To the tortured artist: it’s painfully clear you just took your last relationship, changed a name or two, and put it all on paper to read aloud. You took really intimate details and paraded them around for strangers, which is mean – and also lazy, since you’re supposed to be some kind of writer. Maybe you thought nobody would know, or that it wouldn’t matter. I think it’s slimy, to be so transparently desperate for attention you had to resort to publicly embarrassing someone – and not for your “art”. Whether it be recent or long ago, it’s time to move on so I can enjoy actual fiction at these hipster conventions, and not your tired-out relationship drama. Boring. —Eye Roller
This article appears in Oct 20-26, 2011.
Fool, you think everything is about YOU……why does Carly Simon come to mind at a moment like this?
Ummmm, lots of stories are from real life. True art comes through sufering(lol).
That’s why you hear/read “the names of people and places have been changed, in order to prevent my ass from being sued”.
WAIT,WAIT,WAIT. Are you seriously trying to tell me that Max Brooks MADE UP World War Z.? Then how do you explain the dozens of brain dead flesh crazed zombies that I had to shotgun at Sir Edward Cornwallis Mall….
Oh crap. >:0
I guess a sincere apology isn’t going to be sufficient, is it?
Oh come on.. most if not all art is based on personal experience.. I don’t like hearing a bunch of corny, woe is me love songs, that’s why I don’t listen to the local radio. If you don’t like this guys writing or spoken word or whatever then don’t support it. Maybe we should just all write, sing, rap or paint about what YOU think is appropriate OP.
Art nazi:P
lol that’s how writers write, friend.
Never, EVER fuck over a writer 😀
Artists, who needs ’em.
Well, I and probably most of the people on the Coast have no idea who you’re talking about or who the artist is talking about, so calm down.
OB, obtain a copy and post it on here for all to read.
Mel, I know that sometimes I read too much into things, buit I think that the OB is the subject of the “Artiste’s” writings 😉
First time I completely agree with Seb. Do it OP.
lol, no OP, please dont.
Yay: 2
Nay: 1
if there is no actual names of those involved used, they can write whatever they wish to. same as here. if you slander some place or one, then you get shit, but using a misnomer, is okay.
and some people use a thing called p[oetic license, to get a story across. it is all in books you see all the time. and the disclaimer is there too, to read.
so, you will just have to suck it the fuck up, like the other 99 percent of the world. on a good note, gadaffyfuck has been nailed, and wounded yet. stand by for his beheading, coming to a despotic country near you.
What do you mean by “and not for your art?” Did this person post something on Facebook? Is that why you’re so pissed?
I think I found what the OB was bitching about. Wheelie? If you’d be so kind as to give me a walking jazz baseline….:
“Woman
Woe man
Whoa-oa-oa-oa man!
She was a thief
You gotta believe
She stole my heart and my cat
Betty
Judy
Josie and those hot Pussycats
They make me horny
Saturday morny
Girls of cartoo-ins
They leave me in ruins
I want to be Betty’s Barney
Hey, Jane! Get me off
This crazy thing…
… called love”
Avast, You one hep cat.
Swingin’
*finger snaps*
I’m hearing Robert Plant singing that avast0, would that be correct?
Morning all, beautiful start for the weekend 🙂
Roger that Hugo. This day can’t end fast enough. With apologies to the Bard –
“First we hang all the accountants”
If Occupy NS is opposed to doing inventories; expect to see me squatting in the mud tomorrow.
“First we hang all the accountants…” Wasn’t that Monty Python?
No Hugo, it’s from the movie “So I Married an Axe Murderer” starring Mike Myers. Hilarious movie. Although, it DOES sort of sound like something Robert Plant might record. lol
Many thanks for the finger snaps Tron/Ivan. (Take a bow, Wheelie.) That’s far out, man. I didn’t recognize you guys sitting in the corner with your berets and Wayfarers lol
Shakespeare Monty Python – I can’t tell the difference anymore. The accountant who’s coming in to double check things is the dead spitting image of Neil Patrick Harris. Doogie Howser gets a pass on the hempen necktie.
What the deuce? Did you just call me a beatnik hipster Avast?
Of course you know, this means war.
shitty hipsters being shitty hipsters….
you should have heard the stories at the EMO convention.
If ever there were an appropriate place to want to cut yourself….
http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivation…
Envy the guy running the razor blade concession.
“THAT’S THE SWEETEST PLUM!”
Um…er…um…haha…oh gee…ummm…I-I-Ivannnn! ME? Call YOU a beatnik hipster?? Pssshhh! Nawww! Noooo! um…ha…no no no no…uh-uh. HUGE misunderstanding. See, you thought I said this:
http://www.meijer.com/assets/product_image…
When actually, I meant this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1luLRXKoJM8/TCFP…
“Didn’t recognize you with your beret and sunglasses” See? Honest mistake.
LMFAO – All is forgiven >: )
Didn’t want to have to go all “Legion Etranger” on yo ass, anyhows.
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/What+woul…
Gee Ivan, I feel for you….kinda, sorta…well doing inventory never bothered me, ‘but I understand what you mean’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzXV6RO7vD0
avast0 – I remember that scene (I think), “spoken art”?
I’ve got Whole Lotta Love playing in my head now 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOObeDB0j9A
>: ) Compared to a West African ex-child soldier double amputee facing a mid-life crisis at the ripe old age of 14, no it’s not too bad. But watching the stuff that I should be doing,pile up rapidly and knowing that there’s only an “Army of One” (moi) to do it, and that the same middle management genii who schedule an audited inventory for this time of year are going to wonder why there is so much unreceived product in-house and why aren’t we meeting promotion dates, well that makes me a tad stroppy. Grrrrrrrr.
Roll on Saturday, when I can actually do a job that counts for something.
Beer Time, Yet?