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I've had a slightly odd week being back in Newcastle and sort of hovering around the fringes of my old life (which may still be my life, for all I know...)

As I no longer have a home in Newcastle, I have been sleeping on the floor of my friend HD, who has been playing me Nina Simone's 'Mr Bojangles' over breakfast every morning in...
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trixel:
it seems you are standing between two worlds at the moment, a foot in each. If you move and don't like it, you can always move back, no? robot kiss
erich:
What does a tat feel like? Pick the area you want to get it. Take a push-pin. Scrape the area with the pin, kind-of hard. More or less, that's what it'll feel like.
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Naturally, I will answer all your comments in due course (although probably not until next week, je regrette), but, having just arrived back in Newcastle (or Thugville, as I'm inclined to call it, after Paris wink ), and somewhat in need of a drink, and then some dinner with the fragrant Atsuko ( miao!! ), I'm a have to be quick (Did you hear me talking gangsta...
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arachnequarius:
ok, i just did a double take ... two things ...

1. i just looked left - blush - colour me honored

2. teeth ... always always teeth ... miao!!
alleykit:
Dark City...I'll check it out...sounds a bit scary though. I might leave all the lights on for that one.

I am currently editing a storybook wedding...you know the whole bit. I don't mind weddings so much but this one imparticular...woah. Rather stick my hand in a meat grinder.

So you didn't sink your teeth into Ab Fab? (Love the abrieve). The humor was vicious...I enjoyed that part...American TV doesn't pull out it's nails like that.

I got "Lovely and Amazing" coming next.

Thanks for the recommendation...same director as the Crow ((+_+))





[Edited on Sep 09, 2004 7:52PM]
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Not a great deal new to report: more cinema, more near misses in the metro, though I'm getting closer. Yesterday there was a woman in her 30s from New Zealand openly declaiming her need for adventure, and a girl with fresh ink on her arm and a big bag between her feet (everyone's got a story). Meanwhile I was accosted by an old bearded guy...
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alleykit:
I love the cinematic talk. Restasure someone is listening. What an exciting time for you...writing in Paris. Au natural. I know you are going to kick ass. It is inevitable. SO much around you...you are golden if you are holding a pen..or a laptop for that matter.
Don't know if you are a hip hop fan but in Mos Def's latest album (1999) "Black on Both Sides" someone asks him where is hip hop going and he replies "ask yourself where are you going?" I think that is true. SO where is literature or cinematic critiqing going? Let the world know.
peace
aaronsrod:
I'd love to get back down to a beach with a group of friends and do some fire walking & skinny dipping in the ocean, I do miss the freedom and intensity of it all.

I should really stop talking shop in these journals. Like as if anyone's actually interested, right? your right, I don't understand half the stuff you write, but I persevere haha

Nuckinya

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Some interesting dreams last night: snogging with BL and in a hot-air balloon over Manhattan. The power of the imagination never ceases to amaze me. I have never snogged BL, or been in a hot-air balloon over Manhattan, so how is it that my unconscious mind knows exactly what it would feel like?

The snogging I could do with in real life, the hot-air...
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arachnequarius:
ok. first allow me to say that i am a height fetishist, and therefore swooning that you are 6'6". YOWZA. and as for the clothing perils that it creates, well, i know by association of what you speak -- my youngest brother is 6'5 1/2", 275, size 17 shoe (US). he is enormous. seriously, his legs are like tree trunks. the poor kid basically has to get reupholstered each season. madness.

and i am very excited for you and all your oz like prospects - that is excellent. i really don't think you can go wrong moving there. whilst i'm sure every section is different, i've truly never met an aussie i didn't at least enjoy. mostly i genuinely like them all. and ohhhh, the red clay is marvelous. i kept my hiking boots from there for years for the love of red dust. smile the water is the best i've ever seen too. so clear - i went swimming in the ocen in a secluded spot and was able to travel with several layers of tropical fish and a smallish shark!! it was amazing. of course, i also had to run from a sea snake at one point, which was terrifying, but cool in its own way.

