Sorry it's been so long, I missed you all. I have a week's worth of posts to catch up on, so this'll be another long one...
So, on my travels, I spent a quiet, withdrawn weekend with my friend PCH, which was spent mostly drinking and watching TV, including the ideologically repellent Swordfish and the ideologically admirable Three Kings. We also spent an evening...
Read More
So, on my travels, I spent a quiet, withdrawn weekend with my friend PCH, which was spent mostly drinking and watching TV, including the ideologically repellent Swordfish and the ideologically admirable Three Kings. We also spent an evening...
Read More
VIEW 4 of 4 COMMENTS
'Is your dream of serenity a broken watch
That you shake and shake but can't get ticking?
Are the voices in your head paranoid alcoholics who
Breathe in your face and say: "You know you deserve us"?'
- Mark Eitzel, 'Tell it to the lonely fairy in the forest'
I remember quoting the last two lines from this vice in my (paper) diary about three...
Read More
That you shake and shake but can't get ticking?
Are the voices in your head paranoid alcoholics who
Breathe in your face and say: "You know you deserve us"?'
- Mark Eitzel, 'Tell it to the lonely fairy in the forest'
I remember quoting the last two lines from this vice in my (paper) diary about three...
Read More
VIEW 9 of 9 COMMENTS
remuemenage:
truth be told I discoveredBlow-Up after stepping off an Alaskan crab boat in Seattle with thousands of dollars in my pocket - in other words during a manic tear through the city.
the frenetic pace of the movie suited my frame of mind. I ended up back at the University of Chicago with a gigantic archival quality blood-red poster - the fashion photographer straddling the model who is splayed out underneath him
I never did finish the Classical Language degree I started there
I like the impressionistic style of italian cinema - not for everybody
------------------
oh, and the voices in my head are paranoid alcoholics ......
[Edited on Jun 02, 2004 7:21PM]
the frenetic pace of the movie suited my frame of mind. I ended up back at the University of Chicago with a gigantic archival quality blood-red poster - the fashion photographer straddling the model who is splayed out underneath him
I never did finish the Classical Language degree I started there
I like the impressionistic style of italian cinema - not for everybody
------------------
oh, and the voices in my head are paranoid alcoholics ......
[Edited on Jun 02, 2004 7:21PM]
roxxee:
It's funny because I know exactly what you mean. The music is different but the movie itself is art. I love it. 
Right, I warned you it was gonna be long: strap yourselves in, kids...
Sunday night, film 2 of 6: The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959). As I understand it, Satyajit Ray is unique in Indian cinema in modelling his films on European art cinema and his contempt for Indian popular cinema is matched only by the disregard in which the Indian popular audience holds...
Read More
Sunday night, film 2 of 6: The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959). As I understand it, Satyajit Ray is unique in Indian cinema in modelling his films on European art cinema and his contempt for Indian popular cinema is matched only by the disregard in which the Indian popular audience holds...
Read More
VIEW 6 of 6 COMMENTS
trixel:
Hence always rid yourself of desires in order to observe its secrets; But always allow yourself to have desires in order to observe its manifestations.
Letting it flow through you, not holding on to anything. Sounds liberating.
That didn't seem like a very long entry at all. It must be the clarity of your writing, the cohesiveness of your ideas.
I did buy Raise Your Fists coincidentally enough, and I'm reveling in it.
You do realize I'm going to have to come there one day and give you a small nudge over the threshold. I used to go out to the bar by myself all the time, albeit trashed on various chems and booze. I'll take my scared sober ass in with you.
Trixel's Body - Instructions for Use and Care
1. Please note, voice is powerful, may have unintentional effects at times. Use carefully. Also note, slight hiss on sibilants due to chipped lower tooth from an Iggy Pop concert.
(more instructions to come, perhaps you could provide me with some guidance on your flesh too? )
Letting it flow through you, not holding on to anything. Sounds liberating.
That didn't seem like a very long entry at all. It must be the clarity of your writing, the cohesiveness of your ideas.
I did buy Raise Your Fists coincidentally enough, and I'm reveling in it.
You do realize I'm going to have to come there one day and give you a small nudge over the threshold. I used to go out to the bar by myself all the time, albeit trashed on various chems and booze. I'll take my scared sober ass in with you.
Trixel's Body - Instructions for Use and Care
1. Please note, voice is powerful, may have unintentional effects at times. Use carefully. Also note, slight hiss on sibilants due to chipped lower tooth from an Iggy Pop concert.
(more instructions to come, perhaps you could provide me with some guidance on your flesh too? )
prendick:
I've been clean and sober for 15 1/2 years, but count me in on the pub crawl...I'll be the designated walker.
Thanks for all your comments.
No time for a new journal tonight, off to see film 3 of 6: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979).
Will write tomorrow: be warned, it'll be a long one...
No time for a new journal tonight, off to see film 3 of 6: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979).
Will write tomorrow: be warned, it'll be a long one...
