Wow!!! k talk about no comprehension whatsoever! I feel like this would be a kinda cool movie though. If they made it into a movie, like i feel like i would watch it. Im going to start with the cover of this book thouhg, because i was looking at it and i dont knwo what its supposed to be! wether its like blood veins or roots. I am leaning towards blood vessels right now because it turns to red, but then roots could be a very likely guess becuase its like the "filth" is essentially the "bulb" or "seed" that was planted, and it is now growing and expanding spreading filth everywhere. and then there are little "pods" on the end of the roots, which i feel like is something that is trying to put a stop to the filth that is growing, but all the while it is able to keep growing and expanding around the 'pods' so what its trying to say is that there is absolutly no stop to the filth, you can prevent parts of it from growing, but no matter what you do its always going to find a way to grow.
Chapter 5 is wayyyy to much for me. I dont understand the point that the author is trying to bring across at all. It seems that all of the book that we read, have a section heavily focused on sex. Which is werid because in everyday life and everyday interaction with people, sex isnt really a main topic of conversation. yet in these books like the ticket that exploded and the filth, it seems to be what everything and every theme revolves around. and to see in chapter 6, everyone running from all the 'sperm' is just insane. like why did the author choose this? nudity and the human body seem to be shown off a lot in the filth also. it is displayed in almost every chapter of the comic. like someone has to have their shirt or pants or both off.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
the start of the filth
Wow its been SO long sense ive read a comic book. I dont think ive ever read one though, the reason for that is becuase i dont have the patience. I know i bet your like "how can you not have the patience for a comic book?" and i know its weird! but like it just takes too much time to sit here, have to read all the bubbles, and look at and examine the pictures also. Id rather have to do one or the other not both. I have no problem creating my own picture in my mind, so when i have to read, and also look at pictures its just idk like i cant sit there and concentrate, like honestly when i was a kid and would read picture books, i wouldnt even bother to look at the pictures i just wanted to get through the book. Which is what my problem now, i want to read and finish the book, not have to spend the time to look at the pictures. if that makes any sense at all!
readiing the first issue of the flith it was weird. I was wondering what would end up happening to his sorry looking guy living with his cat. I think its funny how somethng soooo strange just happened to 'officer slade" but all he is worrying about is "did i feed tony" and hes super concerned with his cat the entire time.
and when slade gets back to headquarters we find out that he was in retirement. how can he be enjoying that retirement? he went from a glam life of being an officer. They said that their finest oficers became contanminated, thats why they are called the filth. but why would they want to enforce their status q? quo? They want everything that is not status Q to be removed. They dont watn to be exposed.
I think its werid that the officer thinks that he is going crazy. He asks when he is going to wake up in his padded cell. They are "garbagemen" they stop the world from stinking. But arent they the filth? how does that make sense? shouldnt they clean up themself. the entire second issue seems to be Slade asking questions, and getting no answeres. He has no idea what hes doing or what time he is in or who anyone is. which is leaving me with questions also. I feel like i have all the same questions about this part as he does, and they just wont be answered. I was wondering if he was shot into the future or where he is, and they didnt give him a straight answer. Or how he was supposed to track down the superagent when he doenst even know the first thing to do, and he isnt answered that either.
readiing the first issue of the flith it was weird. I was wondering what would end up happening to his sorry looking guy living with his cat. I think its funny how somethng soooo strange just happened to 'officer slade" but all he is worrying about is "did i feed tony" and hes super concerned with his cat the entire time.
and when slade gets back to headquarters we find out that he was in retirement. how can he be enjoying that retirement? he went from a glam life of being an officer. They said that their finest oficers became contanminated, thats why they are called the filth. but why would they want to enforce their status q? quo? They want everything that is not status Q to be removed. They dont watn to be exposed.
I think its werid that the officer thinks that he is going crazy. He asks when he is going to wake up in his padded cell. They are "garbagemen" they stop the world from stinking. But arent they the filth? how does that make sense? shouldnt they clean up themself. the entire second issue seems to be Slade asking questions, and getting no answeres. He has no idea what hes doing or what time he is in or who anyone is. which is leaving me with questions also. I feel like i have all the same questions about this part as he does, and they just wont be answered. I was wondering if he was shot into the future or where he is, and they didnt give him a straight answer. Or how he was supposed to track down the superagent when he doenst even know the first thing to do, and he isnt answered that either.
