The newest book club discussion on The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby has a link!
You will find there, an excerpt of my thoughts, but they were from a premature post on the board. My real reflection, which went unpublished, I would like to now share.
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Narby's book opened up a world of possibilities for me, mostly in the area of bombastic theorizing and subsequent selective investigation. For instance, I can now postulate that the Spin book club is an elite, though seemingly ragtag collection of people who have been selected by a small and covert government agency for monitoring, and the hopeful discovery of a prophesied savior of the modern world.
My first finding on the general subject of a prophesied Armageddon was the Mayan calendar, and it's abrupt end on December 21, 2012. (12/21/12) The sum of all of the single digits equals 9-- the number of lines in a nonet of poetry. (note that in music, a nonet is a composition which requires nine musicians for a performance. Hmm... music. I would set that divergence aside for later speculation.*1)
So while my estranged wife and children took a holiday to my wife's mother's house to escape my abuse by negligence and detachedness possibly but not probably having to do with a drug induced acute compulsion surrounding my recent findings, I searched volumes in search of the relevance of the nonet. Then while casually browsing cam phone video blogs on buzznet, it struck me: just as buzznet combines two words to create a new term, nonet was a term comprised of two syllables: no and net! Perhaps the bizarre cease of the Mayan calendar was caused by a worldwide internet failure.
I was fatigued, but in light of my new findings, pressed on. Defocalizing my gaze on the internet, I allowed my surroundings to steer my mind. Mariachi music wafted up the stairwell from the cleaning lady's porta-sterio cassette deck. That's it, music, the universal language! What other force than the internet could spread a web between continents, providing a means of global dialogue and understanding?! Quickly searching Al Gore, who we know "took the initiative in creating the Internet", I found exactly the link I was looking for... Jon Bon Jovi! He was recorded as remarking, "Al Gore is the smartest person I've ever met."
So the two had met. How often? On what subject did they converse? The end of the world? Possible saviors of our modern way of living?
In a popular Bon Jovi song, the lyric repeats 3 times:
Maybe I can't save the world
But as long as you believe
Maybe I can save the world
The 3 groups of 3, the nonet... it was too much to be a coincidence. Perhaps his seemingly rock cliché use of a contradiction was not contradiction, but instead JBJ disclosing that HE could not save the world, but KNEW WHO COULD, and in revealing the savior to the correct source, would himself be taking part in the earth's salvation. Could his source be Al Gore?!
I once again defocalized my thoughts. Al Gore's last name brought shivers to my spine when coupled with the thought of the demise of human life. Looking it up in a dictionary, I found the synonym "vermicious", which a childhood memory reminded me, described Roald Dahl's Knids-- a fictional species of amorphous, shape-shifting monsters that invade the Space Hotel USA from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The synonym was rich with metaphor for the Armageddon at hand. Searching the net for more on the Vermicious Knids, I came upon the final key linking the SPIN.com book club to the possible avoidance of the abrupt end of the Mayan calendar...
A myspace user by the name of "vermicious_k" yielded a google search including among 3 lines of summary, the code:
"Hey Dot how are you? I sure do love the Bon Jovi Video in your comments. ... Pastiche will be spinning Drum & Bass Hip Hop Remixes, and calming Raggae, ..." Noticing the emboldened words, it is impossible to ignore Bon Jovi, spin, dot, and calm... Bon Jovi! Spin.com!
That is where I will leave off. The above was not meant to challenge anyone's faith, but merely to serve as a cornerstone into the exploration of the theory that a true egocentric universe can coexist with the help of creative science, selective investigation, even more brashly selective theorizing. I now leave it to you to become obsessed and tie up my loose ends. Thank you for the $14 dollars via amazon.com. I'm coming down from my trip now, and am disinterested in the mess of pixels before me. I now long for the caress of a summer breeze and a bit of caramel to pleasingly excavate from a molar and savor on the base of my tongue.
-foot notes-
*1. 9 is also the number of members of the book club who initially took place in discussion of the first book, Jesus' Son, though 11 members were selected by Spin. What happened to my friend Stef Alexander of P.O.S. during that discussion? I called him to investigate possible conspiracy, and he declined comment, yet had little alibi, other than mumbled fatigue of self tour managing on the Gym Class Heroes tour. I sensed foul play.
