Itjaw

So I have some serious spare time on my hands so I’m going to try and sting this out for as long as I can with my limited writing ability. YAY!

I read a book recently, can’t remember what it was called it was by Stephen Fry and it had tennis balls in the title, “The stars tennis balls”¸ that’s it. Anyway the reason I mention it is because it had this phrase “thoroughly thought through”. One of the characters thinks that that phrase is cool, and well I agree…

Books are interesting things. I think that there are some things that tell you lots about a person’s personality, like if they write music etc. In some ways books are like that, in fact writing in general, because they can have everything to do with the author’s personality but then sometimes I read people’s writing and I find it very difficult to find the connection between the person I know and the text. I think that’s interesting. But thinking about it writing is one of the more literal forms of art, for the most part anyway. A book can make as much sense as a piece of modern art; I can’t imagine many people who would want to read that book though. But I know many people who are quite content to look at pictures that don’t make any sense. Maybe “don’t make any sense” is a bad way to word what I’m trying to say. Hmmm…

Let’s try this again.

Ok, so if you look at a piece of art, modern art specifically, every single person that looks at it is going to have a slightly different interpretation about what it means, even on the most basic level. Even before you get into symbolism and metaphor you would have to decide what it is literally a painting of. Where as a book it would be very difficult to argue about what happened or the characters or something like that… Or is that just me looking down on art? I’m not a huge fan to be honest. Even the most stunning paintings and sculptures and whatever other artsy thing the most any of them have ever provoked out of me is a “Huh, that’s pretty cool.” Then I’ll forget it and look at the next piece. However I think a book or a poem (not a huge fan of poems either…) or an article or whatever can affect me for ages.

I think it’s the same either on a smaller scale as well. If someone hands me a piece of paper and says “Draw something.” Chances are I’ll draw a smiley face. Does that really say anything about my personality except for maybe showing that I’m not clinically depressed? If someone hands me a piece of paper and says “Write something.” Then I might write my name, or write “hello world” (a programming thing) or whatever but I think that whatever I write is going to say more about me as a person than what I would draw. Is this the same for everyone else? Or is it simply that I don’t really like drawing so it is more of an impersonal act? If someone could get back to me with the answer to that that would be great. I realise that narrowing down ‘Art’ to just writing and paintings, sculptures etc is a bit silly, but I think that they represent each end of the spectrum.

I think this is quite an interesting thing to think about. I would like to continue but it’s making my head hurt and I’m not sure how much sense I’m making. I suspect it’s very little (i.e. the standard amount of sense).

This blog is quite long compared to the average one, but I don’t feel like it’s finished yet so I’m going to keep writing.

Hmmm… I need to write about something less complicate because my head hurts… Hmmm….

Tricky.

I like cats…

Too simple…

Plus cats are ok but I wouldn’t class myself as a cat lover and I think that anyone who says “I like cats.” To me instantly goes into the place occupied by people who like animals more than people. That’s not a place I want to go to… That’s presuming that the people reading this have a similar section in their heads… Which I doubt… So it’s a moot point really…

I don’t think that I’m ever going to make sense again… Did I ever make sense? Not really. So I should rewrite that…

I don’t think that I’m ever going to make sense. There that’s better…

Less typing for me now…

Itjaw

I have time to burn…

And I have a distinct lack of guilt about the fact that I should fill my time with something useful. These conditions have made me decide to write another blog post. Yippee!

Are there two p’s in ‘Yippee!’? I think so.

I also think it’s weird to the see the word ‘Yippee!’ written as just a normal word. i.e. yippee. It just looks so sad…

I had a pie for dinner. It was quite nice, a little dry. So I had a sausage roll to make up for the vast disappointment that was the pie fiasco. Or pie-gate.

I don’t understand why we put -gate at the end of political fiascoes. Well I do… It’s because of Watergate. But the Watergate is a hotel. Putting gate after a word before then meant nothing. The hotel where the DNC headquarters were wasn’t called the water. So why do people put the word gate at the end of political catastrophes? Because they’re stupid. That felt a little mean. Mostly because I used the -gate convention as well… I’m quite the hypocrite.

Oh well…

Itjaw