Sometimes I go through a blue period. I can't write. I can't think. I just sit around and let the little black rain clouds develop over my head. When this happens, I like to close myself off from people. I'm surly and irritable. I'm overly sensitive about things. I just want to sit and watch TV and eat jelly beans with a bag over my head.
And so I like to counter it by being extra dramatic about how I feel. If someone disagrees with me, I say things like, "Fine. We'll see how you like it when I go read Sylvia Plath in my bathtub with an electric pencil sharpener," or "I'm going to go take this entire bottle of calcium supplements." Sometimes I walk down to the East River with my pockets full of heavy things, like encyclopedias.
Or I watch videos like this one.
I'm going to go eat some canned goods that might be past their expiration dates. FAREWELL, cruel world!
23 comments:
Me too.
Though I like to eat pumpkin shaped peanut butter cups with a blanket draped over my entire body.
So apropos! For moods & days like these I also recommend: American Splendor, sparkling wine, period literary dramas & 6 ft. under reruns. No I'm not talking about this past weekend. At all. Please pass the bottle of multi-vitamins. I'm going to crush them up & snort them under the stairs. With the worms.
Why am i yoda?! wtf?! doesn't matter anyway. Nobody knows me. Guess I really am going to eat some worms. Or some cheese. Shit.
@amy: Oh, dude. I always lay under my blanket to have a temper tantrum. It's awesome.
@yoda: Go eat some worms you will.
teenage suicide! don't do it!
Apropos in your twenties as well, obvs.
nadarine: You don't understand me! Nobody does! I'm going to go write a poem about it.
i totally agree about the period pieces. i was in a funk recently and got over it by watching zeffirelli's romeo and juliet. today's version of tragedy is a show where a mother drives by a van her kidnapped child is being held in. sucks.
@peach: Maybe I need to have one of those 5-hour Pride and Prejudice marathons.
Might I recommend the BBC's Bleak House! amazing! dark! mysterious! disease! lost love! murder! alcoholics!
it's got it all.
@theguv: The one with Gillian Anderson or the one with Diana Rigg? Apparently they've done it twice.
@Mme Mayor - I love those P&P marathons. Room with a View is also excellent for those moods, as it just makes you more miserable because you wish you were in Italy.
And I haven't seen either Bleak House, but the new Northanger Abbey is pretty wonderful.
Ugh, I know this feeling too well. And usually I make it worse by listening to depressing music.
I have posted this before, but I can't NOT laugh when I watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0UdP5oEn68
I highly recommend it.
@msdirector: Also extremely helpful: reading Lemony Snicket books. They are like an annoying person who makes faces at you until you laugh.
sigourney: I have to admit, that made me laugh pretty hard.
when i am in a bad mood, i put on my scariest face, roll my eyes, eat sour patch kids until my tongue bleeds, and write letters ranting and raving to the mayor. she always responds in kind.
@jody!: Speaking of sour things, did you find me any jelly beans???????? DID YOU????
Don't tell everybody or they will all want a mayoral penpal. :)
I have a better YouTube video for blue days.
@t.c.: That was a good one. But it's no...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A
I saw that one, but though I'm very impressed with the impersonations, they're not original muppets. Plus Danny Boy simply made me laugh more.
I would have less temper tantrums if they weren't so much fun. I like to thrash around for about 60 seconds for extra effect.
fitforafemme: Sometimes it feels really good to just let it all out.
Good for people to know.
People should read this.
@marissa: I think so too. :)
Post a Comment