Interstellar's 5th birthday...

[Mister Obvious]

Exactly two weeks to go!

*Valley Girl Voice* SEX YEARS THOOOUUUGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! *Valley Girl Voice*

[Atma]

T-MINUS THREE DAYS!

[Mister Obvious]

I thought it was yesterday and I forgot about it, lol!!!

[Mister Obvious]

Everyone make your own websites so you can nerd out and celebrate birthdays for it!!!

Everybody owes it to themselves to have their very own online home where they can let their freak flag fly and nobody can tell them what to do, etc.

You will really enjoy it, I promise. If you've never made a site before, it's so easy I can do it!!! Just start out with a WordPress and learn over time.

Here's a thread with more info...

"All right, ladies and germs, repeat after me..."
https://www.sectual.com/thread-10570.html

[Atma]

Everyone make your own websites so you can nerd out and celebrate birthdays for it!!!

Everybody owes it to themselves to have their very own online home where they can let their freak flag fly and nobody can tell them what to do, etc.

You will really enjoy it, I promise. If you've never made a site before, it's so easy I can do it!!! Just start out with a WordPress and learn over time.

What we're celebrating is you, not some forum. Nobody else has done anything like what you're doing, ever, period. You are the star and the draw here, not the forum. The BB forum tech is merely a tool for you to express from your totally and fantastically unique vantage; it's your canvas and you are an artist. Nobody else can go out and start a forum and hope to come anywhere near what's happening here. This is an incredibly unique situation that you have carved out for yourself and those of us who are lucky enough to have discovered your intense awesomeness. 

Dev's forum was cool because you were there geeking out over it. I mean, it's cool anyways, but for me, the draw was that I got to see you totally geeking out in a new context, and that I got to fucking finally experience the catharsis of gushing about how amazing you are with other members. 

I'm a fan of yours. I don't know another way of putting it. The fact that I've been able to maintain something resembling a private relationship with you is so fucking beyond "icing on the cake", but it also kind of stretches the term "fan" to its limits. But I mean, dude, if you started selling your content, like packaging DVD's or making posters or whatever, or even if you started charging people to use this forum, I wouldn't hesitate to pay. I wouldn't hesitate to offer my help on any level, whether it be supporting the production, advertising it, helping create artwork, whatever, You are SO fucking worth it. You excite and inspire me the exact same way that my all-time favorite things and people have throughout my life. Prince, Flaming Lips, Love and Rockets, Cerebus the Aardvark, Charles Bukowski, Annie Stacie, just to save the best for last. But I also love you and care about you. It's unlike anything else I've experienced. I hate to make too much of it, because I know that's kind of like taking a dump on something that's supposed to be light and cool and laid back. That's apparently how I roll. 

I think people are called to do things in totally different ways. Like for me, I'm a writer and I will move between mediums, from literature to comics to music, in order to express myself, and I am ultimately deeply satisfied with these forms of expression. The thought of making a forum is so uninteresting to me that it just feels like a pain in the ass to even consider it. This is the only forum I need or really care about.

[Mister Obvious]

I value your interpretation of what I'm doing because you ARE an artist... I think there's a certain level of obsessive focus when it comes to any type of artistry. It's rare that anyone understands what I'm actually doing on a relatable level. Usually it's only people who can relate to obsessive focus on more ethereal things... writing and other types of art as examples.

I've been obsessed with writing, specifically on the forum format, for most of my life at this point. It was deeply engrained in me as a kid... it's my baseline and my normal. This is a good example of how important childhood is and how we have to make sure kids are given opportunities, direction, and make sure what they ARE focusing on can be useful to them later in life.

[Atma]

I value your interpretation of what I'm doing because you ARE an artist... I think there's a certain level of obsessive focus when it comes to any type of artistry. It's rare that anyone understands what I'm actually doing on a relatable level. Usually it's only people who can relate to obsessive focus on more ethereal things... writing and other types of art as examples.

