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Your sense of self is constructed from the accumulation of your life experiences, the books you’ve read, the lessons of your parents, etc, etc. But a lot of it is theoretical, abstract. And as you get older, this abstraction only becomes more obvious, and more difficult to accept. We in America lead a life of such cultured ease that our confrontation with genuine difficulty is rare, and to be taken out of one’s comfort zone requires effort and determination. So, there comes a time in everyone’s life when they wonder what they are made of. An ancient desire to test one’s mettle. What kind of man am I? What kind of woman? There is a savage desire to throw yourself against the world, and see which of you moves. In order to determine this brute relationship, and to gauge yourself against your fellow human beings, a test is required. For some, it is the spirit quest, a journey of survival into the wasteland. For some it is conquering a childhood fear, to prove that you are the master of your own destiny. For some it is cage fighting.

And for some, it is attempting to watch this 10 minute long unedited footage of the Gossip Girl photo shoot for Rolling Stone.

Well? It’s like a pain Bar Mitzvah.

I EARNED MY DUNE EYES.

Comments (29)
  1. I can’t do it. Why did I think I could do it. I only made it :51 in.

  2. A test of endurance indeed. I can do 2 girls 1 cup 40 times in a row no problem but no can do to 10 minutes of this horseshit.

  3. noah   |   Posted on Mar 27th, 2009

    i made it 19 seconds. i am ashamed of myself :(

  4. I did it! The sleeper has awakened!

  5. Annie  |   Posted on Mar 27th, 2009

    They tried and died.

  6. 3:00

    I actually have the cover as my iPod wallpaper…I must change it now because I may have flashbacks to watching that.

  7. Man, I don’t know why but this shoot keeps making me reflect on the state of our economy.

  8. what’s really horrible is that somewhere on the internets, someone is masturbating to this boringness right now.

  9. I got 24 seconds in. At least those girls are having fun. At. Dinner. (Ice cream dinner.)

  10. serena totally lied to letterman. they could afford two ice cream cones!

  11. solidunit  |   Posted on Mar 27th, 2009

    THE PAIN!!!!!!

  12. lauren  |   Posted on Mar 27th, 2009

    i made it through. eventually you get so bored you’re fascinated. it’s around the time your soul dies, probably.

  13. Selena  |   Posted on Mar 27th, 2009

    No women child ever withstood that much Gabe, Rolling Stone must have wanted you to fail.

  14. Selena  |   Posted on Mar 27th, 2009

    P.S.
    You don’t earn your dune eyes simply by withstanding pain.
    One also needs to become horribly addicted to The Spice

  15. 17 seconds. DONE.

  16. LOL wut is dis da friars club? LOL who be waring digs like dat? no 1 fo reel! LOL

  17. Watched the whole boring thing. Started playing name that tune with ht ebackground music about half way through. My eyes actually do hurt a little now.

  18. 1:46 right after they cut it. Unedited my ass.

  19. susu  |   Posted on Apr 2nd, 2009

    Hey ya i lasted almost all the way but i hadtofast forward, but are you going to do a recap of the last episode of GG??? because i really love ur recaps they areso funny and i really need to laugh at the last episode since i almost cried from horror!!

  20. Gabe, where is the recap? You’re hurting my heart right now. I need my weekly recap fix.

  21. Apexa  |   Posted on Apr 6th, 2009

    Last GG episode was MADE for you to make fun of Gabe, it was just so awful in how outlandish it was.

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