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What's loveliest?

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ONLY NICE THINGS

09:29 / 19.04.02

To raise the happiness quota of Barbelith after all this scratchiness - please share the loveliest things that you have encountered recently, that have made you feel all melty and tummyish?

I'll start. What was *loveliest* lately was watching a copy of "Sweethearts" which a friend had bought me for Christmas but I had not had a chance to wacth. This 1990s romantic comedy/tragedy stars some bloke and lovely Janeane Garofalo, and leading roles for Janeane Garofalo always make me melty. She has the second-best smile I have ever seen - and there is a lovely bit where her manic-depressive, suicidal character, after a lengthy speech by her co-star, cries out "I am *so attracted* to you right now!" and jumps on him for a cuddle, because he bought her the best hat ever.

And Bobcat Goldthwaite is in it! And he wanks!

09:39 / 19.04.02

My loveliest thing recently is the fact that my two cats, Shiva and Kali have started greeting us as we walk in the door with some weird cat ballet thing. It started off when Kali, who is much more graceful and generally feline, began rolling over on the floor as soon as we opened the door after work. Shiva, her brother, who is a little dim, watched this for some months and now does the same, kind of leaning over and putting the top of his head on the floor then throwing hisbody after it and rolling about on the kitchen. Every time I open the door after a day's work the cats are doing this.

Lovely!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:41 / 19.04.02

My dog had a gammy leg for a while, but after a course of some pills from the vet it seems to be better- letting her off the lead to play for the first time in a fortnight was quite spectacularly lovely.

09:49 / 19.04.02

Loveliest thing at the moment is Tom shouting "Daddy!", doing a little jig and literally leaping into my arms when I get back home from work, all the time beaming like a mad scientist who's just invented a lovely new disease. Uber cuddle-lovely!

That's Tom as in my son, btw, not Mr Coates, though that would probably be lovely too.

10:03 / 19.04.02

this morning was nice.

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:22 / 19.04.02

Actually, yesterday evening was lovely as well. Specifically, the friends I had dinner with have just got a dog, which is a greyhound, utterly gorgeous and the most amazing colour - literally tiger-like, orange with brown stripes. I've never seen anything quite like her.

10:24 / 19.04.02

Anyone have any non-animal related loveliness (apart from Saveloy, and possibly Kooky, who's link I can't open)?

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:28 / 19.04.02

Are you calling Janeane Garofalo an animal? Or indeed lovely lovely Abigail, whom I watched it with, bouncing excitedly and eating absolutely rock focaccia?

10:31 / 19.04.02

Only in the nicest possible way.

10:32 / 19.04.02

When I went home last month a friend who hadn't been out in months (and his g/f) took the night off work and got a babysitter so they could come out and see me and we talked like we were adults. In fact everything about going home was quite lovely, everyone had really seemed to have grown up. Well that was until people got arrested, the police turned into complete aresehole and too of my friends busted each other open.....prison style.

But until then it was very very lovery and much needed.

10:42 / 19.04.02

Went to Trelissick Gardens in Cornwall last week. Now, while I'm a big lover of gawping at dramatic landscapes and I can appreciate as well as anyone the fantasticness of trees etc, the idea of visiting a big garden has never particularly excited me. But, f*** me, this was a revelation. I now know that massive, MASSIVE Rhododendron bushes in spring, huge blossoms and big bosomy flowers in sunlight against a blue sky are the most rock-and-roll lovely things on the planet. Man alive, I wanted to stand there and shout "F***! YEAH! S***! HOLY F****! MAMMA! This is LOVELY!" and so on at the top of my voice but the National Trust don't approve of that sort of thing. Actually, they bloody should, but that's another thread.

10:51 / 19.04.02

* on the animals & hats theme, the bit in Hothead Paisan where Hothead buys her cat a fez. And Chicken (the cat) really likes it and does a dance.

* on the Great Outdoors theme, walking for hours across the Gauda Prime moors with my sister of complex-relationship fame and her fiance of heterosexual-privilege fame, having a fantastic picnic lunch by the Bronte Falls, then getting to Top Withens ('Wuthering Heights') and finding 3 50yo hikers smoking pot in the ruined farmhouse. Caning Heights, more like.

* more characteristically - discovering James Tiptree Jr yesterday. Dear God, but 'Brightness Falls from the Air' is the most exciting book ever written. No-one tell me what happens, I'm only halfway through.

* still more characteristically - getting confirmation of my Red Rose (slash con) membership and remembering that my favourite slash writer, beta reader, & generalizer of all time is also going to Red Rose - and then coming to stay with me afterwards! Woo! (I've never met her face-to-face before, she's from Australia.)

The Natural Way

10:56 / 19.04.02

I'm going to see a couple of friends who been living in San Fran for the last 8 or 9 months tonight. That should be lovely.

11:06 / 19.04.02

It's disturbing me that I can't think of a single thing to list in this thread.

It's not like anything's wrong, and I feel quite cheerful about life in general. But I can't think of a single 'lovely' thing, and it's starting to bug me.

11:39 / 19.04.02

I think this is quite lovely but I can't afford it -

http://www.animaart.com/comic/comic.html

Also I think the fact they've knocked the price of the X-box down by a hundred quid is very lovely and I'll be buying one as soon as someone buys my laptop...

13:17 / 19.04.02

My girlfriend has just been given a place on some great, big, exciting Phd research thing. So it means I am going to be moving up to Edinburgh at some point in the future. Which is cool, cos Edinburgh is nice and I have most of my friends from university there. So that makes me happy. Life does rock actually when you think about it.

