"It all started with the above paparazzi image. Doesn't Keanu look so sad? The ball continued rolling on Reddit, with this epic Keanu appreciation thread with over 2,000 comments. Then someone posted a photoshop of Keanu eating a bird. Then came this photoshop of Keanu eating a miniature version of himself on a bench. From there, someone suggested that there be a holiday to celebrate what a good guy Keanu Reeves is. Finally, someone suggested a day to celebrate Keanu on July 1st, during which people would give money to cancer research." (urlesque.com)
this text has also been going around with this meme, i guess to explain why keanu is so sad. it might be kind of mean, since keanu eating a sandwich on a bench really doesn't say much, but it pretty much seems like everyone involved in this genuinely care for him, and just want to give him a hug or another sandwich or something. anyway:
“Just read this about Keanu Reeves. I FEEL TERRIBLE.
>Father who is a heroin dealer runs off on his family when he is three, and he has since severed all ties with him.
>Best friend, River Phoenix, dies before they could make the bromantic moves they promised they would make together.
>Fiancee gives birth to a stillborn daughter.
>Unable to cope, they split up.
>She dies in a car accident two years later.
>Sister contracts leukemia. Keanu spends millions of dollars to keep her alive.
>It has gone on public record that he prefers spending his birthdays alone.
These are some quotes:
>Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
>Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
>I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
>I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
>I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.
>I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
>It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.
>When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
Nice things he has done:
>Offered to take a 75% pay cut if it meant Al Pacino could be cast in The Devil’s Advocate.
>Offered to take a 90% pay cut if it meant Gene Hackman could be cast in The Replacements.
>Donated 50 of the 70 million dollars he made off of the Matrix films to the costume and special effects teams.
>Bought a Harley for every stuntman who worked on the Matrix Reloaded
>Donates most of his money to charities for cancer research."
personally i'm with this cat:
i encourage everyone to show keanu some love by making your own "sad keanu," putting it on your blog, or upload somewhere, and link it in the comments field. anyone can do it, either with photoshop, ms paint or by making one at home and taking a photo of it. i mean, look at mine:
the bar isn't exactly set high. go forth!
(pictures from Tumblr, there are new pictures at that link every our or so, so you can see more there.)
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p.s. RIP: Pete Quaife. Hey. Kier is in charge of this place for the weekend, and his sensibility has worked wonders yet again, as I imagine you'll agree. Still, that's just a guess, so please make your thoughts explicit until further notice. Thank you deeply, Kier -- and, btw, where the heck are you? -- and thanks to all of you who use at least part of your comments to give the post its due in your own ways. I have a few alerts. The writer and d.l. Alec Niedenthal is editing the fantastic lit. site Everyday Genius this month, and in the last couple of days, he has picked and posted two total humdingers whose authors also happen to be d.l.s of this blog, namely 'Letter (excerpt from Green Zone Kids Vol. 2: John McCain)' by Mark Doten aka No more teenage kicks, and 'Third Plane' by David Rylance aka Slatted Light. Both vastly recommended, as is a new review at Fanzine of Harmony Korine's 'Trash Humpers' by the writer/d.l. Mark Gluth. Okay, ... ** Postitbreakup, I'd say of the options you're proposing, bulges and dick related accoutrements and symbols or whatever is probably the best way to go, if that interests you. Thanks. The 'marbled' thing works on a whole bunch of levels. You know how I am. No one ever knows anyone else, that's true, but to say we can't understand that feeling you were feeling and describing in your last comment is not true either. It's strange how one tries to simultaneously comfort and bash oneself by deciding that no one else understands one. It's one of the mind's trickier tricks. Hang in there, man. ** Tonyoneill, Hey, Tony. Really glad the Siouxie concert pleased you, of course. She's just incredible. I've corresponded with Steve Severin a little bit, and he interviewed me once, which was a surreal experience since it was really hard not to answer his questions with a 'yeah, yeah, but enough about me' followed by a flotilla of questions of my own. There's a book about The Slits? Oh, I guess there would be. So, it's good and well worth the