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You are SO Lucky! I am SO JEALOUS!
I think the best thing to say would be related to your experience with suicide and mental ill-health. You could open with something like - having received these tickets you were forced to put off your suicide (or mention a spacific method), and you don't put off your suicide for just anyone. Then ask them how their suicide plans are coming along (many comediens are bi-polar or suffer soul crushing depression so they just may reward you with a whole comedy routine about suicide methods). Then just ask them about their tour, where they performed last night and their escapades in traveling, what do they like about getting older, how are their kids (I'd stay away from Monty Python references, I think). You could thank them for me, for teaching me the word "cocksucker" (my mom had all the Monty Python albums) ten years before I knew what it meant, and could not understand why my mother would get so very angry at my sister for saying it to my brother. You could also thank Eric for his wonderful "Fuck X-mass" song that 8ball shared with us here!
They love dark humour, are both outspoken atheists and you've got loads of what could make very darkly funny material - hospitalization escapades, medicine follys, therapists, failed attempts! Even your signiature is a great example of your sense of humour.
Good Luck & Have Fun!
I think the best thing to say would be related to your experience with suicide and mental ill-health. You could open with something like - having received these tickets you were forced to put off your suicide (or mention a spacific method), and you don't put off your suicide for just anyone. Then ask them how their suicide plans are coming along (many comediens are bi-polar or suffer soul crushing depression so they just may reward you with a whole comedy routine about suicide methods). Then just ask them about their tour, where they performed last night and their escapades in traveling, what do they like about getting older, how are their kids (I'd stay away from Monty Python references, I think). You could thank them for me, for teaching me the word "cocksucker" (my mom had all the Monty Python albums) ten years before I knew what it meant, and could not understand why my mother would get so very angry at my sister for saying it to my brother. You could also thank Eric for his wonderful "Fuck X-mass" song that 8ball shared with us here!
They love dark humour, are both outspoken atheists and you've got loads of what could make very darkly funny material - hospitalization escapades, medicine follys, therapists, failed attempts! Even your signiature is a great example of your sense of humour.
Good Luck & Have Fun!
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"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
- Octave Mirbeau
The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
- David Foster Wallace
"I wish I was DEAD! ...Well, no I don't. Not really. I wish everyone ELSE was dead."
- Calvin
"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
- Octave Mirbeau
The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
- David Foster Wallace
"I wish I was DEAD! ...Well, no I don't. Not really. I wish everyone ELSE was dead."
- Calvin