Rant.

LeoZ 2010-08-02 07:48:25 ET I don't know. Subkultures feels very alienated. Almost everybody talks about their personal lives. And that's cool except writing it down as a perosnal journal is not very fun for me to read. Yes, I know it's not about me but...why not? Heh, I mean why treat this like your own personal diary unless you expect yourself to be the only person to read this. Why not make it more interesting? Why write such stuff like "Took the baby to the doctor today."? Why even have an SK unless you can spice it up? Hell, maybe even try to imitate the writing style of other authors. Or at least write like the myth of other authors. Maybe a Burroughs-esque/H.S.Thompson-esque type writing style. Like: "Took the baby to the doctor today. It won't stop crying. Keeps trying to crawl up my arm. It's elongated impossibly thin body trying to get under my skin like an anthromorphic syringe. Don't know how long I can handle this anymore. Soon as the doctor saw me he shoved the baby and me out the door and screamed something obscene that I'm not going to bother repeating followed by 'I'm going to pour borscht all over your head until you and that sick fuck of a baby of yours leave the premises IMMEDIATLY!' I was then chased out of the office by the receptionist who was wielding a baseball bat. By the way she swung it I could tell she meant business. Don't really remember where I left the baby or how I got out of there. I don't even know where my car is anymore. How was your day?" Uhm, yeah. I don't know if it's worth continuing with this sk as I feel weird commenting on other people's SKs when they write about their personal lives and I don't know enough about them to say anything smart. "Got back together with Jake! Yaaay!" What should my comment be? "Too bad that Jake is a robot with no soul and a cold lifeless heart meant only for crushing"? Is that what I should write? Or should I play the nice guy and say "That is so sad. Here's my shoulder to cry on. Don't hold on to it though. I need my shoulder. I tend to wear a lot of backpacks." And people never seem to comment on my posts. Yes, I know that you folks have nothing to say BUT YOU ARE NOT MIMES! Well, some of you are and, yes, I understand that, but come on! Mime or not you can at least share your thoughts. No, not your cold, murderous homicidal thoughts. Keep those to Facebook and yourself. I mean your creative thoughts. We are all creative beings. Why don't you tap that? Eh, tap that creativity I mean. You know what I meant. Don't act like you don't. Sap comes from trees not sad stories. Heh heh tree come. Uhm.. Maybe my SK entries are too long? What the hell did you expect? Twitter?

machawk1 2010-08-02 08:07:54 ET I like your suggestion. Some use SK as a journal-esque outlet. Few use it as a creative outlet. You should start a trend - expound on other SKers entries as if they were your own. This would never catch on, of course, as it isn't as "fun" as posting surveys you took or [other mindless SK meme]. We're all interested in those sort of entries.

SubSonik 2010-08-02 09:11:55 ET It's fun on a level, but I spend all day at work engaging my mental muscles... this is where I come to relax :P

CaterpillarGirl 2010-08-02 09:12:57 ET I think that often times SK-ers keep track of one another on and off of SK. I know that I do.

LeoZ 2010-08-02 10:18:29 ET First of all, no matter how interesting my life seems from my photos (flies on meat) I have no life offline. I am always, how you say, "jacked into the cyberhive". So that's why I don't keep track of other SKers off-site. Plus if I tried to there are all these pesky anti-stalker laws in my way. Second, this is where I come to relax as well. And it's relaxing to read interesting stuff. I don't mean that everybody needs to become a writer. What I'm trying to say is that this place is called "Subkultures" and, in my own personal opinion, it shouldn't just be about day to day mundane existence. It should be about various ideas, thoughts, and experiences from our own quirky lives (which I sadly, as I've mentioned before, do not lead.) SK should be about SK and not the OK things that YES WAY us into the OA. I A I A CTHULHU FTAGHN!

subsume 2010-08-04 11:34:31 ET HAHAHA. I actually laughed out loud at this. Brilliant.

Schwein 2010-08-06 13:37:26 ET I post about flatulence. Not good enough for you, squire?

LeoZ 2010-08-10 19:51:40 ET I like your SK. It reminds me of this girl I was pen pals with once. I saw her picture on the back side of a milk carton and instantly decided to write. Her name was something weird like Miss Ing or something to that effect. I think she was Swedish or German. She had that distant look on her face and she reminded me of this girl I met just the month before. Poor little thing ran away from home and needed some place to stay. I hid her under my porch. I don't think I have a porch but it's amazing how good you get at hiding things when you're drunk on beer. Even if that beer is non-alcoholic. If you see my parole officer then, man, you better run because you're just seeing ghosts. First parole officers then Bruce Willis. That's the twist! Get it? Oh, you haven't seen that movie yet? The Sixth Sense? You know what it is. The Sense of Balance. Yes, like the Force. My god, man, do you not understand that the Star Wars movies explain everything? Except for Hayden Christensen(sp?) I hear he's a dick. Not like a giant anthromorphic penis. No, he's just a private eye. Cause the whole acting thing isn't working out for him. Stuck up? Hell, kids in the street mistake him for Woody from Toy Story. That's a good thing, I guess though. Cause, you know, Woody's famous.

motard 2010-08-28 15:21:51 ET I like your SK. Truthfully, I don't comment cause I only read yours once in awhile. Mostly cause you don't post on mine. VICIOUS CYCLE. But don't start now. I have been kind of personal lately. I think that's stupid. But I've been drinking a lot. So fuck.

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