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22:29 / 10.12.03

You’re probably just messing with my head, but I’ve certainly learnt my lesson and won’t be making assumptions like that about people ever again. Especially not on the flimsy evidence of photos of themself they’ve posted on the global interwebnet. Sorry.

fussycat

22:51 / 10.12.03

Just home from a Feeder gig. The first support act was Aqualung which sounded nice but I only got to see their last song by the time I got in. Apparently they kicked off at 7 and not 7:30. Then there was a terrible band with some terrible name making a terrible noise. Then Feeder. Can't really say much about a band I hardly know, not a fan. Hadn't heard most of the songs they played. In fact I think I only knew 3 songs. They sounded pretty good though and the video screens were cool.

gingerbop

20:16 / 11.12.03

Oh, Im very in, trixy.

Last night a very very hot guy asked me out again.
And today my boyfriend told me he loves me.

My head is tired, so Im going to bed, but have a good evening chatting about all things lateshifty. Nunight kegboy, tricks and bedhead, no doubt, and stoatie too if you're up. Mwuh xx

Anyone still awake?

Maz - I was just about to post this when you popped up...

Who the heck is No Doubt? Haven’t met them yet

Anyone alive in the world? I’m up for a yatter, but all the other threads round here look deadly serious. And, I’ve made a conscious decision to stop rotting proper Barbelith threads, which I’ve inadvertently done several times now. I now realise how bloody irritating it must be.

Question of the evening is, should I bother watching Once Upon A Time In America? It is critically acclaimed and all that, but it’s also veeerry long.

So, you're clever...what do you think?

Char Aina

23:41 / 11.12.03

watch it.
it's fucked, but in that fun way that second world war history is fucked.
y'know. bad stuff happens, but it makes you feel like you learned soemthing from the bad people's mistakes.

Char Aina

23:44 / 11.12.03

oh, and i'm up for being a clown slave, so long as there's no custard pie.

well, less custard pie than there is blood, at any rate.

23:50 / 11.12.03

Ta! I’m off then, to piss several hours of my lifetime up against a cinematic classic. I’ve got a big cushion and a cup of coffee, and a sketchbook at the ready for when it drags. Enjoy yer loose lateshifting ways

And that’s two clown slaves signed up already for the forthcoming world tour, only... er, how many clowns do you need exactly, to have a troupe?

Char Aina

00:16 / 12.12.03

three.
three good ones.

01:21 / 12.12.03

I'm sitting around with one of those pore strips on my nose. Pores. Woo.

01:58 / 12.12.03

"Bleh!" Im here and thats what I got to say.

gingerbop

17:38 / 12.12.03

I need to borrow a pore-strip, maz.
I currently have a scratched pimple, a squeezed blackhead and a burst spot, all on one side of my nose. Its minging.

Today: A day of moral dilemmas.
I was also nearly sick at 4am, cause my parents took me out for pizza last night, and you know when someone else is paying... its like, oh go on, another starter, a refill, make it a large pizza, and they only ate half of it between them. What lame big-people are they?
My moral dilemmas also made me feel slightly queasy.

18:20 / 12.12.03

Poor Gb. Havent you learnt those morals will get you in trouble?

Papess

19:04 / 12.12.03

Oh Bed Head...I am so yanking your chain, hon.

20:20 / 12.12.03

What, again May?

Aghh! I post in haste and inadvertently come up with dumbass quote of the day. A job as a clown-slave is clearly all I'm good for

21:10 / 12.12.03

Mmmm...clown slaves. (visions of the checkout girl at the White Rose in her halloween clown clostume...otherwise I hate clown)

21:20 / 12.12.03

Kegboy, I think you’ll find the correct place to be having a vision like that is in the utterly hilarious and profound foxy shopworkers thread, a few clicks due south in The Conversation.
Go. Post. Share your innermost with Barbelith.

