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>He also wasn't positioning himself out as some super intellectual. He self-identified as being simply a, "dark poet". The latter is more pretentious, in my vi
by prvc 5y ago
>He also wasn't positioning himself out as some super intellectual. He self-identified as being simply a, "dark poet".
The latter is more pretentious, in my view.
- SyzygistSix 5y agoI'd prefer a world with poets, comedians, and artists, however pretentious they may be, rather than an unpretentious world without them. You remind me of the simple folk of the land, the common clay of the West...
- justinator 5y agoIt's not pretentious if it's backed up by skill. The way he could deliver lines that he practiced and workshopped for literally a decade was masterful. Saying that that isn't hard is what's pretentious - go up to an audience - a sometimes adversarial audience, and tell a joke sometime. And he didn't say he was a, "little dark poet" while sitting around in a comfy chair with some literally intellectual, it was part of a bit. He said it while bending down, looking through a small opening made between his thumb and forefinger, with a nasally screech in his voice. Like, "this is all I am, this little turd". And we're all that little turds too, that he's looking at, through that opening. That's good stuff. Anyways, "It's all just a ride"