VIEW 3 of 3 COMMENTS
trixel:
I was supposed to go see the Corporation. Instead I went for a long walk in the rain and bought a Godspeed You Black Emperor album. Oh I bought a used Lost in Translation dvd for $12. I hope I like it.
who's the most serious, chronic drug user I know (but nice with it) God, I love that exerpt from your comment. It's beautiful. I would like to meet PCH. Please give him my anonymous regards.
Your body would be in great hands. I'd enjoy it. I'd strut proudly down the street in it. I'd hit on women, right left and centre. I'd have a grand old time with your body. And I'd adore every inch of it before I gave it back to you.
Mine has a few things you should know about it. I'd give you a small instructions pamphlet.
who's the most serious, chronic drug user I know (but nice with it) God, I love that exerpt from your comment. It's beautiful. I would like to meet PCH. Please give him my anonymous regards.
Your body would be in great hands. I'd enjoy it. I'd strut proudly down the street in it. I'd hit on women, right left and centre. I'd have a grand old time with your body. And I'd adore every inch of it before I gave it back to you.
Mine has a few things you should know about it. I'd give you a small instructions pamphlet.
prendick:
What the fuck do you mean, "You've never heard of Billy Jack?" Resign right the fuck now!
Go berserk!
Okay, sorry!
Thanks for the kind words on Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Thelma & Louise...interesting!!!)
Okay, now I'm going to read your journal....
Well, that was hardly worth reading....you wrote more than me though!
[Edited on May 24, 2004 7:07PM]
Go berserk!
Okay, sorry!
Thanks for the kind words on Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Thelma & Louise...interesting!!!)
Okay, now I'm going to read your journal....
Well, that was hardly worth reading....you wrote more than me though!
[Edited on May 24, 2004 7:07PM]
Last night I kicked off my six-films-in-seven-days cinema-going marathon with Performance, a British psychedelic gangster movie from 1970 in which James Fox plays a gangster on the run after a murder who hides out in the mansion of washed-up rock star Mick Jagger. Fox tries to convince Jagger he's a juggler, which Jagger excitedly tells him is 'the third oldest profession in the world'...
Read More
Read More
VIEW 5 of 5 COMMENTS
trixel:
I know a lot of you have multiple web-journals scattered all over the place, but I'm a dbutant in these matters. Do you write different stuff in each journal or do you just copy and paste? And, more to the point, how do you find the time?
Pondering the same thing myself. I've been slacking on replies and reading friends' journals. I barely get a journal out myself occasionally. I know a lot of people who have their main journals elsewhere and SG as their dirty little secret journal.
Pyramid of Cheops, eh? What a beautiful image. I can see it completely.
You are coy, coy and delightful. I would send you my slightly plush body via any means if I could. I suspect I'd have a lot of fun with yours. And perhaps, we would feel comfortable? I think that some of my relationships with boys were attempts to get inside them, unsuccessful attempts but they've given me some lovely scars.
I know what you mean about the '80s. It seems as if they didn't actually occur in any real way but were simply some sort of broadcast.
Tomorrow is my last day of vacation and then back to the job I abhor. Wish me luck in enjoying it my fullest capability.
Pondering the same thing myself. I've been slacking on replies and reading friends' journals. I barely get a journal out myself occasionally. I know a lot of people who have their main journals elsewhere and SG as their dirty little secret journal.
Pyramid of Cheops, eh? What a beautiful image. I can see it completely.
You are coy, coy and delightful. I would send you my slightly plush body via any means if I could. I suspect I'd have a lot of fun with yours. And perhaps, we would feel comfortable? I think that some of my relationships with boys were attempts to get inside them, unsuccessful attempts but they've given me some lovely scars.
I know what you mean about the '80s. It seems as if they didn't actually occur in any real way but were simply some sort of broadcast.
Tomorrow is my last day of vacation and then back to the job I abhor. Wish me luck in enjoying it my fullest capability.
samanthakayne:
'Jesus on a Greyhound' - sadly, no. sounds like something i'd like, lol.
oh, and there's no question that Giles is a hottie. for the record.
oh, and there's no question that Giles is a hottie. for the record.
When, two weeks ago, a girl named Sophie invited me to organise an evening out on her behalf, I accepted the thankless task in the foolish belief that it might get her to like me. When, two weeks later, she had failed even to confirm her attendance at the soire, let alone thank me for organising it, I call her up to find her...
Read More
Read More
VIEW 3 of 3 COMMENTS
sicpowered:
some have said that if you don't get the Tao, well than that is pretty much to point.
I forgot to tell you that you've paid me a terrible compliment (that's good) and in that I've felt better about some parts of myself than I have in years. I try to bring an honest heart to this medium, since I don't require it in my normal Life, and it is most pleasing to see the affect.
Fuck that bitch, that's just rude. Why do people ask for things they don't really want, and why not want a party? WTF over...
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the spinach (eeew
) and whatever else you got to sink your teeth into.
I forgot to tell you that you've paid me a terrible compliment (that's good) and in that I've felt better about some parts of myself than I have in years. I try to bring an honest heart to this medium, since I don't require it in my normal Life, and it is most pleasing to see the affect.
Fuck that bitch, that's just rude. Why do people ask for things they don't really want, and why not want a party? WTF over...
