Random Thoughts

[Xno Kappa]

Blow breaks my heart every time. My man was just going for one last score.

[thetruepandagod]

i didn't like wolf of wall street ama

[Mertron]

ok

why didn’t you like wolf of wall street

[Anoat]

i didn't like wolf of wall street ama

Why are you a thief of joy

[Mertron]

Wolf of Wall Street is a solid film but it got hit with that Fight Club / American Psycho / Scarface phenomenon where the dumbest fuckin guys u know miss the point and jerk off to a critique

i often wonder what Ellis really thinks of the american psycho adaptation since the novel makes it very clear bateman is no bueno

especially since he wrote a screenplay for the movie adaptation and they said “nah we’re going with the comedy one”

[Roranora]

no ENT will see me promptly so fuck it i'm going to urgent care

we gotta get this left nostril some proper attention

[Mertron]

also american psycho to this day is probably the greatest thing i read in grad school

its either that or areopagitica to give you an idea of how weird i am

anyway my signature always makes me laugh

[thetruepandagod]

ok

why didn’t you like wolf of wall street

i found it juvenile and dicaprio unpleasant to watch. a view into a fratbros fantasies

[Zealot]

I never read the book. My interpretation of the American Psycho movie is that it's all in Bateman's head the entire time. This comes from his interaction with the bum at almost the beginning of the movie. His reactions to Bateman don't line up to what we hear Patrick saying at all - because we're hearing what he WANTS to say and do - call the guy a fucking loser and beat him to death - and the bum is reacting to what's actually happening, which is probably Bateman giving him a dollar and walking away. All his violent interactions are in his head, his real interactions are the ones where we see people not caring about him or even remembering who he is.

[Andalusian girls]

the book is... better than the movie..........

but also the 'did he do it or didn't he do it' is the least interesting part of the discourse around the works tbh. it all functions as the obvious critique of American materialism and 1980s yuppie culture but also a deeply personal alienation and isolation stemming from the vacuous social outlets built around status and consumption available to a man in Bateman's position. is the outlet for a world of hopelessly insecure and chronically self-absorbed humans existing parallel to each other without ever connecting and lost in isolated consumerist voids violent self-aggrandizing fantasies (and a singular softer fantasy of buying balloons with Jean in a park) or violent self-aggrandizing actions? it doesn't really matter. the epilogue gives the mission statement entire

My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this—and I have countless times, in just about every act I’ve committed—and coming face-to-face with these truths, there is no catharsis. I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to tell you any of this. This confession has meant nothing.

that's that pure 90s nihilism babyyyy

[Zealot]

I disagree, I think the most interesting part is where they all show off their business cards.

[Mertron]

i like the one with the ewoks

[Andalusian girls]

[Demosthenes]

[AoE]

Fixed this lady's laptop and got an invitation to come visit more often. Lady if you don't go fuck your husband and leave me alone.

[Xno Kappa]

Fixed this lady's laptop and got an invitation to come visit more often. Lady if you don't go fuck your husband and leave me alone.

[Demosthenes]

Fixed this lady's laptop and got an invitation to come visit more often. Lady if you don't go fuck your husband and leave me alone.

She's gonna step out of the shower one morning, call you up phone in one hand, glass of water in the other. When you answer she'll put on a sultry voice and tell you her laptop is not "turned on, err, turning on." As soon as she confirms you're on your way, she'll pour some water on the running laptop then go sit in front of a mirror to put her "I'm gonna cheat today" lipstick on.

[Mertron]

or

she’a gonna cut you up and make herself a buffalo bill AoE suit

[Melena]

the book is... better than the movie..........

but also the 'did he do it or didn't he do it' is the least interesting part of the discourse around the works tbh. it all functions as the obvious critique of American materialism and 1980s yuppie culture but also a deeply personal alienation and isolation stemming from the vacuous social outlets built around status and consumption available to a man in Bateman's position. is the outlet for a world of hopelessly insecure and chronically self-absorbed humans existing parallel to each other without ever connecting and lost in isolated consumerist voids violent self-aggrandizing fantasies (and a singular softer fantasy of buying balloons with Jean in a park) or violent self-aggrandizing actions? it doesn't really matter. the epilogue gives the mission statement entire



that's that pure 90s nihilism babyyyy

And both are better than that god awful sequel. Shatner must have been desperate for money to do that one.

[Roranora]

i've started pouring a boiling kettle in the tub when running a bath because the water heater doesn't do enough and i need to wince when going in