whatever tickles your fancy, really

i dont know if the absence of pictures, for a long while now, on this space points to something. i hope it isnt something serious- like my dwindling interest in photography, or lack of inspiration or pure unadulterated laziness. hmm maybe a disastrous combination of it all- worrying...

anyway, a friend just told me about the episode of having spacecakes in amsterdam (sounds like paradise innit- what with trippy stuff at your disposal. cafes? c'mon...) and how its effects were felt 2 hours later- eventuating in an unstoppable laughing fit at just about any damn thing. sounds like happiness to me. yes, i am easy like that. i dont need grandiose things, i just need to laugh, laugh it out. everything's quite laughable actually- that man chewing his food, those ridiculous shoes, that expression, that mis-expression, that shit-eating grin(i got that from a book), that stance, that mispronounced word, that argentinian coach(i dont mean this in a bad way), people poking fun at other people poking fun at other people, that sullen dog, that smashed-up cake etc...i can go on and on. well, the point is i dont consider it mean to laugh at things which shouldn't 'normally' be laughed at- for the most part, people that is. (for heaven's sake, i dont find it funny at all when people fall, or trip, or slip or any of that kind of misfortune) i hate how people equate laughing at these things to being mean and hence pointing to a evil-spirited intention, a questionable mark of character. i think they just take themselves too seriously, really. in my books, as long as you are not directing a personal assault, at the heart of who that person is, (okay this part is tricky, you are gonna ask me what i mean by the 'heart of the person' but i am not writing a frikkin essay so i wont bother elaborating, i just need to find an outlet for this sentiment and i shall do just that) it is by all means okay. you are laughing at an event, a social conundrum, a character, a thing-in-itself, separated entirely from who that person is and what that person is really like. what this means is that you can totally laugh at your friends, for that matter, because you are purely indulging yourself in things/matters that fringe them. as i said, its a thing-in-itself estranged from the reasons which make them tick on your clock. but how can they be seperate? you ask. doesnt make sense at all. well, to that all i can say is yes- respect your friend, keep a straight face, do not be insensitive to his/her feelings and live a ripe long life.

oh wells, i have no idea why i am explaining this but i am glad i got it out. nothing instigated this, i just have been having this sentiment for a very long time now and and am glad it finally found a voice. that's all.

so, be merry my friends, and laugh the fuck out loud already-
just dont start a riot.
(altho that'd be pretty cool too;))