*reads Blood Meridian once*

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  • @DarrienDane
    @DarrienDane Рік тому +12302

    you’re laughing. i’m dancing naked and you’re laughing.

  • @SillyFrenchKing
    @SillyFrenchKing Рік тому +12348

    If the judge becomes a “literally me” character, our world is doomed.

    • @DussyBestroyer69
      @DussyBestroyer69 Рік тому +684

      It would make sense if starts on Twitter since thats where the "MAPS" hang out

    • @Imonaeatyobabies
      @Imonaeatyobabies Рік тому +941

      Don't worry. Those guys don't read.

    • @villageronps5317
      @villageronps5317 Рік тому +253

      Judge from book I’ve never read or heard anything about is literally me ngl

    • @redtexan7053
      @redtexan7053 Рік тому +438

      Things are crummy enough without a bunch of edgy nerds running around larrping as the actual devil.

    • @jdng86
      @jdng86 Рік тому +261

      Don't worry, that won't happen until it's made into a movie.

  • @WhaleManMan
    @WhaleManMan Рік тому +8541

    *watches Wendigoon once*

    • @hameltheanimal90
      @hameltheanimal90 Рік тому +244

      Didn’t have my glasses on and thought this said “Watches Paddington Once”

    • @thebaseandtriflingcreature174
      @thebaseandtriflingcreature174 Рік тому +179

      Watches Wendigoon once
      First box of Magic Spoon invades your home
      Think nothing of it at first
      Magic Spoon starts crawling out of tv

    • @exudeku
      @exudeku Рік тому +186

      Watches Wendigoon once
      Shot myself in the back of my head 4 times with a .45 and drives myself on the Appalachian mountains no where to be seen, definitely no glowing people is responsible

    • @omarnsimpson908
      @omarnsimpson908 Рік тому +31

      @@thebaseandtriflingcreature174
      Magic Spoon starts moving their car randomly around parking lots
      Magic Spoon leaves lewd voicemails on their boss's phone in their voice
      Magic Spoon hides a rotten fish in their HVAC system

    • @thebaseandtriflingcreature174
      @thebaseandtriflingcreature174 Рік тому +12

      @@omarnsimpson908 hell kinda Alternates are you dealing with???

  • @Wendigoon
    @Wendigoon Рік тому +1905

    Real

  • @hildaenjoyer8862
    @hildaenjoyer8862 Рік тому +8891

    The thought of Judge Holden getting one of those “literally me” tiktok edits is equally hilarious as it is deeply terrifying.

    • @carolfromhr9900
      @carolfromhr9900 Рік тому +368

      Let’s just be glad there’s no movie.

    • @roylee6466
      @roylee6466 Рік тому +278

      @@carolfromhr9900 Unless fucking James Franco gets his way with the film adaptation.

    • @greatcoldemptiness
      @greatcoldemptiness Рік тому +133

      Holden on that grind, he puttin' in that work

    • @crunglemcbungley
      @crunglemcbungley Рік тому

      Ah yes, literally me, a violent, soulless pedophile. Definitely the kind of thing you want to put on tiktok for everyone to see

    • @thenablade858
      @thenablade858 Рік тому +65

      @@roylee6466 After he ruined As I Lay Dying? Somebody stop this man.

  • @ferghalicious1480
    @ferghalicious1480 Рік тому +3250

    Honestly, the main takeaway I got from Blood Meridian was that McCarthy really knows all the specific names for different types of rock formations

    • @Spiegelgeist
      @Spiegelgeist Рік тому +87

      MALPAÍS

    • @emiliianoportillo1311
      @emiliianoportillo1311 Рік тому

      Also that being an Indian fucking sucks

    • @pickleneck526
      @pickleneck526 Рік тому +271

      Don't forget movement in general, across different kinds of terrain. I can't tell you how many times i had to look up a dictionary just find out they "went" through something in this or that sort of way.

    • @gnomschild
      @gnomschild Рік тому +151

      I swear Cormac puts at least one instance of "bivouac" in all his books

    • @Kevinakletva
      @Kevinakletva Рік тому +31

      read "Night in Zagreb" by Adam Medvidović if you liked Blood Meridian. Also send me examples of samelike books

  • @tannerbunch5912
    @tannerbunch5912 Рік тому +2762

    “The freedom of birds is an insult to me.”
    “Omg me too”

    • @breeeegs
      @breeeegs Рік тому +256

      "What say you Priest?"
      "LOL fr fr, straight up fam"

    • @zach415
      @zach415 Рік тому +12

      @@SillyFrenchKing based

    • @Kevinakletva
      @Kevinakletva Рік тому +8

      read "Night in Zagreb" by Adam Medvidović if you liked Blood Meridian. Also send me examples of samelike books

    • @toad_of_the_sky
      @toad_of_the_sky Рік тому +25

      "He's just like me! He's just like me fr!"

    • @TheMuffinManIsHappy
      @TheMuffinManIsHappy Рік тому +43

      “Classic Judge W”

  • @DrSevenfold666
    @DrSevenfold666 Рік тому +6666

    Damn Wendigoon really woke up some new type of "Literally me" personalities.

  • @retronartz1268
    @retronartz1268 Рік тому +297

    *goes into a Judge esque monologue*
    “Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shootin' stars”

    • @WuttaBeast
      @WuttaBeast 4 місяці тому +2

      One of the best comments I've ever read lmfao

    • @Gooberpatrol66
      @Gooberpatrol66 3 місяці тому +4

      The Judge ships Mordetwi

    • @RayDrawzDragonz
      @RayDrawzDragonz Місяць тому

      😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @-atimes3-
    @-atimes3- Рік тому +1486

    whenever talking about blood meridian, it is mandatory to precede it by talking about how weird twitter is

  • @projectx5154
    @projectx5154 Рік тому +2454

    As someone who never read a single page of Blood Meridian I can confirm this is 100% accurate representation of someone who has read Blood Meridian once.

