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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch *DELETED* [Re: VivaLaMushie]
#19271581 - 12/13/13 04:42 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
#19274584 - 12/14/13 12:31 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm not feeling the spark today. I was going to write the profile for Pedro: the transient illegal immigrant who drives you around in his van, but it just wasn't flowing... not to mention it's a personality that's been beat to death by modern media.
I'll try to get back at this later.
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
#19274641 - 12/14/13 12:51 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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i'd totally kick it with mr.couch
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse] 3
#19474339 - 01/25/14 10:34 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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5. Away Boy Away Boy sits down on the couch. He’s left a strange and unnecessarily large gap between himself and you. He takes out his phone and begins to pluck away at the screen out of instinct, as if he’s home in his room on a quiet Monday night. The only problem is that it’s not a quiet Monday night; it’s Friday and the rest of the room is engaged in happy, clumsy, conversation while Away Boy continues to distance himself from the situation. Trying to make conversation with this man is a challenge, and squeezing multiple sentences out of him is a feat worthy of a trophy. He listens to music that no one else understands, he’s dating a girl who doesn’t know his middle name, and people constantly forget he’s in the room. His mom stopped asking how his day was on his fifth birthday, and his dad had resigned before he was born. Alarmingly, none of this fazes Away Boy, for he maintains a perpetually stoned headspace; a soft cushion to rest against at the end of a long and empty day. The problem with Away Boy is that he can’t put himself in the moment, for he is too focused on his insecurities and potential problems of the future. He constantly finds himself on the outskirts of a social landscape, and you’ve been trying to bring him inside for months. After all, he is a modest and honest person, despite his social shortcomings. You get a suspicion that he could really benefit from some MDMA, but have never voiced it. You know as well as he does that drugs are just a temporary patch to Away Boy’s problems, and what he needs is something more sustaining. Away Boy stands to profit from a life-changing trip, but he knows that will never happen. He simply can’t let it all go, so to speak. Instead of doing drugs with Away Boy, you should talk to him in a sober setting, get lunch with him, and get him to open up to you. Who knows? Maybe one day someone will make it over that moat he has been digging around himself since he was born.
*Edit: This one was painful to type, by the way.*
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
#19474363 - 01/25/14 10:39 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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Awesome thread OP, but it made me sad because your description of "The Martyr" practically describes me to the t.
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Everlong]
#19474376 - 01/25/14 10:42 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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Thanks!
It's ok if you can relate, I can too. A lot of people have several of these characters inside of them, that's why I thought it'd be interesting to put words to them.
I actually had a trip last night where I specifically remember going "I'm becoming more and more like The Martyr". Set me in the right direction and now i'm moving towards a more healthy day-to-day.
Safe travels.
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
#19474393 - 01/25/14 10:46 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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Nice thread
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Beanhead]
#19474399 - 01/25/14 10:48 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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These kinda fit my circle... kinda but little things are too specific on them?
How did you come up with this just stereotyping your friend circle?
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Lizard Eyes] 2
#19474412 - 01/25/14 10:52 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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I'm basically deconstructing every acquaintance & friend i've ever done drugs with, finding similar traits, and grouping them into exaggerated forms. It's working well so far, but some of them will inherently come across as more shallow or lower quality than others.
I like how it's going, but it is hard to dig these generalizations out. It gets easier every time I get high or trip with my friends though 
I'm an analyzer, and this is me attempting to sharpen my craft.
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse] 2
#19474421 - 01/25/14 10:55 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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Mouse you forgot the mean sarcastic ass/Dickhead that tells the others to shut the fuck up or just plain punches them dead in the face. He's my favorite.
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: r00tuuu123]
#19474424 - 01/25/14 10:55 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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r00tuuu123 said: Mouse you forgot the mean sarcastic ass/Dickhead that tells the others to shut the fuck up or just plain punches them dead in the face. He's my favorite.
He's coming.
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
#19474442 - 01/25/14 10:59 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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ModestMouse said:
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r00tuuu123 said: Mouse you forgot the mean sarcastic ass/Dickhead that tells the others to shut the fuck up or just plain punches them dead in the face. He's my favorite.
He's coming.
YAY I gotta hear this. This thread is great so far.
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
#19474475 - 01/25/14 11:06 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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ModestMouse said: I'm basically deconstructing every acquaintance & friend i've ever done drugs with, finding similar traits, and grouping them into exaggerated forms. It's working well so far, but some of them will inherently come across as more shallow or lower quality than others.
I like how it's going, but it is hard to dig these generalizations out. It gets easier every time I get high or trip with my friends though 
I'm an analyzer, and this is me attempting to sharpen my craft.
You got ones comeing for the, Dr. Jekly/Mr. Hyde drunk that is overly nice and self concious when he is sober to "make up" for the times he fucks up while drunk or high.
Or Mr. never fucked up could always use another beer/bump/cap/tab/roll/pill/whippet/sip/hit and never appears to be more than mildly intoxicated.
Also the unapologetic fuck up.
Those are 3 big ones I see in my friend group. But don't listen to me this is your list and your thread not trying to high jack, I just really like where your going with this.
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: r00tuuu123] 1
#19474482 - 01/25/14 11:08 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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That Op is awesome.It would be a good movie intro You seem to have what it takes to be a writer MM
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Vsnares.Zappa] 1
#19474513 - 01/25/14 11:14 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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Away Boy hit me hard. Too much to relate to in him. 
Wonderful work, Modest Mouse. I thoroughly enjoy everything that you have written. Please, please keep this up.
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I feel these characters should be involved in a game of clue at the end.
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: dodgem] 2
#19474622 - 01/25/14 11:39 PM (10 years, 5 days ago) |
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this thread gets deeper and deeper with every character added, keep it up modest mouse it is really rather eye opening
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: nksfo5]
#19476913 - 01/26/14 01:41 PM (10 years, 4 days ago) |
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Love it! Keep it up. Very well written, I feel like I can relate to a lot of these people in my own life.
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: mike12] 2
#19481781 - 01/27/14 03:04 PM (10 years, 3 days ago) |
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Favorited 
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