So I've finally decided, once-and-for-all not to renew my membership.
Nothing wrong with the site as such, I've just lost interest.
Nothing wrong with the site as such, I've just lost interest.
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So I guess you might be interested in my exciting news from yesterday...
I learned that my second journal paper has been published. It's about Oliver Stone and 'the historical film'. You can read it online if you wish:
http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue8/oliverstone.html
According to my tutors, this stuff is really going to help put me ahead of the competition when it comes to applying for bursaries and...
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I learned that my second journal paper has been published. It's about Oliver Stone and 'the historical film'. You can read it online if you wish:
http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue8/oliverstone.html
According to my tutors, this stuff is really going to help put me ahead of the competition when it comes to applying for bursaries and...
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unravled:
You would have gotten a tribute in my journal, too. But that's okay, I appreciate the thought.
Congratulations on your paper!
Congratulations on your paper!
miss_lady:
I've never seen The Fall live. I'm jealous! I'm not sure if they've EVER toured in the States. I wanted to see them tour circa the I Am Kurious Oranj release. I read about them performing w/ the Michael Clark dance co., and commemorating the anniversary of William and Mary with this big theatrical show, and the idea of it all seemed so completely original. I might get less drunk and rowdy at a show like that w/ cultural significance! Speaking of that, I've heard that Mark has cleaned up his act and gone sober.
I'm going to try to find Palace Of Swords Reversed right now in my dusty collection!
I'm going to try to find Palace Of Swords Reversed right now in my dusty collection!
Well, I have decided to give this site one last try-out.
I would say more about my day (because something exciting happened) but ER is on.
Gotta go.
I would say more about my day (because something exciting happened) but ER is on.
Gotta go.
runk:
Doing OK, mate?
Deep down, I just knew I wasn't going to fit in here. It's a good website. But just not for people like me.
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unravled:
What they said.
Just give it a couple months.
Just give it a couple months.
ctrlcat:
Up to you.
But you're INTERESTING, and we (selfish desire of intelligent members assumed/voiced here) need more of that.
But you're INTERESTING, and we (selfish desire of intelligent members assumed/voiced here) need more of that.
So up here in Scotland, we're bracing ourselves for two or three days of snow, whilst the university lecturers have also decided to go on strike for two days... Well, all the university lecturers apart from the one who takes my Gothic Text seminar Wednesday evenings 6-9pm. So I guess I'm gunna have to battle through the snow tomorrow evening.
Today I added another potential...
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Today I added another potential...
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teena:
i liked your thread. whatever. sorry you don't feel like ya fit in here. online communities are pretty juvenile regardless, but sometimes the entertainment value makes that bearable. oh well. bye bye.
What is it with paranoid men clinging onto their girlfriends!???
Honestly, are they SO insecure that they really think I am likely to be checking out their lady's arse?
Or perhaps they secretly want me to? Perhaps they are glancing at me in the hope that they will catch me looking at their girlfriend, telling themselves: "I'm better than him, because I've got this girl...
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Honestly, are they SO insecure that they really think I am likely to be checking out their lady's arse?
Or perhaps they secretly want me to? Perhaps they are glancing at me in the hope that they will catch me looking at their girlfriend, telling themselves: "I'm better than him, because I've got this girl...
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unravled:
I would?
dragonchylde:
Thanks for the message and hello
One of the greatest pleasures in my life used to be getting up at about 9am to watch a discussion programme on TV called "Kilroy". UK members will know that "Kilroy" was recently cancelled after Kilroy himself made some unfortunate comments about Arabs.
All I can say is (and only UK members will get this): Trisha is a fascist!
All I can say is (and only UK members will get this): Trisha is a fascist!
losing_faith:
lmao, so true my friend
Having a strange period in my life right now. The academic year is about to end. If I live on a shoestring, I can survive the summer without any money. But if I got a summer job, then I could be richer and meet more people.
No idea what I'm going to do.
No idea what I'm going to do.
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sarc:
I tend to change my pic every few days or so. I'm sure the old one will go in rotation and be back up in no time. 
kittencore:
Haha! No, just a sad middle aged guy that swears to get laughs and has an obsession with vintage cars! Actually.........
