恋 ~ Koi 8 Bit Remix – 星野 源 (Gen Hoshino)

censored description, originally written before i bought my seventh copy of moby-dick
“i only know this song ‘cause i saw hoshino’s cover of kimi wa bara yori utsukushii by akira fuse (note: that song is brought up really often on this show, ain’t it? it’s great. mickie yoshino is an elite songwriter. i’ve never talked about how i like his band, godiego, but i do. my favorite godiego track, actually, isn’t written by yoshino – on a long journey/where’ll we go from now was written by the frontman, yukihide takekawa) a while back and this was in the recommended tab. funny how that works. this is a fun song – but i don’t need t’, like, tell you that, ‘cause you’re listening to it right now. apparently, it was from some romance show and then got big on the internet a few years ago, i dunno. i missed out on it ‘cause i didn’t have social media besides discord and youtube – which both hardly count. also because, y’know, i don’t see the japanese side of the internet. always found it really cool that every part of the world has their own internet culture that they cultivate in their own ways. most commonly, through humor or whatever, but it can also represent the cultural standards of a place. i like that.
man, i’m sitting here just processing all of the crazy stuff i’ve been dealing with this week and am at a complete loss for taking the chance to talk about the topic of internet and real social cultures.
tired, lads. we’ll do a lazy random topic generator for the road.
“How fast do you read?”
oh, hey – thanks for giving me the chance to talk about books, random topic generator. the answer is “very”. not even in like a bragging way – i really do just read fast because i love to read. i’m not one of those people who make book-reading into a chore or into a game (i.e., y’know those, like ‘book-a-week’ or ‘book-a-day’ freaks? you wouldn’t find my ass dead in the same realm as any of those subhumans), but i just actually like to read. usually, my second run of a book will take at least twice as long as my initial one did, just so that i can go back and really appreciate stuff that i liked. i also have a bad addiction to buying multiple copies of books that i like and then using those for re-reads. i own three editions of suttree, six editions of moby-dick, four editions of the republic, and i don’t even want to know how many editions of the iliad and odyssey (LATTIMORE OR GTFO) i have laying around. other stuff like bibles and a, uh, notable book from a numbered war in the 20th century, do i ever have in spades. i’ve said before that sut is my favorite book ever, but it is the one that i own the least duplicate copies of. anyways, yeah. first reads are fast, second reads are slower. i think that people who make reading into a series of measurable goals based on quantity read are idiots who want to look smart. they somehow, however, fail to realize that they’ve basically made reading into runescape, and you ain’t a genius intellectual for playin’ runescape. people who do that think that reading equals knowledge and that knowledge equals wisdom. to suck the dick of socrates AGAIN; these things are not compatible – knowledge is not wisdom and wisdom is not knowledge. that’s like, half of the apology. wisdom can’t be leveraged in the way that knowledge is. read the apology, i can’t illustrate the constellation half as well as socrates (plato) did. (by the way, my favorite dialogue is hippias minor. i like it ‘cause it’s fun :))
i also am not one of those drooling fools who reads like the big f-off thousand page long slogfests. that fat worm brandon sanderson who i hope dies of obesity and then aids is the bane of my existence. people equate high page counts to smart-points of a book, even when it is slop. reading is not an activity for the elite of the highest intelligence or whatever people make it out to be, and writing really isn’t, either. the real literary life is inherently isolating and fueled by neuroses and love of the art. i read novelist as a vocation by haruki murakami, recently, and this idea is basically the first thing to be detailed in the book. i wouldn’t recommend it, but the jist is basically that writers are in the middle ground between idiots and geniuses (that is, if you believe these things to exist or otherwise be dissimilar) and are really obsessed with finding words and avenues through story by which they can try to explain their ideas.
i’m tired, got a ton of stuff
on the go, today. gotta run, lads.
have a wonderful day, gentlemen. god bless.”