some reflections and questions on life extreme
I really enjoyed reading this!! i love philosophical questions like these to think about, i signed up for a philosophy class for which i thought would be reading stuff like this, only its philosophy 102, intro to logic, which turns out it counts as a math credit and its solving equations like truth tables and stuff. sucks. sorry i just had to vent there for a sec.
one idea that stood out to me was page 58 and written by george gessert. where he says "for those [irises] that enchant me i will be a protector and a bumble bee" I thought that that was so thoughtful and so real life, and like the way things work. bumble bees need that flower to live. they depend on it to get the pollen, so their colony can strive. and him saying he will be the protector is pretty self explanatory. I feel as if the Irises he is referring to is his 'women" that he will have throughout his life. He will not only protect them and be there for them, but he will depend on them to live.
that is the interpretation i made for that idea, im not sure if i should call them ideas or quotes? i feel as if they are philosophical ideas, so im going to call them ideas!
Another idea that stood out in my mind was on page 66, it says "Make a poem the way nature makes a tree" by huidobro. I feel like this is reflecting upon the fact that you cant just learn language and then write a poem. It takes nature many years to make a tree, just as it would take many ideas, and a lot of experience to write a in depth insightful poem. anyone can write poetry stuff like "i love you just like the blue loves the sky, the green loves the grass, and the brown loves the dirt" but that doesn't mean anything! i came up with that in three seconds. It cant be appreciated, i don't believe the green loves the grass or the brown loves the dirt. That was just said to make some acquaintances between objects. But ideas have to build and grow over time to make someone substantial. something that will stand for hundreds and hundreds of years, like a tree.
one idea that stood out to me was page 58 and written by george gessert. where he says "for those [irises] that enchant me i will be a protector and a bumble bee" I thought that that was so thoughtful and so real life, and like the way things work. bumble bees need that flower to live. they depend on it to get the pollen, so their colony can strive. and him saying he will be the protector is pretty self explanatory. I feel as if the Irises he is referring to is his 'women" that he will have throughout his life. He will not only protect them and be there for them, but he will depend on them to live.
that is the interpretation i made for that idea, im not sure if i should call them ideas or quotes? i feel as if they are philosophical ideas, so im going to call them ideas!
Another idea that stood out in my mind was on page 66, it says "Make a poem the way nature makes a tree" by huidobro. I feel like this is reflecting upon the fact that you cant just learn language and then write a poem. It takes nature many years to make a tree, just as it would take many ideas, and a lot of experience to write a in depth insightful poem. anyone can write poetry stuff like "i love you just like the blue loves the sky, the green loves the grass, and the brown loves the dirt" but that doesn't mean anything! i came up with that in three seconds. It cant be appreciated, i don't believe the green loves the grass or the brown loves the dirt. That was just said to make some acquaintances between objects. But ideas have to build and grow over time to make someone substantial. something that will stand for hundreds and hundreds of years, like a tree.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
ribofunk makes sense...
SO i was still super confused about this book, and i went onto google and did some review work on ribofunk to try and get a good idea about the book, and i found an awesome web site! it all makes sense to me now. it defined some terms and let me know what should happen when reading these stories. that you wont know what the author is talking about in the begining, untill you make it to the end. http://www.sfsite.com/06b/ribo35.htm thats the site it took me to.
Yeah the whole 51 percent human thing is fasinating to me. but gross at the same time! who would want to be part human and part something else. What would you mate and reproduce with? something that is as human as you? what if the other half of you is a cat. would you be attracted to cats? could you be 'bi' and swing both ways towards cats and humans. and what would happen if you were attracted to the same sex as well as the opposit of both species. be attracted to 4 different things at once. 'quadsexual'.?
i just dont think that this is possible for the genes of two different things to come together and from one. this is too sci-fiey for me.
i guess it would creatate a diverse group of people.
Yeah the whole 51 percent human thing is fasinating to me. but gross at the same time! who would want to be part human and part something else. What would you mate and reproduce with? something that is as human as you? what if the other half of you is a cat. would you be attracted to cats? could you be 'bi' and swing both ways towards cats and humans. and what would happen if you were attracted to the same sex as well as the opposit of both species. be attracted to 4 different things at once. 'quadsexual'.?
i just dont think that this is possible for the genes of two different things to come together and from one. this is too sci-fiey for me.
i guess it would creatate a diverse group of people.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Ribofunk
While reading this book, in the first chapter, on the 2nd page, when Dez sees Casio, he says hes 15 years old, which is still super young. and then when they are in Club Ga As and they were talkinga bout the good old days in highschool when they are still kids. when Casio says "i was even youger then you, Dez. I was only 11 and you were already twelve" and then Dez replies with "Yeah but them days are wiped now, Casio. We're adults ourselves now, with big adult probes." That threw me off, sense when is 15 known as a big adult, and when do you refer to "the good old days" as being three years ago?And when you are 15 you are just starting highschool! your not long enough out of it to refer to it as the good old days. But Casio and Dez must be seen as young because when they come across the man fixing his car, he calls Casio And Dez "nosey punks" and usually teenagers are referred to as punks. So I'm officially confused about this book and the ages.
