It’s official: I’d rather spend two weeks trapped in an elevator with Charlie Sheen (one douche) than two minutes trapped in conversation with Chuck Lorre (douche and a half). The Two and a Half Men creator finally “responds” to Sheen’s recent outbursts, and the result is OH MY GOD ONE MILLION AND A HALF BAAAAAAAAAAARRRFFS:
I understand that I’m under a lot of pressure to respond to certain statements made about me recently. The following are my uncensored thoughts. I hope this will put an end to any further speculation. I believe that consciousness creates the illusion of individuation, the false feeling of being separate. In other words, I am aware, ergo I am alone. I further believe that this existential misunderstanding is the prime motivating force for the neurotic compulsion to blot out consciousness. This explains the paradox of our culture, which celebrates the ego while simultaneously promoting its evisceration with drugs and alcohol. It also clarifies our deep-seated fear of monolithic, one-minded systems like communism, religious fundamentalism, zombies and invaders from Mars. Each one is a dark echo of an oceanic state of unifying transcendence from which consciousness must, by nature, flee. The Fall from Grace is, in fact, a Sprint from Grace. Or perhaps more accurately, “Screw Grace, I am so outta here!” Questions?
(via Hollywood Reporter)
Yes, Chuck. My main question is what time are you sending Jon Cryer over here to clean up all of this existentially paradoxical BARF? These curtains are silk, bro. Tiger silk. Expect a call from my dry-cleaner. LOSING.
The smartest thing this guy could do right now is reinstate Charlie and go on with the show. They’ve surely attracted more attention than ever, and the iron wont be this hot again.
No one in Hollywood should ever say anything unless it’s read off a script for the purposes of entertainment.
The whole thing IS a script, and a classic one at that.
Chuck Lorre is the Timothy Leary to Charlie Sheen’s Ken Kesey.
I think it was a joke – I laughed. I’ve enjoyed the guy’s title cards before – he can often be funny. It’s obviously a non-response to all the reporters desperate to get a soundbite out of him.
http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php?p=…
The profile on Chuck Lorre in the nyer a couple months ago was quite good.
Abstract: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12…
full thing is subscription-only, unfortunately.
No wonder that show sucked worse than a zillion vacuum cleaners.
Consciousness *does* create the illusion of individuation, and it’s a fun fact to work into conversation now and again. Possibly a bit over some people’s heads, though, so maybe he should’ve gone with “I believe for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows.”
Chuck Lorre is the Faulkner to Charlie Sheen’s Hemingway.
Yes, both of those men did just roll in their graves.
Based on all fo the other cards Lorre’s written, I kiiind of think this is a joke in the style of Sheen’s writing.