    • @karsten11553
      @karsten11553 Рік тому +72

      As someone who once read Blood Meridian once, I can confirm; I have been exactly like this ever since!

    • @122josh
      @122josh Рік тому +24

      Well I've read it three times and I don't own a pair of cowboy boots SO THERE lmao

    • @Rotom2304
      @Rotom2304 Рік тому +39

      @@122josh ah, I guess you sold them after the second or third reading then

    • @122josh
      @122josh Рік тому +1

      @@Rotom2304 😂

    • @Kevinakletva
      @Kevinakletva Рік тому +4

      read "Night in Zagreb" by Adam Medvidović if you liked Blood Meridian. Also send me examples of samelike books

  • @jamesanthonyify
    @jamesanthonyify Рік тому +925

    Whatever meme who exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

  • @Raphe9000
    @Raphe9000 Рік тому +1484

    It would be such a testament to the terrifying charisma that The Judge possesses and the skill of McCarthy for being able to portray that to see people start going "literally me" over a child predator who may or may not be the actual devil solely because he gives powerful monologues that make some of the most wretched ideas sound logical.

    • @johnr6087
      @johnr6087 Рік тому +220

      And it’s a testament to the humanity the Child possesses because, though he’s not a hero or protagonist in any real way, he still possesses enough room for mercy in his heart to reject the Judge’s attempt to turn him into a spiritual son figure.
      Even in a world of greed, mindless violence, and the eternal dance of the judge, the room for compassion and mercy in one boy’s heart still wasn’t fully extinguished.

    • @LacoSinfonia
      @LacoSinfonia Рік тому +115

      @@johnr6087 oh, it definitely got extinguished. Just ask that dude that had to pee

    • @gigangreg7837
      @gigangreg7837 Рік тому +12

      ​@@GeminiPlatypus
      Cap

    • @sacharubinstein5305
      @sacharubinstein5305 Рік тому

      @@GeminiPlatypus this abominable fictional character who represents everything wrong about humanity personified is literally just like the political faction I don’t like fr

    • @followingtheroe1952
      @followingtheroe1952 Рік тому +49

      This is foreshadowed by the Judges introduction and the persecution of the preacher. After they realize the Judge never met him, they all just laugh at what they just did. They were true sigmas lmao

  • @wfd87
    @wfd87 Рік тому +1802

    quick we have to give him a fun, realistic and down-to-earth slice-of-life novel to make him return to normal

    • @jenna_gia
      @jenna_gia Рік тому +53

      child of god and outer dark will fix him right up

    • @MrEgofreak
      @MrEgofreak Рік тому +4

      On My Honour is a pretty good YA novel! Should bring him back down to earth! Either that or make him cry!

    • @jazzyjay_
      @jazzyjay_ Рік тому +4

      Try Stoner by John Williams

    • @vasvas8914
      @vasvas8914 Рік тому +6

      Wasn't Blood Meridian that sort of novel? 🤔

    • @georgia860
      @georgia860 Рік тому +72

      ​@@vasvas8914 I mean, they do a lot of slicing life in it

  • @PhippsJonah
    @PhippsJonah Рік тому +157

    “The kid is LITERALLY me. I also sit around and abide vicious murders in exchange for money and shallow camaraderie.”

    • @breadg1818
      @breadg1818 9 місяців тому +7

      Pretty sure thats just a soldier 90% of the time

    • @allbirdsareedible
      @allbirdsareedible 9 місяців тому +1

      @@breadg1818 The camaraderie is a bit deeper, but pretty much.

    • @naturesquad9174
      @naturesquad9174 9 місяців тому

      @@allbirdsareedible its real, but its still shallow. bloodstained Mules for the suits who make the real money, getting sold a gaudy, mercenary psychobabble to inhabit while they do someone else's dirty work.

    • @QwertyoUip
      @QwertyoUip 5 місяців тому +1

      Judge Holden is literally me 💀

    • @nicosd3017
      @nicosd3017 Місяць тому +1

      I am toadvine.

  • @THICCTHICCTHICC
    @THICCTHICCTHICC Рік тому +773

    Cormac McCarthy literally has a vocabulary so big I can only suspect he's secretly 250 years old

    • @concars1234
      @concars1234 Рік тому +125

      He says he will never die

    • @ab3ki84hayate
      @ab3ki84hayate Рік тому +81

      I have a sneaking suspicion McCarthy just reads a dictionary for 5 hours daily

    • @wrs6565
      @wrs6565 Рік тому +9

      "crozzled"

    • @Dwarkle
      @Dwarkle Рік тому +9

      ​@@wrs6565Perfectly cromulent word there.

    • @mixhex7344
      @mixhex7344 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@concars1234👀

  • @redtexan7053
    @redtexan7053 Рік тому +697

    I really don’t want to live in a world where people have decided to make Judge Holden their whole personality.

    • @robozinn5405
      @robozinn5405 Рік тому +8

      👳💥

    • @ShinseiX
      @ShinseiX Рік тому +17

      I don't know who Judge Holden is but if he is like the guy in the video than he is cool

    • @lostonegrey1555
      @lostonegrey1555 Рік тому +118

      @@ShinseiX Oh your in for a treat

    • @underplague6344
      @underplague6344 Рік тому +48

      ​@@ShinseiXhe's cool as hell, mainly because all of his other traits are also from there

    • @rhx8902
      @rhx8902 Рік тому +108

      If people start making Judge their personality I would hide the children.

  • @thegnarledpirate9198
    @thegnarledpirate9198 Рік тому +2809

    Wendigoon putting this book on the spotlight was both a great and terrible action.

