There just aren't that many things

[NeonLX]

How about that weird phenomena when you're stoned and watch tV and you see the weirdest and most bizarre shit, stuff that is actually never on TV at any other time.

Gawd, I miss the good old days...

[dqueue]

Having just returned from the Keys, I confirm sighting of quite a few Things, many different colors, at that. While they may be scarce, you may find them. Though, I suspect your hypothesis does not apply to a VW Thing.

Sorry... no need for sarcasm.

I disagree with the premise. My own ignorance contributes to my disagreeable sentiment. I don't know "Wagner". As such, the significance of Wagner appearing in two films, on two channels, within a short time frame is lost on me. That "things" follow a script implies some predestination. I resist that, mostly because I want to effect free will. Another point of contention for me: the implicit discounting of all those "other things", somehow less psychologically impactful, yet, arguably with great potential.

I defer to poet Buddy Wakefield to argue the import of less impactful things... from his poem, The Information Man

...
I know that no matter what it is you believe in,
you've got to spare yourself the futility of making fun of God
because that guy hasn’t even talked in like…
ever.

I know troubleshooting yourself in the foot
and acting as center of your own universe
is a tricky dichotomy to deal with
but, yes, you ARE the center of the universe.
If you weren't
you wouldn't be here.
So as the middle of space and everything floating in it
it is your job to know
that the emptiness
is just emptiness,
that the stars
are stars,
and that the flying rocks –
fuckin’ hurt,
so please
stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

I know everything is out there.
It’s why they call it everything.

I know there are times
when you will lay your head to rest
and have a moment of brilliance
that grows into a perfect order of words
but you will fall asleep
instead of painting it down on paper.
When you wake up,
you will have forgotten the idea completely
and miss it like a front tooth
but at least you know how to recognize moments of brilliance,
because even at your worst
you are fucking incredible.
It comes honest.

So return to yourself,
even if you’re already there,
because no matter where you go
or how hard you try
or what you do
the only person you're ever gonna get to be
(and I know it)

is you.

What comprises a psychologically impactful thing? What happens when a thing, deemed impactful, deviates from its script? Why do you omit the "proof" given to you that "there just aren't that many things"? That seems critical to sharing such understanding.

[sunny]

How about that weird phenomena when you're stoned and watch tV and you see the weirdest and most bizarre shit, stuff that is actually never on TV at any other time.

Gawd, I miss the good old days...

Try tripping across '100 orgasms a day'...

[82_28]

Having just returned from the Keys, I confirm sighting of quite a few Things, many different colors, at that. While they may be scarce, you may find them. Though, I suspect your hypothesis does not apply to a VW Thing.

Sorry... no need for sarcasm.

I disagree with the premise. My own ignorance contributes to my disagreeable sentiment. I don't know "Wagner". As such, the significance of Wagner appearing in two films, on two channels, within a short time frame is lost on me. That "things" follow a script implies some predestination. I resist that, mostly because I want to effect free will. Another point of contention for me: the implicit discounting of all those "other things", somehow less psychologically impactful, yet, arguably with great potential.

Well, lucky you and having the opportunity to be in the Keys! Seriously. I'm watching ice bounce off the ground right now. They're calling it WA state's worst ice storm ever. Ugh.

Anyways, I should have made myself more clear as far as "Wagner".

Robert Wagner is who I was referring to. Both him and Walken were on the boat that Natalie Woods died, mysteriously upon. See:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -case.html

What was crazy, as I noted in the OP, was that Robert Wagner was in the film which features a death at sea that kind of closely resembles the death/murder of Woods and then when my friend switched channels, there was now Christopher Walken playing a psycho (as usual). But I was making the correlation in my head before he changed channels. I was thinking of Walken before I saw Walken on screen upon him changing channels and how weird it was that Wagner would appear in a movie that resembled so closely the sketchiest moment of his life.

[NeonLX]

Try tripping across '100 orgasms a day'...

!!!

At my age, that would probably kill me (even just watching it, I mean).

[AlicetheKurious]

Try tripping across '100 orgasms a day'...

On a whim, I googled it -- there's really such a thing! Whaddya know...something new, right there.

[slomo]

100 orgasms a day

Completely overrated...

[dqueue]

Well, lucky you and having the opportunity to be in the Keys! Seriously. I'm watching ice bounce off the ground right now. They're calling it WA state's worst ice storm ever. Ugh.

Anyways, I should have made myself more clear as far as "Wagner".

Robert Wagner is who I was referring to. Both him and Walken were on the boat that Natalie Woods died, mysteriously upon. See:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -case.html

Thank you for clarifying; that helps a lot. That rings fairly small-world'ish.

And I hope that sun and warmth finds you (and Washington state) soon!

[norton ash]

Natalie WOOD. Not Woods. Thank you.

[brainpanhandler]

'What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun'.

Everything is a variation/mutation of something else. As with art, all life is derivative of what came before.

There is wisdom in that notion, even if only as a thought experiment:




But there is also:



There is only one Sunny.

I value almost nothing greater than uniqueness.

[Hammer of Los]

...

I have always loved the Sunny one. God bless her and her kin.

And you can't go far wrong with a bit of classic american hippy folk rock either. I love CSNY et al.

The 100 orgasms a day thing?

...

Hey, don't look at me like that.

I never mentioned tantric sex once, now did I?

Someone else did though, somewhere. Who was that again?





...

[crikkett]

Maybe we should just shoot for a dirty limerick.

It may not be dirty but it is really bad.

a roomful of chimps whack away
each 2000 or more words a day
for bananas or coke?
who knows why they'd poke
at keys rather than go out to play