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gingerbop
16:37 / 25.12.02
WOw my bruvva gave me a unicycle for christmas... its like the coooolest thing E-V-E-R!!! Im so excited about it even tho i cant use it yet but WOO HOO!!! Merry Crimbo every1, have muchas fun! xx
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
19:13 / 25.12.02
Yay! Your best bet now would be to learn how to juggle as a parallel endevour.
 
 
Potguns
22:44 / 26.12.02
Just remember the bruises are worth it!
 
 
Mazarine
22:50 / 26.12.02
Bah, forget juggling, spin plates, spin plates!!
 
 
bio k9
05:53 / 27.12.02
Juggle spinning plates!
 
 
gingerbop
16:29 / 27.12.02
Heehee ok i'll try...

My sister gave me juggling balls, so i could give it a go once im not such a spoon on the unicycle (or the unicorn as i keep calling it by mistake... itd b TRULY amazin if my bro gave me a unicorn!).

I have rather painful legs as a result of it skiting (is it a word- not sure) from underneath me, and i try 2 catch it but it just batters off my legs, in a very vicious manner. Yet i love it all the same!

Does anyone know where 2 apply for the circus :0)
Lauren
xx
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:00 / 27.12.02
skiting is a word, as long as you're Scottish, gb, with exactly the meaning you gave it. Oddly, the noun skite has an unrelated and highly pejorative meaning, as in you blethering skite, you. If you are indeed ginger, there is statistically a very high chance that you are Scottish, of course.

Unicorns are much less useful than unicycles, unless you already have a lion for one to fight, and the modern circus generally avoids the use of animals anyway, particularly endangered species such as the unicorn. Your brother chose wisely.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
18:03 / 27.12.02
that's v.coool, gingerbop. a couple of friends assure me that Unicycling is quite easy, not sure if I believe them...

And am v.excited as a friend has just bought stilts and is up for teaching me stiltwalking.

Woooooo.

Maybe we can *start* a circus?
 
 
A
05:09 / 28.12.02
Something I read once- "Juggling is like masturbating: it should only be done in public by the exceptionally skilled."
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
05:43 / 28.12.02
Oi, XoC: skite also has some antipodean currency. Whenever I've heard it, it's referred to someone who's either boasting or talking out their arse. Which may be different to your meaning; I dunno.

Then again, I do have a sporran in my closet, so maybe that explains it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:55 / 28.12.02
Funnily enough, many years back I was given a unicycle for Christmas by some friends who'd just realised I'd learned to juggle.

I can still juggle.

I never figured out the unicycling thing, though. I guess I have to keep trying.
 
 
gingerbop
22:54 / 28.12.02
wow! yes i am scottish, good guess Xoc! Indeed, my brother did choose very wisely, primarily coz he wanted one and gives him an excuse 2 use it! I thought skiting was a word (like shooting from underneath u).

Benegali: actually i was just considering declining my university places and joining the circus... Ive always wanted to perform and do nothing else, and it does indeed look like the one chance i have left to do so! If i get the unicycle going (i got about 4 cycles b4 falling today, so its on the way!). Last year for xmas my sister gave me juggling balls, so if i get that going at the same time.. thatl b cool. I do gymnastics, so i can do stuff on the beam.. i mean i know its a lot wider than a tightrope, but u only have 2 walk on a tightrope, but u hav 2 flip etc on a beam (well i kinda nearly can anyway). So i reakon id master that too! I can even be a freak show, and have hats like a lion tamer. What skills do u have, coz i think the new circus idea could b up and running very soon!

Love, Lauren xx
 
 
gingerbop
10:57 / 05.01.03
the bruises...still so very painful xx
 
 
Cailín
00:54 / 07.01.03
You could go to Canada - Montreal to be precise - and try out for the Cirque du Soleil. They only deal in crazy human tricks. But I'm afraid unicycling might not be enough for them. Now if you can juggle fire and ride a unicycle on a balance beam, there may be a place for you.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
08:04 / 07.01.03
Cirque du Soleil effing rock my socks off. At home, we call them simply 'Cirque,' and everyone in my house knows what we're talking about (I lived with 2 lighting designers and I'm a performer).

As for circus schools, you'll be surprised what's around. Do a check in your area because there probably is one. If not, look for a circus company to train with or a dance-theatre company (as many of them deal in circus skillz). If that fails, go and learn gymnastics. If you can't learn gymnastics, start with yoga. And do some hardcore breakdancing on the side. You'll be up there in no time.

