{"id":863,"date":"2003-01-13T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2003-01-14T09:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/14\/happy-places\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T19:24:44","slug":"happy-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/13\/happy-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15480,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/mysongbook.de\\\/msb\\\/songs\\\/d\\\/deadpups.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250623094228\\\/http:\\\/\\\/mysongbook.de\\\/msb\\\/songs\\\/d\\\/deadpups.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 19:12:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 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19:15:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 19:15:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Everybody&#8217;s got a &#8216;Happy Place&#8217; of one sort or another. The mental refuge you keep for when nothing&#8217;s going right, or something you&#8217;re witnessing is just too disturbing for you to deal with at the moment. Back off, find your Happy Place, and relax until things have calmed down.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Casey, for some reason, always reveled in doing what he could to destroy people&#8217;s Happy Places. Just one of his kicks, I suppose. For instance, one girl&#8217;s Happy Place involved playing with a lot of puppies. If I remember correctly, after discovering this, Casey went out and found a copy of the old novelty song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mysongbook.de\/msb\/songs\/d\/deadpups.html\" title=\"Henry's Songbook: Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun\">Dead Puppies Aren&#8217;t Much Fun<\/a>&#8221; and gave it to her. She needed a new happy place after that.<\/p>\n<p>He never could touch my happy place, though. See, I&#8217;ve always had a strong fascination with a lot of very &#8220;dark&#8221; things. One of my favorite authors is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperreal.org\/wsb\/\" title=\"The William S. Burroughs Files\">William S. Burroughs<\/a>. One of my favorite visual artists is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrgiger.com\/\" title=\"HRGiger.com\">H. R. Giger<\/a>. For many years, I had a fascination (obsession) with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/articles\/2000\/06\/trent\/\" title=\"Apple - Hot News - Melodic Alchemy of Trent Reznor\">trent reznor<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nin.com\/\" title=\"nine inch nails\">nine inch nails<\/a>. Happy, sunshiney, cheerful stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>My Happy Place was an animated movie.<\/p>\n<p>Script by William S. Burroughs.<\/p>\n<p>Score by trent reznor.<\/p>\n<p>Animation and art direction by H. R. Giger.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Gilliam,+Terry\" title=\"IMDB page for Terry Gilliam\">Terry Gilliam<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Fincher,+David\" title=\"IMDB page for David Fincher\">David Fincher<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Aronofsky,%20Darren\" title=\"IMDB page for Darren Aronofsky\">Darren Aronofsky<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Cronenberg,+David\" title=\"IMDB page for David Cronenberg\">David Cronenberg<\/a> (either joinly, or each taking a different section of the film, or possibly a series of films&#8230;whatever).<\/p>\n<p>Casey never did find a way to destroy that particular little Happy Place. He tried making me visualize slapping a &#8220;Smiley Face&#8221; in the middle of it, but I started having too much fun envisioning a &#8220;Smiley Face&#8221; as drawn by Giger, and Casey gave up.<\/p>\n<p>My Happy Place was &#8212; and is &#8212; safe and unscathed.<\/p>\n<p>(Loosely inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogfodder.com\/archive\/000429.html\" title=\"Movie wish\">BlogFodder<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Happy Place was an animated movie. Script by William S. Burroughs. Score by trent reznor. Animation and art direction by H. R. Giger. 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