The story, nay, the epic of Jaron ‘Jazz Jennings’ Bloshinsky will put even the most stoic man in mind of the words Brian Aldiss used to dismiss the works of John Wyndham, a British author active during the Cold War. Coining Wyndham’s works as ‘Cozy Catastrophes’, Aldiss noted that the protagonists in titles like The Day of The Triffids and The Kraken Wakes were typically spared from brutalities at the hands of world-ending killer plants and aquatic aliens whilst the population at large went blind or got dragged into the sea.
I am Jazz, then, is the Cozy Catastrophe turned upside down, where it is the world who can observe, with a pale look on its collective face, the unmitigated disaster of Jaron’s genitals being torn apart and reverse-engineered into a womb-like structure that can bring forth only Chernobyl-esque growths involving random eyes, teeth, and brain cells. From the luxury of armchairs and sofas, mankind witnesses this gargantuan horror whilst remaining thoroughly comfortable; the perfect inversion of the Wyndhamian Cozy Catastrophe.
Of course, our euphoria can only last for but a fleeting moment, for the day that Jaron births a nightmarish cephalopod creature to drag us all asunder approaches unabated.
Well, to give you a quick rundown, David Foster Wallace once wrote a piece about David Lynch. In the piece, he coined a new term: "Lynchian". Wallace described a Lynchian tone as "the unbelievably grotesque existing in a kind of union with the unbelievably banal."
He described a husband beating his 1950s housewife to death because she bought the wrong brand of peanut butter. "I told you to buy the JIF," he'd say as he's clobbering her to death. This, he said, would qualify as almost perfectly Lynchian.
I think "I Am Jazz" enters into Lynchian territory. The .webm above shows a simple domestic scene. The women look like average suburban moms. They're relaxing on the couch. One imagines they might be discussing casserole recipes when we cut to them. But it slowly dawns on us that in the living room, with placid expressions on their faces, they're talking about the woman's transvestite son's genitals.
Despite the obvious subtext and the producers' hope to normalize this horror, the average person is totally disgusted. Nevertheless, the viewer is fascinated. We're drawn further into this. The sheer naked horror of what they're saying, the blase quality with which they're saying it, it creates this brutal paradox that almost rapes the viewer's basic sense of what is decent.
regular driving guy
@LoveWinsFag
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Feb 18
the status quo may work fine for you & ppl you care to empathize with, but if a bunch of ppl see a need for change, there is one. If your proposed solution is “just stop talking abt this, everythings fine”— that’s your feeling, but it’s not a legitimate solution
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1 SnapshillBot 2019-02-20
You probably don't get bussy because you're the type of guy who fucking nails his dick to a board
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1 Coonass_alt 2019-02-20
here is a link to the newest jazz general on /tv/, give it a read if you've never done so, it may take a while to populate though
1 ManBearFridge 2019-02-20
I'm not autistic enough to understand any of this, but I enjoyed the breakdown of Sauron.
1 Coonass_alt 2019-02-20
im fascinated by the abject horror the contents of this thread provide.
1 trilateral1 2019-02-20
1 LongPostBot 2019-02-20
Posts like this is why I do Heroine.
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1 throwawayaccount_34 2019-02-20
You must have never seen any David Lynch films
1 ManBearFridge 2019-02-20
I love Twin Peaks. Does that count?
1 throwawayaccount_34 2019-02-20
I suppose so. Ever read anything by David Foster Wallace?
1 ManBearFridge 2019-02-20
I have not, but I'm getting more confused.
1 throwawayaccount_34 2019-02-20
Well, to give you a quick rundown, David Foster Wallace once wrote a piece about David Lynch. In the piece, he coined a new term: "Lynchian". Wallace described a Lynchian tone as "the unbelievably grotesque existing in a kind of union with the unbelievably banal."
