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Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:23:37 2015 No.6372447 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone on here read this douche bag's writing? I'd love to see /lit/ tear him apart

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:27:23 2015 No.6372461 >>6372447 why don't you do it yourself?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:27:27 2015 No.6372462 >>6372447 Why? So you can screenshot and post them whenever he's mentioned on /tv/? Who cares. Grow the fuck up.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:28:38 2015 No.6372467 Even if it's garbage, it's probably objectively more than you'll ever accomplish in your short, forgettable life, OP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:28:38 2015 No.6372466 >>6372447 dude has a master in poetry, wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't half bad.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:33:21 2015 No.6372491 >>6372467 I'm not even OP and I felt small reading that. goodjob

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:34:06 2015 No.6372497 I have been torn apart, good work /lit/. I like it

Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:34:10 2015 No.6372498

I read the few that are online. It's okay, the main issue someone could have is that it's really banal high society issues and messages. If that comes as a surprise to anyone then they are dumb as fuck. It's not good enough to deserve mention among poetry, there's too much of it and too little an audience.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:35:20 2015 No.6372504 >>6372498 >the main issue someone could have is that it's really banal high society issues and messages like?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:36:37 2015 No.6372509 he's not even bad since he's so obviously bad. he epitomized self awareness. its like i'm inside his empty head when you read his shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:40:07 2015 No.6372528 >>6372466 There are a so many stupid fucks with "masters' in poetry". A degree isnt a qualifier for "good" output in any art field ...

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:40:38 2015 No.6372530 >>6372528 i never said it was.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:46:12 2015 No.6372553 Last I heard about him he got a "d" in a class and the professor was fired the next year. I don't involve myself with pop celebrity gossip though, it rots your mind.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:46:18 2015 No.6372554 >>6372528 You should read about how he got his "degrees".

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:47:34 2015 No.6372557 >>6372553 apparently he was a bad teacher and it was just a coincidence. i mean come on, do you think james franco has the power to get a professor fired?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 19:51:29 2015 No.6372571 He's a pretty good writer actually.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:01:07 2015 No.6372605 >>6372528 Everyone at NYU knows he didn't actually do any of his own work anyways.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:04:05 2015 No.6372617 >>6372467 rekt>>6372447

Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:04:39 2015 No.6372620

>>6372571
we have vastly different opinions as to what constitutes "good":

BECOMING

AN INTRODUCTION

I am The Actor.

I am The Writer.

I am the creator of this book because I am the liver of this life, and at the same time the cut-and-paster of this life.

I am a player in the world, and I am an eye on the world.

I can make two kinds of movies: one where I go out and (expletive) with things in the world, where I am the catalyst; and one where I melt into the walls, just an invisible eye, not of the world, only taking it in, where I am in my little hole making sense and order of what I see.

Michael Moore in Roger & Me or the Maysles brothers on Salesman.

I am a moviemaker on the page and I am a poet onscreen. I am a clown performer, sometimes! I'm a fun funnyman on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays, and oh so serious on Saturdays, Wednesdays, and those black, black Thursdays.

When I say I'm a clown, it means that I don't fear embarrassment. That means that my inhibitions are nil; that I know how to take off the restraints and dance; that I can dance, and sing, and write, and perform in such a way that I can make people laugh. I have the power to make people laugh. Yes, I can make them cry too, but it's the power of laughter that is more valuable.

The power to make 'em laugh, it's the best power, you know why? Because laughter is the response I pull out that connects them all to me. When they cries, they does that on the inside, in isolation, in that warm safe place covered in hair. But that laughter, we all hears that, and it connects us — it says, You is my hyena pack, you is my peoples, my spotted peoples, and we love our spots, we luxuriate in our spots, and we gonna cackle and feed on the corpses of those fallen elephants of culture, those dead corpse monoliths that are still filling this earthbound existence. We feeding and laughing, and the blood is flowing, and that blood flow is art, because we destroyin' but also because we is connected! We communicatin'!

That be the power of laughter, communication! An' we all wants that. We in a sea, in a soup — it all mixed up, but if you in the nexus of laughter, you is never alone.

>http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/09/11/james-franco-hollywood-dreaming-excerpt/15349895/

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Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:07:16 2015 No.6372628

A PLACE IN THE SUN I

His leather jacket kicks it off so well,
Under the opening credits — printed large —
As he hitchhikes on the side of the road;
An indelible image that was Kerouac,

Jack London, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon,
And my acting infancy.
Now I watched the film with a part-Irish,
Part-Cherokee beauty, with a cheekbone face

And a long elfin body to match, slung
In a cherry-red G-string and nothing else, bundled
In a cloud of Chateau sheets. She remarking
On the close-up beauty of young society Liz;

I silently noting the deft reticence of Clift when caught
In the woods: the leather, now with a Hawaiian shirt.

Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:11:40 2015 No.6372644

Part of "Angelz":

That was a time we had down in F-L-A.

It was something, like with all movies,

That was special, like a bubble, in which

We all lived, a magic time, where we all

Came together. This is how it iz on all filmz

I didn't expect it to be this bad.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:20:01 2015 No.6372675 >>6372644 very pomo

Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:26:03 2015 No.6372691

>>6372466
it's an honorary masters
he slept in his nyu classes, there are pictures online of it
when you're famous they hand you the fucking degree and call said famous person an alumni of their university to boost their fame. Colbert has like 15 honorary degrees. You REALLY think James fucking Franco put in the time and effort required for 10+ semesters to get that degree? No, he was banging 16 year olds on tinder and leading a typical Hollywood lifestyle.
Doubtful his novel was even fully written by him

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:27:22 2015 No.6372694 >>6372691 >he slept in his nyu classes, there are pictures online of it he has addressed this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:27:27 2015 No.6372696 >>6372498 >the main issue someone could have is that it's really banal high society issues and messages Ya, just like how Gatsby sucked. Too high, society, get on my prole level

>>	Corn Father !!uz0+/KObrCh Tue Apr 7 20:33:29 2015 No.6372716 >>6372694 who cares about that pictures. His prof said he failed to attend almost all classes. Would you like some whipped cream with that cherry you've picked?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:34:22 2015 No.6372720 >>6372447 What i read was actually not bad, not great either but definitely above average

Anonymous Tue Apr 7 20:35:05 2015 No.6372724

>>6372716
no thanks, i was just pointing out facts.
i don't really know much about this, i just know that that picture (which the anon was referring to) wasn't at a class, and that the classes he couldn't attend was acting because he was shooting a movie.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 21:29:42 2015 No.6372932 File: 9 KB, 200x218, 1427665840322.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'd bet a thousand pennies that this thread's Opie is James Franco.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 21:38:51 2015 No.6372953 >>6372932 Yeah it's me, you faggots. Come on, /lit/, just tell me you love me for once. Come on, just this once...

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 21:40:38 2015 No.6372959 >>6372932 I can see him posting on /lit/ he's such a tryhard counterculture wannabe. Nigga wishes he was James Dean. You ain't no James Dean, Franco.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 22:24:00 2015 No.6373114 >>6372959 #JamesDeanIsAlive2k15 ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 22:27:45 2015 No.6373137 File: 16 KB, 225x236, franco.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6372620 have you read it? don't

>>	Calypso !DabWKAVCOE Tue Apr 7 23:41:32 2015 No.6373460 He is probably just over confident, how can you not be in his position. He does have a pretty good taste in literature at least

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 23:50:45 2015 No.6373497 File: 87 KB, 500x500, 1425004899946.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6372447 what if OP is actually james franco pretending to be someone else so he can get an honest appraisal on his works?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 8 00:14:52 2015 No.6373603 >>6373497 Isn't that the point of 4chan?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 8 00:18:59 2015 No.6373620 >>6372447 Nope. Failing to do jack shit with an adaptation of a Faulkner novel and then acting like an edgelord because, golly gee willikers, you actually read Child of God...get the fuck outta here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 8 00:25:05 2015 No.6373651 james franco is like that kid in highschool who was super popular and on the lacrosse team and then realized he might get laid more by hipster girls if he starts acting really deep and is "into poetry".

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 8 01:45:42 2015 No.6373862 all y'all should go check out the bookworm radio segment he was in for Actors Anonymous pretty cringe

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 8 02:02:03 2015 No.6373901 I read a couple of his stories and they smacked of a secondhand TC Boyle.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 8 02:07:24 2015 No.6373908 >>6373651 what if he just really likes reading

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 8 02:09:47 2015 No.6373913 >>6373908 He probably does. I've heard him talk out of character before and it was annoying as hell; he sounded like a sober stoner (if that makes sense).

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 8 02:33:23 2015 No.6373948 >>6372528 Wow, art degrees really are worthless.

Anonymous Wed Apr 8 05:52:19 2015 No.6374304
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>>6372447
I think I have mild HPPD because certain images with JPEG artifacts remind me really strongly of how faces look when I'm on acid. This picture does it really noticeably for me. It's hard to explain.

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