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chrysesofia
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4/10/2006 12:22:56 AM
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bubbleblather
if you’re gonna open your mouth, make it worthwhile.
i heard a great thing recently: “is it true? is it nice? does it improve upon the silence?” now i’d argue that whether it’s nice or not is not always to the point … but improving upon the silence is definitely a criterion to aim for. i would rather talk about nothing than tv, i would rather talk about nothing than the weather, i would rather talk about nothing than … the nothing that people somehow manage to talk about. how do they do it, and for god’s sake WHY? are we all so insecure that we can’t … just exist without making some meaningless verbal excuse for ourselves? i dunno, i guess it’s me, i guess people aren’t used to being in a room together in silence. maybe it’s that i work with all these bubble-head women with the helmet hair and the sensible shoes, who aren't all that much older than me to speak of, and that's mightily disturbing. can't walk through a room without flapping their sticky pink avon lip. “good morning!” what does that mean? piece of noise. “how are you?” what does =that= mean, and why are you asking? do you really want to know? what if i tell you? you wouldn't know what to do with how i am, you would either mumble something and leave the room or you would stare. that's what they do, the bubblewomen, they gape like i just took my skin off.
how is that i can be simultaneously seen both as profoundly communicative ... and as speaking some alien language.
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4/11/2006 12:54:37 AM
well you might be an alien, that's nothing to scoff at. :D
"does it improve upon the silence?”
A lot of people in society are resentful of those who do most of the talking. Sure there are some idiots that are a part of that but there are many wise and gifted people shooting their mouths off too. I believe that a lot of negativity towards communicative people comes from those who don't have the balls to speak out but wish they did.
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chrysesofia
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4/11/2006 3:53:34 PM
i'm thinking about this, because as you describe the model, it's unclear whether it's them being negative toward me, or vice versa. i don't really get ... negativity off their inability to respond, i just get a general "duhwhat?" which has a negative effect on me, but i don't think it's meant any particular way. it's not meant. it's by default.
but i realize that ... especially for someone like me, not everyone is going to get it. what i need to do is ... find more ... who do, or ... create ... some kind of dialog somewhere with people who do, so that i'm not entirely stultified and jammed up.
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4/12/2006 1:31:08 AM
I think the first question you should ask yourself is do you want to reach out, be proactive about yourself. It's entirely up to you whether you want to write as a look straight ahead proposition or whether you want to become a player who stimulates activity surrounding whatever it is you have to say, musically or verbally.
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chrysesofia
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4/12/2006 12:15:13 PM
yeah, that's about it in a nutshell.
but it's like when the only way to test the temperature of something is to stick your hand in it.
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