The language in this book is so odd also! i remember people wearing those jelly bracelets and having like a million on their arm in jr high. you would go to clairs or taget and buy like a pack of 6 for adollar. eww i never liked them. but in this book, people are eating them! what the heck! and for Casio to throw the guy with the car one, and it was a gross flavor and thsoe Dez and Casio run away. does that mean the guy with the car had to eat it? obviously if a stranger throws some jelly thing at you your not goig to eat it. so why would it have been so horrible? maybe it smells bad? idk. weird.
hahah 'cheer beer' seems funny to me! but again what is this 15 year olddoing drinking somethig called "cheer beer" maybe its job is to only make you a happy drunk. no violent drunkness comes out when your drinking cheer beer! wouldnt that be amazing. Maybe you could drive after you drank cheer beer and there would be no road rage EVER AGAIN! everyone would have to have a cheer beer before they stepped out the door. everyone owuld be nice. no violence ever! it would be illegal NOT to be under the influence of cheer beer. wouldnt that be nice. hahaha.
The language in this book is so odd also! i remember people wearing those jelly bracelets and having like a million on their arm in jr high. you would go to clairs or taget and buy like a pack of 6 for adollar. eww i never liked them. but in this book, people are eating them! what the heck! and for Casio to throw the guy with the car one, and it was a gross flavor and thsoe Dez and Casio run away. does that mean the guy with the car had to eat it? obviously if a stranger throws some jelly thing at you your not goig to eat it. so why would it have been so horrible? maybe it smells bad? idk. weird.
hahah 'cheer beer' seems funny to me! but again what is this 15 year olddoing drinking somethig called "cheer beer" maybe its job is to only make you a happy drunk. no violent drunkness comes out when your drinking cheer beer! wouldnt that be amazing. Maybe you could drive after you drank cheer beer and there would be no road rage EVER AGAIN! everyone would have to have a cheer beer before they stepped out the door. everyone owuld be nice. no violence ever! it would be illegal NOT to be under the influence of cheer beer. wouldnt that be nice. hahaha.
I think the whole idea of the Body Artists, and all the other groups is just silly. like these are supposed to be gangs? agaist him? i honestly cant take this book seriously after reading that part. like it was going towards some pretty interesting realistic (somewhat) parts, and then after that it just turned to sillyness. the book took on a whole different tone to me now that i read that.
Well that was just sort-of my begining opinions of the book, ill read on more and see what else i think of!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The Ticket That Exploded Finished...plus some
Well I "finished reading" the ticket that exploded, i put it in quotes because I'm confident that i did not comprehend anything throughout the entire book. It wasn't because it was a hard read, it was just something that you weren't able to get into. Once you start understanding a sentence or two, the author will completely switch what he was talking about and go off on a random tangent.
I don't feel like this book meant anything. Was there a common theme? or a plot he was following? or is that the point of this book, for him to mean that literature and words don't make any sense and don't mean anything. Its the interpretation yourself makes, and the meaning you get out of it. This book 'The Ticket That Exploded' may have had a huge insightful meaning to someone, who learned a ton of life lessons through it, and then someone like me will pick it up, read it, and get nothing from it except disturbed images. I am so happy this isn't one of the classes where the professor makes you interpret everything you read, and then if your interpretation doesn't match what the professor thinks, its automatically wrong. What is with that? Take for instance you read a poem, and you see images and your interpretation from it is what your getting from the poem, you go up in front of the class to share, and the teacher completely shuts you down. ?? I don't even know how to respond to that. What makes the teacher so right. How can the teacher possibly know what someone like Aristotle or Plato was
thinking.