    • @billyalarie929
      @billyalarie929 Рік тому +177

      This is an already overrated sentiment.
      It was just great. That’s it. More awareness is a good thing.

    • @itsaUSBline
      @itsaUSBline Рік тому +243

      It was already an incredibly famous book. It's a book that's regularly taught in American Lit courses.

    • @THICCTHICCTHICC
      @THICCTHICCTHICC Рік тому +118

      @@itsaUSBline yeah it's also considered to be one of the great writing achievements of the modern era. McCarthy has been revered for like 30 years now.

    • @MrTheevilmage
      @MrTheevilmage Рік тому

      I'm tempted to ask youtube to take it down just so more easily inpresionable idiots with no personality stop ruining the book...cause all honesty Wendigoon doesn't need the money and I can this is gonna make the internet more shit.

    • @AdamFunk
      @AdamFunk Рік тому +4

      ...who and/or what

  • @theflyingdonkeypunch
    @theflyingdonkeypunch Рік тому +190

    All jokes aside, he was one hell of an author. RIP CMcC

    • @Mortablunt
      @Mortablunt 9 місяців тому +7

      Just an edgelord with a thesaurus.

    • @jacknagel9387
      @jacknagel9387 9 місяців тому +16

      @@Mortablunt Say what you will, "The Road" is still my favorite book of all times and I always look to it when things seem bleak.

    • @Seyanoo
      @Seyanoo 9 місяців тому +17

      @@MortabluntI’m sorry I spat my drink when I read your comment, I love McCarthy books but the way you define him is actually how I would describe him LOL.

    • @Mortablunt
      @Mortablunt 9 місяців тому

      @@Seyanoo Amusing as I'm not a fan. Though if we can have the same read despite opposite opinions, I'll give him another go.

    • @ravendeafening192
      @ravendeafening192 8 місяців тому +7

      @@Mortablunt I don't think he's an edgelord I just think all these new Wendigoon viewers are just tainting McCarthy's original message.

  • @Pdasniper
    @Pdasniper Рік тому +319

    Some characters in books, movies, games, and other forms of media are just not meant to be impersonated by the people. They are meant to be a warning, a terrible display of how not to be a human.
    Coincidentally, these characters are often the favorites of the internet.

    • @thenablade858
      @thenablade858 Рік тому +59

      This is because the internet media comprehension is pretty bad.
      Also, you got to blame Hollywood a little for making villainous protagonists like Humbert Humbert more ‘likable’ for the audience.

    • @raiden_187
      @raiden_187 11 місяців тому +7

      Well that's the thing people like absurd characters they find them fun. Villains like joker, Johan, Darth Vader. U guys looks too deeply into this, it really isn't.

    • @bigoj7917
      @bigoj7917 10 місяців тому +31

      @@raiden_187absurd characters like Joker and Darth Vader are fine. It’s when people start idolizing realistic evil people that the problems arise.

    • @randomnerd3402
      @randomnerd3402 9 місяців тому +6

      ​@@bigoj7917*cough cough* Patrick Bateman *cough cough*
      This is mainly due to the "Literally Me" crowd not reading the book

    • @bluemagician9724
      @bluemagician9724 9 місяців тому +3

      ​@@thenablade858No, just because people have a rebellious idolization for a character doesn't mean they don't understand that they're supposed to be bad. Sometimes just the awe of how horrifying someone is can sort of hypnotize people into a shocked sort of reverence, alongside people seeing basic similarities between individual parts of themselves and individual parts of the character. But regardless, it doesn't mean they don't understand the character's place, in fact you honestly shouldn't use condescension as a first resort against people you disagree with

  • @jorgel.quiroz8862
    @jorgel.quiroz8862 Рік тому +136

    Only the True Great American novel can cure him, so give him Green Eggs and Ham.

  • @jakobeboah1
    @jakobeboah1 Рік тому +140

    actual footage of me 5 seconds after i finished Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian for the first time

  • @jeremyhopkins577
    @jeremyhopkins577 Рік тому +279

    Yeah, that's pretty accurate. I read Blood Meridian for the first time when I was like 11 and my mom asked me how my day at school was and I was like "my origins are remote as is my destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous as to test whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether my own heart is not another kind of clay."

    • @JDoe-gf5oz
      @JDoe-gf5oz Рік тому +7

      Book sounds incredibly obnoxious.

    • @jeremyhopkins577
      @jeremyhopkins577 Рік тому +72

      @@JDoe-gf5oz It's pretty great. Believe the hype. Nothing comes even close to its level of being Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy.

    • @JDoe-gf5oz
      @JDoe-gf5oz Рік тому

      @@jeremyhopkins577 So The Counselor is his best work?

    • @brynleyjones2674
      @brynleyjones2674 Рік тому +53

      11 is way too young to read blood meridian lol

    • @ambatuBUHSURK
      @ambatuBUHSURK Рік тому

      @@JDoe-gf5oz anything just a little dense
      idiots : obnoxious!!!

  • @MrMuel1205
    @MrMuel1205 Рік тому +508

    I was on a boat on the Mekong in Laos with my girlfriend (who was an American lit major) and some people we'd met in Thailand. The trip was supposed to take 12 hours, but ended up lasting 4 nights and the best part of 5 days. Whilst our rations dwindled to spicy cup noodles, some weird Thai Pringles rip off, an unholy number of nasty Vietnamese cigarettes, increasingly warm Beerlao, and a couple of bottles of scotch, we passed the time playing cards, staring into the passing jungle, and taking turns reading my girlfriend's dog-eared copy of Blood Meridian. Mass-delirium brought on by sleep deprivation, hunger, and, let's face it, a constant state of mild intoxication, really amplified the effects of the book on a bunch of pretentious 20-something Arts students far from home. At some point it started to feel like we were traveling towards some Colonel Kurtz-type encounter with the Judge.

