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TheRealSusieQ 04/12/2013 09:42 AM Report
I'd love to watch this-- when will the video be available again? Thanks!
John Fernlund 08/30/2008 04:59 AM Report
Don,
The quote is "The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom", and it's by William Blake.
Charlie,
Great interview! David Carr is as interesting to listen to as is Martin Amis (whom you should have back if possible).
Don Howard 08/25/2008 11:39 PM Report
Who said, "The road of excess leads to the tower of wisdom."
My daughter referred me to this piece because I made the same comment re: suicide. It was always, "Maybe tomorrow will be better."
Peter 08/24/2008 07:12 PM Report
Great Interview! It took some balls! I was called by my sisters if there was a David Carr in my grade school, since going to a guilt-ridden catholic school there were many kids from the same family. I went to grade school with David thru 6th grade and that does not make me a friend.
However, growing up in that environment with all the social norms being challenged has made many of us trying to abuse our guilt away. That way of life is to keep you timd and in line. Of course, catholics don't have a monopoly on guilt, but we are much better at spotting it. The nuns might have been praying for him, but I think a little higher power was watching over him.
I'm glad he has landed ok.
gunnar 08/23/2008 01:13 AM Report
A alternate view of modern addictions. Charles
Bukowski-Post Office journalism..."Anybody can
get a job. It takes a man to make it without working." What ever happened to cocktail hour?
...It's now chemical dependency.
sock puppet 08/22/2008 12:52 PM Report
paul - yours has a ring of Mr. Carrs. Maybe too perceptive/introspective? (intelligent?) for your own soul so to speak. (I'm betting Carr's talent came too easy for him. More effort to achieve the same thing may have saved him some grief long term.) Hope you have children someday - I think? I'm either cursed or blessed with grandchildren. Their future 'looms' more than 'promises,' in my chicken-little (a good point) gloom. Your respect for children - in itself - says there's something worth salvaging amongst the detritus known as paul. "Outside of America" an interesting insertion(?). Remember the old saw, 'wherever you go there you are,' so the predilections of 'paul' will tag along wherever you go. Or maybe the pertinent saw in all our cases is, 'you can run but you can't hide.' Peace! (Forgive the 3rd grade philosophy. Guess you struck a nerve.)
paul 08/22/2008 04:11 AM Report
very honest, very inspiring. i've spent way too many nights drunk and on any sort of drugs you can imagine. crashed lots of great relationships and opportunities but still hope to have some sort of decent future that probably needs to exist outside of America. thankfully i haven't had any children and i hope to change my life before i end up in a situation where my situation with children will force me to change my life. to my friend below, sock puppet, Armageddon is a chicken little syndrome that needs to be disdained and dispelled. time to create hope.
sock puppet 08/22/2008 01:25 AM Report
WOW! What a guy! Bought his book pronto (Amazon Kindle). Scared me into worrying that in a too candid way he nearly made it all teeter on the edge of a romance-of-the-bizarre. My problem is not a subliminal enough disdain for the chances of our species. His chemical alterations of the mind might help with a just-live-with-it. Part of my disillusion is an infantile inability to assimilate / accept our role in world affairs - and the shear number of people its taken out. All mostly for hegemonic hubris. When I predict elsewhere in these posts that our species is not smart enough to avoid Armegeddon, it's (too) heart-felt and (too) sad. In short, pass-the-vodka.