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Sep. 23rd, 2005 09:20 amI love reading Freud. His world is so simple and hilarious, especially dream interpretation. Banana? Represents a penis. Eyes? Represent a penis. Car accident? Represents a penis. Methinks someone has a one-track mind. XD
I also love his hypocrisy. For example, in his essay "The Uncanny" he's talking about things that people find strange, and talks about how they're often assigning bizarre motivations to things with perfectly simple ones. Then like, two paragraphs later he talks about how once he found it uncanny that he'd wandered into a red-light district with a lot of hookers, and he kept TRYING to get away but omg, he kept finding himself back at the hookers! Imagine that! :O
Lack of self-insight is a terrible thing.
Anyway, since I've got a lot more money than I thought I would at this point (as of yesterday, I'd spent under half of my monthly total discretionary budget), I treated myself to We Love Katamari. It's pretty much what you'd expect - the most quirky fun I've had since the original KD. I love the King's swelled head (and his infamous Chin). <3 <3 <3
( Royal Rainbow! )
Other video game nattering: I've almost finished Radiata Stories - the human side only, but I already have more characters in my friends book than Suikoden has IN AN ENTIRE GAME. (For the record, I think it's around 130/177.) At this point, I've recruited basically everyone I can on the human side, and I'm at the last dungeon. So now to get the ending, play through the optional dungeon to get Lenneth Valkyrie from Valkyrie Profile (YAY)...and then start over and lose all of my fun characters so that I can play through the nonhuman side. x_x
Er, what else should I write about...oh yeah! On Wednesday I went to a Prairie Lights reading by Whitney Terrell, a KC author. I hadn't read any of his books (though I'd heard that The Huntsman was good), but I figured I'd better go since I knew him secondhand - he's worked with my stepdad and I took classes with his wife Gayle Levy (French and Honors). Anyway, he was reading from his new book, The King of Kings County, which is set in Kansas City as well and covers the period in the '50s when the suburbs basically came to be, and is a pretty firm indictment of the realty companies and their construction of segregated suburbs (KC is actually more segregated, residential-wise, now than it was back during Jim Crow!) and their major role in making them that way through the use of racial contracts (e.g., agreeing not to sell your house in a lily-white subdivision to anyone black), et cetera. Anyway, from what I hear it's scathing when it comes toJ.C. Nichols the "Boens" (creators of the Plaza "Campanile") and also of Johnson County "Kings County." He talked about how he's going to speak at the Olathe Public Library next week, and how he's going to have to give a different speech because "these are the very people I'm talking about!" XD
For those who don't know, Johnson County is KC-ese for "rich white assholes." (See: "Johnson County driver.") They're not ALL white (anymore), and they're not ALL assholes, but the exceptions are still the minority, and they're ALL rich pretty much (you've gotta be to afford a house out there).
But in addition to buying his new book and getting him to sign it, I also picked up Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys - they were selling the signed first editions, which made me go YAY. :D
( LJ interests meme )
Also, I'm totally looking forward to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rathershady and courters28 coming to visit me this weekend (they're getting in tonight). :D
Let's Positive Linking!
- Horny farmer drops grain sack on boner, snaps ligaments (fromsurlykitty). OWWWW WTF
- Gay Boyfriend (fromfirestorm717). THERE ARE NO WORDS XD
- ... GASP HOLY SHIT Digital Devil Saga 2 and Romancing SaGa are coming out on the same day! And Wild Arms Alter Code F comes out a week later! *weeps for poor bank account* At least it's at the beginning of the month, so I'll be relatively flush. Also, apropos of nothing, the Resident Evil 4 chainsaw controller is the BEST PERIPHERAL EVAR.
I also love his hypocrisy. For example, in his essay "The Uncanny" he's talking about things that people find strange, and talks about how they're often assigning bizarre motivations to things with perfectly simple ones. Then like, two paragraphs later he talks about how once he found it uncanny that he'd wandered into a red-light district with a lot of hookers, and he kept TRYING to get away but omg, he kept finding himself back at the hookers! Imagine that! :O
Lack of self-insight is a terrible thing.
Anyway, since I've got a lot more money than I thought I would at this point (as of yesterday, I'd spent under half of my monthly total discretionary budget), I treated myself to We Love Katamari. It's pretty much what you'd expect - the most quirky fun I've had since the original KD. I love the King's swelled head (and his infamous Chin). <3 <3 <3
( Royal Rainbow! )
Other video game nattering: I've almost finished Radiata Stories - the human side only, but I already have more characters in my friends book than Suikoden has IN AN ENTIRE GAME. (For the record, I think it's around 130/177.) At this point, I've recruited basically everyone I can on the human side, and I'm at the last dungeon. So now to get the ending, play through the optional dungeon to get Lenneth Valkyrie from Valkyrie Profile (YAY)...and then start over and lose all of my fun characters so that I can play through the nonhuman side. x_x
Er, what else should I write about...oh yeah! On Wednesday I went to a Prairie Lights reading by Whitney Terrell, a KC author. I hadn't read any of his books (though I'd heard that The Huntsman was good), but I figured I'd better go since I knew him secondhand - he's worked with my stepdad and I took classes with his wife Gayle Levy (French and Honors). Anyway, he was reading from his new book, The King of Kings County, which is set in Kansas City as well and covers the period in the '50s when the suburbs basically came to be, and is a pretty firm indictment of the realty companies and their construction of segregated suburbs (KC is actually more segregated, residential-wise, now than it was back during Jim Crow!) and their major role in making them that way through the use of racial contracts (e.g., agreeing not to sell your house in a lily-white subdivision to anyone black), et cetera. Anyway, from what I hear it's scathing when it comes to
For those who don't know, Johnson County is KC-ese for "rich white assholes." (See: "Johnson County driver.") They're not ALL white (anymore), and they're not ALL assholes, but the exceptions are still the minority, and they're ALL rich pretty much (you've gotta be to afford a house out there).
But in addition to buying his new book and getting him to sign it, I also picked up Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys - they were selling the signed first editions, which made me go YAY. :D
( LJ interests meme )
Also, I'm totally looking forward to
rathershady and courters28 coming to visit me this weekend (they're getting in tonight). :DLet's Positive Linking!
- Horny farmer drops grain sack on boner, snaps ligaments (from
surlykitty). OWWWW WTF- Gay Boyfriend (from
firestorm717). THERE ARE NO WORDS XD- ... GASP HOLY SHIT Digital Devil Saga 2 and Romancing SaGa are coming out on the same day! And Wild Arms Alter Code F comes out a week later! *weeps for poor bank account* At least it's at the beginning of the month, so I'll be relatively flush. Also, apropos of nothing, the Resident Evil 4 chainsaw controller is the BEST PERIPHERAL EVAR.