Also, (in a Jason Mewes voice) is Suedehead in the hiz-houuse??? I think I owe him an apology for possibly seeming to say something rude earlier, though it’s hard to be sure. I certainly didn’t mean to be rude, although I may have been misconstrued. Just for a change.

21:24 / 12.12.03

Yeah, but the other thread doesnt mention clown-slaves!!!

21:37 / 12.12.03

Maybe not, but I think you’ll find plenty of scope for waxing lyrical about the checkout girl you’re having visions of.

What you got against clowns anyway? What would you be in the grand Tricks-Bop Pandemonium Circus? You gotta ‘turn’ you can do?

21:40 / 12.12.03

Well Ringmaster ofcourse!

21:48 / 12.12.03

Assign circus jobs to pre-eminent ‘Lith personalities for hilarious comedic effect

Haus could do mind-reading feats of magnificent intellectual dexterity. And later, a turn for just the grown-ups as a Peter Ustinov-style wit and raconteur. Or, like Billy Zane in Tombstone, whichever he feels like.

21:55 / 12.12.03

Er... I like Billy Zane in Tombstone, by the way.

griffle

22:00 / 12.12.03

I am not buying any christmas presents because i cant afford it. My plans for christmas involve staying at home on christmas day and getting slightly pissed so i can avoid getting roped into taxi-ing my relatives around the pubs/houses etc...

As usual i have no plans for New Year. Although i have a lot of friends i do not really hang around with one group. I have never really had a good enough group of mates to do somthing special with. The most i ever get is a last minute invite to the local pub from people i know.

anyway im not fussed.

22:05 / 12.12.03

Bed Head: Hey, I liked Billy in Tombstone too. ALthough I believe his greatest role was in Demon Knight.

Griffle: Man that sucks. But then again I too have no plans for New Year.
Its a cruel world all around.

22:18 / 12.12.03

Assign circus jobs to pre-eminent ‘Lith personalities for hilarious comedic effect

I can spin plates. I'm not great, I can't balance the stick on my chin or anything, but I'm decent.

22:19 / 12.12.03

I used to be able to contact juggle when I was a kid...but its been years.

22:24 / 12.12.03

I’m a big fan of the Zane. With and without his Zane-wig. Have you seen Invincible? Forget about The Matrix, this is what The Invisibles would be like if it were made into a cheap, dumb, American tv-movie with a wigless Billy as King Mob. Just don’t try and watch it sober, whatever you do.

I can spin plates. I'm not great
Heck, if it comes to that, I can throw knives. I’m not any good or anything, but I can throw them alright. As long as this travelling circus keeps moving there’s no reason why the law should ever catch up with us.

22:28 / 12.12.03

Oh shit... yeah I can throw knives to. Im good at that. Not Bill the Butcher/twirling target lady good but good enough to be impressive. I also throw cards.

22:30 / 12.12.03

I also throw cards
Did you learn to do that because of Gambit?

22:35 / 12.12.03

I can throw knives.

Just don't throw knives at my plates!

22:38 / 12.12.03

No...he learnt to do that because of me!

Actually, it started one day when I was cleanning my room and started throwing away a whole bunch of Marvel cards. Instead of dumping them int the trash I started flicking them. And so a legend (in my own mind) was born!

22:43 / 12.12.03

Just don't throw knives at my plates!
That’s exactly the kind of mischievous scampery us clowns are renowned for, I’m afraid. Just doing my job...

Kegboy - casting suggestions for Gambit - the motion picture?? I’d say Val Kilmer, doing another one of his fantastic accent/haircut-based performances.

22:54 / 12.12.03

Too old. Get the guy who plays Spyke on Buffy... he can trade his brit accent for a cajun one. And he finally gets a chance to loose the bad bleach job.

22:56 / 12.12.03

Get the guy who plays Spyke on Buffy... he can trade his brit accent for a cajun one. And he finally gets a chance to loose the bad bleach job.

Marsters just turned forty, dude.