Note: this blog was originally written on the 11th of October 2009, but I just found it recently and it's quite coherent, so here you go:
So I've been listening to and watching some great stand up routines recently. A lot of George Carlin, and Bill Hicks's stand up album "Rant in E minor" (courtesy of Bown). Extremely funny and clever stuff, even if I don't agree with everything said, it's just so well delivered and makes me think. It's weird, because "comedy" and "making me think" aren't usually things that I associate with each other; I usually watch comedy with intentions opposite to this (just to relax myself and laugh a lot, etc).
I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, but the thing is that I realised (note: I have known this for a long time) that both Bill Hicks and George Carlin are dead.
What the hell is it with me and dead people?
I sometimes wonder if I'm just naturally attracted to dead entertainers, but this isn't the case because half of the dead entertainers of all kinds that I love, I didn't know were dead when I got into them. This includes Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, Mute, Michael Jackson (because I liked him before he died). So I've concluded that: people that are destined to die just have better things to say. Actually, that's a shit conclusion, because everyone is destined to die (George Carlin wasn't exactly young when he died).
I guess it's just a coincidence, or it's just an unexplained part of me...
...
Or maybe, I'm a fan of many more living entertainers than dead ones, so fuck everything I've ever said.
This isn't a very good blog.
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3 comments:
yeah i do find that comedeins are pritty smart people like a lot of them are actully qulifide for profesional jobs and may have even been something before doing comedy oor they are just really nerdy/intellagent
this is a very good blog.
What have I told you about contradicting me in front of everyone?
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