read if you're a big Slits fan, which, duh, I am as well? Have a great weekend, man. ** David Ehrenstein, There's no question that Bret's work is treated much more seriously here. He gets brought up in interviews with me here a lot, and not for the dumb, obvious reasons. So, yeah, the official American critical response is not to be trusted, but a lot of people I do trust, including a few from this place, haven't been so hot on 'IB'. Obviously, I'm anxious to read it, and my mind remains wide open. ** Joseph, Hey! Welcome back, man. I hope your fish makes it. So, how is DC as a living quarters so far? From my time there, it seems such a strange, kind of unfocused city as far being a place to live. Kind of like LA is, in that sense. Glad you hear your ultimately positive read on 'IB'. I'm good, just crazy busy here in Brest and kind of simultaneously very focused and quite exhausted. But, yeah, I'm good. ** Pilgarlic, Hey, Oops, okay, let me go find the comment. Hold on. Okay, got it. Well, that's the beauty of distance and maybe a little magical thinking that comes with youth 'cos Oingo Boingo weren't part of the LA punk scene at all. At the time, in the punk context, they were considered phonies, a kind of Devo/XTC rip off band, and their audience from the beginning onwards was basically frat boys. KROQ played their songs so frequently they were basically the radio station's official band. So, yeah, it's interesting that they wound up seeming punk outside LA city limits. Their only kind of cool (in LA) period was earlier when they were a performance art group called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. Anyway, it's like you and Commander Cody -- now he was cool -- said, yep. ** Stan_cz, Oh, nice. Your blog post. I'll have to give it my all a little later. Everyone, Stan_cz's awesome new blog has just added a no doubt terrific new post about Russ Meyer called 'Ladies and Gentleman, Welcome to Sex!', and it's right here, and you should give it a go, of course. ** Killer Luka, Me too. Well, duh, right? ** Syreearmwellion, Yeah, basically, in LA at least, Oingo Boingo fans were almost always dweeby, beer swilling jocks and 'their chicks'. I didn't like their stuff in any case, but their fan base was a pretty huge put off too. I was older than you at the time as well, and that makes a difference. I'd already decided exactly what turned up my nose. That's an interesting reaction to 'God Jr.', huh. Just a week or two ago, I got interviewed and was asked if 'God Jr.' caused a backlash, and I said no because I never saw any signs that there was, one but there you go. I mean, you saw 'God Jr.' as me selling out or something? Anyway, cool that you finally read it and thought it was all right. Bon weekend. ** Misanthrope, Oh, man, yeah, I so hate that bullshit like your good friends are dumping on you. I think it's part of the pervasive and often hidden stereotyped, disrespectful, clueless way adults think about younger people. Like they're both total pushovers and incapable of being interesting enough in and of themselves to form truly valuable friends. I think that's sick and embarrassingly stupid and destructive. You know, I've had much younger close friends my whole life, even I was relatively a kid myself, and I've heard that small-minded, gossipy, phobic, projecting crap forever, and when friends spout stuff like that to me, it puts a serious crimp in our friendship. Sore spot for me too, obviously. Awesome about the post. I'll go find it, and I'll let you know, but I know it'll be great. Thank you kindly, George! ** Stephen, Cool. I'll watch for his contact. And I hope I get to NYC soon, like I said. There's serious interest in having our theater piece 'Kindertotenlieder' performed in NYC next January. It's just all about whether the producers -- the Under the Radar Festival -- can find the funding to bring it over. At the moment, that's probably the next thing/ time our stuff will play in the States. ** JW Veldhoen, Birthday report? ** Oscar B, Hey, pal! Yeah, it's hard work here for sure, but, as of yesterday, things are going well. Today we're concentrating on revamping the end of the piece, which is the big problem spot, so I'll know better by Monday. We have to work especially hard because the French TV channel Arte is coming on Sunday to spend that day and Monday filming the piece and us working on it 'cos they're going to devote part of this really good weekly show they have called Metropolis to 'TIHYWD', which is great news, but it'll also interfere with the work to some degree. Oh, and, yeah, the shows in Avignon are completely sold out, and it's actually a big mess because we're being hounded for tickets by all these 'important' people, and we just don't have any tickets at all. (Although, Bill, if you're reading this by chance, you're in with a ticket for the 14th). So, yeah. The Bal sounds like it was pretty. Did you enter the festivities themselves? Miss you. See you pretty soon. ** Sypha, Hey, Really glad you liked the Siouxie show. I'm a giant fan too, obviously. Oh, and I'll write to you maybe as soon as today with a launch date for the post. ** Nb, Desert heat is dry heat aka the sublime kind of heat if heat ever warrants such a superlative. Good, glad you might be around here a bit while in LA, 'cos I'll probably have spur of the minute ideas, and, of course, if you have any spur of the moment questions, I'll be way game. Cool reading. Let me ... 