On page 209 of ticket that exploded, when the idea of the tape recorders"What you saw or more often did not see" This is going along with the saying "hindsight is 20/20" you don't realize what was in front of your face until it is too late for it to matter. If when you died, you would sit down and watch a recording of your life, you would realize all the things you should have done differently. Studied harder during school, gotten into a better school, made more money, been happier in life. That is a weird concept to think of. You think that your life is the best it could be. You have made the best possible decisions, and "everything happens for a reason." its something you don't want to think about. like oh what if this decision actually turned out for the worst. No one wants to have regret. that is one of the worst feelings in the world. You only live once and everyone thinks they are living up to their full potential at the time. Which isn't true. People get into habits and don't even realize the life passing them by. I sure don't. I have no idea where all my high school and hte first half of this college year went. I didn't do anything outstanding at all. When i look back all i see is old memories of friends, working a lot, and doing a lot of homework. I have Western to show for it but not much else. these Golden Years are passing by without me even realizing it.
A point that was brought up in class was if conversation means anything. Much like the context of this book. Was the author aware of what he was writing? or was it something where he was having a conversation with his wife, while writing this book, and the book is a result of the random thoughts that would be going through his head while he was listening to his wife complain about work, or about how he leaves hairs in the bar of soap. Maybe its not meant to mean anything, except for the author to take the reader out of their own comfort level, and actually make them realize what they are reading. Reading novels is much like talking or having a conversation. Sometimes you cant even remember what you read. I read the book "pillars of the earth" by ken follett (GREAT BOOK!!!) but if someone now were to ask me what it was about i would say essentially what the back of the book said. a short summary, about building a cathedral and great controversy, and it was a love story. Just like I couldn't tell you what my last conversation with my mom was about. It was something that just happened not out of the ordinary. What the author of the ticket that exploded I'm sure is trying to do is trying to get you to REMEMBER his book. He wants it to stand out, not just so you remember what you read, but so you realize your ACTUALLY READING.
I don't feel like this book meant anything. Was there a common theme? or a plot he was following? or is that the point of this book, for him to mean that literature and words don't make any sense and don't mean anything. Its the interpretation yourself makes, and the meaning you get out of it. This book 'The Ticket That Exploded' may have had a huge insightful meaning to someone, who learned a ton of life lessons through it, and then someone like me will pick it up, read it, and get nothing from it except disturbed images. I am so happy this isn't one of the classes where the professor makes you interpret everything you read, and then if your interpretation doesn't match what the professor thinks, its automatically wrong. What is with that? Take for instance you read a poem, and you see images and your interpretation from it is what your getting from the poem, you go up in front of the class to share, and the teacher completely shuts you down. ?? I don't even know how to respond to that. What makes the teacher so right. How can the teacher possibly know what someone like Aristotle or Plato was
thinking.
On page 209 of ticket that exploded, when the idea of the tape recorders"What you saw or more often did not see" This is going along with the saying "hindsight is 20/20" you don't realize what was in front of your face until it is too late for it to matter. If when you died, you would sit down and watch a recording of your life, you would realize all the things you should have done differently. Studied harder during school, gotten into a better school, made more money, been happier in life. That is a weird concept to think of. You think that your life is the best it could be. You have made the best possible decisions, and "everything happens for a reason." its something you don't want to think about. like oh what if this decision actually turned out for the worst. No one wants to have regret. that is one of the worst feelings in the world. You only live once and everyone thinks they are living up to their full potential at the time. Which isn't true. People get into habits and don't even realize the life passing them by. I sure don't. I have no idea where all my high school and hte first half of this college year went. I didn't do anything outstanding at all. When i look back all i see is old memories of friends, working a lot, and doing a lot of homework. I have Western to show for it but not much else. these Golden Years are passing by without me even realizing it.
A point that was brought up in class was if conversation means anything. Much like the context of this book. Was the author aware of what he was writing? or was it something where he was having a conversation with his wife, while writing this book, and the book is a result of the random thoughts that would be going through his head while he was listening to his wife complain about work, or about how he leaves hairs in the bar of soap. Maybe its not meant to mean anything, except for the author to take the reader out of their own comfort level, and actually make them realize what they are reading. Reading novels is much like talking or having a conversation. Sometimes you cant even remember what you read. I read the book "pillars of the earth" by ken follett (GREAT BOOK!!!) but if someone now were to ask me what it was about i would say essentially what the back of the book said. a short summary, about building a cathedral and great controversy, and it was a love story. Just like I couldn't tell you what my last conversation with my mom was about. It was something that just happened not out of the ordinary. What the author of the ticket that exploded I'm sure is trying to do is trying to get you to REMEMBER his book. He wants it to stand out, not just so you remember what you read, but so you realize your ACTUALLY READING.
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