You will find there, an excerpt of my thoughts, but they were from a premature post on the board. My real reflection, which went unpublished, I would like to now share.
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Narby's book opened up a world of possibilities for me, mostly in the area of bombastic theorizing and subsequent selective investigation. For instance, I can now postulate that the Spin book club is an elite, though seemingly ragtag collection of people who have been selected by a small and covert government agency for monitoring, and the hopeful discovery of a prophesied savior of the modern world.
My first finding on the general subject of a prophesied Armageddon was the Mayan calendar, and it's abrupt end on December 21, 2012. (12/21/12) The sum of all of the single digits equals 9-- the number of lines in a nonet of poetry. (note that in music, a nonet is a composition which requires nine musicians for a performance. Hmm... music. I would set that divergence aside for later speculation.*1)
So while my estranged wife and children took a holiday to my wife's mother's house to escape my abuse by negligence and detachedness possibly but not probably having to do with a drug induced acute compulsion surrounding my recent findings, I searched volumes in search of the relevance of the nonet. Then while casually browsing cam phone video blogs on buzznet, it struck me: just as buzznet combines two words to create a new term, nonet was a term comprised of two syllables: no and net! Perhaps the bizarre cease of the Mayan calendar was caused by a worldwide internet failure.
I was fatigued, but in light of my new findings, pressed on. Defocalizing my gaze on the internet, I allowed my surroundings to steer my mind. Mariachi music wafted up the stairwell from the cleaning lady's porta-sterio cassette deck. That's it, music, the universal language! What other force than the internet could spread a web between continents, providing a means of global dialogue and understanding?! Quickly searching Al Gore, who we know "took the initiative in creating the Internet", I found exactly the link I was looking for... Jon Bon Jovi! He was recorded as remarking, "Al Gore is the smartest person I've ever met."
So the two had met. How often? On what subject did they converse? The end of the world? Possible saviors of our modern way of living?
In a popular Bon Jovi song, the lyric repeats 3 times:
Maybe I can't save the world
But as long as you believe
Maybe I can save the world
The 3 groups of 3, the nonet... it was too much to be a coincidence. Perhaps his seemingly rock cliché use of a contradiction was not contradiction, but instead JBJ disclosing that HE could not save the world, but KNEW WHO COULD, and in revealing the savior to the correct source, would himself be taking part in the earth's salvation. Could his source be Al Gore?!
I once again defocalized my thoughts. Al Gore's last name brought shivers to my spine when coupled with the thought of the demise of human life. Looking it up in a dictionary, I found the synonym "vermicious", which a childhood memory reminded me, described Roald Dahl's Knids-- a fictional species of amorphous, shape-shifting monsters that invade the Space Hotel USA from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The synonym was rich with metaphor for the Armageddon at hand. Searching the net for more on the Vermicious Knids, I came upon the final key linking the SPIN.com book club to the possible avoidance of the abrupt end of the Mayan calendar...
A myspace user by the name of "vermicious_k" yielded a google search including among 3 lines of summary, the code:
"Hey Dot how are you? I sure do love the Bon Jovi Video in your comments. ... Pastiche will be spinning Drum & Bass Hip Hop Remixes, and calming Raggae, ..." Noticing the emboldened words, it is impossible to ignore Bon Jovi, spin, dot, and calm... Bon Jovi! Spin.com!
That is where I will leave off. The above was not meant to challenge anyone's faith, but merely to serve as a cornerstone into the exploration of the theory that a true egocentric universe can coexist with the help of creative science, selective investigation, even more brashly selective theorizing. I now leave it to you to become obsessed and tie up my loose ends. Thank you for the $14 dollars via amazon.com. I'm coming down from my trip now, and am disinterested in the mess of pixels before me. I now long for the caress of a summer breeze and a bit of caramel to pleasingly excavate from a molar and savor on the base of my tongue.