I've been listening to so much New Wave music from the 1980s of late, that I am currently attempting to dye my hair neon blue.
Keep your fingers crossed for me - I've had disasters with this kind of thing in the past!
UPDATE: It's turned out purple... Which is actually better than neon blue because it means I won't get beaten up by any...
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Keep your fingers crossed for me - I've had disasters with this kind of thing in the past!
UPDATE: It's turned out purple... Which is actually better than neon blue because it means I won't get beaten up by any...
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runk:
Yeah, I go through those phases, too.
When I was an early teen in the New Wave era, I always wanted to go over to the UK. America, at least where I lived, still played a LOT of crappy music on commercial radio at the time. That's really the genesis of me becoming part of "alternative" scene. I think I was the only person in my Junior High School who knew who Icicle Works, Ministry, and Depeche Mode (pre-People are People) were. Everyone around here was much more into Iron Maiden, Rush, and Twisted Sister.
Check on Ebay & pick up some old copies of "Smash Hits", or its American twin "Star Hits".
When I was an early teen in the New Wave era, I always wanted to go over to the UK. America, at least where I lived, still played a LOT of crappy music on commercial radio at the time. That's really the genesis of me becoming part of "alternative" scene. I think I was the only person in my Junior High School who knew who Icicle Works, Ministry, and Depeche Mode (pre-People are People) were. Everyone around here was much more into Iron Maiden, Rush, and Twisted Sister.
Check on Ebay & pick up some old copies of "Smash Hits", or its American twin "Star Hits".
NOTES OF A MADMAN PHILOSOPHER:
1. State the 'grounding' problem of resistance.
2. Hold back before answering 1. Ask 3. instead:
3. Is there a 'true' subject at all?
4. Two possible responses to 3:
a. Heidegger/Zen Buddhism
b. Zizek's "authentic" act
HEIDEGGER AND ZEN BUDDHISM:
It's a mistake to dismiss Foucault as apolitical. His target is facism. People mistakenly believe he is apolitical due...
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1. State the 'grounding' problem of resistance.
2. Hold back before answering 1. Ask 3. instead:
3. Is there a 'true' subject at all?
4. Two possible responses to 3:
a. Heidegger/Zen Buddhism
b. Zizek's "authentic" act
HEIDEGGER AND ZEN BUDDHISM:
It's a mistake to dismiss Foucault as apolitical. His target is facism. People mistakenly believe he is apolitical due...
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Today I started writing a philosophy paper on the roles of the colonial gaze and the black body in Fanon's account of racial identity.
In relation to Fanon's understanding of the black body, I plan to bring in a discussion about the biologist Donna Haraway's cyborg theory, physicist Stephen Hawking's disability, and the comedy tactics of Ali G.
Who says philosophy can't be fun?
In relation to Fanon's understanding of the black body, I plan to bring in a discussion about the biologist Donna Haraway's cyborg theory, physicist Stephen Hawking's disability, and the comedy tactics of Ali G.
Who says philosophy can't be fun?
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runk:
I would love to have a holiday in Scotland. Pencil me in for sometime in the next 2 years!
(I'll be sure to sneak in some of the better American brews...my part of the country was largely settled by the Irish & the Germans!)
(I'll be sure to sneak in some of the better American brews...my part of the country was largely settled by the Irish & the Germans!)
runk:
OK, then. Since I come from the "Land of Sky Blue Waters" ( a 1970's American beer reference that would mean absolutely nothing to you), I would be happy to bring along some mineral water from LaCroix or Klarbrunn, so you could taste the fizzy goodness that the glaciers did to this f*ed-up country 10,000 years ago.
Chuggers is a shortened word for 'charity muggers' - you know, these smiley-faced, clipboard-holding, bib-wearing twerps currently clogging up every high street in Britain...
In my home town, the main culprits are Greenpeace and Concern. No one from Greenpeace is ever going to stop me now, after I recently had the following conversation with one of them:
Chugger: Hi there. Can you spare a couple...
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In my home town, the main culprits are Greenpeace and Concern. No one from Greenpeace is ever going to stop me now, after I recently had the following conversation with one of them:
Chugger: Hi there. Can you spare a couple...
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Hope you get to come over & take that Great American Road Trip. If so, look me up!