Ah, I'm a wreck

swimmerguy's picture

Just watched Pink Floyd The Wall today, for the first time.
If you don't know, basically it's about this guy named Pink who's like a rock star, and it has very little dialogue, most of the movie is told through the cinematics and music, it tells of how Pink's father died in I think it was WW2, and then lived with his overprotective mother, and then he went to a terrible boarding school, and then grew up and became a rock star and other shit happened.
Anyway, the movie's full of metaphors, the biggest one of course being the Wall, which stands for self-induced alienation, and how he gets stuck on the other side of the wall and can't connect to anyone.

Anyway, I felt like I identified with that a little too much. I mean, Pink spends a lot of the movie just sitting with his eyes unfocused in front of some shitty TV, he seems to have millions of them, playing some odd program on it that you don't really know what it is. Like he just sits there and thinks for most of the movie, in various places and positions, and doesn't talk to anyone, usually with a bottle in hand.
And during break, that's really what I'm kinda like, just sitting there doing nothing, with no one to talk to. I mean, our house is big, it's so easy to just get up in my room and sit here and then no one ever comes up, I just sit here holed up.
And so while I'm not nearly quite as fucked up as Pink was, yet, because I can still connect to people, I think, it feels like, I dunno.

About the bottle in hand part, I realized, in a little thought experiment, what if I had absolutely nothing to drink until further notice?
I think I could do it, but the thought gives me a little bit of despair, which is bad. The point I start connecting to drinking is not a good place.
I'm so fucking pathetic.

Uh, but yeah, not much happening. Still procrastinating the fuck out of homework. Oh well. Going to swimming every day at 7 AM, even tomorrow, Christmas Eve.

Uh, yeah, kinda not a whole lot to say. I need to go to bed if I'm to be able to get up tomorrow, so g'night guys, perhaps I'll be on tomorrow :P

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hellonwheels's picture

Chad...

I can totally understand that point...been there many times myself...never knew that was truly the story behind the wall, but now that you say it...totally makes sense. we all create a wall at somepoint. I know Ihave...and it can lead down a terribly sad, lonely and drunken road...I am worried about your alcohol choices lately, chad...reminds me of me when I was your age...and by the time I was 20, i was a full blown drunk.

don't go down that road, please?

hell

Mental wounds not healing, driving me insane, i'm goin' off the rails on a crazy train- the ozzman

Yamamoto's picture

Try combining those

Try combining those achocalic choices with medication that reacts with... and then you end up like me... speaking of which maybe I need to not be drinking this So Co... :(

hellonwheels's picture

ugh....

SoCo? Really? can't you drink something at least a littler better? lol. that stuff will kill ya.

Mental wounds not healing, driving me insane, i'm goin' off the rails on a crazy train- the ozzman

Yamamoto's picture

Dude it is the only stuff I

Dude it is the only stuff I can drink, becuase really it is the only acholic beverage that I enjoy the taste of egough that I can drink it to the point of being drunk. Plus I kind of don't really fear death... '

So dont fucking tell me what to do or not to do... got it :@

elph's picture

I can understand...

...your desire to feel a bit more sociable... to be less shy... to be temporarily released from any personal demons that may be harassing you...

But... a specific objective of becoming truly drunk (+ a quite likely hangover and self-criticism/regret)?

After your first experience of being truly drunk... Why would you want to revisit that experience?

RainbowTime's picture

it seems like everyone on

it seems like everyone on oasis is a pink flyod fan

i only drink irn bru and the occassional blood of my enemies

Yamamoto's picture

I am not a pink floyd fan...

I am not a pink floyd fan...

swimmerguy's picture

I think

everyone is a Pink Floyd fan, they just don't know it yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt5ghXdq6Z0&safe_search=on

Yamamoto's picture

Nope... I don't enjoy Pink

Nope... I don't enjoy Pink Floyd... sorry...

Dracofangxxx's picture

I don't like 'em either :P

I mean, I don't hate them, they just don't prick my ears up if I hear them :P
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That's redick!

elph's picture

Very Impressive!

I could become a convert (especially 2nd part, below)...