I have thought about creating a non-profit whose overarching purpose is to preserve interactive databases of important works. I feel this needs to happen with Yogi Bhajan's decades of recorded and transcribed lectures, and with every single word the author Dave Sim has ever uttered. (Both of them are being roundly shit on by incredibly toxic people and left-agenda-leaning media -- Yogi Bhajan posthumously). I don't feel this yet about any other human beings. Just the three of you, thus far. I think about it a lot. If I can't do it, hopefully someone else will. Massive undertaking that will attract many adversaries and machiavellian horseshit from talentless fuckwads. The reality is that there are only a tiny handful of truly great people on earth at any given time, and they all ultimately end up imprisoned, killed, defamed, unhinged, so forth. Why does it have to be that way? Because people are threatened and/or want to have power over these greater individuals. This is why I'm a little terrified of you garnering a larger audience. Insert "protect the sapling so it can become a mighty oak" sentiment here. There is so much hatred and jealousy and tepid little fucking bitches with their balls shoved so far up their own ass they can practically teabag themselves from the inside out, just waddling around shitting on anything that might dare to be magnificent, or, gasp, challenging. 

* * * * *

The Genius of the Crowd, by Charles Bukowski

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it

beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone

beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody

not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world

not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect
like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock

their finest art

* * * * *

I had to double read that "beware those quick to praise" line. I wondered if it might apply to me. And then I was like "if you're wondering, then... maybe yes, it does". But do I need praise? Fuck no. Neither do you. I only praise the praiseworthy. Shit, someone has to. Bukowski openly praised his heroes, so he can go fuck himself. Like him, I only have three, and you are one of them. You don't ask to be anyone's hero, but nobody who is, does.

[Atma]

By the way, Bukowski was a classic example of a guy who avoided fame for most of his life, and then got to enjoy the rewards of his efforts in the latter years.

Now his work is everywhere, including thousands of videos with smarmy-ass music that would make him want to piss directly on the person uploading that shit, or worse, other people reading his words in their effected limp-dicked lizard voices, sans any gamble or vulnerability.

[Atma]

There's a thought humping the side of my brain right now, and it's saying something like "focus on your own legacy".

[Atma]

I can't focus on legacy. It feels meaningless in the moment. Just ... fuck it! Woot.

[Atma]

Sigh. I love having a whole day off and just chilling out with some Interstellar. Just the option... the fact that it's here. Even if you're not posting, I can just do a search for something random and unearth an hour of reading material.

SIGH.

[Mister Obvious]

I've heard a lot about Bukowski, but haven't read any of his work...

It strikes me as being "just the truth" written out in a kind of poetic way.

It reminds me of Bill Hicks somehow.

[Mister Obvious]

There's a thought humping the side of my brain right now, and it's saying something like "focus on your own legacy".

That's what all of us should do...

We have to archive our own existence properly...

Each and every one of us has that duty.

No one in history has ever lived and died without playing a pivotal role.

Literally no one...

Not even a stillborn.

Everyone who has ever lived served a very serious purpose.

Now that we're in the modern era and have every tool imaginable at our disposal to express ourselves with, and to archive our lives with...

There's just no excuse not to do it and we can never depend on anyone else to do it for us.

Most people never have their talents recognized, and everyone has a talent.

We have to recognize ourselves and devote ourselves to the curation of our own lives and legacies.

In doing so, we have to remember that people who want to use us and waste our time will be unsatisfied by the lack of attention they get from us, and we will need to ignore their protest...

Know thyself.

[Atma]

It strikes me as being "just the truth" written out in a kind of poetic way.

It reminds me of Bill Hicks somehow.

Yes and yes. Absolutely. 

And, in as much as Bill could have an undertow of direness, some of Bukowski's short stories have a hilarious undertow.

[Atma]

We have to archive our own existence properly...

Emphasis on properly, imo.

[Atma]

It's midnight in Kentucky... do you know where your teddy bear is?

HAPPY SIXTH BIRTHDAY, INTERSTELLAR!

[Mister Obvious]

And on a Friday night/Saturday too!

Interstellar has an impeccable sense of timing...

[Mister Obvious]

This is my bio compat with Interstellar's birthday...

https://i.imgur.com/xTQDu1J.png

The numbers don't lie!!!

[Atma]

This is my bio compat with Interstellar's birthday...

https://i.imgur.com/xTQDu1J.png

The numbers don't lie!!!

Holy shit!!! That's somehow simultaneously completely unreal and totally not surprising.

[Terraformer]

It's midnight in Kentucky... do you know where your teddy bear is?

HAPPY SIXTH BIRTHDAY, INTERSTELLAR!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY INTERSTELLAR !!!!!