TMIT: ...AND PENNYWISE IS AN IT

where does Pennywise come from? Stephen King explained it once but it was long and convoluted, i listened but dozed off cos my ear-liquids were in imbalance. trailing off to the sweet strains of "Human" by Human League...…...when i arose i was in the most liberal country on Earth, my half-country, Dutchland...

1. what do you think are the best and worst parts of human nature?

human nature is awful and irredeemable.

except for two songs, "Human Nature", both by Madonna and Michael Jackson.

the best part? when we finally TRANSCEND our humanity and become like the Major in Ghost In The Shell. how about some Compassionate Transhumanism? the best PART, then, obviously is the cyberbrain...

2. what is something terrifying that you came to accept as a fact of life?

i mean just watch The Shivering Truth from last night...getting trapped in your own MISSING poster...the thing is, once life ends, that's it...any meaning derived before you died is...well, just that, left in the past...

the first time i realized i was depressed i didn't have a name for it. but i felt so uncomfortable as the credits rolled on E.T., my first film, 5 years old. there was just something about the thing ending, the names whzzing by, the finality of that last name, knowing that there is a time when the movie-reality is no longer your reality. and more broadly, knowing there comes a time when all reality will no longer be your reality. that's when i aggressively started my campaign to always live in the past, to always hold onto '80s nostalgia for dear life...

also, there can't REALLY be a Facts of Life revival without Dana Plato...

3. what piece of media (book, tv show, movie...) changed the way you viewed the world? how?

WOW. this is me now. i mean to choose ONE would be like Othello, a minute to learn, a lifetime to master.

gotta think about this one...

a book which really changed things for me was 1984. cos it was the first book i read that felt important apart from being entertaining. but also the world depicted was just cool, my mind raced with all the dystopian trappings of gas, steam, and screen.

something like Star Trek: The Next Generation, it doesn't get much better than that, right? the scope of its landscape is as vast as the cosmos...and your imagination. we'll always wonder how Deep Space Nine would have been if it had been the vehicle for Ensign Ro...

Small Wonder, cos i remember i'd eat cardboard pizza to it like the cardboard in Vicki's back...

DuckTales gets all the shine and squawk but when i look at Gummi Bears i see my home...i was a Medieval page in a past life...the first woman i ever loved was Grammi Gummi...even back then i was into older women...

favorite film of all time? okay i've thought through this and i'm going with My Dinner With Andre. right? all art is storytelling. there's gotta be a Sesame Street remake of this in their youtube channel somewhere, cos Wallace Shawn already looks like a Muppet...

4. you must pick one

facebook/twitter

twitter is a cesspool. i don't get facebook, you can talk with actual real celebrities on Instagram...

cake/pie

i'm a skinny kid but i like cake. cake is just bread. not really into pie, even Dutch Apple. pecan pie scares me, it looks demonic.

swimming/sunbathing

as a goth my natural enemy is the sun. when i go to the beach i don't have to worry about social distancing, all the sunbathers stay away from me. sunbathing, like bad pop music, causes cancer...

nice car/nice home interior

i don't drive, my nerves won't let me. i met a nice interior-designer once. we bonded over New Order, good pop music. i wanted to date her but she was never around, she was always out delivering pizzas...

BONUS: if pressing a button meant you received 5 million dollars but it also killed 5 people somewhere in the world, would you press it?

now THIS is the Black Mirror script that should have been approved!!! not the one we're all living through now!!! i'd do it if it were 5 million and 1 dollars after tax. and only if i were one of the 5 people. and only if the 5 million went to saving the Amazon Rainforest...

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