-foot notes-
*1. 9 is also the number of members of the book club who initially took place in discussion of the first book, Jesus' Son, though 11 members were selected by Spin. What happened to my friend Stef Alexander of P.O.S. during that discussion? I called him to investigate possible conspiracy, and he declined comment, yet had little alibi, other than mumbled fatigue of self tour managing on the Gym Class Heroes tour. I sensed foul play.
90 Comments :
haha Very clever! Oh and Al Gore's name alone sends shivers down my spine... and not in a good way! I am also not a fan of Bon Jovi or Bruce Springsteen. Considering I am from Jersey, some people do take offense to it and think I'm some kind of alien. That was totally irrelevant so I am going to shut up now.
Wow.
This made me smile.
all i can say is
wow.
hahaha
Wow.
What must be going on in that head of yours!
I found your writing very interesting, and well, I can't really seem to wrap my mind around how much time you must have on your hands to come across all of this information and everything. (What with your busy schedule)
-Courtney
Thank you Shawn, for now, I am more paranoid then ever before and have a craving for some sort of chocolate bar with caramel.
I can't seem to shake the feeling that as the comments stack up, we will slowly find more clues...
Oh
dear.
You're wonderful.
Haha. : )
that was amazing haha
haha... very nice
much love
muah
My mind just blew.
Please write a book.
Brace yourself, this is going to be the longest comment I've seen yet.
In the sense of being as obsessed as you seem to have been, I set out google searching "vermicious_k". Which lead me to the MySpace, the first thing I noticed was the drawing of a, what I took as, a baby skeleton reading a book, that stunned me enough but I kept looking. On the pigmy sized book in the skeletons hands the title reads "Baudelaire", immediately I fled to google it. The very first link to show takes me to a Wiki page about Charles Pierre Baudelaire, who's birthdate is 4/9/21. Obviously, the 9 and the 21 there hit me. But where does the 4 fit? Four men in a band? 1 who would be tied into a certain bookclub. I'm shaking. Our friend Baudelaire was also involved in republican politics, and authored a poem called Les Fleurs du mal "The Flowers Of Evil", in which saying boredom the worst of miseries', flower of evil? Evil grows from bordom? But theres more. Back to the small book in the drawing on the googled MySpace, theres a small 683 on the spine. 6 equals out to 2 3s, and the other 3 is right there, the 3 3's! Baudelaire's death date was 8/31/1867, that links the 8 into it! Back to the MySpace though, on her page the 2nd person on her top friends has a cartoon picture of a man with a top hat on and has a mustache, I laughed. Through her pictures link, there is a picture of a little girl with the words "apocalypse now" written across it, and a picture of what I'd call a non-smoking type sign, in chuckles that reminds me of Sick Little Suicide, that reads "Made in China" on it. Immediately that reminded me of To Build a Mountain, "Maybe a Cuban base leaves you less than overjoyed...". I'm completly stunned.
Also, on this girl's MySpace, there is a picture of a Dallas cowboys football star, I'm from Dallas! I have to thank my friend Malice, whos already commented on here, and was helping me stay somewhat sane with all of this. But, back to the poem by Baudelaire, "Les Fleurs du MAL", Malice's nickname being "Mal"!
In a bit of a streach, the owner of this MySpace, is from New Jersey, which is close to NYC, where 9/11 happened, 9 and 11! The book club members!
At this point I'm starting to think I'm going overboard.
I hope some of this made sense.
♥ V
Oh! I forgot, whilst google searching I found that there is also, a music record label called 'The Baudelaire Label'. Next I'll find some cypher in the letters of Baudelaire. Joking.
I'm worn out.
♥ V
Look at the time that Victoria posted that comment...
August 11, 2007 2:33 PM
2:33, 2 sets of 3.
Oh my God the time!
I just looked again the girl's got 699 friends too!
Now it's just getting creepy.
♥ V
Now as I was keeping Tori sane, she pointed out her age, 33. But thats only two 3s, so we blew it off.
THEN, we looked a little harder. As dear Victoria mentioned, her second top friend, the one with the cartoon in a top hat and stache. Now if you look, you see that their age is 35. The other 3.
