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'Some of my friends don't know who they belong to
Some can't get a single thing to work inside'

- Gram Parsons, 'A Song for You'

I've had some crazy dreams lately:
Wednesday night i dream a colleague from work loses an arm in some sort of industrial accident. When I tell her people are talking about it behind her back, she bursts into tears....
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woodstock:
Yeah, if I had it all to do over again, I might get it done where I have the sun. However, since that spot is taken, I have to find a new one. The advice about finding my center is a good one. Thanks! I will let you know how it turns out!
kay:
I did read the previous comment, and I will definitely have to check out that writer.

Paint = icky
Paint = grumpy weasel
Paint = paw prints
Paint = amusement

Weasels may never soar, but at least they do not get sucked in to plane engines.

~cheers
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'Kay, here we go again.

So you will notice I have finally got around to choosing five favourite Suicide Girls, thanks to the appearance, today of Lilith. I love the way her eyes have been gazing up at me from the bottom of the page tonight...
Will you believe me if I tell you these ladies have been chosen as much for their profiles...
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remuemenage:
maybe I've exhausted your interest in Alaskan revelries .......I'm having fun dredging them up.

I should have kept a diary of my Coast Guard experiences ......

I was stationed in Sitka, Alaska - the Russian-American capital of Alaska during the 19th century. There is a magnificent Russian Orthodox Church and an overgrown Russian graveyard as well as the old governor's house.

It is in the southeastern panhandle of Alaska on Baranoff Island

Your T.C. Boyle reference reminds me of a bunch of idealists lounging around the coffee shops of Sitka ......... planning to walk into and over the mountains - clear some land - and live unplugged from civilization

I have no idea whether they succeeded - Alaska attracts these sorts of people. It's one of the few places in the world that is truly wild - you can come off the wrong side of a mountain and never see another human being ever again

it's shockingly vertical - mountains rising thousands of feet out of the ocean

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cellosoul:
Something about this latest entry makes me want to spoon with you. love

Hm...maybe the John Peel thing threw me off. I used to be such the hardcore Anglophile. Only been to the UK once and it wasn't nearly long enough.

Saying yes to everything? Hm...brave experiment. Evidently I am not (yet?) that brave.

You wrote: "As for 'the opposite of love is love' - I think I'm going to have to think about that for a week or so!" Where are you in the process? Maybe if you imbibed some shrooms it would help? wink

If you would be willing to please send me a good contact "e" for you via SG as I would love to love to love to practice French with you, Sire.

'Kay, here we go again.

I have not heard anyone say an unkind word about Reagan since I heard about the news...I mean, various degrees of people I've encountered from radical activists, to soft poetry-toting types...it's been interesting. Just being sad about his passing. It was so easy to blast him when he was above ground.

Maybe folks are just maturing? Maybe we're too worried about Tha Dubya? Crickey...who knows.

You wrote" " You know, you too could exist in this state of benign indifference to the mass media. Just switch off, disconnect. Your rhythm, your world, doesn't have to be theirs."

This, *I'll* need to chew on. Why do I refuse to use SG's perfectly-equipped formatting doo-diddlies?

Joni Mitchell is yet another one of those real-life angels. IMO.
If I can someday just write one song, or one something that touches a soul, or even *my* soul in such a way, I'd feel so lucky.

Art is pretty much driving my reason for living here... not entirely... but....mostly. Working on expanding that reason. That purpose.

Rawk on, Cutriver.

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Not much to report today - for all the action, see yesterday. And, for those of you who haven't answered, I'm not gonna forget the 'favourite actor/tress' question - seems like it's got you thinking...

So, the grading of papers goes ever on... frown

Also today I ordered a bank transfer to pay a deposit on an apartment in Paris for my forthcoming six-month research jaunt....
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remuemenage:
crab butchery, eh? ....... I'm a crab killer. the crab were emptied out of 7ftby7ft crab pots into a massive hold in the fo'csle (forecastle - the bow of the ship)- which is where the crab butchering station was located.

we wore thick rubber gloves up to our elbows - because crab are vicious ........ and neoprene braces on our forearms to keep our tendons together. the hold was beneath us - we reached down and grabbed crab - smashed the crab against an extremely dull semi-circular blade cutting it in half. I don't know if you are familiar with crab - I would liken a crab to a prehistoric gigantic spider with an exoskeleton. All the meat is in the legs. After smashing them in half with a dull blade the entrails are wiped off with a large rotating brush mounted on a tray. the legs were then thrown up onto the tray - which is attached to a flue with a jet of water. as the tray filled - crab would fall down into the flue and be pushed to the stern of the boat.

at the stern the crab were cooked in a massive boiler - plenty of crab to be had at any time. the food in general was fantastic - we had a cook - but we paid for it - it came out of our cut. there were no women on board - the deckhands were all ex-Army, ex-Marine adrenaline junkies, and the processors were all under-the-table Mexicans and dumb green college kids (raises hand)

the crab was then put through a series of salt water treatments each one colder than the last - and finally packaged in a box and put in the freezer hold

the day was divided into three 8 hour shifts - you worked for two and slept one. sometimes I would fall asleep and dream of butchering all night - and wake up to a new shift more exhausted than ever before

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edited to say that I fell in love with Alaska - so much so that I walked out of a Classics degree at the University of Chicago to join the Coast Guard and go back

ever been to Alaska?

dude, I'm telling you my life story (and I'm aware that I'm not telling it particularly well).......... probably much more information than you care to know about me

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your the film professor - I'm a lowbrow, but I like what like


Dr.Strangelove bourbon whiskey cheap cigars - that's all I need to be happy

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Joni Mitchell is brilliant - atleast we agree on that

but disagreeing with is so agreeable, I like it when people question my tastes - forces me to look into why I like what I like



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cellosoul:
I thought Radio 1 was supposed to be THE SHIT. Tells you how much I know about media in the UK. ... wink

As for Sarah, still has amazingly cult-star status in the US, though she's Canadian and I reckon she's bigger over there. Always critically-acclaimed, though, once she stopped doing all those Canadian movie-of-the-week type dealie-bobs.

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Yes, I heart Sarah Polley very much.

As for French, I doubt you have much spare time but I would love to practice w/you offline. Online practice, while I am doing it a bit, is a mite... much for me!

wuv
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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...
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cellosoul:
Not very wordy on this go-round of postings...and for this, I do apologize.

What actor/actress would I be? Sarah Polley.

I "Heart" The Magnetic Fields,
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roxxee:
Sounds like you had a lovely time. smile I have no idea who I would be. I'll have to think about that...
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'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...
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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

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oh, and the voices in my head are paranoid alcoholics ......



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roxxee:
It's funny because I know exactly what you mean. The music is different but the movie itself is art. I love it. biggrin
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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...
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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? ) kiss
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.
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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...
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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. smile

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. kiss
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! biggrin

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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'...
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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. shocked

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. surreal

Tomorrow is my last day of vacation and then back to the job I abhor. Wish me luck in enjoying it my fullest capability. kiss
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. wink
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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...
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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 puke ) and whatever else you got to sink your teeth into.
prendick:
Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog returneth to his vomit, so the fool returneth to his folly.


love kiss skull miao!! wink
backatchabro!
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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...
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roxxee:
biggrin 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.
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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...
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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. wink robot
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. wink robot
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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...
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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!!!


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roxxee:
I'm thinking minimalist with a splash red. Perhapd it is a bit 80's. biggrin