screw you guys, I'm going home

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Do you ever lose all hope for the outside world? Do you ever get the sudden feeling that nothing good ever happens outside your own home, or ever will? Then this thread is for you.

Hermits, mount up. Tell us about the unpleasant events that turn you away from society. Tell us about the asshats that ruin your evenings out. Tell us about the great moments at home. Let it all out.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate people.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay.

My home has: my bed, my boyfriend, FOOD, backgammon, Scrabble, a Playstation, AIM, decks, two duvets, all my CDs and all my books. And no students. Why *wouldn't* I hate the outside world?

Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Lets see....

Once I passed the age of 24 I started staying in more often. I was never big on the bar scene anyways. Plus the bars around here and the patrons of said bars are all giant asshats. Baseball caps on backwards, chest sticking out, muscle shirt, gold chain wearing shitheads. Everyone is always looking to fight for some stupid reason or another.

Im 29 now and have been to a bar twice in 6 months. Plus, i get tired around 10pm now and thats it. And the fact the drinking for two days in a row now does not happen ever anymore. One night of boozing and two days of recovery.

At home I have a wife, a giant tv and dvd player with surround sound, an extensive DVD and CD collection, playstation 2, new pc and can buy a 12 pack of beer for the cost of two drinks.

Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha. I am King Hermit. I finally had to have near-human contact this weekend when somebody was leaving a msg on my machine that they were going to come over and check to see if I was okay, since nobody had heard from in about a week. So I scrambled to the phone.
"yeah, yeah, I'm fine. I was just, uh, really, really busy lately. Really busy. And I forgot to check my answering machine. Oops. Ha ha. Don't come over."

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, Why don't you want Oops to come over? ha ha.

Normally, home is GREAT for me, but right now it's just lonely. We painted the walls back to white since we're moving out, so it's blah. Plus, I'm packing up everything, so there's not much left to play with 'cept the good ol' kitties! I want my boyfriend back.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

there are a lot of nice people out there. but maybe they're too dam nice and afraid to speak up more.

stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm very worried
about my brother and his
increased hermitage

but maybe this is
just because I have to have
people around me

Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

One bad trip to Walmart sent me into a nervous breakdown for a good 12 hours.

Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm almost to the point where I'm denying I know people that I clearly do now (i.e., they're my mother) to their face.

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you respond to the "Kick your mother in the Teeth" thread?

Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know you.

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Every day I think 'yeah, I'm going to call x when I get home, that'll be great' and every day when I walk in the door I look at the phone, get the fear, and listen to The Archers instead.

Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit, I am a religious hermit. I rarely venture out of my cave. If I do, it's to go places by myself. Some say I'm anti-social. I say "Cheers!" Seriously, I sometimes wish I were more extroveted, but then I take a nap and I'm fine.

Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 1 December 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, where do i begin?

bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 December 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I like staying in, I'm always baffled by people who say things about how they have to be out every night or every other night, or they go crazy. Sure, I like to be out when it's day light, but at night not so much.

jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 December 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

When I used to go to parties (particularly in the summertime) I would take off for a couple of hours and just like walk around someone else's neighbourhood. In London Ont, I had police come up to me twice and ask me what I was doing, walking around after 10 p.m. I had to show my i.d. and everything. It was weird, like Ray Bradbury.

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 1 December 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack Kerouac's Rules of Spontaneous Prose

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 1 December 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes I leave the house but the mental exertion that's required is getting more and more taxing as I get older. I don't think I qualify for Meals on Wheels so I just about hit the roof when I found out the local Chinese restaurant delivers. "We Delivery" it says on the flyer. God Bless the Chinese.

lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 1 December 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I could get to dig being a hermit. It might be a refuge from bullshit. But I don't hate people... well, I'm trying not to, but sometimes the bullshit gets too much.

Perhaps you need to embrace the bullshit to 'win friends and influence people.' That's me fucked, then.

