your clear alternative to angst. - ZEFRANK.COM

08-10-2004, 01:20 AM

(edit to change this from sounding cultish.)

change habit.

- minimize time spent at home. ignore your apartment and whatever's in it. don't spend any more than a couple of hours there, excluding sleeping. wander around outside, waste money on gas and drive around.

- spend the entire time doing something completely creative, indulge in what you wanted to be before you got distracted.

- go out by yourself. at night. where you don't know people.

zero · 08-10-2004, 10:18 AM

roam a vast wilderness alone and come to a precipice so craggy it makes your fingertips bleed when you climb to the top of it to watch a single female golden eagle as she watches you back and soars to invisibility in clear blue air for nine hours and you feel your body is numb from cold and hunger as dusk falls you see her wings spill the wind as she drops from the sky like a thunderbolt and when you see a primary feather of her fall from the eyrie as she lands so you risk your life to retrieve it take it home and place it safe in a box in beside the tooth of a sperm whale and you imagine the unknowable heights and unspeakable depths where the two have been and how it is that now in front of your eyes they have come together

08-10-2004, 04:35 PM

- the absorption experiment. do a research project for fun. because it's fun. i just did one for fun and it was really fun. being nerdy is very nice, when you stop it's like you were on a long vacation that's fun and now you know everything about this brand new thing and awoo.

lapietra · 08-10-2004, 04:41 PM

Get on a plane with only the $35 you have in your pocket, just because you've always wanted to be there anyway... get a job at an Italian restaurant, enroll at the college up the street, find a place to live with one of the regulars who tips well. Take dance classes and end up living with the instructor. Stay for a year, get a car and drive it where you can get out and plunge far into the redwoods, every week. Meet people you'll remember all your life. Do stupid things and learn from them because every person you meet is a tabula rasa... no one knows you here... Fall more deeply in love with the place, because now it is part of what defines you, as you've always suspected it would. Leave only when life takes you elsewhere. Resolve to come back someday for good.

Audreyvgs · 08-10-2004, 08:09 PM

Don't go near threads like this

dinzdale · 08-10-2004, 08:13 PM

Think of something profound. Discuss it with your barman until he throws your drunken arse out.

08-10-2004, 09:24 PM

remove specifics and convert to ambiguities

(thanks eno and zero)

08-10-2004, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Audreyvgs
Don't go near threads like this

betch, you crazy

just go. clean your apartment to jens lekman.

Coffee · 08-10-2004, 11:34 PM

Go to a lake and rent a small boat.
Make some waves.
Paddle, peddle, sail or float.
Fly over the fish and look down at the sky.
Take a new tack.
Take control of your course or let the day float by.

trisherina · 08-11-2004, 02:12 AM

Get all the extra cups and mugs that you have lying around the house (you have some) and put them in a box. Throw in a big bag of rice and go to a soup kitchen. Go in and present the box to the first person who greets you, explaining that you want to donate the mugs for coffee. Join in the first card game you see.

madasacutsnake · 08-11-2004, 04:47 AM

I like angst. Angst is safe.

08-11-2004, 05:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by madasacutsnake
I like angst. Angst is safe.

how so

- make eye contact with people when appropriate. do not look away.

Smartypants · 08-11-2004, 06:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Audreyvgs
Don't go near threads like this

Find a soulmate like Aud and live happily ever after.

madasacutsnake · 08-11-2004, 07:57 AM

Quote:

how so

It's german for fear (meine kleine Deutscherin). It keeps you safe from potential harm.

And from playing strip poker with homeless men.

zero · 08-11-2004, 05:50 PM

okay then

here is a lovely picture of a baby elephant

08-10-2004, 01:20 AM	#1
fodder Posts: n/a	your clear alternative to angst. (edit to change this from sounding cultish.) change habit. - minimize time spent at home. ignore your apartment and whatever's in it. don't spend any more than a couple of hours there, excluding sleeping. wander around outside, waste money on gas and drive around. - spend the entire time doing something completely creative, indulge in what you wanted to be before you got distracted. - go out by yourself. at night. where you don't know people. Last edited by fodder : 08-10-2004 at 09:33 PM.

08-10-2004, 10:18 AM	#2
zero ª ★ ª Join Date: May 2004 Location: lª m°°n Posts: 13,853	roam a vast wilderness alone and come to a precipice so craggy it makes your fingertips bleed when you climb to the top of it to watch a single female golden eagle as she watches you back and soars to invisibility in clear blue air for nine hours and you feel your body is numb from cold and hunger as dusk falls you see her wings spill the wind as she drops from the sky like a thunderbolt and when you see a primary feather of her fall from the eyrie as she lands so you risk your life to retrieve it take it home and place it safe in a box in beside the tooth of a sperm whale and you imagine the unknowable heights and unspeakable depths where the two have been and how it is that now in front of your eyes they have come together Last edited by zero : 08-10-2004 at 12:33 PM.

08-10-2004, 04:41 PM	#4
lapietra half baked Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: just ducky Posts: 12,078	Get on a plane with only the $35 you have in your pocket, just because you've always wanted to be there anyway... get a job at an Italian restaurant, enroll at the college up the street, find a place to live with one of the regulars who tips well. Take dance classes and end up living with the instructor. Stay for a year, get a car and drive it where you can get out and plunge far into the redwoods, every week. Meet people you'll remember all your life. Do stupid things and learn from them because every person you meet is a tabula rasa... no one knows you here... Fall more deeply in love with the place, because now it is part of what defines you, as you've always suspected it would. Leave only when life takes you elsewhere. Resolve to come back someday for good. __________________ “As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.” ~ Mel Brooks

08-11-2004, 02:12 AM	#10
trisherina meretricious dilettante Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,068	Get all the extra cups and mugs that you have lying around the house (you have some) and put them in a box. Throw in a big bag of rice and go to a soup kitchen. Go in and present the box to the first person who greets you, explaining that you want to donate the mugs for coffee. Join in the first card game you see. __________________ Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -- Annie Dillard

08-11-2004, 04:47 AM	#11
madasacutsnake no more nice girl Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 5,054	I like angst. Angst is safe. __________________ He really shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

08-10-2004, 04:35 PM	#3
fodder Posts: n/a	- the absorption experiment. do a research project for fun. because it's fun. i just did one for fun and it was really fun. being nerdy is very nice, when you stop it's like you were on a long vacation that's fun and now you know everything about this brand new thing and awoo.

08-10-2004, 08:09 PM	#5
Audreyvgs Blue's Clues Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: on Yur Last Nerve, huh? Posts: 5,412	Don't go near threads like this

08-10-2004, 08:13 PM	#6
dinzdale King of the špatnýs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: was that dog Posts: 9,411	Think of something profound. Discuss it with your barman until he throws your drunken arse out.

08-10-2004, 09:24 PM	#7
fodder Posts: n/a	remove specifics and convert to ambiguities (thanks eno and zero)

08-10-2004, 11:34 PM	#9
Coffee Cheeses Save Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Floating Posts: 9,204	Go to a lake and rent a small boat. Make some waves. Paddle, peddle, sail or float. Fly over the fish and look down at the sky. Take a new tack. Take control of your course or let the day float by.

08-11-2004, 05:50 PM	#15
zero ª ★ ª Join Date: May 2004 Location: lª m°°n Posts: 13,853	okay then here is a lovely picture of a baby elephant

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