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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DiabloTX on December 03, 2006, 01:39:35 AM
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Although family and police determined it a clear case of suicide, conspiracy theorists inevitably appeared, postulating that Thompson may have been murdered because of information he had concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks.
What do you think of that?
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dunno. wasn't there. what do you think?
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I think it's funny that this kind of thing makes its way into just about anything.
I mean, we know Hunter wasn't exactly a fan of Repubs and if he DID have info you'd think he'd be the first one to hold up his hand and wave it frantically.
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but would he make the grim connection that the vast lonely stretch of mountains that he called his home were similar to the ones that were once home to the manson family?
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i don't think he was a fan of politicians period.
granted, he was especially harsh on those with conservative views, but i think it was the totalitarianism that tends to follow such logic (the opposite being total bedlam, which he seemed to be more comfortable observing)
he called nixon a war criminal.
but then, he called lots of people lots of things.
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Metaphorically, we can all make that connection. Although not all homes are mountains and not all mountains are homes.
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true.
nor all molehills...
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Yes, a war criminal..and yet he said he'd vote that war criminal in any day over the Bush-Cheney regime.
Sounds kind of delusional, or stuck on his hating his generation's most reviled "villian".
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i think he got cartooned in the end. mostly by his own choices.
its that way with lots of the greats i think. he stopped really getting out into new territory and got a bit stale. kingdom of fear was a bit of a rehash and really doesnt hold water.
he never really reinvented himself.
another example is vonnegut. i've always loved his books. they are simple, smart and funny. light reads with deep meanings.
seems like suddenly the light starts fading and then the thumping starts.
ive never been a fan of indictments against status quo without some sort of solvency to back it up.
reinventing is the key. hunter could not. he was too invented already.
still, i love his work...even his worse was better than most.
its his style that i appreciate most. his choice of words in their apex.
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Madonna is the queen of re-invention, does that make her more valid?
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no. but probably more interesting to a greater number of generations.
it is really on a personal level that it interests me most.
when i am functioning as a creative, i put alot of pressure on myself to reinvent...not because i need to be valid, but because reinvention is the challenge...always another angle. some are more universally true.
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but really. its the work.
my real feeling on the matter?
i think he blew his brains out because he was bored and he didnt see any more angles.
or maybe his wife had him killed.
who knows...
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p.s. - ahhh. much better. (avatard)
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I think artists, by far, are the hardest on themselves. I think it's harder to stay with what you know best, what made you. I think re-invention is the pressure coming from others that think you have to change. I don't buy that at all.
But I can understand the wife deal...sometimes they make men do stupid things.
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a grape changes color when it sees another grape.
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Speaking of the avatard...
Larry McMurtry is one of my favorite authors. And HE feels he needs to do something different with every book he writes. That kind of drives me nuts.
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Originally posted by JB88
a grape changes color when it sees another grape.
Good enough.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
I think artists, by far, are the hardest on themselves. I think it's harder to stay with what you know best, what made you. I think re-invention is the pressure coming from others that think you have to change. I don't buy that at all.
But I can understand the wife deal...sometimes they make men do stupid things.
well, it depends. if you are doing it to please others? sure. that sucks.
or in another, equally turmulous, the want to experience growth...or as the destination on the bus might say "further"
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Larry McMurtry is one of my favorite authors. And HE feels he needs to do something different with every book he writes. That kind of drives me nuts.
perhaps that is why he is your favorite.
:confused:
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No, Wouk is my favorite, McMurtry is just one that I enjoy, for the most part, to read. McMurtry just doesn't deal with other people's expectations or historical facts, but he has a way with words.
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wordsmiths.
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Have you read any of McMurtry's stuff?
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
I think artists, by far, are the hardest on themselves. I think it's harder to stay with what you know best, what made you. I think re-invention is the pressure coming from others that think you have to change. I don't buy that at all.
But I can understand the wife deal...sometimes they make men do stupid things.
you can't escape this. what you know best IS what makes you...
how then does one continue to EXPAND on what they know best.
that is my point.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Have you read any of McMurtry's stuff?
no. but i am wondering which of his works you think are his best...
any recent films catch your fancy? oh what is that screenplay that he wrote about you and your buddy on fishing trips...something mountain or something or other.