He described a husband beating his 1950s housewife to death because she bought the wrong brand of peanut butter. "I told you to buy the JIF," he'd say as he's clobbering her to death. This, he said, would qualify as almost perfectly Lynchian.
I think "I Am Jazz" enters into Lynchian territory. The .webm above shows a simple domestic scene. The women look like average suburban moms. They're relaxing on the couch. One imagines they might be discussing casserole recipes when we cut to them. But it slowly dawns on us that in the living room, with placid expressions on their faces, they're talking about the woman's transvestite son's genitals.
Despite the obvious subtext and the producers' hope to normalize this horror, the average person is totally disgusted. Nevertheless, the viewer is fascinated. We're drawn further into this. The sheer naked horror of what they're saying, the blase quality with which they're saying it, it creates this brutal paradox that almost rapes the viewer's basic sense of what is decent.
1 LongPostBot 2019-02-20
Have you owned the libs yet?
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1 throwawayaccount_34 2019-02-20
Epic style
1 ManBearFridge 2019-02-20
Oh, that's a good explanation. Twin Peaks was not that.
1 KingWayneX 2019-02-20
After watching the second season of twin peaks I couldnt help but feel that I had been tricked into raping my own sense of what is decent.
1 RedditorsAreRetarts 2019-02-20
Are you saying the second season of twin peaks was bad?
1 KingWayneX 2019-02-20
I watched it twice and still couldnt figure out what they were trying to do.
1 TreLoon 2019-02-20
> hotlinking to 4chan and not an archive
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1 ElonMuskarr 2019-02-20
Lmao it got deleted
1 erect-or-set 2019-02-20
Jannies are super active on /tv/
The resulting thread wars are pretty funny
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2019-02-20
WHERE'S THE LIE?? 🤔🤔🤔
1 EasySchmitty 2019-02-20
☝️☝️☝️☝️
1 trilateral1 2019-02-20
the educated term is "lady noodle".
1 Protista_of_Peace 2019-02-20
That's a pretty big "if".
1 Dramatictuna 2019-02-20
I hope so 🤤
1 RobKaBobby 2019-02-20
Tbh, as a male I have a very feminine penis
1 tvthroaway86 2019-02-20
Tell me more.
1 POST_BUSSY 2019-02-20
Mine bleeds every month or so. Very feminine 😀
1 Unkill_is_dill 2019-02-20
Darqwolff wants to know your location
1 Matues49 2019-02-20
😴😴😴
1 BCUOSPSEY 2019-02-20
On the eradication of the Jewish threat:
regular driving guy @LoveWinsFag · Feb 18 the status quo may work fine for you & ppl you care to empathize with, but if a bunch of ppl see a need for change, there is one. If your proposed solution is “just stop talking abt this, everythings fine”— that’s your feeling, but it’s not a legitimate solution
1 charming_tatum 2019-02-20
My penis is Orwellian
1 Coonass_alt 2019-02-20
mine is lynchian
1 Zozbot 2019-02-20
zoz
1 Zozbot 2019-02-20
zle
1 Zozbot 2019-02-20
zozzle
1 Coonass_alt 2019-02-20
based
1 KingWayneX 2019-02-20
Mine is marxist, and is convinced that pussy is the means of production.
1 tvthroaway86 2019-02-20
people seem to be turning into paradoy's of themselves.
1 bearshark713 2019-02-20
POST FENIS
1 GuillotinesNOW 2019-02-20
https://i.imgur.com/sW4DHeK.jpg
1 POST_BUSSY 2019-02-20
To be consistent with Bussy and Gussy, it has to be Genis.
1 grep_var_log 2019-02-20
Benis. 👌🤣
1 POST_BUSSY 2019-02-20
dude benis lmao
1 Unkill_is_dill 2019-02-20
https://twitter.com/IndyaMoore/status/1097279158659571712
Seems to me that she is a high level dramanaut.
1 KingWayneX 2019-02-20
Her disciples are catching on, she should have redirected.