#2 2007-11-28 19:26:43
Unfortunately the group is correct about the inability of the French government to maintain the monuments that are the heritage of the French people. I have been to Paris 10 times, and the government has been unable to remove graffiti that was present the first time I visited in 1993. The only time anyone challenged me when I went for a close up of a priceless work was in a church with an incredible high altar. A French priest came up to me and escorted me away from the altar, I think more concerned about the altar being profaned than concern for its physical integrity. The museums have guards that are illegal aliens from Africa who are bored out of their tiny little minds; these untermenschen have no appreciation for the priceless products of Western Civilization that they are supposed to be safeguarding from theft or harm.
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#3 2007-11-28 19:42:24
Welcome to entropy, the Old World Disorder.
I love drop kicking frogs at every opportunity but the description you just read applies to public collections all over the developed world.
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#4 2007-11-29 01:34:17
I am more concerned with the decline of North East America, with the incursions of the Québécois and the degenerate effect they have had on the local populace, as well as the national.... Frickin' Kerouac and all that stuff.
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#5 2007-11-29 02:50:31
Dmtdust wrote:
I am more concerned with the decline of North East America, with the incursions of the Québécois and the degenerate effect they have had on the local populace, as well as the national.... Frickin' Kerouac and all that stuff.
You may well laugh; But, if one more fucking pseudo-intellectual tries to explain to me exactly why Charles Bukowski was an alleged "genius," I'll be removing their pancreas with a butter-knife.
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#6 2007-11-29 13:59:27
Decadence wrote:
You may well laugh; But, if one more fucking pseudo-intellectual tries to explain to me exactly why Charles Bukowski was an alleged "genius," I'll be removing their pancreas with a butter-knife.
Good grief Dec, You are always on top of the latest trends.
Cable Tv has been running the god awful matt dillon Factotum along with a Bukowski revival documentary with lots of fawning talking heads anlysing in minutia the importance of clips of him drunkenly abusing his wife.
Bukowski is just fluff for former snot nosed Peanuts fans who fantasize about going off their SSRI's and self medicating.
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#7 2007-11-29 16:32:40
Decadence wrote:
You may well laugh; But, if one more fucking pseudo-intellectual tries to explain to me exactly why Charles Bukowski was an alleged "genius," I'll be removing their pancreas with a butter-knife.
I think Bukowski would be the first to tell you that he wasn't a genius. He was just a drunk who liked to write and didn't like to work. He was gifted enough to be able to tell a fairly entertaining story. He wasn't trying to sell a message or a point or a philosophy.
What always irritated me was the fact that the people who try to espouse his genius were usually the kind of trust fund brats who'd never held a real job. Other than letting them buy him drinks and trying to fuck their women, Bukowski would have had no use for them.
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#8 2007-11-29 16:34:37
Johnny Rotten wrote:
Cable Tv has been running the god awful matt dillon Factotum along with a Bukowski revival documentary with lots of fawning talking heads anlysing in minutia the importance of clips of him drunkenly abusing his wife.
Bukowski is just fluff for former snot nosed Peanuts fans who fantasize about going off their SSRI's and self medicating.
Factotum was awful. I couldn't finish it. I liked Barfly because Mickey Rourke was ugly, and Faye Dunaway looked like the kind of washed up hag you find in dive bars. It was pretty true to his writings.
The documentary was very mediocre. As Dec suggested, it attempted to romanticize his life rather than just sticking to the facts.
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