    • @elguerotapatio9258
      @elguerotapatio9258 Рік тому +59

      Wtf were y'all doing travelling the mekong outta curiosity lol

    • @ambatuBUHSURK
      @ambatuBUHSURK Рік тому +58

      @@elguerotapatio9258 tourism is huge in Laos and is a significant portion of their economy. The Mekong river is significant ecological spot that supports two entire nations.

    • @omarnsimpson908
      @omarnsimpson908 Рік тому +81

      Man the new season of Black Lagoon sounds fucking wild

    • @BreezyStreamy
      @BreezyStreamy Рік тому +25

      Wow, that is such a unique way to have read BMed and just really etched itself in your mind. I am envious!

    • @ArabicNameGuy
      @ArabicNameGuy Рік тому +7

      so when did you propose?

  • @thaneofwhiterun3562
    @thaneofwhiterun3562 Рік тому +169

    Judge Halden's good traits:
    Good at everything he proposes, knows many languages, a wealth of scientific knowledge, good fiddle player and excellent ranger (which makes him even more terrifying).
    Judge Halden's bad traits:
    - Literally his entire personality and everything else.

    • @angkhoa1216
      @angkhoa1216 9 місяців тому +14

      Man im sure love Judge Holden long lost brother, Judge “Halden”

    • @SUPERDESERTOPIUM
      @SUPERDESERTOPIUM 9 місяців тому +1

      whats a rangee

    • @bencarlson4300
      @bencarlson4300 6 місяців тому +17

      He’s the worst possible combination of extreme competence and malevolent intentions. He wants to do harm and easily has the capability to do so.

    • @jacobydove8213
      @jacobydove8213 6 місяців тому +7

      ​@@bencarlson4300 best description I've ever seen to describe what makes Holden so terrifying

    • @sabersin7694
      @sabersin7694 5 місяців тому +2

      @@angkhoa1216Judge Holden DEEZ NUTZ!

  • @joshuaizly5502
    @joshuaizly5502 Рік тому +139

    This also summarised Daniel Day-Lewis's acting career.

    • @dancegregorydance6933
      @dancegregorydance6933 Рік тому +27

      Speaking of Daniel Day-Lewis as the Judge. He could of definitely done it

    • @alpharoo2581
      @alpharoo2581 Рік тому +10

      Rust from true detective type moment

    • @Robb1977
      @Robb1977 Рік тому +4

      ​@Dance Gregory Dance i dont know... i love Lewis' work, but im not sure he could have been the judge. A great bill cutting, a great lincoln... a great oil baron even... but the judge? I dont think anyone can play the judge. I think hes too... literary a character to be brought to life on screen. I get why this boom was/should never be a film. Its written too visually, too emotionally... too interpretively. You get to choose if the judge truly revels in his words with zeal and emotion, or if he speaks them with cold calculating logic... or if he changes it up, you pick when. To give an actor that task would be too much, because it would yield too little.

  • @JesusIzAPunkRocker
    @JesusIzAPunkRocker Рік тому +69

    The viewers filed in out of the dusty stillness of the warm evening to watch the man carry his thing, like wayward supplicants prostrating themselves before the altar of some familiar yet distant deity. The man's words simultaneously offered comfort and estrangement. The bitter fruits of an unknowable lecturer.

  • @grantmcgee7439
    @grantmcgee7439 Рік тому +129

    My high school English teacher somehow finangled this book into our curriculum and the farther I get away from that experience the more shocked I am that he was able to do it in the first place.

    • @bear5945
      @bear5945 Рік тому +14

      Haha what a legend, how the school board let that past is a miracle

    • @kellymoses8566
      @kellymoses8566 Рік тому +9

      He could be executed for that in Florida now.

    • @wrs6565
      @wrs6565 Рік тому +8

      Your high school English teacher is a fucking genius, and one of the greatest fucking men who ever fucking lived.

    • @aiataiat2451
      @aiataiat2451 Рік тому +9

      ​@Kelly Moses Blood Meridian isn't propaganda from the alphabet sex cult though.

    • @kellymoses8566
      @kellymoses8566 Рік тому +20

      @@aiataiat2451 As compared to Jesus cultists who engage in ritualistic cannibalism and consider it to be holy?

  • @TOAOM123
    @TOAOM123 Рік тому +146

    One man is clean cut with a hawaiian shirt and 5 hour video
    Another looks like a McCarthy character and has a 56 second long video
    Both remarkable
    The world is complete

    • @g.sergiusfidenas6650
      @g.sergiusfidenas6650 Рік тому +6

      To be fair IIRC Wendigoon's look in that video was more like Scarface or GTA Vice City-like.

    • @EdWard-ie5wn
      @EdWard-ie5wn 10 місяців тому

      One man looks like a Puerto Rican ftm transexual Elvis impersonator with lip filler

  • @ArchibaldClumpy
    @ArchibaldClumpy Рік тому +283

    I haven't read the book in awhile, but basically I remember two things:
    - Vistas are described in 10,000 different ways that make you look at them fresh every time, that make them somehow both awe-inspiring and a reminder that you like the hares and the lizards will one day molder and in your putrefaction leave no trace upon this world to the utter disregard of any divine eye that may have once turned Its sights unto this blighted and dreary universe.
    - Scalping a thousand people in order from least sympathetic to most sympathetic.

    • @daviec1816
      @daviec1816 Рік тому +6

      Is that what happened in the outhouse?

    • @tincanmaniac1931
      @tincanmaniac1931 Рік тому +4

      The judge, too. Pretty impressionable. Dancing naked and all.

