Well Now I Really Want To Know What Happens In That Temple
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Dan Carlson
Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
I'm a twentysomething white male with ambitions to be a professional film critic and generally spend my days getting paid to watch movies and write about it. A compulsive reader and stubborn cineaste, I take an often contrary stance to my more fundamentalist peers and upbringing by celebrating the pursuit of the good, and the Good, in life, love, art and film. If you watched enough episodes of certain TV shows — for starters, "The Hungry and the Hunted," "The Cut Man Cometh," "The Body," "The Zeppo," "Waiting in the Wings," "Out of Gas," "April Is the Cruelest Month," "20 Hours in America," "Colonial Day," "An Echolls Family Christmas," "Look Who's Stalking," "The Garage Door," "Charlie Gets Crippled," "Wind Sprints," and "Corner Boys" — you would understand me completely, and you'd also realize that much of my worldview and philosophical insights are heavily influenced by fictional works/programs, and many of the good things I've said in my life are just a regurgitation of someone else's imaginings, or at any rate a heartfelt attempt to interpret them. I guess I was made to be a film critic.
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Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?
O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.
— Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
— John Stuart Mill
We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
— G.K. Chesterton
We were, for the briefest of moments, something greater than the sum of our uncertain parts; we were youth itself, in all its painful glory and sharp joy.
— Me, Fall 2003
Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town.
— Ask the Dust, John Fante
Hey man, I am here with a few buddies of mine having some beers. You know I was thinking, then all of a sudden I came across your site. You should be a mormon for your research project. Pretend to be a mormon they will take care of you! Anywere from helping sponsor your mission, to sleeping with the LDS girls just because your "supposely" mormon! It would be great!..
YOu could go on a mission for two years and totally fake them the whole time. Once your come back, you can totally lie.. Ya, I've done this, I'm good, blah blah blah.
Then you tell them your ready for the temple! Then thats when you rig up a camera or something. IN your ear, or a fake niple that has a camera..
Mormons will only help the community, if your mormon yourself! They are selfish and ignorant like that! However, if you fluff them that your interested in the faith! They will take great care of you!..
Jul 12, 2009 9:12 PM