there are artistic and tasteful ways to deal with the crap life dumps on us. there are dignified schemes on how to face a creature you threw all your dignity away for. one would be posting an entry just for the sheer heck of it. sure sure, you'll come off as a big bowl of fluff, but at least the time you spent fiddling on your keyboard was not time spent working a noose around your neck.

congratulations. you have just extended your life a tad bit longer. let's hope it was the right decision.

then of course there's drugs, alcohol and violence. sex would have been an option, if only finding a sex partner is not a requisite. sex is easy. its finding someone to do it with that's the unnecessary challenge. (oh, i said tasteful? well.)

but of course levi could not have put it in a more magnificent way.

charlie: i'm going to ignore him. that's the best way to go.

levi: that's cheap. civilized people don't do that. that only happens in high school. you're already out of college.

charlie: what do i do on tuesday!?

levi: relax. be...friendly aloof.

charlie: um...you realize the extent of my imagination doesn't shoot all the way to the next galaxy? (not verbatim. but doesn't charlie sound witty in this version?) how does that work?

levi: you'll find out when you show him.

charlie: okay. i may as well show myself what it is too, while i'm at it. i have this feeling that it requires me to look beautiful.

levi: it does.

magnificent. i particularly have no problem with the looking beautiful part. it's as easy as rolling out of bed. and spending three hours in front of the closet.

friendly aloof?

by the time i was driving past commonwealth avenue, i have decided that the friendly aloof (the term itself) is the precedent for what it means. it is the art of silent conversation, furious smile and innocent black magic.

it is the vindictive art of rudeness delivered with class.

it would entail one to raise the corners of his lips while keeping one's eyes cold and empty. the eyebrows should not move. in the course of a conversation, one is required to reply, not with legitimate words but with sounds. there's u-huh if you want to say yes, tsk in lieu of dont ever say that again you motherfucker scum, and argh instead of i'm out of here.



argh.

posted by carl @ 4:41 AM