    • @Kevinakletva
      @Kevinakletva Рік тому

      read "Night in Zagreb" by Adam Medvidović if you liked Blood Meridian. Also send me examples of samelike books

    • @PrettyH8Mach1n3
      @PrettyH8Mach1n3 Рік тому +3

      Spoiler warnings.
      Least sympathetic to most sympathetic? Seems like almost everyone being scalped is far more sympathetic when compared to the gang or the filibusters. Do you mean people who we would expect to be most relatable or sympathetic to gang as a whole?
      If in reference to the latter, I did notice people saying the events show how ready thie gang members just become more more sociopathic and only about themselves as individuals. They'll refer to how the gang started with dehumanized natives, moved on to Mexicans and then to their own injured comrades, and other white Americans, but I think it's a bit of an oversimplification. They were always hints that this is just the way they were as men who seemed chained to this personification of violence and social Darwinism.

    • @cam4636
      @cam4636 8 місяців тому

      @@PrettyH8Mach1n3 I mean, about 50% of the way through they take the time to single out a toddler, make everyone coo over how cute the baby is, then scalp him too. So I wouldn't say it's a direct, linear approach to "least to most sympathetic"

  • @CaptainLuckyLuke
    @CaptainLuckyLuke Рік тому +48

    I got stranded once while camping due to an flash flood caused by unexpected torrential rain. I was there for 11 days longer than I meant to be. I had only Blood Meridian to read as someone had told me it was the kind of rollicking Western I liked to read whilst camping. They lied. Over and over I read it. I don’t think I was very well when I finally got home.

  • @ConvincingPeople
    @ConvincingPeople Рік тому +217

    "Whatever exists in creation without my knowledge exists without my consent."

    • @daniel-zh9nj6yn6y
      @daniel-zh9nj6yn6y Рік тому +2

      Did anyone reply ''OK, boomer'' ?

    • @shagarumedic
      @shagarumedic Рік тому +4

      Then Candice exists without your consent

    • @Kevinakletva
      @Kevinakletva Рік тому +1

      read "Night in Zagreb" by Adam Medvidović if you liked Blood Meridian. Also send me examples of samelike books

    • @levilivengood4522
      @levilivengood4522 Рік тому +1

      tfw people are talking in the library

  • @Only.D.G.
    @Only.D.G. Рік тому +78

    Standing hours talking about Blood Meridian... that's Wendigoon

  • @eidolon562
    @eidolon562 Рік тому +84

    this video is nice and all, but it doesn’t distract from the horrors of our existence nor the tendrils of the night’s infinite dark

  • @matthewjames3637
    @matthewjames3637 Рік тому +318

    This has been on my bookshelf for years. It seems so daunting.

    • @Fivetimesthree
      @Fivetimesthree Рік тому +39

      Read it but don’t read it during a low point in your life.

    • @wellesradio
      @wellesradio Рік тому +12

      Why does it seem so daunting? I remember at 18, being a high school dropout, working a dead end job and trying to read Ulysses and it took me a year. Oddly, I didn’t see it as daunting at all. But 20 years later despite being more knowledgeable I wonder at my mental stamina at the time and the foresight to l read multiple companion pieces alongside the novel. Is Blood Meridian anything like that?

    • @YodasPapa
      @YodasPapa Рік тому +34

      Honestly dude it's not difficult to read, it's just relentlessly dark and violent. But it's also just very fun and the writing pulls you along because it's so good. You'll come across english and spanish that you don't understand but the gist and the tone is always apparent.

    • @bronzeandsteel3344
      @bronzeandsteel3344 Рік тому +3

      It's just hard because of the lack of attribution. It's not too difficult

    • @MilesWilliams88
      @MilesWilliams88 Рік тому +6

      Read it.

  • @henrychitham3172
    @henrychitham3172 Рік тому +566

    Nice to see Wendigoon making an impact.

    • @user-fy6kr7yr9c
      @user-fy6kr7yr9c Рік тому +55

      Wasnt the book already famous before Wendigoon? Its the most acclaimed novel from one of the most revered contemporary American writers.

    • @henrychitham3172
      @henrychitham3172 Рік тому +64

      @@user-fy6kr7yr9c yeah but I didn't see people talking about it outside of literary circles.

    • @infinite-ichthyologist
      @infinite-ichthyologist Рік тому +58

      ​@@henrychitham3172man carrying thing is *definitely* part of literary circles but I get what you mean

    • @henrychitham3172
      @henrychitham3172 Рік тому +14

      @@infinite-ichthyologist fair point, I forget he started with literature stuff and not the skits since that's how I "met" him.

    • @user-fy6kr7yr9c
      @user-fy6kr7yr9c Рік тому

      @@henrychitham3172 Fair enough.

  • @ogpandamonium
    @ogpandamonium Рік тому +64

    This is completely different to what would happen if you read blood meridian twice, in which case he would have been completely fine.

    • @screwyourhandle
      @screwyourhandle Рік тому +13

      I'm assuming you have to read it backward the second time in order to successfully break the curse

  • @LegoDude3258
    @LegoDude3258 Рік тому +63

    I saw this thumbnail and I was like "At least I'm not the only who became a tad obsessed after watching Wendi's video".

    • @Qertii
      @Qertii Рік тому +2

      Please don’t call him that

    • @hubudubebububububeubub
      @hubudubebububububeubub Рік тому +2

      He read it before that. it already was in one of his favorite book video's.

    • @LegoDude3258
      @LegoDude3258 Рік тому +3

      @@hubudubebububububeubub Yeah but the sketch about poking fun at the people who were obsessed over it came out shortly after Wendigoon's video did.

