news and shit i want to bitch about
Posted: September 20th, 2006, 1:06 am
(copland is coupland in this--half the time i spell his name right--deal with it)
i just got out at the library "life after god" by douglas Copland--and the first couple of pages I cringed my way through. Then he started to write about living on granville in Vancouver BC--and it occurred to me that I could of lived in the same hotel. the st. helens hotel. But maybe not--back to my review of a book I have not finished--but first I want to say before i got this book out I got out "that summer in paris" by Morley Callaghan. these are both by Canadian writer's. Callaghan is far superior. He boxed with hemmingway in paris. hung out with f. scott Fitzgerald. and all those weird expatriate crowd in 29--these writer's have nothing in common but them being canadian--Copland I am sure most known for coining the term "generation x"--a group of snotty rich kids with ripped jeans and social problems--really nothing special or interesting--Dave Eggers is an Xer--maybe, maybe not--something about both eggers and coupland bugs me......... Academic writing will never be for me--but I am angry that some passages in this book by coupland I like--fuck the stupid little drawings and kitchy fucking shit, but some of it seems very good--like I could of written it on the shiter or something hung over (where most of my writing does not take place--but I wish it did)--the thing is--this generation shit i used to want to be part of some generation--I wanted to part of something greater than my self--but not now--in callaghan's book he talks about Hemmingway mimicking and then mocking then becoming more--becoming the champ (this annoyed callaghan about hemmingway)--but hemmingway had it there--admire-mimic-mock-conquer!!!!!!!
I liked some of Dave Egger's shit too, but you could tell he wanted to play down the fact that he was a rich kid--like he was ashamed of it--what would f scott Fitzgerald say about that??? not much--he'd be drunk--it just seems there is not much worth being a part of right now--and my mimicking and mocking is coming to an end...
axanderder the great droog mister
i just got out at the library "life after god" by douglas Copland--and the first couple of pages I cringed my way through. Then he started to write about living on granville in Vancouver BC--and it occurred to me that I could of lived in the same hotel. the st. helens hotel. But maybe not--back to my review of a book I have not finished--but first I want to say before i got this book out I got out "that summer in paris" by Morley Callaghan. these are both by Canadian writer's. Callaghan is far superior. He boxed with hemmingway in paris. hung out with f. scott Fitzgerald. and all those weird expatriate crowd in 29--these writer's have nothing in common but them being canadian--Copland I am sure most known for coining the term "generation x"--a group of snotty rich kids with ripped jeans and social problems--really nothing special or interesting--Dave Eggers is an Xer--maybe, maybe not--something about both eggers and coupland bugs me......... Academic writing will never be for me--but I am angry that some passages in this book by coupland I like--fuck the stupid little drawings and kitchy fucking shit, but some of it seems very good--like I could of written it on the shiter or something hung over (where most of my writing does not take place--but I wish it did)--the thing is--this generation shit i used to want to be part of some generation--I wanted to part of something greater than my self--but not now--in callaghan's book he talks about Hemmingway mimicking and then mocking then becoming more--becoming the champ (this annoyed callaghan about hemmingway)--but hemmingway had it there--admire-mimic-mock-conquer!!!!!!!
I liked some of Dave Egger's shit too, but you could tell he wanted to play down the fact that he was a rich kid--like he was ashamed of it--what would f scott Fitzgerald say about that??? not much--he'd be drunk--it just seems there is not much worth being a part of right now--and my mimicking and mocking is coming to an end...
axanderder the great droog mister