{"id":102,"date":"2006-10-01T09:04:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2006-10-01T09:04:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T15:04:40","slug":"pain-and-suffering-pain-and-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/pain-and-suffering-pain-and-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"pain and suffering, pain and suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i went to a concert yesterday, and thanks to alcohol and <i>other circumstance<\/i> i had a total and apeshit diatribe against the band that was playing, and i was venting like a maniac for a good twenty minutes before someone gave me enough beer to shut me the hell up for a while.<\/p>\n<p>from wikipedia.org:<br \/>\n<i>In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defence mechanism in which one attributes (&#8220;projects&#8221;) to others, one\u2019s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or\/and emotions. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses\/desires without letting the ego recognize them.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>psychology is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>the music itself was good. i like noise music (although i did overdo it ever so slightly shouting &#8220;<i>i have hundreds of noise albums and listen to them all the time<\/i>!&#8221;) and apart from playing too loud (it&#8217;s the <i>quality<\/i> of the decibels that matter, not the <i>quantity<\/i>) i liked it. it&#8217;s the pretentiousnes that i have a problem with &#8211; just because you have spasms while hammering the same three buttons on the keyboard doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re doing anything else but <i>hammering the same three buttons on the keyboard<\/i>. i like it, just don&#8217;t make a fucking art-show performance out of it. and if you have a gaffa-tape cristian cross taped on your tshirt over your nipples and walk out into the audience holding a taperecorder up to my ear to let me <i>savour<\/i> the monotone coming out of it, this is not something that will be looked at <i>benevolently<\/i>. such behaviour, in fact, deserves a clip over the ear.<\/p>\n<p>so the remixed plan for today (i had ambitions for this sunday. i like sundays) is:<\/p>\n<p>1) hold my head in my hands and occasionaly moaning gently and manly.<br \/>\n2) ponder <i> other circumstance<\/i> and selfdestructive behaviour in general.<br \/>\n3) play computer games or watch teewee &#8211; can&#8217;t focus enough to read.<br \/>\n4) stuff my face with food.<br \/>\n5) not going to the gym.<br \/>\n6) coming up for a good plan as to what i&#8217;m going to do on my last year of art school. i&#8217;m on the final stretch of getting my MFA, and i need to sort my shit out. i started the day by trying to read up on leibniz <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk\/GMR\/hmp\/texts\/modern\/leibniz\/monadology\/monadology.html\">die monadie<\/a><\/i>, but needless to say it&#8217;s no use today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i went to a concert yesterday, and thanks to alcohol and other circumstance i had a total and apeshit diatribe against the band that was playing, and i was venting like a maniac for a good twenty minutes before someone gave me enough beer to shut me the hell up for a while. from wikipedia.org: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/pain-and-suffering-pain-and-suffering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pain and suffering, pain and suffering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1884],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","tag-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}