(nice try...google is the roxor)
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By seeking perfection? Did Michaelangelo have to re-invent? Da Vinci? Shakespeare?
I just think artists like to be critical of themselves. Not that that's a bad thing, just don't think they have to change to seek what they strive. Maybe, as was said earlier, boredom?
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
By seeking perfection? Did Michaelangelo have to re-invent? Da Vinci? Shakespeare?
I just think artists like to be critical of themselves. Not that that's a bad thing, just don't think they have to change to seek what they strive. Maybe, as was said earlier, boredom?
ABSOLUTELY!!! especially michealangelo and Davinci!!!
(not a big shakespeare guy, but i would guess that yes, he did too)
i am not referring to changing CORE...i am talking about getting up out of a chair and looking at a problem from a totally different angle.
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Originally posted by JB88
no. but i am wondering which of his works you think are his best...
any recent films catch your fancy? oh what is that screenplay that he wrote about you and your buddy on fishing trips...something mountain or something or other.
(google is the roxor)
Don't ask, don't tell.
Well, his stuff is mostly western and I have to say Lonesome Dove is, by far, his best work IMHO. The other books in the series vary from good to WTF??? The Last Picture Show is well loved too, but I couldn't get all the way through it, my wife loved it though.
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i saw some good titles on the list.
was thinking that i might have been setup for an ambush. lol.
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Originally posted by JB88
ABSOLUTELY!!! especially michealangelo and Davinci!!!
(not a big shakespeare guy, but i would guess that yes, he did too)
i am not referring to changing CORE...i am talking about getting up out of a chair and looking at a problem from a totally different angle.
which is actually how CORE is able to change.
but i don't see any advantage to this being an arbitrary occurrance.
it's just the thing that keeps things interesting.
shouldnt our lives also have plot lines and twists?
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I was on active duty when the tv mini-series Lonesome Dove was aired. I didn't get to see it but judging by the title alone I thought it was some revisionist's story of a white woman on the high plains of the mid-west fighting off horny cowboys and savage injuns while raising 7 children all by herself. Good thing my wife made me watch it one afternoon about 10 years ago. Read the book (twice) and became a fan.
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Originally posted by JB88
shouldnt our lives also have plot lines and twists?
I don't think we have much choice in that matter. Some can manipulate it better than others.
I can't seem to avoid drunk topless dancers. It's been a plot twist for the last 20 years or so.
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i'll have to pick up one of his works sometime and give it a read.
i think one of my cousins reads him.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
I don't think we have much choice in that matter. Some can manipulate it better than others.
I can't seem to avoid drunk topless dancers. It's been a plot twist for the last 20 years or so.
lol
:D
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Well, don't say you haven't been warned.
Dammit, I need a drink and a smoke now.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Well, don't say you haven't been warned.
Dammit, I need a drink and a smoke now.
warned about what?
:confused:
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His books. Ya love 'em or hate 'em.
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ah.
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NM.
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went over to the studio to turn it off.
hard to do. i prefer it with the lights on. humming.
i have been sharing the building with a cat whose family lost everything in katrina. he was using the whole bottom of the building to house furniture for them after they had rebuilt.
(he used to play bass guitar for fat elvis. a great musician...does the best rendition of linin track)
he moved the last of his stuff out today.
i can finally get some work done.
it's a two story building/barn that mrs. 88's great grandfather built.
it smells like old building and incense.
it's not quite ideal for what i want to do, but it's a start. it'll do.
i may or may not be it's final tenant.
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On a similar note...
Finally got my 60's re-issue Strat to the guitar shop.
Had some Texas Special PUPS that I bought 7 years ago but never had the money to install. Got the guitar back today.
It's not the same...but it's better.
It needs a new nut and I'd prefer the fretboard shaved down to a 10" radius. But I'll wait for that. For the first time in about a year it has strings on it.
Your's was far less selfish than mine though.
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good luck. get to it!