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January 24, 2005
"I HATE THAT SONG!" "I told Leslie not to The Last Clean Shirt is a movie that consciously tries everything it can to bore itself and fails. duration beyond the threshold of boredom. exploration of repetition/boredom. they mooned the screen. oh please. you think LCS is boring? on the contrary: you don't know from boring. "If this sounds at once fascinating, hilarious, and thoroughly annoying, welcome to the club." "But you know how I've heard boredom described? Unenthusiastic hostility." Not only has that last line -- from Carrie Fisher -- long been one of my favorites, I am astonished to (re)discover that I originally picked it up from a 1991 Rolling Stone interview with Madonna. "and I definitely think that boredom has a history." What's most fascinating about Lars Svenson's comment, above, is that in the interview he says it twice: "and I definitely think that boredom has a history, and I definitely think that boredom has a history." He is illustrating the point. I will now prove that boredom has a history: boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history boredom has a history SEE? You see, "Repetition is a form of change." ["Cratylus, the radical follower of Heraclitus, gave up language altogether and went around pointing at things, which he thought were too unique and fleeting even to be nameable."John McCumber, Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era] And "Heaven is a place/ where nothing ever happens." This person says, "Boredom is not a thing but a social relation." The following web searches yield progressively fewer results: types of boredomWhich is a shame, because the last taxonomy is exactly what we most need. Finally, from a surprising source we find an essay, by one R. Paul Stevens, on "curing" boredom that is in fact a celebration of its creative possibilities. "Turn boredom into prayerful waiting. . . [H]aving become bored with all the useful things that I can do with a given object, I may suddenly begin to contemplate its aesthetic qualities." I tried doing so on the parts of the essay that bored the living bejeeeeeEEEEEEzus outta me. |