3 3s
I'm just saying...
I didn't even think of the date of all this! 8/11! Makes me wonder about future Warped Tour dates...
Again with the MySpace, her headline reads "Well I burned all my books, on my ass I sit and look, and behold the world deteriorate."
I really hope your enjoying all of this.
♥ V
I found this in one of her commments;
"Your profile song is kickass! I was thrashing my head all to and fro when a tooth fell out... and then I swallowed it... it went down my throat nice, like glass from one of those mercury rectal thermometers. I tried not to puke, but then I hurled like twenty-three feet, and the wet chunks went down into those little plastic slits in the back of the TV. And then Satan appeared on the screen and she said that I should dry some banana peals and put them in my pipe to smoke."
This was posted at the time; 8 Aug 2007 13:33.
Oh my God, this is insane.
That was from the profile with the top hat, mustache picture too!
♥ V
Next time I'll wait to leave all of my insanity in one comment. Theres another comment on her page from a band called THE SKETCHES, from Washington, DC, and their album is called "SECRET ALPHABETS".
This is just too much...
♥ V
Translating 'Gore' into Binary you get; '01100111011011110111001001100101'
19 1's.
1 set of 9.
I actually give up for now.
This all still connects back to Bon Jovi. Our oh so helpfull myspace friend "vermicious_k" is also from New Jersey.
How is this not suspicous?
OH MY GOD you guys I'm really scared...
As for the blog, I...and stuff.
This won't ever end will it?
Sorry, I hate double posting on this
but
I'M FROM NEW JERSEY OMG!
"01100001011011000010000001100111011011110111001001100101"
^ Al Gore, in Binary.
27 1's
3x9 = 27
With credit to both me and Mal.
Simon's comment was the 23rd.
just saying.
Right, this is a good one... It actually shocked me.
Right, while on the search for more info on Al Gore, I came across the title;
Al Gore's Convenient Lie:
The Global Warming Spin.
The first thing that stood out is obvious, and is "Spin", this really needs no explanation to what we're looking for, but coincidence?
The next thing I thought to do was to look deeper into it. I looked through a few sites, to find nothing of relevance. However, the very thing I was looking for was staring me in the face the whole time.
Look at the title. But ignore the Global Worming Spin part for a while; Al Gore's Convenient Lie:
I took the word 'Convenient', because I wasn't sure how many anagrams I could get from the word, I used an anagram generator. What I got back was only one anagram. Two words. The words being;
Net connive
Net... Meaning the Internet. At first I didn't get the link of 'connive' untill I looked it up;
connive (k-nv)
intr.v. con·nived, con·niv·ing, con·nives
1. To cooperate secretly in an illegal or wrongful action; collude: The dealers connived with customs officials to bring in narcotics.
2. To scheme; plot.
This was a shock... Does this mean "Al Gore's Internet plot Lie:
The Global Warming Spin."?
I'll leave that up to you.
I forgot to mention, I found that artical while Googling "Mayan calendar al gore"
Another clue?
Here's the page I found it on.
http://www.mayanmajix.com/art_pt.html
Mayan Majix?
Mayan Magics?
- Sorry for the posts.
This keeps getting stranger and stranger...
While Simon is on the front of discovering Al Gore's secrets, Victoria had the idea of looking up JBJ, Jon Bon Jovi. She typed it in on google and was brought to a Yahoo financial page. It had the stock information for the Lehaman ABS Corperation.
She told me this and I searched the web for more information on this misterious company that on NASDAQ is represented as JBJ.
I found a link to a wiki page that listed all of the companys starting with L on the New York Stock Exchange. Before I could find Lehman ABS, a name jumped off of the page at me.
L3 Communications Holdings Inc
Hm. I find the Armageddon mayan calendar theory interesting. I often hear scraps of certain theories from my mom like this as she has a whole library of books discussing things ranging from "The Gaia Project" to Jesus' missing years and supposed influence from Buddhism while traveling in India.
I know way more about afterlife theories and have way too many random religious and death facts than I should.
Right now I'm reading a book called Spook by Mary Roach, the writer of another book called Stiff that I also read, that discusses all sorts of afterlife theories and whatnot.
