So I've Been Reading Bellow's "Seize the Day" And It's Got Me Depressed

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Cause I'm basically just like the guy in the book and I'm talentless and I'm not very smart and I'm washed up and and and, plus I talked to a girl I was friends with in high school and now she's a mom and I ran into another girl I knew in high school and she's a mom too and everything's all goddamn "Disco 2000" and my ex-girlfriend was right, it is impossible to take me seriously and what have I done with my life, nothing that's what, just like the guy in "Seize the Day", all is ruin, all is ruin.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 21 November 2002 06:56 (twenty-three years ago)

*good grief* then again I think about Michael Vick and everything's rainbows and gold pots.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 21 November 2002 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

please ignore me

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 21 November 2002 06:58 (twenty-three years ago)

james, you are my secret ilx crush

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 21 November 2002 07:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Some secret!

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 21 November 2002 07:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't listen to Bellow. Everyone gets in trouble when they do.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 21 November 2002 07:07 (twenty-three years ago)

:-O

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 21 November 2002 07:09 (twenty-three years ago)

seize the day = fuck up big-time

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Mental note not to read this book ever, because I already feel quite enough like that, thank you.

― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

all is ruin

― gershy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:20 (eighteen years ago)

Does the fact that I love this book so much mean I like to wallow in loserdom?

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

It means you love to wallow in great prose.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

I think I've read it at least four times and this is making me want to read it again right now.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

this book is devastating, just devastating.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:37 (thirteen years ago)

ha i've done a complete reversal in sentiments and outlook from those first two posts (had some help on the second one). and it only took ten years. this book is still great though, bellow's an all time god.

― balls, Sunday, 13 May 2012 16:58 (thirteen years ago)

This is the only one of his novels I love, although the novella "What Kind of Day Did You Have" is close.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 May 2012 19:26 (thirteen years ago)

apparently there's a film of this book with robin williams as tommy wilhelm? i can actually kind of see it.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 14 May 2012 07:32 (thirteen years ago)

apparently there's a film of this book with robin williams

for all sad words of tongue and pen

― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 May 2012 08:16 (thirteen years ago)

There is. Maybe it was made for TV, PBS? I had a roommate who worked on it

― The Unbassful Serpent (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 May 2012 10:23 (thirteen years ago)

I pictured a much more manful man as Tommy Wilhelm. Someone with a very square jaw and mildly handsome but not exceptionally so. A little disheveled, like maybe thinning hair slightly overdue for a cut. strong frame but a few too many pounds. Sort of a baby in the body of a man -- someone who looks like he could be powerful but is weak. Maybe the descriptions contradict this - haven't read it in a while.

― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 May 2012 11:19 (thirteen years ago)

The PBS adap is good, one of Williams' least Williamsy endeavors.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 May 2012 14:29 (thirteen years ago)

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