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Gracious Living

21:49 / 30.10.04

This'd be a hypothetical thread about decadence really, as opposed to attempting to change the world. So you've got unlimited resources, but you can't do a damn thing with them except indulge yourself - How would you go about doing it ?

( For the sake of argument, in terms of booze, drugs and so on, everyone's immortal, so it's no good suggesting you'd go too far - that's not medically possible. )

So, where would you live ? How would you live ? What would be the ideal, but also normal day ? And where would you go in the evening, after a hard day chucking round diamonds for the ocelot to catch ?

01:44 / 31.10.04

I would be living in the South of London, abutting the River, next to the "gay village" of Vauxhall, where you can club Friday to Sunday without pause. We'd have London's premier gay club on our doorstep (Duckie) and good tube connections (and relatively cheap taxi fares) to everyone and everywhere we need to be to continue the party.

I'd have a lovely boyfriend, well broken-in by this time, and lots of lovely friends to partay with. Cherry Bomb and sleazenation would be employed as our social workers to help us cope with life's vicisssitudes by feeding us more alcohol.

Lovely Hanabius would text us daily from Edinburgh to keep my spirits up, particularly on Mondays, and we'd have Hogmanay in Edinburgh to look forward to with intellectual über-pixie Ariadne and swivel-hipped Loomis and the Scissor Sisters in Princes St Gardens to excite us in prospect.

And when I got bored with the actuality, as if, I'd fantasise about buying a temple in Cambodia or Kerala and moving in with a state-of-the-art flat screen, a Mission HiFi system, and a struggling Kate Bush, suspended in Gaffa, under my arm.

01:45 / 31.10.04

Xoc, I stil think that is an attempt to change the world.

Sounds like it is for the better, though.

09:54 / 31.10.04

I would purchased large tracts of blighted industrial riverside property all over the country, you know the kind, with the hulking factory shells, the randomly gaping glassless windowpanes, the strange pale weeds coming up through the pavement. I'd put state-of-the-art electrical fences around them, like in Jurassic Park, and people them with dangerous animals. Then I'd leave them alone. I'd purchase a container ship and fit it out for living on, with a dining room, a games room, beds strewn about, and a dojo complete with minions. We would steam around the world fighting evil and having orgies; we'd sponsor huge evil-fighting orgies in different cities we'd visit. There would also be a traincar, which I would use to travel overland when necessary, but only in the direst emergency--to attent the anti-evil franchise opening orgy in Moscow, for instance.

09:57 / 31.10.04

And don't give me any shit about not changing the world. Fighting evil is a total luxury, just ask Bruce Wayne.

10:01 / 31.10.04

Also, I would do my best to make Christopher Lambert president of the United States. He was born in NY, you know.

19:51 / 31.10.04

SOLID. GOLD. PROSTITUTES.

Oh yeah, I could get behind that President Highlander dealie too.

20:11 / 31.10.04

I'd have a house on the beach with windows in every room. I'd have the house fully stocked with gourmet ingredients so that I could cook, but also a cook on call to do it for me when I don't feel like it. Actually I'd probably have a personal shopper for various purposes, because shopping's very high on my list of tedious tasks. The shopper would bring me lots of clothing and books. And then I'd pay the travel expenses for all of my friends to come visiting, and enjoy periods of quiet downtime in between entertaining guests. That's about it, really. I don't want for much in life.

20:12 / 31.10.04

Oh, and a dog. I'd get a dog.

20:53 / 31.10.04

I would get the Barbelith Platinum membership.

20:58 / 31.10.04

I'd hire Matt Dillon, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Shatner, Jaymie Fox, Judy Dench and Marlie Maitlin to play Dungeons & Dragons with me. I think Jeffrey Rush for Dungeon Master.

21:00 / 31.10.04

In fact, I would start a Dungeons & Dragons television network.

I'm blowin up the thread!!!

21:11 / 31.10.04

Who’d be the cleric? It's important.

21:51 / 31.10.04

I think Shatner's the obvious choice.

23:08 / 31.10.04

I'd let them all make up their own characters, so I don't know. Bill Shatner might not actually be the best choice, though, as much as I love him. He seems like the kind of guy who makes a fighter named Mungo Musclebottom and cracks jokes all night. So, make that Nimoy. Nimoy takes everything seriously, he's totally old and everything. And he'd totally be the cleric.

23:09 / 31.10.04

Y'know, scratch that. Nimoy would go the other way--he'd be a totally irritating cleric. I'm going with George Sakai. I bet he rolls lucky, too.

00:21 / 01.11.04

Why not start The Barbelith Network?

hmm...