Don't know why I went off on this tangent, I suppose your long and winding post made me want to comment back with this. Half the time I feel like my head is clogged from all the fancy vocabulary you use and then I feel undeniably stupid while at the same time spouting every large word I have in my arsenal... haha.
Oh well. Love to hear your thoughts. :]
HAY the world is supposed to end in 2012 so..2 and 1+2...23...
wait, duh
28:06:42:12
I think about it...
this stuff is very interesting and all...but is anyone else perplexed about the whole wife and kids thing, or is it just me? that stuck out to me, and i don't get it? call me crazy.
Am I the only one that finds it strange that the people leaving all these comments are dissecting this person's myspace?
(april) The more I read it, I do find it very strange.
This reminded me quite a bit of that movie, "The Number 23". While I have not yet seen this movie, I'm almost certain that it has to do with linking things that have no relevance to each other together somehow, which is what you did in this post.
Also I must state the obvious: that your intelligence leaves me feeling vastly inadequate.
Good day.
At the moment, I'm a whole mix of scared and confused...
I don't even know what to think about this post and these comments.
You are so full of shit. But wonderful, mind expanding shit.
my head is spinning
the post and then the comments there are too many circles
nutsy if you ask me
You are all crazy!
All I want to know is if you (Shawn) have anymore **** to share? I'll be at Warped in Marysville and wouldn't mind trying some! It sounds like it was a fun little trip.
kidding....
~b
I don't know what people are complaining about. Stream of consciousness philophizing is highly entertaining, and makes for good conversation.
And writing as well, but that's something else.
And Kait, I've seen "The Number 23." It was completely bloody awful.
My birthday is December 21.
That really creeps me out.
Conspiracy theories are conspiracies in themselves.
Living is easy with eyes closed, and that's the way I like it.
It is now, 4:00 AM as I type, and I cannot seem to close my eyes and fall asleep. So me and my nocturnal patner in this mess Tori, are at it again, and are diving even deeper.
I was informed earlier that Tori did not infact read the entire wiki article on Baudelaire, so I decided to start there first. There I found that Baudelaire was a pioneer of the Symbolist movement in France with his poetry. It seemed worth checking out.
The Symbolist movement, and I quote, "invited a reaction in favour of spirituality, the imagination, and dreams; the path to Symbolism begins with that reaction". The reaction, isn't this what this is? I mean, this blog, it's a reaction to how this book effected you. It's a reaction in favor to imagination, which you need a little to connect all of this together. This blog is the begining of a Symbolist movement, which it really was, considering that it drove some of us to dig this deep. This discovery drove me to go deeper.
I proceeded to browse through a list of authors of English Literature of the Socialist movement, thinking I might find something that connects this to the bookclub. This is where I found Oscar Wilde, who is a very intersting man I must say, but I could not find anything. Then, for the I-can't-count-how-many-times-this-has-happened-today time, something caught my eye. There was a play based on the life of Oscar Wilde (cleverly titled Oscar Wilde) in which a character named Frank Harris is included. huh, sounds familiar... I could not figure out why they needed to mention that Frank Harris was a character in this play, so I followed another link.
I learn that Frank Harris was a controvercial author of his time with the best moustache I have ever seen. I believe a person of this same surname has written what has proved to be a fairly controvercial blog. I scrolled down the page to see some of Frank's famous quotes, one being "Sex is the gateway to life." which I loved, but there was one that seemed to fit this discussion more, "What hope is there for humanity, save in confession and reform; in truth and in love."
So what does this mean to us? Did the Mr.Harris of the early 20th century know? Is this what we are supposed to find? If we just have truth and love can we really be saved? Is that all it takes? Is this the truth we needed? I believe so.
This entire theory, centered around how the bookclub is secretly a test group to find the new mesiah, is all based on the wrong reasons? All we need is the truth, which has just been found out, and love, which I believe brought everyone to this blog in the first place. There is no need for a savior, and the calander will not end at all because of what we have learned today.
Of course, this is only a theory.
That my friend is the greatest rationale I have ever heard.