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the spinach (eeew
prendick:
Proverbs 26:11
Like a dog returneth to his vomit, so the fool returneth to his folly.
backatchabro!
Like a dog returneth to his vomit, so the fool returneth to his folly.
backatchabro!
Concert last night by mighty Norwegian noise-merchants NOXAGT. Their unique instrumentation of bass, drums and viola allows them to create these nauseous, swampy, slow-crawling developments before erupting into terrifying plateaus of screaming, lurching, spiralling nose. Theirs is probably the most physically compelling sound of any rock band around at the moment. In places, it felt as though the inside of my skull were being...
Read More
Read More
roxxee:
I adore the Boss. Especially the ultra creepy I'm On Fire. I think it's cool that you are ashamed of nothing. I have a few select pieces of vinyl that I have kept even though I no longer have a record player. To name a few: Kim Carnes-Betty Davis Eyes, Queen Live! Double album, and Anything Box- Living in Oblivion.
Cinema last night (this is how I started my last journal, I know, but this is a new one): Born in Flames, a radical feminist punk movie from 1983. It's sort of dated and rather belligerent (although this, I suppose, is the point), plus its mischievous targeting of the World Trade Centre means it'll probably never be seen in the same light again after...
Read More
Read More
VIEW 5 of 5 COMMENTS
mcsassypants:
I am not sure if it would be ethical to sass someone who lists "The Boss" as one of the things he is into....I am assuming that you are refering to Mr. Bruce Springsteen, of course????? Nebraska album='s fantastic.
...and yes the 80's do seem so far away.......I wish it was 1988 again so I could be 15 instead of 30..that was a good year!
Adios!
PS: Its not the gay bars you should fear, but the pretentious, trendy hipster bars, gay bars and fetish clubs are one of the few places I feel comfortable going by myself.
...and yes the 80's do seem so far away.......I wish it was 1988 again so I could be 15 instead of 30..that was a good year!
Adios!
PS: Its not the gay bars you should fear, but the pretentious, trendy hipster bars, gay bars and fetish clubs are one of the few places I feel comfortable going by myself.
mcsassypants:
I am not sure if it would be ethical to sass someone who lists "The Boss" as one of the things he is into....I am assuming that you are refering to Mr. Bruce Springsteen, of course????? Nebraska album='s fantastic.
...and yes the 80's do seem so far away.......I wish it was 1988 again so I could be 15 instead of 30..that was a good year!
Adios!
PS: Its not the gay bars you should fear, but the pretentious, trendy hipster bars, gay bars and fetish clubs are one of the few places I feel comfortable going by myself.
...and yes the 80's do seem so far away.......I wish it was 1988 again so I could be 15 instead of 30..that was a good year!
Adios!
PS: Its not the gay bars you should fear, but the pretentious, trendy hipster bars, gay bars and fetish clubs are one of the few places I feel comfortable going by myself.
Cinema last night: Carandiru, Brazilian prison drama. The idea a Sao Paulo (have I spelt that right? don't know if I can put the wiggly accent on...) prison is full of lovable comedians and good ol' boys who were only defending their honour is a bit rich to say the least. But there's a real humanity to this film that makes it more affecting...
Read More
Read More
VIEW 7 of 7 COMMENTS
prendick:
Cool! I mean. that reminds me. More than half a million copies of the comic book SUPERMAN: DEADLY LEGACY were produced by DC Comics and printed in Serbo-Croatian for NATO to distribute to children about land mines. I'd love to get my hands on one.
Michigan was cool, I love that state but I don't know why. Some places just feel like home.
I'll have to do some research on the Tarot Cards...good request!!!
[Edited on May 20, 2004 10:57AM]
Michigan was cool, I love that state but I don't know why. Some places just feel like home.
I'll have to do some research on the Tarot Cards...good request!!!
[Edited on May 20, 2004 10:57AM]
roxxee:
I'm thinking minimalist with a splash red. Perhapd it is a bit 80's. 
So my shortest ever journal entry gets me my most comments. Well fuck all y'all, I'll write as much as I want!
This morning, the lawnmower wouldn't start, so I set about trimming the lawn with a pair of garden shears. It was actually very serene and relaxing work in the sunshine, but it's gonna take forever: I got about one tenth of the way...
Read More
This morning, the lawnmower wouldn't start, so I set about trimming the lawn with a pair of garden shears. It was actually very serene and relaxing work in the sunshine, but it's gonna take forever: I got about one tenth of the way...
Read More
VIEW 3 of 3 COMMENTS
thora:
Actually, I'm probably the only one who calls it "nosing".
trixel:
Ok, now you're making me want to hear a song I never gave much credit to, likely because I never thought about the lyrics.
I love the image of you calmly crawling or maybe bending and snipping (although crawling is better
) with shears. Lawns are such ridiculous things that way, like poodles. I bet it smelled amazing though. I love it when a pace of yesterday is forced on me and I begin to enjoy it.
I love the image of you calmly crawling or maybe bending and snipping (although crawling is better
What actor/actress would I be? Sarah Polley.
I "Heart" The Magnetic Fields,
s