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His diagnosis was always changing, from schizophrenia through this and that and finally bipolar, although I think that was as much of a guess as the others. ** Steevee, Hey. Very interesting to read your shared thoughts about Lexapro and your situation with the people here. Thank you. ** You-x, There you are. Thanks again so much for the maps post. It was quite the hit, as you saw. Well, you'd pronounce it MORE-lay if you were an American trying to enunciate French. In French, it has these little qualifying sounds and stuff, but MORE-lay is good enough. Cool you got to hang with Jeff. So, he finally got to California. That's excellent. ** David, Hey. Oh, I don't think I've done an alert yet on your great new project. Let me. Everyone, the mighty writer and d.l. David has started a blog/site project called 'i love a genre'. Here's a quote from the site's intro: 'i love a genre is devoted to the casual reader who prefers private eyes to public angst, extraterrestrial visitors to terrorist shock troupes and even idealized romance to the problematic "relationships" that steer contemporary fiction. We're aware that genres are born to be bent and welcome uncategorizable submissions. Our formal launch is still a few weeks ahead. What are we looking for in submitted material? A degree of brevity. I'd like to feature at least two prose fictions and an essay or visual contribution in each number of this blogazine. Willingness to challenge and amuse. It's possible to do both. Contributors should send material to iloveagenre at buchcond7@ gmail.com. We ask that contributors identify their submissions' genre, i.e. satiric black comedy.' Sounds fantastic, right? Anyway, go over there, get a feel, and, obviously, consider submitting work. ** Tigersare, Hey, Guy! Glad you're a Siouxie person and thought my culling was okay. I don't like the late period S&tB stuff at all. Maybe I'll come around one of these days. I did indeed get the Iwanoff Day, and it's fantastic, and I've got it set up, and I'll send you the launch date this weekend sometime. It's a beauty, and thank you so much! ** Schlix, Wow, you might move again? It must be quite an interesting job if you're thinking it's worth dislodging yourself. So I hope the talk on Monday works out for you. Can you say what the job is? No need to, if you'd rather not, of course. ** 'Stoopid Slapped Puppies', Hey. Yeah, remembering -- correctly, I hope -- that you're particularly fond of 'Jigsaw Feeling', I tried to find the best version out there, and that one seemed the fiercest. On your question, oh yeah, I absolutely think the medium in which you write effects the output, emotionally and pretty much in every way. Just for one example, writing about sex by hand is far, far more conducive to capturing the act's particular tactile and physical effects than when typing, for me at least. As I've mentioned here a ton, except for my novel-in-progress, I've written every one of my novels, stories, and poems by hand. It opens the material and me up in a way typing just can't. Some famous writer whose name I'm forgetting once said he could start reading a novel and immediately tell whether it was written by hand or on a keyboard. I can't quite do that, but I think it's possible you could tell the difference if you were really attuned to the reading experience. One of the big reasons I'm forcing myself to write my current novel on the computer is because I want the writing to feel detached from me and seem a kind of thinned out world unto itself that I can manipulate and play within. Anyway, long answer, sorry, but, yes, yes, I do completely think that writing on paper with a pen makes a huge difference. You have a supreme weekend on your end of things, okay? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hey, Ben. Oh, great, thanks a lot! Yeah, I'll look for it and give it a look/read this weekend, and if there are any issues, I'll write to you. Well, I'll write to you in any case as soon as I've set a launch date. Great weekend to you, man. ** Okay, I'll go do my work now. Spend some time in Kier's realm this weekend, talk to him, have decent or more weekends in general, and I'll see you come Monday.
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