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From my last comments I have since slept and come back to this. It's now 5:39 am, and I see the glow of the slowing rising sun below the hills.
So, in hopes of further connecting any of this into music, and maybe even with Al Gore also, I went to google search "Maybe I can't save the world Al Gore", the first link to show takes me to an article entitled "A Campaign Gore Can't Lose", about his documentary A Inconivent Truth, about global warming and how we're all gonna die in a few years' time. With "in extremis" italicized, I keep reading, it mentions him being versed in the internet and technology, and some about him losing the 2000 election to Bush. But it was the last two sentences that caught me, "He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us, better informed and, having tried and failed to gain the presidency, he has raised his sights to save the world. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.". 'Save the world'...'Simply cannot afford to lose again.', I actually couldn't look away from the last phrase for a moment.
So with that read, and said, I turned to google for the rest of the lyrics in Save The World - Bon Jovi. After hearing what Mal had found just before my short lived nap, with '"What hope is there for humanity, save in confession and reform; in truth and in love."' from the other very interesting Mr.Harris, the words 'I can save the world
Since the night your love saved me
Maybe I can't save the world
But as long as you believe
Maybe I can save the world
They can say it's blind love
But it's a fool who don't believe' hit me much harder than they probably ever would have otherwise. With the theory of all we need is truth and love to save us, those words stood out quite a bit.
Earlier I tried a bit to listen boldly and search "Bon Jovi" on Spin.com I haven't found anything worth adding in this as of now, though I found it incredibly amusing that on the home page of Spin.com there is a banner that reads "GO DEEPER".
Happy hunting my fellow nocturnal friends.
♥ V
I'm not exactly sure what I just read, I think I enjoyed it though.
Now I'm thoroughly paranoid. Thanks Shawn! <3
Okay, I actually read those. You guys did a lot of research...I have to say, there's one thing there that bothers me quite a bit.
I don't know if you were agreeing, Mal, but the whole deal about only needing truth and love in life? If I'm understanding this correctly, it's just not settling too well with me. I don't think I want to get into all of this, though I do enjoy reading about it. We've survived long enough without all this so why bother trying to solve the whole "mystery of life" now and risk all this new knowledge changing life as we know it. Sure, there very well could be some big truth or connection, what have you, behind all this but I like it the way it is, not knowing what's to come or why things happen the way they do.
Right...I'm not able to type every thought of mine I have on all this. I'll just leave it be. Still gonna be reading about your findings though.
the following is gonna be a crazy long comment (sorry!) but it is a bulletin posted by our friend vermicious_k (who is probably concerned about the recent influx of profile views. lol) anywho.. i find it coincidental that this is the topic of her bulletin, posted today at 7:39 am. i copied and pasted. an the title was "an inconvenient truth". :)
The Story of Two Houses'
House #1
A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated By gas.
In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year.
The average monthly bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400.
In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.
This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern 'snow belt' area. It's in the South.
House #2
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university.
This house incorporates every 'green' feature current home construction can provide.
The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest.
A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer.
The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system.
Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern.
Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house.
Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.
~~~~~
HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the 'environmentalist' Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
An 'inconvenient truth.'
Okay I'm slightly afraid now. I'm going to shut my eyes and continue to live in blissful ignorance.
after reading thru the posts on the deep research all i can think of is that the beatles said all you need is love...
also, i'm curious about the wife & kids comment too. and what caused this trip, it's all crazy like alice in wonderland.
i really think you should read deluze and guittari's stuff on rhizomes.
they're really quite fascinating and some of it rather fits in with some of what you're saying, in my opinion.
"Harris is all charm, slouched on a couch with a Peter Pan smile and a Johnny Depp face. He's the kind of front man you can't help but fall for, even when he's in drag."
I found this description in a review in The Owl Magazine. I read it and thought, "...Yeah, that's about right."
You people that left like 10+ comments on here and talk about Shawn all day on the message boards, like whatever he likes, and like to take on his traits need to get a life. He has his own and you need to get your own... I may be drunk but I know what I am talking about. See you at Warped in Sacramento Shawn.
