I love getting ****ing hammered annihilated drunk, but only with my friends, never at a party. Weird **** happens at parties.

At one party, I once passed out, and woke up in a completely different house than the one I was at. But the weird thing was that alot of the furniture from the previous house was in there with us. The only conclusion I can come up with is that somewhere in the middle of the night, some drunk ***hole got the great idea to go to someone else's house, and some other drunk and probably stoned ***hole thought to bring the furniture with them, the couches and chairs and half the bar. I don't know if I just don't remember going there or if someone carried me or what. But I got the hell out of there fast(turns out the house I woke up in was just down the street from the other one).

And another time I went with a friend, and we passed out. I woke up with a bloody gash on my head and my buddy had a fat lip. Turned out we got too drunk and started to fight each other. We don't even remember why, but another guy there told us we were just duking it out...

Weird.

LOL. Sounds like you black out pretty easily.. Makes for funny story though

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Originally posted by Evan Kubota:
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Precisely.

I am also aware of how important interaction is, yet I was disagreeing with the idea that partying is the only way to facilitate social interaction.

While I agree that social interaction and the ability to talk and work with people is necessary in any aspect of life, walking into a party does not suddenly bestow upon you these wonderful abilities. Parties are not "necessary" for anything other than having a good time. As far as inspiration goes, they already make movies inspired by parties, they're called Eurotrip, Old School, and the myriad of other not funny teen comedies that circle around that lifestyle. Personally, that's boring to me. Get inspiration from somewhere else, or your movies will be about parties, and that is not my cup of tea at all.

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Get inspiration from somewhere else, or your movies will be about parties, and that is not my cup of tea at all.

Amen

I was thinking more along the lines of meeting nuts and getting thrown into some unpredictable chaotic situations. You never know where the night will take you when you go out for a night of drinking. It could end up good or a total disaster. To me, partying is not at all like those teen comedies.

I don't mean to write about parties directly, but use those chaotic experiences as tools to use. It's all about getting those experiences under your belt. There are other ways of getting them but I guarantee you won't get into as much drama and meet as many unpredictable people as you would by going out there in the middle of this chaos.

Partying could be going camping with your friends and taking some mescaline. It could be getting smashed with your boys and going downtown to see where the night will take you then ending up at some orgy with some chick getting DPed. You could end up having an interesting conversation with a Mongolian tranny or a 60 year old hooker. Your best friend Fabricio could end up throwing molotov cocktails at cars in a rabid fit of psychosis. You might get held up at gunpoint by a hoodlum while Ricardo was trying to score some marijuana. You might even soap a giant fountain in a public square at 3 in the morning. You could get arrested, or hell, you could get laid. It's all part of the gamble. People are uninhibited when they're intoxicated. It's a great way to examine the human condition.

If anyone here actually has a friend named Fabricio, their whole life must be one giant party.

Mind if I paraphrase that?

"Intoxication as uninhibited examination of the human condition."

Brilliant.

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Get inspiration from somewhere else, or your movies will be about parties...

So? Best party movie ever? A Clockwork Orange.

I hate parties.

I prefer to be alone most of the time. I don't feel the need to go to parties and force myself to interact with other people. I know how other people talk, and what they do. Going to parties doesn't, in my opinion, won't help you write better.

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So? Best party movie ever? A Clockwork Orange.

Somehow I doubt that Anthony Burgess was inspired to write A Clockwork Orange by going to parties.

now i havent read this entire post, but from what i did read it seems like most people are confused why parties are a good thing. it's not about going to get messed up (thats some of it) but i like going out to parties for many reasons, like meeting new people or running into people i havent seen in a while or watching fueds, and tons of other stuff that adds character. its great place to see how people act around a crowd, plus we're all young what else are we suppose to do, you only can be young and rebelious for a little while longer, why waste it by watching yet another tarantino movie in your room on a friday night.

so going to parties did help me write better. because before that all i expirienced was watching movies in my room, so when i went to write thats the only thing i could draw expiriences from so everything i wrote was a cheap rip off.

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Somehow I doubt that Anthony Burgess was inspired to write A Clockwork Orange by going to parties.

Noone said he was, however, everyone knows Burgess traveled all over the world(good way to get experiences), was into speed and opium an advocate of pot. He was also good friends with William S Burroughs(HUGE partier), not to mention Burgess was a sexaholic and banged women from all over the world. Burgess knew how to party. Just because you party doesn't mean you can't be an intellectual prolific artist.

Now maybe he didn't party hard, but he was around characters like Will Burroughs who I'm sure made their way into his stories. I mean how the hell do you think he comes up with this sh*t? Part imagination, part experience. Point being he was out there meeting nuts, banging chicks and not squirreled away reading all the time.

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Mushrooms explain everything. I'm so high.

Burgess wrote the caveman language in Quest for Fire. How kickass is that?

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because before that all i expirienced was watching movies in my room, so when i went to write thats the only thing i could draw expiriences from so everything i wrote was a cheap rip off.

That what I be screamin. All this art-imitating-art only fuels the expanding American hyperrealism. We're building on hollow ground here.

Kafka rarely, if ever, left his bed, and still had a sharp grasp of the human mind. You don't *have* to go to parties to write well

im not saying you have to go to parties to write well, im just saying it helped me and i had some fun because im 19 and thats just what 19 year olds do, its part of life.

For someone who goes to lots of parties and feels that they've benefited from them in some way, it's very easy to talk down to people who don't party. It's easy to say that they live sheltered lives and don't get out and experience enough. For example, I spent the entirety of the past nine months in various foreign countries by myself, and I had more "life experiences" than many people have over the course of their entire lives. I could easily say that everyone here, including those who go to parties, don't get out enough, just because I naturally compare it all to my own life. I know what I've done and I know what I've gotten out of it, and it makes me feel stronger and wiser than all of the people who didn't do what I did (I'm not saying this is true, I'm just trying to make a point). But the problem is, I don't know what everyone else did and how they learned or benefitted from it, so how can I truly draw any comparison?

The point is, people learn and grow in different ways. If someone feels that they benefit from the reflection that the peace and quiet of solitary confinement allows, then let them do that. If someone prefers to gain a wider perspective on people by going to parties and losing control, then let them do that. If someone prefers to pack their bags and go to some terrifyingly unfamiliar place and live immersed in some terrifyingly unfamiliar culture, then let them do that.

All people are different. There is no right or wrong way to build character or gain perspective on life. Everyone has the right to row their own boat through whatever floats it, and nobody has the right to tell them that they're doing it wrong.

Kafka is one of my favorite writers, but I would never ever compare myself to him, and I would never ever want to live the life he did, even if it meant producing brilliant, hilarious work.

I suppose I forgot about the Kafkas and Dostoevskys who often wrote entirely introspectively. Hard to translate their words into film, maybe, and hard to imagine a screenplay written in the same style as one of their stories. Actually, I've made three shorts based on Kafka's stuff -- The Student, Hands, and Unmasking a Confidence Trickster -- but they're mostly intended for gag purposes.

Josh, sorry if you felt I was ever talking down to you. I never meant that, and I tried to convey it in my posts. I use "Loser" in jest, I promise.



Losers.