life out there?

hardcore honeywine · Post by **hardcore honeywine** » Thu Nov 09, 2000 12:24 am

They have everything there, furniture, art (as in paintings, posters), along with a Metropolitan structure, gates, just loads of stuff. this amazing iron grandfather clock with green lights in it... they even had Edvard Munch's 'The Vampire' I was estatic.

ARAGORN · Post by **ARAGORN** » Thu Nov 09, 2000 12:39 am

o.k., sounds about like the coolest thing ever, and if I don't make it there I'm a fool! heaven to an art nouveau fan!!
thanks for the info!

ARAGORN · Post by **ARAGORN** » Thu Nov 09, 2000 8:21 am

k,
There was a large Mackintosh exhibit at the art institute here in Chicago about 2 or 3 years ago, I went with my brother (who is a huge mackintosh fan) & I must admit it was quite amazing, at the time I hadn't fully discovered the true beauty of the style, now when I look at it, it has so much more meaning. I work in a cross between art nouveau & celtic artwork as well, mixed with photorealism,& surrealism, which is what you tried to tell me about when you spin McCutcheon, you said you like songs & sounds melted together, I try to melt different styles of art together, to create a new, better understanding of how the styles aren't really different, but that you perceive them as such, when you look at these things don't let your conciuos mind try to seperate everything, instead look at, no, feel the whole & how it all interlinks & don't get caught up in the monotony of everyday bullshit. The blurry world is the real one isn't it?

hardcore honeywine · Post by **hardcore honeywine** » Thu Nov 09, 2000 8:48 am

Aragon-
do you have any of your work on the interenet? a homepage?

Post by **Sloth** » Fri Nov 10, 2000 7:16 am

Aragon,

You're originally from Central PA? Me too. My sloth roots are in Herhey. Where are you from?

-ooh

hardcore honeywine · Post by **hardcore honeywine** » Fri Nov 10, 2000 7:45 am

nope, I'm the one from central PA.
State College to be exact.
gorgeous up there, I'm in MD right now and it just doesn't compare.

Post by **Sloth** » Fri Nov 10, 2000 11:29 am

Err, Hardcore Honeywine, oh yeah Penn State. That's where my parental units live now. My papa teaches at the Agrobusiness school. You know, the people that cross bread chickens with tomatoes and stuff...

Say I don't want to sound ignorant, but what is honeywine anyway? Mead?

hardcore honeywine · Post by **hardcore honeywine** » Fri Nov 10, 2000 5:41 pm

it's just a name I randomly thought of. I think mead is made out of honey though...
::shrug::
yeah, the ag department's a pretty scary place. I'm a vegetarian, so I'm highly wary of it. they've got a poor record on animal treatment.
I grew up in SC, it's a good place. my brother goes to PSU. it's pretty convienent, I'll be taking a couple courses over the summer there to make up the credits I'll lose over in ireland next year.

ARAGORN · Post by **ARAGORN** » Fri Nov 10, 2000 10:29 pm

Sloth,
sorry, I'm not PA, I'm form n.w. Indiana, have been there though, a few years ago, went to Carlisle (near Harrisburg)for a MOPAR (Chrysler,Dodge,Plymouth etc.) show,its one of the largest ones in the country, and I'm a mucslecar fanatic, no I'm an automotive enthusiast, MOPARS are just my favorite domestic auto. PA is beautiful country, turnpike sucked though, you can tell it's one of the first highway systems in the country, everyone was driving like they wanted to kill each other. It would have been fun though,if I was all alone, say maybe in a porsche 911 turbo!

Jack Chiefton · Post by **Jack Chiefton** » Mon Nov 13, 2000 9:43 pm

Isn't this supposed to be about literature? I think there are other places we can all talk about our political ignorances. But if the topic is here, I am a strong libertarian, doomed to be shameless in my pity of trying to understand politics, because none of it really matters anyway.

hardcore honeywine · Post by **hardcore honeywine** » Tue Nov 14, 2000 1:10 am

was that a miss post?
I don't see any politics here.
if you think literature should be talked about.
talk about it.

Jack Chiefton · Post by **Jack Chiefton** » Tue Nov 14, 2000 4:39 am

Well, since this is a literature forum, and yes there were politics slightly discussed in the above, I shall make you happy twice. I believe that literature is dead. Or at least it has been hibernating for about 30-40 years or so. With the exception of William Burroughs "Land of the Dead" and Jon Krauker's wonderful non-fiction work "Into the Wild", I have yet to read anything from the last twenty years that has really blown me away. Since I don't get out much and buy books, maybe someone has a few recommendations for me to indulge in. And don't say Bukowski, because he had about as much talent as I got. I know, that is a pretty pretentious thing to say, and I'm not saying because I have only seen that movie "bar fly'. I have read some short stories, Some of it really made me laugh in a saddistic and tragic way.

Jack Chiefton · Post by **Jack Chiefton** » Tue Nov 14, 2000 4:43 am

I would also like to say that Jack London was a great madman who wrote with drunken energy, although he was good at manipulating the masses.

Jack Chiefton · Post by **Jack Chiefton** » Tue Nov 14, 2000 9:49 pm

I must be on crack, did I say land of the Dead by Burroughs? I meant "The Place of Dead Roads". It is about a homosexual cowboy/gunfighter on his quest for serenity in a land that has been deemed lost.