Um, last I checked the thesaurus is not a good place to get all your words. I know you're smart but don't rub it in my face. Also, April's blog is better than your's better than yours because she shows real emotion and expresses it...
Creepy..
Picture someone looking over their shoulder with a suspicious look on their face right now.
Uh-huh. That's me.
*x-files music*
Oh holy wow you blow my mind, now I'm going to be connecting everything I encounter to Bon Jovi, nonets, Spin.com and the Mayan calendar.
this is the last time i'm even acknowledging the existence of this topic, as well as my final comment on it... but upon reading over this whole bizarre mess we have here, i realized it is very reminiscent of my favourite conspiracy theorist, david icke... though bombastic theorizing is not his style, he does mention in his line of books this whole thing about shape-shifters (they're reptilians from the lower fourth dimension), and he's quite fond of phrases like "love will set us free" and "all we need is love".. i dunno, just thought i'd share. and btw..shawn harris, you're crazy...an i love it :)
Sorry about my last comment. Sometimes when I look back at what I wrote, it just comes out all wrong. That's what you get for posting at 3 am. Anyways, I was refering to comments in general not on just this particular post.
Jessica B.--
the haughty thesaurus speaking was my parody of Jeremy Narby, the author of the Cosmic Serpent. I hope that's not what I read like normally. Those were his children and wife too, by the way.
And to the Scientists of Null and Holy Symbolists, way to take a toilet paper roll and run with it. We are TP-ing the mansions of logic.
Shawn
Shawn,
Don't worry, Jessica was joking. It was about 3 am and I showed her your blog. It's hard to take it all in at that hour especially when you are intoxicated.
Just wanted to say thank you for the ever entertaining blog you've kept up for a couple months now, Shawn. What better a person to go vandalizing with?
♥ V
"We are TP-ing the mansions of logic."
best line. ever.
I've found my next blog title.
Oh wait, yeah that reminds me. I want to thank you for actually updating this blog when you could have easily just abandoned it after a few posts. I know a lot of people appreciate it.
Shawn, write a book please.
Judging by the brevity
of the comments left on this
blog, succinctness is for the most part dead. haha.
and i love how everyone's trying to write like you in their comments. as if too impress you in some way with their thesaurus.com vocabulary and CTRL + PASTE logistics. Then again, imitation is flattery at it's finest is it not?
bekki,
i like you. i agree with all you have to say...
I know this doesn't have anything to do with the blog post but I was really happy to know that you were vegan. I'm not completely sure why.. like maybe I was happy because I could connect with my favorite band on a personal level. I know you guys are just the same as me.. but I guess it's harder when I see you in magazines and on popular websites.
And on the topic of the blog.. I can't believe that all went on in your head, but then again, I can.
Lots of love!
shit son.
i attempted to read some of it but it confused me.
too many numbers.
it left me head scratching. not in the lice sort of way.
"and i love how everyone's trying to write like you in their comments. as if too impress you in some way with their thesaurus.com vocabulary and CTRL + PASTE logistics. Then again, imitation is flattery at it's finest is it not?"
*giggle*
I noticed that as well..
Just didn't really know how to word it.
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I wasn't going to comment again untill I found another creepy ironic thing to add to all of this, and it found it's way. I don't know if we even realize how hilarious the vocabulary to this dictionary of connections really is. But, just to let it be known, I'm laughing.
The time of my last comment definitely wasn't planned by the way...
♥ V
this same thing happened to me 9 minutes ago...
well thanks april.
someone had to say it outright.
:)
I'm certain that I have never seen someone criticised for typing too well before.
This is getting ridiculous now, what does it even matter?
Yeah... You tell them, Bekki. Let's just stop English lessons! Infact stop schools!
Maybe we should all just type like this; hbasuisahfsdfijioasjiosdfjsd. Or just stop typing, throw away the keyboards?!
Too far?
Point being, what's the harm in some social influence?
Nothing.
Okay, so I don't want to turn this into an argument, but I don't believe that what Bekki said was supposed to be a direct insult any of you. I agreed with her, and I think that sometimes people don't even realize what they're doing. Have you ever heard in psychology about mirroring? People take on the characteristics, or behavior of the person that they are talking to in order to build a rapport. It's a similar thing, just in the form of comments. At least, that's what I observed. Let's try not to be so touchy.