Morlock - groupie for hire

13:28 / 19.04.02

Stopping halfway across the Thames to take in a seriously spectacular sunset yesterday, with clouds of starlings zooming around the bridge.

Christ, I can be such a hippy sometimes...

13:34 / 19.04.02

The shade of grey that my new apartment is painted looks particularly lovely.

As is the fact that most of the heavy furniture has already been moved up to the new apartment (having musicians and roadies as friends is lovely).

13:40 / 19.04.02

Got a message on the phone this morning while I was dropping Sage off at daycare. It was Tara reminding me that tomorrow is our 8 year anniversary. That was quite lovely.

Zoom.

13:40 / 19.04.02

Hmmm...

Immersion into Jackie Susann books - some of you may have made a believer out of me yet!

Extended time with audiogalaxy and subsequent retrieval of many wonderful 80s/90s r&b popbitch songs

14:10 / 19.04.02

My mum, who's on the other side of the Atlantic, has sent me an envelope full of brazilian comic strips extracted from a daily newspapers.

17:05 / 19.04.02

Baby Staffies! My mum went to pick up new net curtains, and the person who made them had a litter of Staffie pups. I want one, I want one sooooooo badly (my mum didn't even look, 'cause she knew she'd want one too). Me and my doggy miss our Staffie-cross friend, and I've told my mum that a Staff pup could be Christmas and Birthday presents for the next twenty years. I won't be able to have one, I know this - but the knowledge that there is a litter of darling little Staffy pups out there is definitely enough to make me snoogly-woogly...

17:13 / 19.04.02

An incredible dream 5 days ago, and 5 nights of dreams since! (I rarely remember my dreams). Spring is here, the leaves are out, and I'm having a ball in London! ...oh, not that kind. I'm having a blast.

22:39 / 19.04.02

Last Wednesday. Two hours of shitkicking History debate/ talking crap at the back of the class/ talking 'bout My. Girl. Friend., then two hours of more of the same, sans debate, then five hours eating, talking, sleeping, snuggling and fucking with My. Girl. Friend. and then Mulholland Drive in the eveing where, amongst oterh things, there were two people who looked as if they were drawn by Clowes, one guy who looked JUST LIKE NNY (down to the long coat he gets in hell!) and some guy who just got up and fell right over again at the end. And a bunch of otehr werid people.

I don't think it's loveliest, but it was a nice respite to lots of stupid shit.

Oh, and the fact that My. Girl. Friend. has a a whole message baord populated solely by people who thing she's really rather great is kinda heartwarming too.

23:08 / 19.04.02

Hearing the words "I love you" from someone I've wanted to hear that from for a very long time.

23:15 / 19.04.02

The flat in which I'm currently living has wisteria around the French windows. I've been following the progress of the traily, vaguely decadent buds; they look almost ready to open. It's difficult to express how (lamely?) excited I've become. That's lovely...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:15 / 19.04.02

And also the fact that- despite being a dyed-in-the-wool babyhater- I actually ENJOYED making baby noises and faces at my friend's baby. And lifting her up and bouncing her up and down and stuff... and (and I will die for this in some comedy hell) trying to explain to my dog how this kid wasn't evil like the rest of 'em... (don't laugh... sometimes when I'm drunk enough I tell the dog bedtime stories. She always looks really bored though.)

Murray Hamhandler

00:00 / 20.04.02

Everything is green and blossomming and blooming and warm and beautiful. Lush. It's gorgeous. I love this time of year.
Arthur Sudnam, II

00:17 / 20.04.02

The flat in which I'm currently living has wisteria around the French windows. – Ganesh

There's wisteria in the backyard here and it is indeed lovely.

06:48 / 20.04.02

Posted by Morlock/1:

Stopping halfway across the Thames to take in a seriously spectacular sunset yesterday, with clouds of starlings zooming around the bridge.

Hey, that sounds quite something - I'd love to see London.

The leaves are turning here, and some street trees and gardens have already taken on their fully mellowed look. The days are drawing in, too, but they're still beautifully warm and crisp and clear. It's intra-semester break and oh-so-good to be free to be out and about.

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:13 / 20.04.02

Hmm...last week, the tube completely screwed, so I think "hey, I'm goign to be late for work anyway, I may as well walk". Out of London Bridge station, across the road and over London Bridge, and stopping at the centre. To my left, the South Bank, St. Pauls, and further down Westminster, the Millennium Wheel, the wharf, with the sun burning off the damp morning air. To my right. HMS FUCKING BELFAST.

London is lovely. Sometimes.

10:19 / 20.04.02

Still on an Alan Titchmarsh tip with Ganesh, watching the progress of a trio of clematis I've planted in the garden growing up the fence.

Marvel at my green fingers.

Lovely!

16:54 / 20.04.02

my lunch today was fucking lovely.

16:55 / 20.04.02

Oh, and I got a letter from a long-lost old friend who probably wouldn't be very impressed at being rated below my lunch. So that was lovely too.

Regrettable Juvenilia

16:01 / 23.04.02

Seeing The Breeders play the theme tune from Buffy at ATP on Friday night. That was one of the greatest rock'n'roll moments of my life, but was bettered a few hours later by the inevitable consequences of ATP not having a VIP area, and Kim Deal's fondness for the booze. I'll tell you all later in the music forum, 'kay?

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