and of course they want to keep you! you are clearly a bright mind. however, since misery loves company, that may not be best for you. whatever your decision, it will all work out for the best.

well, snogging dreams are always bonus ~ especially if there is levitation involved. right with you on the balloon thing, tho ... *shudders* eep.
prendick:
I'm saving my place here...I'll be back to edit later!!! wink
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(Thursdaysmile slightly drunk after two cans of 1664, pulling sensually at the hairs beneath my navel, listening to 'Kim Chords', the last track on the latest Sonic Youth LP, still slightly inebriated, anyway, from four hours of La Belle Noiseuse in the apres-midi, and just revelling, basking, in my twelve-thirteen year relationship with the greatest avant-rock group on the planet, this is happiness, this...
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swoo:
Hey, I was buisy! Sorry! tongue

I hate when you see someone and you desperately want to say something but the words just wont form. That's the stuff that haunts you.

I think Maurice Dantec could very well be spot on.
aaronsrod:
Three questions, donc:
1. I'm sorry, but, isn't Dean Koontz something of a hack?
Wash your mouth out, I can't believe you kiss your mother with that mouth, I love his work trashy as it may be.

2. Maybe I ought to know this, but what does Nuckinya mean?
it is an Aboriginal word from a tribe in northern NSW meaning hello, seeya later and how are you doing all at once, it is pronounced phoneticly.

3. Who is Liz?
Liz is a young lady I met a year ago at a friends birthday party and I have been wanting to ask out for a while and I did so last week. (she said yes)
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You know the joke about the religios zealot (I don't know if he's supposed to be a Jehovah's witness or what) who gets caught in a flood and, as the waters are rising and he takes refuge with his family on the roof, his neighbours come past in a row boat and say, 'Jump in, we'll take you to dry land!', and the zealot says,...
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sicpowered:
you know this will sound trite, but i hope you'll give it a go anyway:
sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you...


now, since you seem a little tense i have a mission for you. Go to a park, sit on a bench. make time to do this for at least an hour. stare at every person that attracts your attention for the first half, and i mean study them (bring a notepad if ya like), how they move, how the speak, hand movements, what they eat, how they breathe, etc. then just relax and smile at every pretty boy or girl you can, and remember you most likely will never see any of them again, so there can be no consequences for good or ill.

or drink yourself silly in a darkened corner of some little shithole smelly place, and stumble blind and vomiting back to your bed. either way you'll probably feel a little different about yourself tomorrow
cellosoul:
Oh, sweetest cutriver. You simply reboot. Start the next day at zero. And again. And again. Clean slate it, Baby. If you keep doing the dance like Lot's wife, you'll turn to salt. I can't have that. smile

You know...why don't you write to his PR people? And if that doesn't work, write to his management....and if that doesn't work, write to his studio...and if that doesn't work... (so on, so forth). Then, it would even be a PLANNED meeting. And you'd have more time. Paris is so close to you. You could jump over there, just any old time, Sweet One.

SALLY FORTH, Baby.

kiss
s


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Here in France, a guy has just been arrested and charged with racially-aggravated assault on an African man in Paris and desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Lyon (he drew backwards swastikas on the gravestones, the idiot). The psychological profile of this young man has now been made public, in an effort to explain his motivations, and we learn that, if you can believe it,...
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rosemarie:
parsimonious mouth

I like that.


Boys that don't smile draw me in towards them. I have to find out what is inside. I, on the other hand, smile too much, and my face is an open book.
trixel:
Funny. Over here in North America, I see capitalism as the only form of social interaction we seem to find acceptable or can count on. I see people treating the process of purchasing as an opportunity to pretend they are part of some sort of community: the inane pleasantries etc. It saddens me.

My sister worked a part time job at a grocery store while she was at university. She told me about this one old lady who was all spiffily dressed up who asked my sister to carry her groceries home for her. When she showed my sister to her pantry, it was filled to the top with the exact cans of stuff she'd bought that day. It appeared to be her only social outing.

T. Coraghessan Boyle. I forgot about him. I remember reading a completely funny story of his about Fugu in Harpers. And a book about an illfated grow op. wow. long time ago.

