The Beautiful Letter by Burn Unit
April 2nd, 2009 1:00 PMAll of that is subtext to what follows.
(a note to certain PM recipients...oops I meant this by Ben)
56 vote(s)
- Lainthulu
- Lincøln
- GYØ Ben
- Haberley Mead
- Fiona
- artmouse
- Jellybean of Thark
- Poisøn Lake
- Sardonicus Tweed
- Rin Brooker
- Peter Garnett
- Tøm
- Bex.
- Waldo Cheerio
- Darkaardvark
- Myrna Minx
- Loki
- Minch
- Sombrero Guy
- Dax Tran-Caffee
- star5
- Adam
- miss understanding
- KristinawithaK
- Blue
- Scarlett
- saille is planting praxis
- Flea
- The Found Walrus
- GYØ Daryl
- Beta Orionis
- zer0gee
- teucer
- Optical Dave
- GYØ Vicki
- Goddess of Doom and Thievery
- Raizekiel Malbrandt
- Ben Yamiin
- rongo rongo
- bunny dragon
- Asian Persuasion
- Jackie H
- sami
- Charlie Fish
- praximity
- JJason Recognition
- Kyle Westwood
- anna one
- qwerty uiop
- Harbinger
- Dan |ØwO|
- Dela Dejavoo
- carry_me_Zaddy
- Ty Ødin
- Capricious Chicky
- Mister Ent
Favorite of:
- artmouse
- Optical Dave
- Myrna Minx
- KristinawithaK
- GYØ Ben
- Lainthulu
- Young Cain
- Lincøln
- Capricious Chicky
- Mister Ent
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shplank, whywait, drawing, multiyear, lovely, poems, fictional, epic, doodles, multiday, love, favoredgreatly26 comment(s)
H-- wh--... eh--.
Okay, you have officially won SFØ.
this resonates greatly with me - as i'm sure it does with many others - but this in particular has a great many parallels with not only my personal sketchbooks but certainly the emotional roller coaster i experience every time i find myself in love... a true masterwork.
"Invent something to love.
Give it your love as deeply as you are capable.
Then let go without being afraid of loss.
Enjoy both."
Also:
The Five Wishes document helps you express how you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself. It is unique among all other living will and health agent forms because it looks to all of a person's needs: medical, personal, emotional and spiritual. Five Wishes also encourages discussing your wishes with your family and physician.
Five Wishes lets your family and doctors know:
1. Which person you want to make health care decisions for you when you can't make them.
2. The kind of medical treatment you want or don't want.
3. How comfortable you want to be.
4. How you want people to treat you.
5. What you want your loved ones to know.
Kapow. Fortune smiles on me.
It's a good day.
...you have completely fucking blown my mind, Unit.
This is such a large amount of mind-blowing personal artifice that I am not sure, and cannot shake my doubts, about any possible interpretation of this. Maybe I am missing some other subtext, but I can't tell if this was a prolonged exploration of the meanings of love and separation through two fictional characters, a projection of perceived reality, or a legitimate exposition of your own feelings laid bare.
It put a bee in my bonnet, and I had to go out and look through a lot of art to resolve some of tensions your praxis created for me. SF0 lets me engage some big questions about what we are doing here, and what are the ultimate ends worth pursuing, and this struck chords with me, not altogether sweet, that I feel young men are poorly equipped to hear. I found that watching these five short films, in this order, put things in some perspective for me.
Prologue: The Evolution of Life
Act I: Signs
Act II: Whats in the Box
Act III: Forever's Not That Long
Epilogue: World Builder
I don't know why these notes you wrote over the years got me so troublingly caught on questions of love, death, loss, and relationships, but I think this is the mind-blowing of which you speak, and I thank you for it.
EDIT: P.S. The song you refer to is good too: http://www.spike.com/video/yum-yum-apiary/2790388
Oh dear. Well, it was intended to stir up the hives, that is for sure. I did enjoy the films you linked to very much. (Well, I'm a little upset by the Box one, as that was very unnerving and also looked a little like an advertisement).
As for what it is, I appreciate each interpretation you've brought to it. It was not written as a roman a clef, by any means, but of course, one's own feelings come into one's work. In a lengthy conversation like this one, where the blurring is happening, it's difficult to sort out sometimes.
Now that you have been spurred to look through a lot of art, and you're seeking to resolve things, perhaps you can resolve some of them through praxis. Give us some praxis love, it will return the message to the next person. . .
Thanks every one! Wow such an amazing people here.
CHECK IT OUT, I found a bunch of the pictures I had failed to upload! I was so angst ridden that I'd lost them after I no longer had the letter that I spent quite some time digging thru archives. I think it's almost completely documented now. They were buried on an external HD. Yayy!
I've appended them to the bottom for ease of finding. In maybe a week I'll be moving them into their right position in the Letter.
I honestly don't know what to say.
I'll come back later once I've figured it out...
also, you are the first person i have ever met who has heard of dan loves patti.
Oh I just love Yum Yum. I guess only a few thousand of us do. There seems to be some controversy over whether he was being "sincere" or not and frankly I don't care. Chris Holmes (not to be confused with the guy from Jackyl) is still recording (he's got a myspace page) and it sounds like the same voice, some of the same impulses.
...5 points isn't enough to give.
Makes me feel like I should go take all of my other votes away so that what I give this task would seem like something special.
Holy hell man.
I don't even know what to say.
This is astonishing because you've made Dan so real. Yet, it's not clear if Louise is a person outside of Dan's mind, or if she is in his head the same way they were in your heard. Bravo!
What an amazing work. I'm just sorta sitting here, quietly, just enjoying the simplicity ("it's just a love letter") and complexity (I suppose I don't really need to explain this) of it all.
Bravo, bravo indeed. :)
You are an admirable incredible poet.
(And I appreciate the occasional PM cajoling to get back in the game...)
Wow. Brilliant. I'm awestruck, that is one hell of a completion.
Thanks! what a nice thing to say (you and All the commenters here!)
It's among my best work. I hope it will one day break fifty. I figure something i do should. Eventually.
AS many have said before and i will say again, this is beautiful. This has also inspired me. Thank you!
I found Louise, you guys.
And I lost her.
Holy crapballs man. This is the most epic task I have seen in... in... I don't know. My mind is reeling. I hope the task I've been working on for years comes close to this level of awesome.