Chogha Zanbil Is an ancient Elamite complex in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, in Iran. It is one of the last standing ziggurats outside of Mesopotamia.
The Elamite language is a language isolate (meaning it is not connected to any known language families), but Chogha Zangil is typically translated as ‘basket mound’. It was built about 1250 BC by the king Untash-Napirisha, mainly to honor the great god Inshushinak, the Elamite protector deity of Susa. Its original name was Dur Untash, which means 'town of Untash' in Assyrian, but it seems unlikely that many people, besides priests and servants, ever lived there. The complex is surrounded by three concentric walls, which define the main areas of the 'town'. The inner area is taken up with a great ziggurat, dedicated to the main god, which was built over an earlier square temple with storage rooms also built by Untash-Napirisha.
In the middle area, there’s eleven temples, for some of the lesser gods. It is believed that twenty-two temples were planned, but Untash-Napirisha died before they could be completed, and his successors had little interest in completing this project. In the outer area are royal palaces, a funerary palace containing five subterranean royal tombs.
Although the city’s construction halted after Untash-Napirisha died, it was still used for its intended purpose, until the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in 640 BC. Some scholars speculate, based on the large number of temples and sanctuaries found at Chogha Zanbil, that it represented an attempt by Untash-Napirisha to create a new religious center (possibly intended to replace Susa) which would unite the gods of both highland and lowland Elam at one site.
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Ah, so you've been steeped in The Method for quite a while then. That goes a long ways to help explain the impressive amount that you've leveled up. Must feel good too, like being able to truly shred on guitar. heh ... Yeah, sigh, I need me some crust punk friends. Need to work on getting friends period, first, and society says I'm too old for that, eh well. I'll not go into a gloomrant now. But anyway, cheers and thanks. Never stop riffing, keep the bits flowing. :picard-pointing:
Work physical jobs with people that just shul stuff around and shoot the shit. That helps too. Growing up on The Simpsons and endless reruns of Just for Laughs helped too. It's a flow state kinda thing that Incan generate with others. I suck at stand up, I can get laughs but not ones I'm proud of, I gotta be in the moment and on my feet for maximum effect. I kinda said before that I sorta feed people setups for me as well, there's kind of a cold reading angle there as well with saying the right thing to get the right response.
Yeah, it's one foot in front of the other for me right now. Maybe someday I an really be in a position to actually consciously work on this stuff, but right now it's hard enough looking the sales clerk in the eye when I'm buying food at the grocery store. But I hear you on the flow state. That's kinda the impression I got when you were first talking about it, that it's a groove you get into - I felt it a bit when I gave live presentations, and it's what I was (poorly) jokingly getting at with the guitar shredding comment. I would bet that with your skills, if you worked at it a bit, you'd be ecellent at standup, just have to like... transcribe some of what you know and do now over to a different set of parameters, circumstances. I think what you're describing, feeding people setups, riffing off of them on the fly, leading them towards what you want as a response... that must be much harder and take a higher level of talent than just straight standup. Rather obviously, I don't know that, but it is my take none the less.
It's not unlike jamming with music. With standup I found it just felt a bit contrived to stand on a stage and be expected to make people laugh, I just went off script and riffed with the audience in the fly and did fine. It's just a different area of comfort I think. To quote Avery Brooks giving advice to Jeffrey Combs when he was directing a DS9 episode "slalom"
Right? There's a rhythm to it, a cadence, and hell, can even make an analogy with the content as being a melody, and if you're playing off someone, there's a kind of harmonizing. As for the difference with standup, yeah.... I see. That makes good sense. And hey, you even threw in a little demonstration of pulling in something cool with relevance from totally outside by referencing Star Trek. Nice. ;)
Haha. Avery Brooks is a weird fucker but I guess he said that when Jeffrey was having a tough time with a scene and in Avery's weird jazz musician sense it worked. Just like, ski through the harsh bits, get buried in powder, maybe hit the flags on the way down, slalom. And it fucking works
A fitting analogy and damn good advice. And.... Star Trek. Nice.
Always Star Trek forever.
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