This book really messed me up when I read it but somehow I couldn’t stop. I could really identify myself with Paul Kemp and his thoughts. Never had a book such a maddening effect on me. Weeks after finishing it I was still thinking about it and reflecting on the choices i made in life. Still, about half a year after I finished the book I sometimes catch myself thinking about a quote or two and get depressed. If someone asks me if I could recommend it I wouldn’t know what to say. It is brilliantly written but like drugs and alcohol can really destroy you.
Had a book ever such an effect on you?
“The scene I had just witnessed brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back.”
Date Started 09/08/2018
The Rum Diary
A few years ago i was on a ferry going from greece to italy and while in one of the cafes on board this movie was on the TV. i didn’t know anything about it except johnny depp was the star. I had no idea who Hunter S. Thompson was or the importance of his work to american literature. I watched about 30 minutes of it without audio and then went to my cabin to sleep. I always wanted to revisit the movie and actually watch it and last night i did. I have been looking for a book to read and have decided to pick up The Rum Diary so for some reason i thought to watch the movie first. There is a lot to talk about with this movie so this might be a long one, i apologize in advance.
The movie is about a failed writer who travels to Puerto rico in the 1960s to work at a newspaper in order to make some easy money. While on the island he is pulled into a real estate schandle, falls in love with the fiance of one of the schandlers, gets arrested, and more all while drinking his liver to death.
Sometimes scripts have really good stories but bad dialogue and sometimes they have really good dialogue but bad stories, this movie is a prime example of the second. If you watch the movie it’s almost painfully obvious that it is based off a book and that fact is almost slapped in your face when the movie opens up about 100 plot thread and fails to close even a single one in a satisfying way. This movie is just about 2 hours which was probably great for the studio to distribute the movie but i can’t help but wonder what an extra hour would have done for this movie. The wolf of wall street was 3 hours and people love that movie so i think if done correctly this movie could have pulled it off. As i mentioned earlier the dialogue was exceptional, some of the best i’ve heard in a long time. The first 20 minute of the movie are very inviting and you can’t help but get excited for the rest of the movie. The payoff is good but really falls short of all expectations i had.
The first thing i noticed when watching this was the production value on making a believable 1960s puerto rico. Everything felt real and had johnny depp not been in the movie i may have even been fooled into believing this movie was much older than it really was. This brings me into the Johnny depp problem, he had a relationship with Hunter S. Thompson who wrote the book this movie is based on and it is clear to me that this project meant a lot to him. Unfortunately i d
... keep reading on reddit ➡When you've been drinking so consistently, it's not just that your body gets used to it and needs its fix. The health and psychological effects are well-documented of withdrawal. There's an entire gestalt that absorbs you as you sink down into the hazy depths of intoxication. This is more apparent to anyone who is a weekday drinker. When you stop and you're back at work or school, not wasting the day being in pain and recovering, you're almost nervous at your ability to focus. Work gets done, studying gets done, and it's almost scary because the interrupted rhythms of your life became their own rhythm. It's like playing nothing but atonal music for years and then suddenly shifting back.
I normally write these things at the end of the night, before I go to bed, while chilling on vaporwave and drinking tea but I couldn't even manage it last night. The anxiety had gotten so bad I took some theanine to calm myself down and was so blissed out I wanted nothing more than to just crawl into bed and sleep for hours on end. It's better than being wide-awake because you're haunted by the almost-terrifying possibilities that come with a new-found sobriety.
There's an unsteadiness that comes from it all because you need to put yourself back together, and that can take a while. And you might not ever find all the pieces again. But it can't be seen as being un-whole, because whatever parts might feel gone, you're still greater than the sum of all your parts. The value of who you are is never static, but always seeks to grow onward and upwards.
I thought that if I stayed drunk I could ignore what felt like an apocalyptic uncertainty about the future. If I was warm and fuzzy, I wouldn't need to think about what might come next--or worse, what might not come at all.
I have to get back to work though. It's nice that I can take an opportunity to try and get this stuff out of my head, and right now it's probably kept me on the path more than anything, but I shouldn't take advantage of the goodwill I get to be left to my own devices and run the account how I see fit. I said what I needed to say for today anyway.
I'll be back tomorrow, still sober.
-J-
01/25/2017
I'm still here.
Being busy is really one of the best cures in the world. It has to be the right level of busy though. You can't have the entire world collapsing in on you and thinking you're the only one who can be Atlas. But a little labor goes a long way.
Been in and out of meetings all day. Nothing so bad that I couldn't handle. But it did almost make the daily post an impossibility. But now I'm here with my tea. And my boss constantly interrupted my train of thought. Oh well, what is there to be done.
I always feel like I need to pad these things with something to say. Maybe I just like to attempt profundity. But genius is really just saying something profound in a simple way. Truth overcomplicated can easily become a lie.
There's not much more new to write about at this time. The anxiety has gone down, and I think that's being managed thanks to the tea and theanine. I woke up for the first time in a month a few hours before I need to go into work, which tells me that my sleep rhythms are back to where they needed to be.
The rest of the week should be fine. The real challenge will come this Saturday during bowling, when not only will I be surrounded by booze but my anxiety will also be running high due to the amount of people there and how much my bowling performance can negatively effect me.
We'll take it as it comes though.
-J-
01/26/2017
Where's it at? Wheeler?
It's called Ba-cardio
My thoughts are with his family.
that was crazy. poor jerry, the crowd was actually screaming get off the ropes lmao
Also Hiram: rum is my true passion btw
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Both did perfect 3 rounds. So many memorable lines. That's a battle that makes you remember why you love battle rap.
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