Jan. 24th, 2013

Marilyn

Jan. 24th, 2013 06:00 am
monk111: (Strip)
After winning the Democratic nomination for President, Jack Kennedy was treated to a big party at Peter Lawford’s beach house in Santa Monica. The real treat for Jack was a threesome in bed with Marilyn and fellow sexpot actress Jeanne Carmen.

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Later, JFK told Senator Smathers, Sinatra, and Lawford,”If I live to one hundred years old, I don’t think I will ever have so much fun. Seducing virgins is one sport, and we’ve all done that, but being worked over by the two master whores of Hollywood is a treat few men will know. I was insatiable, demanding everything, and they delivered.”

-- Darwin Porter, “Marilyn at Rainbow’s End”

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Pi says, “Of course, he does not get to live to be one-hundred years old.”

Monk chortles, “Heh, no he doesn’t, which goes to show that you don’t have to be good to die young.”

Pics )
monk111: (Effulgent Days)
I was geared up to take my walk this morning and break this string of walklless mornings and walkless days, even if it meant getting off to a late start.

But it rained and the morning is misty.

I feel weak anyway. Not weak from illness, just weak from being old and puny of muscle, and weak from feeling a little depressed.
monk111: (Bonobo Thinking)
OVERLOAD!! OVERLOAD!!

Step away from the computer!

I'm reading one of those book interiews by the Times. Alain de Botton is the subject today. He is bringing me back to Arthur Schopenhaur, and I have to put "The Wisdom of the World" on my reading list, and back to Goethe and to putting "The Sorrows of Young Werther" on the list.
monk111: (Default)
“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. [...] It may be said of it: ‘It is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens.’ ”

-- Arthur Schopenhauer, "The Wisdom of Life"

I definitely need to put this on my 'wanna read' list, and put it somewhere near the top. Personally, I would not call nothingness to be blissful, but at least it is not pain and humiliation.

Daimon says, "If one truly feels that way, then why live at all?"

Monk says, "Well, there is instinct, and, of course, dreams are nice. It is sweet to dream. And nothingness doesn't even have dreams."

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"The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims," by philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, offers a more accurate and realistic outlook on life than his student, Friedrich Nietzsche. While many disagree with Schopenhauer's renunciation of life, there is much to agree with in this book. Schopenhauer doesn't see a whole lot to celebrate in this vale of tears. His general view in "The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims" is summed up thus: Life is hell. Try to find a room furthest from the flames. If you tend towards a sunnier view of things then you're very likely to find this book by the grandmaster of philosophical pessimism unduly cynical. But if you've pretty much had it with the world and seldom meet a man (or woman) you wouldn't rather see the back of, you'll be delighted to find a fellow traveler and find wit and solace in Schopenhauer's acidic view of this "wonderful gift of life."

-- Amazon

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monk111: (Bonobo Thinking)
With his novel "American Psycho", Ellis made a fan of me, and we have an interesting article on him today.

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Twitter mixes literature (of an admittedly minimal sort) with performance, and it’s perfect for Ellis, who has always been, when you think about it, more of a conceptual artist than an author. The work isn’t beside the point, but it isn’t the whole point. In this new métier, each part of his persona is on view: satirist, nihilist, glamour guy, exhibitionist, knee-jerk contrarian, self-pitying cokehead, and a few other things, all of which make some laugh with glee and others avert their eyes in boredom, and even more glance back in spite of their revulsion, wondering, as one of his followers did the other day: “Is Bret Easton Ellis dead inside?” Indeed, on Twitter, just as it was with Less Than Zero lmost 30 years ago, that’s still the question. It may or may not be a question he asks himself—that, too, is part of the show. Ellis has worked hard to make himself a pop-cultural monster—“monster” has been one of his nicknames—then denies that he’s anything but a middle-aged homebody.

-- ONTD

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One does get the impression that he does not have much to say beyond the spoiled 'bad boy' routine, but he says it well. He seems like a natural diarist, and one could wish that he would just take it to the blog form and forget about Twitter, but I suppose one enjoys the sense of being in a celebrity-rich circle on Twitter. He just strikes me as a natural blogger who can go on about his daily life and its little fascinations and annoyances, and perhaps end up creating something more artful than his string of tweets. But I guess he is doing fine enough with what he is doing, and he has succeeded in making his mark in the world, even if he does nothing else. He can just have fun and enjoy himself.
monk111: (Primal Hunger)
Pi comments, "You seem positively jaunty."

Monk nods, "I took a walk this afternoon. I think that's the reason. If so, it's pretty impressive what just a little exercise will do for you. I suspect it also helps to be away from the Internet for a couple of hours and to be left with a book and the walk. It feels good."
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