Seriously, read "Eastern Standard Tribe" by Cory Doctorow, I've never read a more original or insane novel in my life.
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Isn't ionized hydrogen (hydrogen missing it's electron) just.... a proton? A proton, floating in space? Can't we just say that protons are nothing more than ionized hydrogen?
... just made humans as a cautionary example, and shows us on CCTVs all over the Universe as a sort of "The More You Know!" service.
Well, it's a life-sized EYE of a blue whale...
Nine minutes in, and that's all that's loaded.
A lot of good artists do do their own publishing, and I enjoy buying their CDs, knowing that a substantial portion of the money (~50%) goes to the band. Since they rarely tour through my area, I have to support them somehow!
*deep breath* Doo-ooo-oo-ooo-oo-ooo-oo-ooo...
With an IED?
Can someone send him a letter telling him to shut up?
As far as I know, everyone up here has an iPod. People who can't afford gas because they spend their money on WEED have iPods.
But now I have a great image of Robot-Chicken-Dubya running around yelling "Zune zune zune!"
So a bunch of soldiers watching "Dodgeball" costs you guys thirty mill?
IANAT, but if that's really the definition of "frivious", my dictionary is missing a word.
Why not a Blues Clues movie? Steve was in "Netherbeast Incorporated" and he's put out a f***ing awesome album with Steve Drozd of the Flaming Lips. How could any movie starring him and an animated female blue dog NOT kick ass?
I especially want to see the scene where Steve showers with Slippery Soap, and they have to have a conversation about personal space.
Uhm, I don't believe anyone was believing that doing or not doing activities makes you a unique snowflake, and you've said yourself that you can't create anything unique, since it's all been done before. Anything you create is simply a recycled rehash of something someone else has done.
But "I just don't think about it" seems to work.
It hasn't driven the wonder away for any of us... just you. I just think you're looking at this all backwards. Sure, there's lots of cookie-cutter tropes out there. I have four questions for you:
Yeah?
And?
So?
What?
(BTW, I'm 'reusing' that unoriginal bit from Bill Hicks, who was often accused of ripping off George Carlin and Lenny Bruce, who were often accused of ripping off yaddah yaddah yaddah.....)
Tell me, what do you do with all your free time if you're not reading, playing video games, watching TV, learning a skill, admiring art, or spending time with your friends? All of those things are merely unoriginal rehashes of things you've no doubt done before, so you must have colossal amounts of disposable time.
I'm not being sarcastic, I really want to know. Even if I was being sarcastic, you yourself admit what I say is important, not how I say it.
It is? Really?
Seriously, though, this is exceptionally lame. "We tried to find your husband.... and, uh, we didn't. All those helicopters, you know those aren't free..."
I have read many of those. Randomness and cliched peculiarity does not an interesting or unique novel make.
Your username is bastardized from The Beatles and a slang term for sub-quality meat products. That you find no irony there is depressing.
"The medium IS the message." - MArshall McLuhan.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, C.C. (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar -- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village".
McLuhan was a fixture in media discourse from the late 1960s to his death and he continues to be an influential and controversial figure. Years after his death he was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine.
A plot device is a... wow, the word's right there. It's a device. It's a tool. It's a means to a creation.
So anything using that wholly unoriginal "written text" is unoriginal? Anything done with paint? OH, any video game where you have to use an input device?
It's entirely possible to write something original. The generic plot points may be recycled, but the method of the writing, the prose itself, and the detailed interactions between the characters, CAN and often is very original.
Yeah... now that all the fun has gone out of abridged plot synopses, writers will actually have to rely on skill and originality in order to sell books! It's an outrage!
Seriously, read "Eastern Standard Tribe" by Cory Doctorow, I've never read a more original or insane novel in my life.
You mis-spelled asstronomy.
And spongy...
Wow... I didn't that reference was THAT obscure...
How does one get to be high geek?
Koon-ut-kal-if-fee.