Item 1: Subject agrees that human beings flourish when given support and a little bit of space
Item 2: Subject agrees she can't disprove that the government's in contact with an advanced alien race
Item 3: She agrees she enters this willfully
4: She acknowledges almost everything ends miserably
but 5: She admits we should be content to be alive, even if I forget her birthday or catch her back porch on fire
Item 6: Parties agree to sleep in shifts
Item 7: Parties agree we need a security pit
Item 8: It is worse to be early than late, better distant than fake, better a loner than a flake
Item 9: She agrees to not take pictures of me when I am bored and show them to me later when I am still bored
Item 10: She agrees our culture is too clean, there's too much trust in machines, & discourse is too mean
Also She admits the right path is hard to foresee, especially with lizards everywhere controlling our dreams
So when she finds me on the floor swaddled in existential doubt, she agrees to remind me we're all equally freaked out.
It's so simple, you and me
It's so simple, you and me
we got everything,
everything,
everything that we need.
Item 11: Subject agrees we are not ready for children but more importantly they are not ready for us
Item 12: Subject agrees to tell me my hair sucks if it sucks and not be diplomatic or ambiguous
Item 13: She agrees not to try to convince me that psychics are interesting in any way
14 She agrees that we need to delete any correspondence that mentions our names or birthdays
Subject agrees in full with the following critical analysis of Short Circuit 1 and 2:
1. Ostensibly an analogy for the dangers of the military industrial complex, the film is less about robotics than it is about respect for the mystery of the 'self'
2. Therefore the underlying message is that the free will of a self-possessed soul, however wretched, should trump the interests of a collective hierarchy, however strong
3. Spoiler Alert: Giving citizenship to a robot with a soul implies the world of the films has acquired proof in the dualistic nature of that self
& 4. Despite the absence of Steve Guttenberg and Ally Sheedy and the inherent deficiencies of a blockbuster sequel, the supporting cast, location, and 5's character development make the second film superior to the first
But we got each other and that's all we need
We each got a lover and that's all that we need
We don't need any other cuz our love's guaranteed
Sign on the line baby this contract is our love decreed
Item 15: Subject agrees to not force moments of linear reflection i.e. broad causal factors for a perceived failure
16: She agrees that the attached list of bedroom activities are at least on the table
17: She agrees agrees to not say 'begging the question' when she means 'raising the question'
& 18: She agrees that the word homage isn't french and therefore shouldn't qualify for a french pronunciation
Furthermore she agrees the moon landing was faked, but only because it's already populated with mormons
Both parties agree life is more interesting if we presume our deaths are already predetermined
Also she admits the right path is hard to foresee, especially with lizards everywhere controlling our dreams
So when she finds me on the floor swaddled in existential doubt, she agrees to remind me we're all equally freaked out.
credits
from The Howell Dawdy Mixtape,
released April 18, 2014
written, performed, recorded, produced and mastered by Howell Dawdy
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