I'm with Swoo: fuck guns and celebs. Gimmee sex. Thank you. robot kiss
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[Being in Paris and relying on internet cafs is making these entries increasingly few and far between. Hence this one is particularly long and full of ungrateful whining. Bear with me, kids, I do cheer up towards the end!]

'Que cette ville est exquise dans son glissement.'

- Pierre Klossowski, Les Lois de l'hospitalit

The honeymoon period, I suppose, is over. I am beginning to...
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welntaod:

On the metro home, two consecutive failures to pick up men who were almost certainly straight and hence didn't even notice I was trying to pick them up.


I have been known to be that dense... I think, 'Boy, that cad's really got his banter down.' Two minutes later I realize & blush. blush

You certainly get credit in my book for approaching people! I'm solumnly content to fall in love every 50 ft. Today after lunch, I peeked around bookstalls try figure out to whom a fetching-figure was making eyes at. The object of attention was my girlfriend. whatever biggrin

Interview in Australia sounds like an entry I look forward to, my friend!

jibaili:
you're right, that is a long journal..lol.. anyways, sounds like you're enjoying the travels and what not..

i've approved you to the SGAU group, come by and introduce yourself when you get the chance.. as far as members in adelaide go, there's tonia and thats about it.. there's been an influx of australian members to the site recently but they're usually quiet, and generally speaking, not interested in the community aspect of SG..

anyways, good luck with everything, and remember melbourne isnt that far from adelaide......
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'Il faut excuser les solitaires; ce qu'ils crivent ressemble aux lettres d'amour qui se sont tromps d'adresse.'

- Jacques Rivette, 'Lettre sur Rossellini'

My international adventures in Paris continue. On Friday night I met up with the Polish-German couple out of North Carolina that I met at a recent conference and who are ending their Parisian sjour just as I am beginning mine. I went...
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cellosoul:
No WAY you could be a piss artist... or crap for that nature, darling.

(Sigh) I missed your cutriverness. You are still my number one muthafucking crush. And I am waiting for your hands, Delicious.

Keep Having Fun.

s miao!!
kay:
Indeed, chick flicks are not my cup of tea. Period.

I am glad to hear you are having a lovely time in Paris, and no worries. I know when I head to Costa Rica, my conversations will probably almost come to a complete halt with random updates. I shudder to think how much of everyone I am going to miss out on.

~cheers
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So I'm settling into my apartment in Paris and relaxing into the rhythm of the city. 'Relaxing', I suppose, is not at all the appropriate word, since the rhythm of the city essentially consists of rushing around being very busy, spending an awful lot of money and a lot of time in the metro. Oh, and going to the cinema a lot...

So, apologies, but...
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welntaod:
Yes, travel and the lack thereof... My girlfriend, alienprincess, and I were supposed to shack up w/ her grandmother who was renting a cottage in Ireland for a month. This one-time opportunity turned out to be a likely three or four-time opportunity. So, we'll most likely be joining them in Italy next year. This works well for my better half for it lands on her grand list of places to travel with which she's near mastered the language. Iceland and Tibet beat Ireland on the list. whatever

Your thoughts on I, Robot remind me of the series of animated films the Wachowski Brothers produced & co-wrote based on The Matrix. Similar philisophical themes and amazing visuals from anyone even marginally interested in Manga films.

I live less than a half kilometer from an free internet cafe. Being someone who you'd to run coffeehouses for a living, I was terribly jealous of those able to capitalize on free broadband connections as well as hand-delivered pots of ginger tea & biscuits. love Who am I kidding, I'm still jealous. wink
swoo:
I wrote about my feelings on skateboarding here. The June 10th one. I quit caring about the endless chase after the next trick and have tried to go back to the smile I had just rolling over blacktop and not busting my ass. Although I would have to say I would be damned impressed to see someone skate a dish then kickflip through a barrel. I would be stunned as well biggrin

I love London, I tried to move there about five years ago but it did not pan out. Whenever I have money I try to go there for a week or two.

I have more but it's 6 am and I feel brain dead. biggrin