  • @AAAAAAAA-ss6gn
    @AAAAAAAA-ss6gn Рік тому +63

    This is me (I haven't even touched a book in my life)

  • @ZayanK
    @ZayanK Рік тому +18

    RIP Cormac McCarthy

  • @pickleneck526
    @pickleneck526 Рік тому +160

    "If WAR is not holy, man is NOTHING but antique clay!"
    Guy behind the counter: "Sir, this is a Wendy's, may i take your order?"

    • @govnopochta69
      @govnopochta69 9 місяців тому +1

      Underrated comment

    • @kykise1395
      @kykise1395 4 місяці тому

      Who orders inside tho

    • @pickleneck526
      @pickleneck526 4 місяці тому

      ​@@kykise1395My Dad. He also told the the store clerk that he spoke in the desert for him and that he was a witness against himself. My Dad smiled, his face shining with grease. After being urged to put up an order for the final time, or leave the premises, he replied: "Ah clerk, what could i ask of you that you not already given."

  • @thebigshep
    @thebigshep Рік тому +322

    Okay but this was genuinely and unironically me after reading Blood Meridian for the first time, but instead of with my personality it was with my writing style and if I'm being honest I haven't fully outgrown it and I still use commas like they need to be rationed.

    • @VixxKong2
      @VixxKong2 Рік тому +25

      I literally couldn't read that book for long because I was getting out of breath after a few lines.

    • @mclovin7969
      @mclovin7969 Рік тому +6

      @@VixxKong2 me to I had to give up after the 15th “AND” in one sentence 😅. Was near the end though so there’s that will have to do a finish read on it at some point though.

    • @sacharubinstein5305
      @sacharubinstein5305 Рік тому +4

      @@VixxKong2 literally why I didn’t read it but rather listened to an audiobook. Good thing I was already familiar with this aspect of McCarthy

    • @VixxKong2
      @VixxKong2 Рік тому +23

      @Nathan Reade
      I think he turned it into his own style to distinguish himself from others.

    • @buddygettingnutty8351
      @buddygettingnutty8351 Рік тому +26

      @Nathan Reade He wrote it the way he does to mimick how people actually speak, you may think you speak like a normal book, but in reality you actually don't, you just don't realize it.

  • @HeisenbergFam
    @HeisenbergFam Рік тому +192

    "Twitter is weird"
    Best solution to deal with Twitter : dont use it at all, save your sanity

  • @kinhamid9665
    @kinhamid9665 Рік тому +25

    If it ever gets adapted, get Robert Eggers to do it. That's all.

    • @accipitrid
      @accipitrid 5 місяців тому +1

      it’s funny seeing someone else say this because as i’ve been reading the book and especially in reading the infamous dancing and “he says he will never die” bit i totally envisioned an eggerian shot of the judge dancing in the dark accompanied with a low orchestral drone as the only source of sound

  • @_Ciaran_Maher
    @_Ciaran_Maher Рік тому +177

    I'll be honest, there was the briefest moment where I actually bought into the 'war is god' monologue. I thought, 'y'know that makes sense'. Then I started living in reality again.

    • @FlowerInTheMachine
      @FlowerInTheMachine Рік тому +26

      I mean. It kind of is from a historical perspective, or maybe more accurately in its sheer cruel profitability and the way it forces technological progress. However this is something humanity should strive to overcome. 😅😅😅

    • @demaistre2458
      @demaistre2458 Рік тому +13

      But it's not wrong in a metaphysical sense. Of course If you think that the fundamental conflict of existence is the problem of difference and duality, the issue that's been in play since creation. War is man's way of manifesting that conflict in our own way. It's our way, in a fucked up irony, of reaching towards the divine...almost in the same way art does...but for completely different reasons

    • @_Ciaran_Maher
      @_Ciaran_Maher Рік тому +31

      @@demaistre2458 So what you're saying is, it's ok for me to put the waistcoat and cowboy hat back on

    • @demaistre2458
      @demaistre2458 Рік тому +11

      @Ciaran Maher Bro, it's always been ok! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise... Just, you know, don't randomly go around scalping people

    • @Kevinakletva
      @Kevinakletva Рік тому

      read "Night in Zagreb" by Adam Medvidović if you liked Blood Meridian. Also send me examples of samelike books

  • @steampunkerella
    @steampunkerella Рік тому +21

    isn't it a joy when a book sparks such enthusiasm in you?

  • @Kalesoup_
    @Kalesoup_ Рік тому +16

    I loved when Man mentionned himself by saying "Man and War"

  • @vascosaraiva9980
    @vascosaraiva9980 Рік тому +9

    Proceeds to see the Judge in every bald man

  • @22freedom33
    @22freedom33 Рік тому +18

    Honestly after the 5 hour video essay I want to read it too

  • @Raghu.Bharadwaj
    @Raghu.Bharadwaj Рік тому +7

    RIP CORMAC MCCARTHY

  • @neighborhoodmusicsnob5517
    @neighborhoodmusicsnob5517 Рік тому +6

    I hope he saw this at least once before passing.

  • @bennyhoward1391
    @bennyhoward1391 Рік тому +7

    Tried reading it last year and had to stop. Not because of how harrowing it was or how violent. I’m just a fucking idiot who got a quarter way through and realised I wasn’t even paying attention. Will get back to it once I start reading again.

  • @ramonabdiel10
    @ramonabdiel10 Рік тому +12

    I actually thought this was a Wendigoon video lmao

  • @whoelsebutmeofcoursei
    @whoelsebutmeofcoursei Рік тому +20

    True story:
    Reads book in many years, become 65% intelligenter and good with words

    • @LagMasterSam
      @LagMasterSam Рік тому +5

      gooder*

    • @TOAOM123
      @TOAOM123 Рік тому +2

      ​@@LagMasterSam
      *Moh better

    • @papaduck5251
      @papaduck5251 4 місяці тому

      unfortunately all punctuation besides commas tends to disappear afterwards

  • @123NiallMc
    @123NiallMc 15 днів тому +2

    Seen this around a year ago and ordered Blood Meridian straight after it. I can confirm this is what happens as soon as you close the final page of this masterpiece ...

