Is there any medical research linking creative talent with mental illness?
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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Kevin - Mar 24, 2008 11:22:04 am PDT #4493 of 10000
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Hayden - Mar 24, 2008 11:56:09 am PDT #4494 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Yeah, but it was conducted by a unlikely team of brilliant yet flawed researchers with a childlife capacity for wonder but a bunch of terminal brain tumors in their bipolar heads. The only way the research was ever published was through the machinations of their dedicated-albeit-emotionally-stunted wives and wisecracking magical Negro sidekicks.
Scrappy - Mar 24, 2008 12:00:33 pm PDT #4495 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Oh, Cor, bless you. I TOTALLY needed that laugh today.
erikaj - Mar 24, 2008 12:08:00 pm PDT #4496 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
Don't forget the inspiring crippled guy.
Hayden - Mar 24, 2008 12:15:36 pm PDT #4497 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
"I've got a spike through my head! A spike! Through my head!"
§ ita § - Mar 24, 2008 12:20:30 pm PDT #4498 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thank you, Corwood, thank you.
Hayden - Mar 24, 2008 12:25:20 pm PDT #4499 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
How is it there's no online video of Kevin McDonnell with the spike through his head? Here's the whole speech:
Yes. I've got a spike through my head. I've accepted it. Why can't you? I've got a spike through my head, a spike through my head, spike through my head, a spike through my head, a spike through my head! It's hard to look at, isn't it? Look at it. Read it. It says 'Pennsylvania Steel'. Yes I know I should be dead. Yes, the doctors say I'm a freak of nature. But there's one thing I *do* know damn it! I'm alive, and I love you. And that's the hardest thing of all to accept, isn't it Connie?
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 24, 2008 1:16:37 pm PDT #4500 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I have tended to notice increasing creativity going hand-in-hand with increasing flakiness as a general trend, but it's not universal enough to be certain that one indicates the other.
beekaytee - Mar 24, 2008 1:26:26 pm PDT #4501 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
I'm not laying this all at your feet, bonny. I just have seen it both far and near, excuses being made, or even people "understanding" that talent must come with a price.
While I'm always glad to spark conversation, my tongue was shoved so far into my cheek I might have looked like I had the mumps.
And Corwood made me snort and then glow with amusement. Perfect.
I'll add my own personal pet peeve to the genre of excuses for flakiness/creativity/doom...having been abused as a child.
I'm lookin' at YOU KPAX and all the other, "He's a whacknut serial killer!'
But, but, he was abused as a child!!
Well, alright then, let's give him a hug." Rubbish
So, yeah. I can see where you are coming from.
Polter-Cow - Mar 24, 2008 1:31:57 pm PDT #4502 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'll add my own personal pet peeve to the genre of excuses for flakiness/creativity/doom...having been abused as a child.
HOMG for serious. I was so happy that Dexter didn't go that route.