Adam re: masturbatory juggling - I'm almost ashamed to say I juggle amateurishly in public. So far it's helped me meet a lot of people (just juggling in the park), and it's getting me used to the idea of juggling while being watched.
 
 
Potguns
19:02 / 07.01.03
Try contact juggling David Bowie stylee in the Labyrinth. Takes a lot of time but trust me it's well worth it.

"I can offer you your dreams Sarah..."
 
 
Cubby
19:51 / 07.01.03
To heck with this talk of "trying out", I say we start The International Barbelith Circus right here!

I've got a top hat, loud voice, and have been known to curl my mustache qhite successfully, so I will volenteer for ringmaster.
 
 
gingerbop
20:36 / 22.03.03
Cirque do Soliel RULE! When i was in london i wanted to go see them, and went to see about tickets and the cheapest were £70... now im sure it was great but thats how much i had to get home, so didnt go.

Ive been doing gymnastics since i was 4, yet hasnt seemed to help much with the unicycling.

I would be very suprised if there was a circus school around, seeing as theres buggers all else round here. O well.

Yeah, as for the barbelith circus... i will either be lion tamer or freak show m:0)

Writing this message is very difficult adas my computes being moody and i cant actually see what im typing: i can see the bit going along but it seems to be writing in white at the mo. Evil. So hope its not too wrong! xx
 
 
Potguns
01:03 / 23.03.03
If theres a Barbelith Circus can I be a contact juggler and one of the fat clowns who gets out of a very small car??
 
 
Seth
08:43 / 23.03.03
Can I be a dancing bear?
 
 
Ganesh
09:33 / 23.03.03
Dancing Bear? Stick tATu on the sound-system and we'll have our own ready-capitalised version...
 
 
Potguns
11:56 / 23.03.03
So now theres Ninjas, Pirates, Cowboys, Vikings and circus folk (I dont wanna use "carnie" due to the Simpsons connotations.)

at least we get more fun weapons, i'll arm the midget cannon.

Pot.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
21:27 / 23.03.03
I got the concessions!

Peanuts! Popcorn! Crackerjack! Peanuts!

Get away from me kid, ya bother me...
 
 
gingerbop
23:23 / 15.04.03
ooh the midget in the cannon: i could be that!
Do we have a ringleader? TIghtrope walker? (i would, but im rubbish at beam...) If we're having animals in it, my goldfish can swim amazingly.
 
 
Quantum
11:29 / 16.04.03
I juggle and do fire staff, I know a billion people who do Poi and the best contact juggler in Europe (possibly the world) One Ball Paul...
 
 
gingerbop
22:50 / 30.06.03
Now, this thread is from ages ago, and i've just remembered that people said about joining cirque du soleil, and its only now that iv thought about it, after kegboy mentioning it.

I've always loved performing, more than, well, chocolate to be honest. I cant imagine anything I'd rather do, or remember ever wanting to have one career so much. Im so sick of being washed along the education route, and i figure if i dont send off an application/video soon, I'll lose all the gymnastics/acrobatics i've ever leant.

Im setting my targets so high with cirue du soleil- they're fucking amazing, but im guessing they didnt all start off like that...
At the moment, i can make most people say "WWWOOOWW thats funky shit," so perhaps its worth a shot: what have i got to lose? I still have my application for being washed down the university route. Im absolutely certain a lot of people would say something along the lines of "she had so much promise.. she could have been a lawyer/doctor/insert-career-requiring-high-academical-standards-here, but instead applying to where she'll break something every other day."

But fuck them all. I want to be an acrobat.
(oh.. and fuck the unicycling too- it didnt really work out, as yet)
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
02:46 / 01.07.03
I'll join the circus, but only a an evil, wicked clown.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:52 / 01.07.03
Ok...so all of you get mad wikked skillz and then tour the world in my wickedly designed costumes...and we will all be millionaires by lunchtime.
 
 
gingerbop
17:36 / 01.07.03
*damn*
Didnt read that til after dinner- can we make it tomorrow lunchtime?

I've sat in splits half the day, determined that if im making any application video, its gonna have looking at least a little less retarded than i truly am.

And now my hips hurt.
 
 
Saint Keggers
17:51 / 01.07.03
Hips hurting? Well then you picked a bad day to ask about the ass-candleing in the other thread didnt you?

ps...send me a copy of the application vid?
 
 
gingerbop
18:10 / 01.07.03
I was hoping a good ass-candling could help with the hips, no?

Yeah, I'd love to show as many people as i can the clever(ish) things that i can do. In sharp contrast with dumb questions i frequently have to ask. It may not get done for a while, but you'll get one when they exist. Oooh i feel famous already
 
  
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