  • @montecristo1845
    @montecristo1845 Рік тому +17

    “Anything that exists in this world without my knowledge does so without my consent!”
    Yeah…I just finished Blood Meridian…after letting it age on the bookshelf for fourteen years!
    Might as well say, “Whatever I haven’t read yet is still on my to-do list!”

  • @nightcrawler6229
    @nightcrawler6229 Рік тому +11

    Finished it today, can confirm.
    Rest easy Cormac

  • @gabrielk6324
    @gabrielk6324 Рік тому +9

    Your videos actually never miss it’s insane. I read Blood Meridian in January and didn’t think your channel could get any more relatable😂

  • @dzmeatball
    @dzmeatball 9 місяців тому +4

    Okay you don't have to call me out like this.

  • @erixperience4050
    @erixperience4050 Рік тому +21

    A few folks in a writing class have been reccing this pretty hard. Rather than read the book, I think I'll send this to them for kicks.

    • @mycaleb8
      @mycaleb8 Рік тому +7

      You should still read the book.

    • @ididgt4259
      @ididgt4259 Рік тому

      You don't have to read the book.

    • @mycaleb8
      @mycaleb8 Рік тому +4

      @@ididgt4259 No one has to read anything. He should though.

    • @kellymoses8566
      @kellymoses8566 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/sE12km0BvRQ/v-deo.html

  • @e.keough2975
    @e.keough2975 Рік тому +7

    me after reading animorphs

  • @loopsbrother2903
    @loopsbrother2903 Рік тому +11

    Really like how the man went all in with the props for this character even the teeth is on point

  • @radonsmith4386
    @radonsmith4386 3 місяці тому +2

    "[...] And if the dried and blackened shell of him is found among sands by travelers to come yet who can discover the engine of his ruin?"

  • @grahamistearingup
    @grahamistearingup Рік тому +5

    This is like watching Starship Troopers and wanting to join the fleet.

  • @serdownofhousebad1127
    @serdownofhousebad1127 Рік тому +19

    No joke though Cormacs works helped me get through my writers block after reading some of his books, gave me confidence towards my writing style and grappling heavy subjects or events in human history.

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 8 місяців тому +2

      "This is TERRIBLE. I can do better." Spite is great impetus.

    • @serdownofhousebad1127
      @serdownofhousebad1127 3 місяці тому

      ​@@Badficwriter I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to

  • @joeljs9778
    @joeljs9778 Рік тому +13

    This channel gives me constantly new ideas how to be unwillingly annoying for my friends.

  • @urdaughtersbf
    @urdaughtersbf 8 місяців тому +4

    Just finished this book and confirm the accuracy of this video. Currently smoking outside acting just like this.

  • @kacperbanach7671
    @kacperbanach7671 Місяць тому +1

    This video made me look up for every of McCarthy's books, and finally moved me to read some more books. Thank you so much

  • @5pet5ar
    @5pet5ar Рік тому +10

    So true Mr. Carrying , couldn't have said it better myself, especially because I definitely know what this is referencing

  • @naturesquad9174
    @naturesquad9174 9 місяців тому +4

    Books: not even once.

  • @davidcatlett4052
    @davidcatlett4052 Рік тому +91

    I heard Ridley Scott had an interest in adapting this book into a movie.
    I didn't know Wendigoon covered it, I'll have to look up that video.

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  Рік тому +59

      its good

    • @davidcatlett4052
      @davidcatlett4052 Рік тому +4

      @@ManCarryingThing Enough of a review for me. I will make it the next book I pick up and get through it (actually haven't finished a book in years). The disturbing elements intrigue me as a fan of horror. I did read The Road at least (same author).
      Thanks again!

    • @MrEgofreak
      @MrEgofreak Рік тому +3

      @@davidcatlett4052 The Road was awesome! Took me a while to get used to the odd writing style, but once I did, it was a damn good read!

    • @uberfeel
      @uberfeel Рік тому +16

      Hot take: I hope nobody makes a movie/series out of this book.
      The book is beautifully written and the scene's are very detailed as if you are reading and watching a movie in your head. Also not to mention this book is filled with very brutal scenes and racial slurs so if the book ever gets adapted to a movie then we all know the movie will be a watered down version of the book.

    • @MrEgofreak
      @MrEgofreak Рік тому +1

      @@uberfeel Movies always are. One thing I've learned, if you'll pardon me, from being a cinephile and a bibliophile (though sadly I've seen numerous more movies then I've read books) is that movies are summaries intended to get you interested in the source material. Very few movies (comparatively) are made out of original ideas and most are adapted from much longer source material. But hey, they are almost a quality of their own! Take, for example, The Lord of The Rings. The movie trilogy fails to capture the original ethos of the book for most people (myself included), but as far as being faithful to the source material and to get people inspired to delve into Tolkien's world, I dare you to find a cinematic adaptation with more impact. As I read once, "They are masterpieces in their own right."

  • @QwertyoUip
    @QwertyoUip 5 місяців тому +3

    Imagine judge holden literally me edits when/if they make a movie 💀

  • @RyanCalhan
    @RyanCalhan Рік тому +5

    I’m so glad this book is coming back in popularity.

  • @M.K.ultra.
    @M.K.ultra. Рік тому +4

    Dude, you posted video EXACTLY in the moment when I was reading the final pages of this novel!! What the hell!?

