What one piece of advice would you give a twenty year old Will Self?

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― ken c, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

kill yourself.

― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to make this thread.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

My advice: shut the fuck up.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Take more heroin.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Don't suck off random strangers to get money to buy junk, instead suck off the drug dealers direct.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh No!

They'll be doing smack in the PM's plane in heaven tonight!

oh hang on....

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Willselfauthor.jpg

1961-2007

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Dom and Henry in rare comic form here.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Heaven needed an alternate take on contemporary performance art. RIP Will, we gonna remember your times as a HIGNFY guest and pour some liqour out accordingly.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

i wasn't joking, michael.

― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Great Apes from a late, great man. You could see off Littlejhon, but you couldn't see off whatever as-of-yet unconfirmed disease killed you this morning.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

AA Gill, Petridis, all the other GQ crew hold tight in this one, you're gonna see it through. You lost a man today, but you gained the respect of ILX with your dignified grieving.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

I believe he succumbed to Lung Knack :(

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Go into showbusiness

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

A man has died, Tom.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38243000/jpg/_38243909_self300.jpg

Starry
starry night
paint your palette blue and grey

look out on a summer's day
with eyes that know the
darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils

catch the breeze and the winter chills

in colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how

perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry
starry night
flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze

swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grain

weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's
loving hand.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you
but still your love was true

and when no hope was left in sight on that starry
starry night.
You took your life
as lovers often do;
But I could have told you
Vincent
this world was never
meant for one
as beautiful as you.

Starry
starry night
portraits hung in empty halls

frameless heads on nameless walls
with eyes
that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the stranger that you've met

the ragged men in ragged clothes

the silver thorn of bloddy rose
lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow.
And now I think I know what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity

how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they're not
list'ning still
perhaps they never will.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

I like how Dom was contributing entirely in the intended spirit of the bad parody thread until M Grout reminded him of what he was supposed to be doing.

It's scant consolation though, obviously :(

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Will's gonna be taking one of his legendary lengthy hikes starting at Purgatory tonight

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Mods, can we get this thread's title changed to "WILL SELF RIP"? I don't feel this joking title is really appopriate.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ah but then the first post on the thread would similarly be umm, bad.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, what? I thought this was just a parody thread. Is he really dead? Holy crap.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Him and Lisa Kudrow.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Worst week ever :(

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Here's hoping the BBC repeat some of his finest contributions from Grumpy Old Men in tribute.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Him and Lisa Kudrow.

Ah right.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

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