Comments on: Paul Westerberg’s Left Hand http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:56:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: The Definitive Guide to Tim Boucher’s Web Projects - [tmbchr]â„¢ http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-90319 The Definitive Guide to Tim Boucher’s Web Projects - [tmbchr]â„¢ Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:57:21 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-90319 [...] Collector’s Note: (1) I recorded and posted 23 podcasts during this period which are still accessible in their entirety online for free. (2) The bird logo and the “Pop Occulture” title was creatively and surreptitiously destroyed over the course of about a week at the end of this incarnation of the site.   [...] [...] Collector’s Note: (1) I recorded and posted 23 podcasts during this period which are still accessible in their entirety online for free. (2) The bird logo and the “Pop Occulture” title was creatively and surreptitiously destroyed over the course of about a week at the end of this incarnation of the site.   [...]

]]> By: Ben http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30431 Ben Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:57:14 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30431 dude, we should hang again soon! this is some great stuff. dude, we should hang again soon! this is some great stuff.

]]> By: alistair http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30246 alistair Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:49:35 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30246 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjvTpA8Eago&search=Derren%20Brown%20NLP once you call the game, it has to stop. i forget who the philosophy lecturer was but he was on youtube talking about alan watts and how he had got into trouble not for criticising a specific religious practice, but for explaining it. apparently the bishop didn`t like having someone call the game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjvTpA8Eago&search=Derren%20Brown%20NLP

once you call the game, it has to stop. i forget who the philosophy lecturer was but he was on youtube talking about alan watts and how he had got into trouble not for criticising a specific religious practice, but for explaining it.

apparently the bishop didn`t like having someone call the game.

]]> By: Holdercc http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30243 Holdercc Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:40:40 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30243 Sever the head- you have to cut it off, put it in a bottle- cut it off from the world... Then you can kill it off - ego suicide. Maybe that is the duty you felt - your role to be. I have this problem, too, I'm glad I found you then. I gave up alot of ideals and tenets that were forming <em>my life</em> instead of allowing <strong>MY LIFE</strong>. I have nothing else to say other than I am here too and it get harder as it gets thicker. These are our struggles, thanks for sharing yours. Sever the head- you have to cut it off, put it in a bottle- cut it off from the world… Then you can kill it off - ego suicide. Maybe that is the duty you felt - your role to be. I have this problem, too, I’m glad I found you then. I gave up alot of ideals and tenets that were forming my life instead of allowing MY LIFE. I have nothing else to say other than I am here too and it get harder as it gets thicker. These are our struggles, thanks for sharing yours.

]]> By: Michael http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30230 Michael Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:51:29 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30230 I was listning to the final battle fight song from Revenge of the Sith (Battle of Heroes; im such a nerd) while reading your article, which was kinda trippy to begin with, and then i got to the part about the pope, and oh mah gawd.... FRICKIN EMPEROR PALPATINE! look at that picture... jesus christ that's freaky.... the bags under the eyes, the fancy-ass robes, the little kids.... jeesus christ. Hearing these random snippets about your novel, the problems you're facing without any idea what the novel is actually about... when you finish it, it'll be an interesting read. I've been enjoying your blog a lot, especially your recent rants... do you have any advise for starting my own? oh, yeah, that kate hudson picture is great... look at the expression on her face, she looks like a fucking baby-eating archon I was listning to the final battle fight song from Revenge of the Sith (Battle of Heroes; im such a nerd) while reading your article, which was kinda trippy to begin with, and then i got to the part about the pope, and oh mah gawd…. FRICKIN EMPEROR PALPATINE! look at that picture… jesus christ that’s freaky…. the bags under the eyes, the fancy-ass robes, the little kids…. jeesus christ. Hearing these random snippets about your novel, the problems you’re facing without any idea what the novel is actually about… when you finish it, it’ll be an interesting read. I’ve been enjoying your blog a lot, especially your recent rants… do you have any advise for starting my own? oh, yeah, that kate hudson picture is great… look at the expression on her face, she looks like a fucking baby-eating archon

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30229 Tim Boucher Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:11:07 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30229 I never did finish that book. Is it worth reading? I think I broke up with my girlfriend at the time who had it. That and Neil Gaiman's <em>American Gods</em>... I never did finish that book. Is it worth reading? I think I broke up with my girlfriend at the time who had it. That and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods…

]]> By: scrapekid http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30228 scrapekid Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:13:31 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30228 'End the war on mars': strange thing;I've nearly finished Vonnegut's 'Sirens of Titan' where people are abducted to Mars to create a totally inadequate army, all set up by some time-travelling loon who wants this army to shake things up a little on earth -like some kind of Martian kamikaze- so he can induce his self-deviced religion. ‘End the war on mars’: strange thing;I’ve nearly finished Vonnegut’s ‘Sirens of Titan’ where people are abducted to Mars to create a totally inadequate army, all set up by some time-travelling loon who wants this army to shake things up a little on earth -like some kind of Martian kamikaze- so he can induce his self-deviced religion.

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30227 Tim Boucher Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:53:44 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30227 No never heard of it but it sounds cool. PS. I'm not drowning at all! Just got back from a bike ride around a lake though and I feel great! No never heard of it but it sounds cool.

PS. I’m not drowning at all! Just got back from a bike ride around a lake though and I feel great!

