Jun 2007, 156 entries

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The McLeod Residence photobooth in Seattle, WA.

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Buster Butterfield McLeod posted a photo:

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Buster Butterfield McLeod posted a photo:

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Buster McLeod adopted this goal

Buster McLeod added an entry about Determine one thing I can do this summer that would seriously change my life, and accomplish it before Labor Day:

I considered the following:

• Elope
• Get a cute cat
• Start a weekly advice column
• Bet $1,000 on a horse race
• Acid
• Saw off my arm
• Get an iPhone
• Lead Awesome Summer Fest 2007 to an awesome summer… fest
• Learn how to cook 10 excellent meals
• Wear my pimp suit to the casinos
• Go to a strip club
• Fix printer
• Summer fitness boot camp

But, in the end, I’m settling on writing the outline and the first chapter (at least) of a new book. Part self-help, part etiquette guide, part romantic comedy, part board game, I’ve had an idea in my head for a while now and it’s just waiting for a reason to actually happen.

So that’s what I’m going to do this summer before Labor Day! Is it good enough, changey enough? If not, I’ll also be doing at least three of the things from the first list too. And sip mohitos in the sun sometimes too on an inflatable raft. Anything to make you happy.

Buster M. @ liberty ! Cocksuckers
517 15th Ave E
Seattle, WA 98112

Buster M. @ Vessel ! 5 bars, each new to at least one person
1312 5th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101

Buster M. @ Terrace Garden ! Red Lion free tacos!
1415 5th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101

The first absurdity is being afraid of what you want... thinking that you don't deserve, or can't have, what you want out of life.  Or that you want the wrong thing for yourself and that if you get it you'll just be disappointed or uninterested.  This absurdity hinges on the idea that the problem is with you, not the thing you want. 

The second absurdity is thinking that what you want is too difficult to get... that you missed your chance, that it's otherwise out of reach.  The thing you want is fine, but you just don't have what it takes to get it.  Another way to state it is that you don't want it enough, that you aren't good enough for it.  This absurdity hinges on the idea that you're a greedy bastard that wants too much.  You suck.

Are there better ways to phrase these two absurdities?  Are they really the same thing?  Or should they be broken up into three absurdities instead?  (Not deserving the thing, fearing you want the wrong thing, and not wanting it enough?)

What about the absurdity of wondering if anyone's going to call you out for being unhappy.  The one where you don't necessarily go after your dreams so much as seek solace in the comfort of knowing that everyone else failed at their dreams too.

A unified theory of disappointment in life would be an interesting theory to come up with.  Other than the Buddha's because I don't like him.   He's an escapist jerk.

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Buster McLeod added an entry about Determine one thing I can do this summer that would seriously change my life, and accomplish it before Labor Day:

A tough one!

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Shipped on 06/27/07.

Maverick director Werner Herzog's uncompromising allegory about the consequences of imprisonment and rebellion depicts a coup launched by dwarfs against the mental institution in which they're inmates. With a cast composed entirely of little people (the first time that had been done since the 1938 Western Terror of Tiny Town), this surreal yet strangely beautiful film makes a powerful statement about the repercussions of ostracism.

Shipped on 06/27/07.

The stars and director of The Apartment reteam for this risqué farce set in Paris. Jack Lemmon is a policeman in the Red Light District who falls in love with hooker Shirley MacLaine (who gives her third Oscar-nominated performance). Billy Wilder's film is based on a Broadway musical, but omits the songs; nonetheless, an Oscar did go to André Previn for Best Score. Watch for the sailor with the radio -- it's James Caan in his film debut.

Shipped on 06/27/07.

In Oscar-winning director George Stevens's sprawling epic, Texas cattleman Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) journeys to Virginia in the early 1920s, falls in love with aristocratic, independent-minded Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her back to his ranch -- setting the stage for an intergenerational saga that spans decades. James Dean (in his last film appearance) co-stars as sulking, nouveau riche Jett Rink -- the root of Bick's worries.