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The "I have a life" thread

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13:22 / 29.03.03

-The Survival Research Lab party in San Francisco was the best fucking party ever. Holy shit! The last time I met so many people I enjoyed conversing with was... well... the first time I stumbled upon barbelith. If you're out for meeting a bunch of meatspace Invisibles, connect with the SRL crew and fly.

-Hanging out with the Human Marvels (lead singer with horns has whole body tattooed completely in blue puzzle pieces) in Austin was badfuckingass, as is the town of Austin as a whole. I also enjoyed going kayaking there.

-Shall be moving to Bloomington, Indiana: as the city of Portland is much too culturally established for the tastes of a shit starter like me. Ever notice that creative passion is sweeter to come by in a town where there aren't a million things to do? You've got more inspiration: more of a will to create things because a whole bunch of shit that you enjoy isn't already happening. Every event that you'd want to attend: you're there. Every person that you'd want to meet: you know. You are the city.

-Gotta wait till my new cheek piercings heal before I mess around at anymore breakaway protests. They don't like those piercings in jail: oh no.

-Looking forward to traveling the world, now that I've seen a large portion of the US. My new place is mad cheap, so my traveling money will be very sexy. Possible trip of the "soon" nature invovles a May 25th attending of the London (do you listen to?) Radiohead show. Haven't seen them live yet, I haven't.

-Me no scenester. I'm a changent. Try wearing computer chips as necklaces, kiddies. Just try.

13:25 / 29.03.03

Hanging out with the Human Marvels (lead singer with horns has whole body tattooed completely in blue puzzle pieces)...

Is this The Enigma? He used to be with the Jim Rose Circus, too...and he was on The X-Files once.

If it's the guy I'm thinking of, that is. I mean, there must be dozens of guys out there with horns and bodies tattooed completely in blue puzzle pieces. In Autin, anyway.

13:27 / 29.03.03

He never used to have horns though, did he?

13:40 / 29.03.03

Yep yep. Same guy. I was quite honored when he complimented me on my writing.

The horns are pretty new, as far as I know.

13:41 / 29.03.03

He's a work-in-progress.

You know. Just like everybody else.

13:44 / 29.03.03

So you're not up for the group of individualists idea, dear?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:49 / 29.03.03

Survival Research Labs? Fuck, they rock . I'm jealous.
I remember reading a fucking fantastic interview with SRL's Mark Pauline in one of the old Re/Search books, and just thought SRL were the coolest thing ever. Getting videos of their stuff's fucking tricky over here, though.

13:56 / 29.03.03

1, 2, 3, 4: we don't want your technology war! Wait a minute... ya we do!/

The Return Of Rothkoid

14:34 / 29.03.03

Three words: the point fucking being?

Murray Hamhandler

19:52 / 29.03.03

Rage! All right! Bloomington's the place to be, girl. We need more 'Lithers here. Well...I need more 'Lithers here, anyway. Look me up when you get here, yeah?

22:29 / 29.03.03

At risk of pointing out the painfully bleeding obvious, that's four words, Roth.

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:00 / 30.03.03

Ah, c'mon. Surely "fucking" in text can now be like an emphatic noise that's not counted in word-counts? Much like in real life...

08:44 / 30.03.03

Rage: Portland what? Are you in Oregon?

22:22 / 30.03.03

I had my pedantic pants on. I took them off shortly after that post; they tend to chafe.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:27 / 30.03.03

Jesus, some people give Rage too hard a time. Like nobody here ever went on about their life to the point where some of us couldn't bear to read another word*. Tsk.

*Not that that first post was even necessarily that...

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:37 / 30.03.03

If Rage had put in a topic abstract, we might have had a better idea of her intentions. As it is, my guess is that she wanted a thread where people talked about what they did when they weren't on Barbelith...

The Return Of Rothkoid

02:39 / 31.03.03

But just can't bear to look away, eh Fly?

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:50 / 31.03.03

...which is, I sincerely hope, "carp and catfight like the cast of Popular on tartrazine". Otherwise an awful lot of training is going to waste here.

So...I'm going to Paris. I beleive the expression is W00T. Only for a week or so, but it turns out that a ticket to Paris on the Eurostar costs less than a copy of Championship Manager 4, so why not? Also, my sister is hiding out there while writing book, and I haven't seen her properly for ages, so some quality time when her boyfriend is running across Morocco (don't ask) seems eminently sensible. Anyone got any suggestions of fun things to do? I haven't been to Europe for any reason not involving work for years - I'm terrified that my French will fail me completely - and when you're on business things are largely done for you. The last time I went to Paris I was awfy young and unraddled....