]]> By: Jet http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30226 Jet Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:14:50 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30226 Tim- Have you ever read Gaddis' The Recognitions? I think you'd really enjoy it. Twists up all sorts of ideas on religion/spirituality, art (painting, music, poetry, playwrighting), pop culture, philisophy... then puts a heavy eye on recognition (perception) of what is true, what is real, what am I?, etc. It was his first novel, perhaps an inspiration to you. No need to drown, there's not even any water close if you look at it right! Tim- Have you ever read Gaddis’ The Recognitions? I think you’d really enjoy it. Twists up all sorts of ideas on religion/spirituality, art (painting, music, poetry, playwrighting), pop culture, philisophy… then puts a heavy eye on recognition (perception) of what is true, what is real, what am I?, etc. It was his first novel, perhaps an inspiration to you. No need to drown, there’s not even any water close if you look at it right!

]]> By: Rev max http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30225 Rev max Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:30:43 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30225 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Ahead-Advertising-Grant/dp/6304282621" rel="nofollow">How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)</a> <strong>The Career Where Two Heads Are Better Than One</strong> Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his relationship with his wife, his friends and his boss, but also his own body - graphically demonstrated when he grows a large stress-related boil on his shoulder. But when the boil grows eyes and a mouth and starts talking, Bagley really begins to think he's lost his mind. But has he? How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
The Career Where Two Heads Are Better Than One
Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can’t come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his relationship with his wife, his friends and his boss, but also his own body - graphically demonstrated when he grows a large stress-related boil on his shoulder. But when the boil grows eyes and a mouth and starts talking, Bagley really begins to think he’s lost his mind. But has he?

]]> By: J. http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30204 J. Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:12:11 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30204 <blockquote>I want to be able to wake up in the morning and not have this avalanche of confusion and anxiety over where this is all headed and what it all means be the first thing that engulfs me. I want to be able to walk to the grocery store and simply buy some food without having a moment of existential crisis in which I suddenly realize that I am treading a narrow and mostly invisible path which may ultimately cut me off from the rest of the world, but which still feels more real than any goddamned thing being blasted out at me in daily media bombardments. I want to be able to have a clear picture of what I should be doing in my life and how to do it (and not just my life, but fucking LIFE!), instead of this constant guesswork and toiling in darkness, trying to sort out amongst veiled threats and imagined offenses, and wondering all the while whether or not I’m just playing right into their greedy little hands.</blockquote> All I can say is that this essentially describes my daily mental life in an incredibly real way. Each time I take a trip or a holiday, like my recent Christmas visit to my parents, I am reminded of how different my state of mind is whenever I take these little psychological “vacations.” My mental focus relaxes and opens up; that daily pervasive sense of restrictive uncertainty and paranoia melts for a while. Granted, it never lasts for very long and the old state of mind inevitably crops up again when I return to my meaningless “responsibilities” of employment and the like, but those moments of relief are wonderful…a brief taste of what it would be like to live in (and for) <em>the present</em>, for once, outside of the constant information bombardment and concern.

I want to be able to wake up in the morning and not have this avalanche of confusion and anxiety over where this is all headed and what it all means be the first thing that engulfs me. I want to be able to walk to the grocery store and simply buy some food without having a moment of existential crisis in which I suddenly realize that I am treading a narrow and mostly invisible path which may ultimately cut me off from the rest of the world, but which still feels more real than any goddamned thing being blasted out at me in daily media bombardments. I want to be able to have a clear picture of what I should be doing in my life and how to do it (and not just my life, but fucking LIFE!), instead of this constant guesswork and toiling in darkness, trying to sort out amongst veiled threats and imagined offenses, and wondering all the while whether or not I’m just playing right into their greedy little hands.

All I can say is that this essentially describes my daily mental life in an incredibly real way.

Each time I take a trip or a holiday, like my recent Christmas visit to my parents, I am reminded of how different my state of mind is whenever I take these little psychological “vacations.” My mental focus relaxes and opens up; that daily pervasive sense of restrictive uncertainty and paranoia melts for a while. Granted, it never lasts for very long and the old state of mind inevitably crops up again when I return to my meaningless “responsibilities” of employment and the like, but those moments of relief are wonderful…a brief taste of what it would be like to live in (and for) the present, for once, outside of the constant information bombardment and concern.

]]> By: Luke http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30180 Luke Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:13:32 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30180 Brilliant brilliant post. For some reason I found that that completely healing. I am so grateful for people like you walking that fine line, so very grateful. Brilliant brilliant post. For some reason I found that that completely healing. I am so grateful for people like you walking that fine line, so very grateful.

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30179 Tim Boucher Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:11:18 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30179 <blockquote>why kate hudson? </blockquote> Why anything? Actually, it's a long story. Or rather probably a boring story (to other people) related to a dream I had. But if you're interested in following trails of clues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace Although that will only give you half the story. The other half has to do with an essay that I wrote about the environment which I only wrote because I knew I could win the contest. Plus that's just a freakin' *weird* picture.

why kate hudson?

Why anything?

Actually, it’s a long story. Or rather probably a boring story (to other people) related to a dream I had. But if you’re interested in following trails of clues:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace

Although that will only give you half the story. The other half has to do with an essay that I wrote about the environment which I only wrote because I knew I could win the contest. Plus that’s just a freakin’ *weird* picture.

]]> By: chris http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30177 chris Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:04:21 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30177 why kate hudson? why kate hudson?

]]> By: alistair http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-30176 alistair Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:40:23 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/#comment-30176 tim, dude, you just have to go and talk to those cute girls.............nothing else will matter then. tim, dude, you just have to go and talk to those cute girls………….nothing else will matter then.

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