I think what Bekki said might have just been meant merely as an observation, not an insult, but I don't think it was necessarily needed. People probably think this very comment is unneeded but I have time and felt like addressing this.
Whenever I read Faulkner I start writing in rolling run-ons. Whenever I read Hemingway my writing becomes noticeably simpler in structure. When I read this blog I start rambling in descriptive vocabulary. It's easy to see that we're influenced by others, but I don't think anyone here is necessarily out to really impress Shawn in the way she said they were. I think she made us sound a little like hopeless fans which no one really wants to be called, even if that may be the case. :/
Oh well, an argument shouldn't come of this, I just thought I'd say that I agree a little bit with both ends and that neither is right or wrong but sort of both all at the same time. This is a really great blog and it inspires a lot of people. You should respect what people have to say. But, if you have something particularly judgmental to say maybe you should think about rephrasing it so it doesn't offend people as much or not say it at all. Maybe?
I don't know, that's my piece.
all of this has given me a headache...
but you're quite brilliant(if not a little crazy...)
That was really insightful. A bit much at first, but sheer brilliance none the less. <3
Shawn, you and the way your mind works. It is a gem that I sometimes have trouble understanding.
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I believe, dear sir, that you may have just started a miniscule mystery investigation. Very entertaining to read though! It kept me quite entertained!
=]
lmao. this is sooooo funny how u come up with your theories. reminds me of kevin trudeau. u can link anything to anything.
thats hysterical man. u almost had me believing u i was already 2 fight for it. ud be a good conspiracy theorist.
"t struck me: just as buzznet combines two words to create a new term, nonet was a term comprised of two syllables: no and net! Perhaps the bizarre cease of the Mayan calendar was caused by a worldwide internet failure."
this among your other reasons to get your link about saving the world is brilliant. it just flows the way u link the stuff.
and the big words make it believable.
seriously, thogh, ive never seen anything so unbelievable written in such a believable way.
not that your writing was stupid but i mean the concept is crazy, yet u make it work. youre one of those people who could sell sand in the desert. u might even convince me that 2+2=5.
i already know dragons exist so u dont have 2 convince me of tha tyet.
sorry for this incoherent rambling. im 2 lazy 2 organize my thoughts right now. i know its repetitive.
by your logic:
your the frontman of m y favorite band
and a band called unwritten law said they cant save me
but midtown said u can save the world but lose the girl
and the lead singers girlfriend died
so she was lost so music can save the world
and it comes back 2 u
whose first name starts woth s
and mine ends with s
and your vegan and i love meet
i hate green ppl
u like them
but we both liek music
were jesus and the devil
that was horrible. sounds stupid when i try it out
but u can connect any 2 things so convincingly it seems real and your onto something. ud be agood politician cause u can lie.
wow that was a lot of thinking and it was pretty intense. it was kinda creepy on how everything fit together.
Christ, that was a little insane
bravo, however
If I was honestly worried about offending anyone, I wouldn't open my mouth, or comment on blogs such as this one.
And I have an opinion, who are you to take away my right of voicing it?
And by all means, pay attention in school. Education all the way, brother. But don't waste your time copying and pasting big words into a blog comment box with high hopes of someone reading what you have to say and thinking better of you. But, in the off chance that you actually have obtained an expansive vocabulary and thoughts exactly like those of Mr. Harris, then go crazy. Just don't hurt yourself, killer.
i was born on the 23rd. just saying. shawn harris you are brilliant.
A friend of mine mentioned 2012 last night to me and it's the first I heard about it so I jumped on here out of curiosity. I think it's kind of sick and sounds like a bunch of skeptical jargon.
I choose to live every day like it is the last because let's be real, WHO THE HELL KNOWS what is going to happen or when it's your time to go on. The past is history, the future is a mystery and now is a gift, thats why it's called the present. It's not healthy to sit around and trip out about when you will die. Stop wasting your time you have now.
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