The reflection embodied in that quotation makes me want to quote the following, from an NY Times article on art-metal:
When Atsuo, the single-named singer-drummer for the sludgy Japanese post-metal band Boris, was asked recently in the online magazine radcompany.net about the influence of Satan on the band's work, he gave a predictably high-minded answer, engaging the question's absurdity - heavy metal's Satanic influence is one of the genre's great clichés - and then trumping it. "It's simple to talk about Satan as a symbol, but it's important to consider the deeper meaning of the symbol," he said in one of his rare interviews to be translated into English. "To me, the Devil is not a symbol, but a moment that touches on morals. The moment when a person changes - that is the Devil."
Something similar happened to me in an infant CPR class -- we were instructed to slap the dummy infant's back firmly and repeatedly. When I did, the head of mine popped off and rolled away.
I think the instructor thought ill of me for giggling.
Ahh, the Japanese. So incomprehensible. Their language is nearly untranslatable. (In that when you translate anything with a philosophical bent to it, it ends up sounding like nonsense in English.)
"I felt something, but it also gave me something of a guilt trip, and I was asking myself, ‘What am I doing here?' and I guess at that point I got completely turned off."
Lesson learned: avoid self-examination while fucking your silicone doll.
"Hey, at least he's not claiming it's better than a real woman"
Insert joke here about the value of relationships, accompanied by Roxy Music lyrics and Indie movie reference. Apologize for predictability.
But clicked the link and all I can say is:"Bangs!" I hate myself for the reaction without quite knowing why, but must repeat:"Bangs!" I am talking about the haircuts, for one-track commenters.
Japanese philosophy: Nishitani's "Religion and Nothingness" is the best thing I've read on Heidegger, and one of the best on Nietzsche.
Richard Thompson's "Psycho Street" (on "Rumor and Sigh") includes a guy who divorced his wife to marry an inflatable doll, and three years later divorced his inflatable doll in order to marry a different inflatable doll.
The reflection embodied in that quotation makes me want to quote the following, from an NY Times article on art-metal:
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:13 PM
This was awesome: "After I undressed her, I was upset to see that her head hadn't been properly screwed on."
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:32 PM
Something similar happened to me in an infant CPR class -- we were instructed to slap the dummy infant's back firmly and repeatedly. When I did, the head of mine popped off and rolled away.
I think the instructor thought ill of me for giggling.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:35 PM
Ahh, the Japanese. So incomprehensible. Their language is nearly untranslatable. (In that when you translate anything with a philosophical bent to it, it ends up sounding like nonsense in English.)
Posted by pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:39 PM
Something similar happened to me in an infant CPR class
I'm glad this comment took the direction it did, because for a couple of miliseconds I was getting ready to be really, really disturbed.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:42 PM
Re: 1:
Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy,
We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.
ATM.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:47 PM
I think that Boston College can go all the way.
Posted by bill | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:47 PM
5 - Tia wins! That made my day.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:52 PM
"I felt something, but it also gave me something of a guilt trip, and I was asking myself, ‘What am I doing here?' and I guess at that point I got completely turned off."
Lesson learned: avoid self-examination while fucking your silicone doll.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 3:43 PM
No, just while fucking someone else's silicone doll.
Posted by Ttam R. | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 3:47 PM
With your own, a wholesome and meaningful relationship may be developed.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 3:48 PM
With AI these dolls will soon be able to talk andhold conversations.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 4:24 PM
Silicone dolls are for weaklings. Real men make it with silicon dolls.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 4:52 PM
8 gets it exactly right.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 5:02 PM
"Hey, at least he's not claiming it's better than a real woman"
Insert joke here about the value of relationships, accompanied by Roxy Music lyrics and Indie movie reference. Apologize for predictability.
But clicked the link and all I can say is:"Bangs!" I hate myself for the reaction without quite knowing why, but must repeat:"Bangs!" I am talking about the haircuts, for one-track commenters.
Posted by bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 6:50 PM
Roxy Music lyrics
I was listening to "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" the other day and it reminded me of the Realdoll thread.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 6:53 PM
Did you guys check out the comment spam at the bottom of the Tokyo Times thread? Pretty trippy.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 7:27 PM
In that when you translate anything with a philosophical bent to it, it ends up sounding like nonsense in English.
Probably it sounds like nonsense in Japanese too. The trick is, not to let on to foreigners.
Posted by chris | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 11:17 PM
Japanese philosophy: Nishitani's "Religion and Nothingness" is the best thing I've read on Heidegger, and one of the best on Nietzsche.
Richard Thompson's "Psycho Street" (on "Rumor and Sigh") includes a guy who divorced his wife to marry an inflatable doll, and three years later divorced his inflatable doll in order to marry a different inflatable doll.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 03-17-06 7:32 AM