The Return Of Rothkoid

08:08 / 31.03.03

Me? No, I'm avoiding bait-rising. White flame. Yadda yadda.

I would urge you to check out the Memorial to the Disappeared, though, if you haven't seen it, Haus. It's at the end of the Ile de Cite, at the back of Notre Dame. You cross the road and walk down some stairs to find it - it's a '50s designed (IIRC) thing that's great - there's a stylised portcullis blocking a sort of gun-emplacement view of the Seine, with two cell-like rooms build back under the road that you can look into - with a long corridor of lights stretching out into the distance, with one bare lightbulb at the end. It's great stuff, even if it does look like it's come off hte set of Taymor's Titus.

Whisky Priestess

11:09 / 31.03.03

Shakespeare and Company, but you've probably already been there.

Pere Lachaise graveyard, but you have to take a big bunch of lilies and walks straight past the graves of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Chopin etc. and lay them reverently on the grave of French chemist Gay-Lussac, who discovered something or other about the expansion of gases. I don't think he gets many visitors.

Or, alternatively, hop on a plane and fly back to London for my birthday. You git.

12:11 / 31.03.03

Watch sunset from Sacre Coeur, that's when all the freaks hang out there on top of the hill, juggling and such. Have a great time!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:09 / 31.03.03

Just misread Rothkoid as saying "Taymor's Titmus " and had a brief Half Man Half Biscuit moment to myself.

23:09 / 31.03.03

-Been checking out a lot of noise bands these days. Seems like my life is in sync with this fun. Grok the noise bands! Grok the noise bands!

Someone say something about cheap tickets to Paris?

"I've got your topic abstract right here, punk."

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:15 / 31.03.03

Ah, bless her. It's like having a ferret.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

12:36 / 01.04.03

Ugh!

12:49 / 01.04.03

Fucking hell! It's Fred Titmus!

13:03 / 01.04.03

The Catacombs! Goddamn scaries place in the world, but in a really cool way! Fields of skulls and bones!

Walking up the canal to Montmarte is fun too.

13:04 / 01.04.03

Someone say something about cheap tickets to Paris?

Oh go on Haus, take a hint. Take Rage with you to Paris. You don't want to be stuck all alone in a strange city with no one to talk to, do you?

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:10 / 01.04.03

The idea of introducing Rage to my sister is delightful.

"Hey, party kickers! Taking some acid in the shrubs of suburbia today, I kicked over a carton of milk. Imagine my surprise when Robert Flack - Robert Flack, yo - came out and told me I was one boppin' messiah! Paris is kicking now, yo!"

"Yo. What are you for again?"

She has a Ph.D and a two-book contract. She listens to Radiohead, but in an exceptionally hip way. They fight crime.

13:41 / 01.04.03

Been checking out a lot of noise bands these days. Seems like my life is in sync with this fun. Grok the noise bands! Grok the noise bands!

Not quite sure what inspired that, but I think it deserves a hearty "yes!".

11:02 / 02.04.03

She has a Ph.D and a two-book contract. She listens to Radiohead, but in an exceptionally hip way. They fight crime.

And when they're not doing that, presumably they just fight. Mind you, the slash possibilities are, well, hilarious, frankly.

14:40 / 02.04.03

I'm befriending everyone you're mean to Haus. All of them.

And you also.

What do you say to that, eh?

I did some graffitti the other night, first time. A shiny silver Barbelith scrawl now adorns a municipal dump - well, it's gonna be a park eventually - in Dundee. Does that constitute having a life? Also, I got pissed and took drugs with my friends, as usual. Are drugs still cool?

15:18 / 02.04.03

What do you say to that, eh?

He'll say you're hitting on them. Leastways, I always get accused of High Lechery whenever I'm nice to anyone female he hates. He's fairly predictable.

Does that constitute having a life?

Yes (though it might be best not to be too open about such things here).

* glances over his shoulder *

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:47 / 02.04.03

Bill, I have no idea what has crawled up your arse and died today, but it really isn't appealing. The only time I recall having said that your critical faculties may have been impaired by the desire to get your warty gitprong buried in somebody's thighmaster parts was "do you like Radiohead?", because you decided to burble like a brain damaged Glyn Owen about how purty Rage was.

This before I even take the time to point out, with a hint of boredom as big as the Ritz, that once you leave primary school it is possible to disagree with somebody without "hating" them, and that I certainly don't hate Rage.

Christ almighty. Good job I'm going to Paris, really, since the outbreaks of Special Flu around here would drive anyone in-Seine (BOOM BOOM!).

Whisky Priestess

16:00 / 02.04.03

Honestly you two. Just because you're hanging off the same branch of the sperm tree ...

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