ChrissieH (chrissie1068), Monday, 1 December 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I am lonely, therefore I go out.
I need someone to stay in with :-(

mei (mei), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to prefer to stay in some. Now I stay in all the time, which is getting old because I'm fundamentally a somewhat-social person. I like my own company, luckily.

JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

At home: 4-track, drums, geetars, synthesizers, BASS, beer, food, coffee, bong, dvds, cds, couch, bed, shower, control over thermostat, blankee, etc.

Out: assclowns, the aloof, elitism, cold winds, heartbreakers, car wrecks, police, stubborn ignorance, "patriotism", coked-up shitfaces, even colder winds, hydroplaning, hate, fear, bullshit

I'm sorry, I'm in a shitty mood today.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I like staying in. but I love to go see at least 4-5 gigs a month. or watch a couple of movies every now and again.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Brian Wilson to thread!

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't stay in as much if I had a job and some money to spend. Unfortunately, leaving the house costs money in this town.

hstencil, Monday, 1 December 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Amen, Stence! Tis true down here (FL), too. Tis a shame, since I don't doubt there's much I'm missing out on---simply cause I can't afford to go see it.

Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this is my favourite ever thread, you rule Nick! I so relate to y'all. Inside has everything I want: food, booze, boi, gamecube, DVD player, PC, music, kitty, bong (tho no weed at present boo). Outside requires effort, and I get so tired.

Like Lawrence, I find it all a mental strain, even being perky/chatty around my own best friends for gods sake. I end up getting drunk to cover my strain/shyness and regret it hatefully later.

I love having people over, but they're all starting to get the shits with me cos I never go to theirs. Its always "come back to mine everyone" and unless I bribe people with roast lamb dinners and booz, no one does. But I like cooking roast lamb. And any time any of you hermits are down Melbourne way, come drop by mine for roast lamb, some cones and like, Donnie Darko on the DVD. We can all sit in our own hermitage =)

Trayce (trayce), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

no way, Nichole - in New York waking up in the morning costs like 5 dollars, there's a tax or something. Whereas in Florida you are free to breathe in the sweet Gulf breezes and grey panther wheezes. Cost of living is much lower there.

hstencil, Monday, 1 December 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd stay in (even) more, except I live in a shithole in the worst area in the city, and I'd get to hear more of the glue-sniffers enjoying themselves on my doorstep. The only remaining option is retreating inside my own head.

dave q, Monday, 1 December 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i prefer to go out, but as i age, the energy level requires that i take more naps. also, my money comes & go. still, while the house has its many accroutements, getting out is still needed to see the rock shows.

Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 1 December 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Cost of living is much lower there.

Stence, the breezes are the only things down here that are free. If you need to eat, that will cost you. Need clothes? Ch-ching, etc. Need to drive to your job (if you've got one)? Petrol is damn high.

Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 1 December 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I am one of the most introverted people you will ever meet. Yet I'm fed up with being a hermit and wish I had a nearby friend with whom I could talk to face-to-face without having to make plans two weeks in advance.

j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Last night I went home, cleaned the fuck out of my house, fixed a toilet, watched the Labrynth DVD, drank red wine, learned how to play "Thriller" on my bass and subsequently jammed out on it 'til my throat hurt, drank another glass of wine, smoked up and read a book called Vurt until I passed out on the couch. I'm in a much better mood today.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Last night I went home, ate a bagel with salmonesque cream cheese (or is it spread?), checked to see if my hot water was back on, paid my rent. My landlady gave me a chocolate, "It's Christmas you know."
I nodded silently and backed out of her suite. Hoofed across to my wing of the building and put the chain on the door. Eventually, my breathing returned to normal. Unplugged the phone and wrote a review of a comic book.

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Petrol" is called gasoline in Florida.

Allyzay, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, maybe if my house had a grrlllll...

mei (mei), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah but Nichole I doubt rent in Florida is anything like it is here. Plus if you're living rent-free...

hstencil, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...
Bye!

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 8 February 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I was only this oissed offf because i was suppsed to have gone to seee VHS or beta that night. They'll be here next friday, so finally the DEMEAONS CAN REST!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 February 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)


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