Every Year, I Demand To Know Why Groundhog Day Isnt More Celebrated On The Internet. Its The Perfect

Every year, I demand to know why Groundhog Day isn’t more celebrated on the internet. It’s the perfect absurdist holiday. There’s a big, round, adorable animal. He’s a prophet. Some guy in an old-timey top hat claims to be able to speak to the groundhog. Does he understand the animal’s language? Is it through telepathy? It’s a secret we are not allowed to know. People come from miles to worship the groundhog and learn the fate of the weather, which doesn’t even matter anymore with science and weathermen. The groundhog makes his prediction. He’s wrong 70% of the time, but we keep asking him. We are not interested in learning anything from our blind trust in a giant rat.

I find it fascinating that you have interests in entirely different spheres and that you have extensive knowledge in various details in those spheres. I was curios why do you fixate on Franz Kafka and Schostakovich? I dont think its weird Im just curios about what was about them that made you fixate on them

Overall, they are two sort of introverted artists that are simultaneously depressing but also a bit humorous in their works. And whom I also wish had happier, healthier, and easier lives.

Kafka

I read The Metamorphosis and got very upset with the ending. I was looking up stuff and just kept finding fascinating things about Kafka. Like how apparently he never wanted artistic depictions of Gregor, or how he went to visit Max Brod and woke up Brod's father and he silently motioned him to go back to sleep then said "please - consider me a dream".

He's just very interesting in general because he seemed almost obsessive with writing (like he had to always be writing) and felt very isolated from others. And I like his style of weird things just happening without any explanation, and the story is both sad and humorous. I really like this quote on writing "Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

That said I feel very sorry for him since he seemed to constantly be sad or in pain. I really wish that things could have been better for him.

Shostakovich

I love the Second Waltz a lot, and when I was listening to it I saw a comment pointing out how it's funny that when people hear this song they think of elegance and high-society, but it's actually from a movie (The First Echelon) and is played in the background to just people outside going about their day.

He also had a hard time given the time period he lived in. He had to get really creative with his music so that he wouldn’t get persecuted. A lot of his music is ironic or satirical and in some way incorporates something to convey the actual meaning (I like the commentary specifically on the 5th Symphony talking about how the finale is a “forced happiness” - this was made after his opera which got backlash from Stalin and the press). I admire him a lot for not wanting to be silenced despite the danger of it. He even spoke about anti-Semitism despite not being Jewish himself, and I think that’s very cool of him.

He was always worried about being sent to a gulag or being killed like many of his friends and family members, to the point of frequently contemplating suicide. Supposedly he slept in the stairwell with a packed suitcase nearby (in-case the KGB came to take him) so that he wouldn’t disturb his family. It’s a really weird thing to be concerned with when your life is in danger, so I think it says a lot about him.

Supposedly he also likely had OCD since he was obsessed with cleanliness and organization - he would send himself letters to make sure the postal services were working and also frequently synchronize clocks. He’s also described as “a man with many tics” and always fidgeting (I think specifically always chewing his fingers). I personally relate to that a lot and also how he never talked to anyone he didn’t know but would nonetheless be nice when approached by strangers and also incapable of saying no to people.

I won’t lie and say I completely understand his music (I’m not that great at picking up messages and I’m not knowledgeable in music beyond the basics), but I think it’s really fascinating. Plus he wasn’t pretentious about it. I think he said something among the lines of “I blame myself if people don’t understand”.

Hope it's okay to ask, why did you choose the name lovey dovey hovey ? Just curious

Ironically, I love "lovecore" and wanted a name with something fitting the aesthetic (even though this isn't an aesthetic blog or anything).

I liked the term "lovey-dovey" but it was taken, so I though "okay, well it rhymes so I'll add a third word to it" and looked up words that rhyme. I think hovey was the only one that also ended it "-vey" so I went with it. That said, I have no idea what that word means. I looked it up and found it's a surname and also I feel like I've heard it in reference to a significant other (English colloquialism ?).

I also wanted the word "love" (or some iteration of it) because for a while I couldn't understand why my computer referred to me as "Lovel" as a name.

I like history a lot, but I'm a biology major.

My friend told me I had to publish the drunk uquiz I made so here ya go: I assign you a uni major based on vibes