  • @wikemazowski6297
    @wikemazowski6297 Рік тому +19

    As someone who has literally never heard of blood meridian I can say this is accurate.

    • @Qertii
      @Qertii Рік тому

      1985 novel by Cormac McCarthy

    • @ExtraQuestionableContent
      @ExtraQuestionableContent Рік тому

      ​@@Qertii Corman

    • @Qertii
      @Qertii Рік тому

      @@ExtraQuestionableContent My bad, fixed

    • @Kevinakletva
      @Kevinakletva Рік тому

      read "Night in Zagreb" by Adam Medvidović if you liked Blood Meridian. Also send me examples of samelike books

    • @kellymoses8566
      @kellymoses8566 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/sE12km0BvRQ/v-deo.html

  • @Tuaron
    @Tuaron Рік тому +1

    It's on my list of things to read, so I'm eagerly awaiting this now. Thanks for the look into my future, Man Carrying Thing!

  • @journeytotheotherside
    @journeytotheotherside Рік тому +18

    This is why you should never read books. Also Blood Meridian doesn’t have symbolism, Judge Holden is like that because the author thought it would be cool.

    • @tito420
      @tito420 Рік тому +12

      This is actually my school of literary theory

  • @Asmallcorneroftheinternet
    @Asmallcorneroftheinternet Рік тому +4

    "War is God!"
    "Yeah, whatever you say, buddy."

  • @TheRealMrMajestic
    @TheRealMrMajestic Місяць тому +2

    This might actually just be my favourite video ever 😂

  • @bourbonstansell8823
    @bourbonstansell8823 9 місяців тому +3

    "Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent". That line go hard.

  • @hallstadt
    @hallstadt Рік тому +6

    this is why we need to gatekeep reading now i have to find a new favorite book

  • @samfilmkid
    @samfilmkid Рік тому +64

    Reading that book was like carrying a Horcrux. Important work to do but I think it made me a worse person to be around.

  • @DMTastronaut
    @DMTastronaut Рік тому +2

    Judge is the best villain ever because no matter how fuckey and evil he is, and is the antithesis of the good in the human spirit, you still might find yourself thinking 'why is what he's saying making sense, even at all?'

  • @4gillman
    @4gillman Рік тому +7

    I'm about to read Blood Meridian, and im fully prepared to completely embrace the toxic cowboy personality to everyone else's detriment

  • @wyattfowler4868
    @wyattfowler4868 Рік тому +31

    dude this has been my favorite book since 2015 when i was like 16 and now i feel like i gotta pick a new one

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  Рік тому +18

      it is an amazing book, still one of my favorites

    • @kellymoses8566
      @kellymoses8566 Рік тому

      The Road is in many ways even MORE fucked up than Blood Meridian...

    • @jakkul26
      @jakkul26 9 місяців тому

      ​@@kellymoses8566 Yeah but The Road struck me as a helluva lot more overtly hopeful. Blood Meridian might be the bleakest damn book I've ever read. No Country for Old Men feels like a palate cleanser after Blood Meridian.

  • @greayworks7232
    @greayworks7232 Рік тому +8

    One of the few endings to a book that made me feel exhausted. Like, I just had to take a breath after reading it.

    • @smurfsmurf4502
      @smurfsmurf4502 Рік тому +3

      literally just went
      oh no, why is it ending on a bathroom visit??
      FUCKKKKKKKK
      FUCK.

    • @pickleneck526
      @pickleneck526 Рік тому +1

      @@smurfsmurf4502 the judge just wants a hug bro.

    • @bit_sean8001
      @bit_sean8001 8 місяців тому

      he says that he will never die

  • @affinity266
    @affinity266 Рік тому +2

    Great performance 😂 I love the editing 👍

  • @Phoenixx42
    @Phoenixx42 Рік тому

    It's good to knwo im not alone and support groups are forming locally. Thank you for helping to spread the awareness.

  • @calebharch7229
    @calebharch7229 Рік тому +4

    I’ll base my personality around his other famous book: the road.
    I’m gonna sit around and cry all day.

  • @CascadianPatriotII
    @CascadianPatriotII 8 місяців тому +3

    I've got half a mind to go scalphunting, but there's no one around worth scalping.

  • @choldenYJ21
    @choldenYJ21 Рік тому +1

    Just picked this up, and now I'm extra amped to read through it

  • @rachmusic9873
    @rachmusic9873 Рік тому +1

    Blood meridian is my favorite novel of all time. Perfect video

  • @niallflynn6351
    @niallflynn6351 Рік тому +5

    Before man carrying things was, youtube skits waited for him, the ultimate meme format awaiting its ultimate creator

  • @ollieassmus763
    @ollieassmus763 Рік тому +3

    "So how was it?"
    *turns into Dutch*

  • @Lo-Kag
    @Lo-Kag Рік тому +1

    My all time favorite book, and boy do I love this.

  • @jonahdunch4056
    @jonahdunch4056 Рік тому +1

    LMAO I finished Blood Meridian a few months ago, thanks for the cautionary tale

  • @cynicalstubs360
    @cynicalstubs360 Рік тому +4

    Judge Holden is literally me fr fr

  • @GarthOJ
    @GarthOJ 11 місяців тому +3

    Staring out through the *closed* blinds is my favorite part of this video.

  • @fernandooctavio4105
    @fernandooctavio4105 Рік тому +2

    This video was funny because it really reminds quite a bit cormac's writing and the acting is very good and i like how you acted two different characters and it was just the right length for the video not stretch to much and more than enough to not be considered too short and it was a good experience and it was fun and i liked it and the kid liked it and the judge made explosives out of piss

  • @BFChampions
    @BFChampions Рік тому +2

    Finished blood meridian yesterday, can't say I enjoyed it as much as I thought I would. Love the timing of this video though