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WCDT 1-5 August 2011 (1981-85)
VonKleist:
Marten has a "dream", only itīs a stupid dream..
It was being a music journalist or blogger (just like in High Fidelity^^) if I remember correctly. Maybe that means he should run a record store.
I wonder whatīs going on with his music. Making music makes me happy, and I bet that goes for old Martypants too.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Interlude on 02 Aug 2011, 23:25 ---Marten could have done that when Dora asked to move in together-- but he chose Faye. I would not have handled that as well as Dora did. (I know I have my issues. Haha.) I know someone could argue that he just didn't want to move, or that he was just being a good friend...etc. However, I felt it was the completely wrong way to go about things. If he did not want to leave that apartment or was not ready to move in with Dora, he should have just said as much
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Actually, he said as much about liking his present apartment, and it having more space, as he said about not wanting it to be hard for Faye:
1577: "But I like this apartment!"
1578: "It's not that I don't want to move IN with you, it's just that this place has more room than yours"
1579: "I just really like this apartment!"
and in each case he said that before referring to Faye. I suspect that in 1581 he could have been about to agree to move in with Dora, when she pre-empted him by agreeing the opposite. It may have been a bad decision for them both, though.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 03 Aug 2011, 06:29 ---I wasn't creeped out, but I have no hair...
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She didn't actually SAY that it was all going to be head hair. Creeped out yet?
I was impressed by Blackjoker's point about what happens when Marten tries to be assertive. In fact, are there any cases of him being successful at it, other than hitting someone with a frying pan and acquiring soup?
EDIT: and recruiting Hannelore for the band.
SirDudley:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 03 Aug 2011, 05:29 ---At least it wasn't Sweeney Todd.
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.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiqjNGB3FJg
.....
*cough*
Anyhew...Jeph wasn't kidding when he said this one would be weird. So, is this a BLAM or a GSFfN?
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Dammit.
tjradcliffe:
--- Quote ---Then he'll have sex with Cosette.
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That would be awesome!
Telling someone to "follow their dreams" is a losing proposition. If they need to be told, they aren't ready for it: they either don't know what they want to be (1/2 of Marten's problem) or they do know but don't have the guts to do it and fail (the other 1/2 of Martens' problem.) This is the thing about dreams: they're compelling. A real dream is one you don't have any choice about following. By that standard Marten doesn't have any dreams yet. He gave up his guitar to follow his ex across the country, and that derailed him. Maybe he'll get back on track, join a band and experience total failure or spectacular success: either one would be better for him than just drifting.
Semi-relevant aside on creepy barbers: in the '80's my regular barber was an ex-Nazi (born in 1920, Hitler Youth, the whole deal) who after the war served in the French Foreign Legion, was captured at Dien Bien Phu and was one of the 1/3 or so of the 10,000 prisoners captured by the Viet Minh who survived. Nice old coot, born at the wrong time and systematically brainwashed into a monster who got to go to hell and repent of his sins while still alive...
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