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Goodness Gracious Meme

00:36 / 23.09.02

blimey, finding it hard to keep track. Lurid, that sounds ace. was going to ask you if you'd investigated the scene; my instincts tell me that it'll either be terrible, or (under the 'the more you oppress us, the kinkier we get' theory) fantastic...

Maz: not sure yet, basically my best friend has just moved to Washington, DC, and another close friend is moving to LA in January so if i'm to have any social life, it's going to involve the US. and haven't been to New York since I was a kid, so plan to fly in and out and have a wander around. Recommendations?

Oh, and funny Bond fact: a college friend of mine is an extra in the new Bond, he plays Sinister Oriental no.64. had to learn how to strip a Kalashnikov, which will come in handy for his career as an eternal office temp.

00:36 / 23.09.02

Hey Rothkybaby! I've never found herbal stuff does very much for me. I have no idea why since it is potentially just as potent as any man made thing. I suppose part of the point is to have a less harsh experience. In the end, drugs can only be a short term solution to getting sleep. So you are probably right to stay off them.

00:38 / 23.09.02

The only reason I'm not an insomniac is the data entry assignment I"m currently working for my temp agency. It's... um... soothing.

00:41 / 23.09.02

Soothing work, eh? You have my sympathies, man. Actually I find the lack of structure kills any chance of reasonable sleep patterns. If I actually have to get up then I probably don't sleep at all about once a week but the rest of the time is fine. More rules, I need more rules.

00:47 / 23.09.02

I've got a purse full of pixie stix and poptarts that I invest in my awakeness. Of course, if I get too sugared up, I get the jitters which makes things harder.

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:47 / 23.09.02

Heh. Yeah, I'm up at an OK time, I guess. I had to get up at an ungodly hour this morning to line up for Morrissey tickets. And I am SO there!

I forget what's in it - but it made me feel distinctly like someone had put a nine-volt battery on my eyelids. It was not fun. Will have a look tonight... assuming I can't sleep. Again.

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:50 / 23.09.02

Plums: a college friend of mine is an extra in the new Bond, he plays Sinister Oriental no.64. had to learn how to strip a Kalashnikov, which will come in handy for his career as an eternal office temp

I imagine that depends if there's a job at the Post Office involved...

Goodness Gracious Meme

00:53 / 23.09.02

gah. Maz, you have my sympathy, data entry, is as you say, great for the old insomnia. find it works a treat on the will to live as well.

"More rules, I need more rules"
Really, Lurid, I would have expected you to have your rules sorted already....

Think finding the balance between freedom enough to do my own thing and structure enough to stop me doing nothing and being miserable/apathetic is tricky... found it briefly in academia but there was too much other crap going on... am kind of finding it when my college courses are running, having two/three days of stuff i want and have to commit to makes me appreciate and use the spare time...

oh and the rules thing reminds me of a great Gangstarr song i heard the other day, hip-hop all about 'Discipline':

"Yo.. just because I want to it don't mean I will
And just because I'm angry it don't mean I'd kill
And just because she looks good it don't mean I'd hit it
And just because I'm horny, it don't mean I'm widdit
Just because I make records, don't mean that I'm gassed
And just because I'm rappin, don't mean I chase ass
Just because I'm whylin don't mean I can't stop
I got discipline baby, and I use it a lot "

Goodness Gracious Meme

00:55 / 23.09.02

Ah, rothky, you're in for such a treat, he encored with 'there is a light' and played loads of album tracks.... it was gorgeous... we were swooning. and there were gorgeous rockabilly dykes everywhere. Although the Guardian review described him as 'lissom' whereas both nesh and I thought he was looking a little porky... hence the top-to-toe black, very slimming...

00:55 / 23.09.02

Staying up very late tonight to finish a project for school that I was supposed to get done days ago. And now I'm procrastinating even further.

00:59 / 23.09.02

What kinda project, M-Slice?

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:01 / 23.09.02

Plums: I hope so. I really loved it last time I saw him; the quiff will be in full effect, methinks. I know what the set list's like, but hold out hopes of an extended show because he hasn't been here for 10 years, and left early last time he was. Sooo... here's hoping.

01:07 / 23.09.02

Really, Lurid, I would have expected you to have your rules sorted already....

I've never really believed in 24/7, you know? I sympathise in bouncing between too much and too little freedom. I'm pretty haphazard and I seem to need that in order to be creative. Harnessing it requires discipline.

But Morrissey is 'a little porky'? Surely not!

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:11 / 23.09.02

ha. on the queuing thing, went past the local arena venue the other day at 9am to see a load of 40s-60s women camped out with sleeping bags and sunloungers, waiting for Daniel O Donnell tix to go on sale. Was talking to one, she'd been there for 3 days! That's devotion.

Hey Moriarty, what's the project? and how you doing? any of you yanks got recommendations for things i should do in NY/Washington/LA/SF, which i think is going to be my hol - with possibly a detour south into mexico...

Ps, y'all, check out the website : "I'm delighted to welcome you to the offical Daniel O Donnell website. I felt that when Buckingham Palace got their own internet presence, I needed to have one as well."

Lovely

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:13 / 23.09.02

Kidding, Lurid. Was amusing me to picture you and La M with a copy of The Rules propped up beside the bed. I've never particuarly been into 24/7, for pretty much the reasons you detail, it's the contrast and flux that is half the fun for me...

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:15 / 23.09.02

Mind you, there's a thought, a kinky rewrite of The Rules:

'Women, you will find your marriage will improve if when your husband makes a suggestion you disagree with, rather than disagreeing, you keep quiet. You will find this easier if you've ordered him to fit you with the ball-gag before he makes his suggestion.'

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:19 / 23.09.02

Moz may be a little more thickly-set (in '99, I thought he was a bit more like the Terence Stamp end of the spectrum, kinda built-up a bit, rather than chunky) but you know, it could be worse:

He could be Jerry Lewis. Yipes. Steroids, kids.

01:20 / 23.09.02

I know, but for some reason I can't help going into earnest mode. It might be interesting to think about how mood changes with tiredness and lack of sleep. Maybe not.

she'd been there for 3 days!

Im both impressed and appalled at the same time. Cool.

However, having looked at the front page, I think I may be too fragile to explore the website.

01:23 / 23.09.02

OK, I keep thinking that my posts are going to be directly beneath the ones I'm reading but I'm taking too long and so it all looks rather confusing. There usually isn't this much activity at this time.

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:25 / 23.09.02

think I can sympathise. am going through a stupid phase of having very important conversations very late at night, often with people in different counties/countries, so via 'net or phone. Find every VERY SERIOUS in a way that often doesn't translate to the daytime. (especially if i've managed some sleep). Tendency to mouth off and see the worst in things as well as to overdramatise especially pronounced.

Wonder occasionally if this is due to it being dark and quiet, this lending itself to feeling like i'm in an enclosed, isolated bubble, to a much greater extent than in the daytime...

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:28 / 23.09.02

"OK, I keep thinking that my posts are going to be directly beneath the ones I'm reading but I'm taking too long and so it all looks rather confusing. "

I know, I quite like it... it starts to slide into nonsense cut-up territory eventually... *waxes nostalgic for old days of home internet and mutual barbelith insomniacing*

01:30 / 23.09.02

Tendency to mouth off and see the worst in things as well as to overdramatise especially pronounced

Amen to that. I honmestly get surprised at how much sleeping on things really does make a difference. Waking up feeling different always surprises me, even though it happens so regularly.

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:34 / 23.09.02

yeah, me too. and it really shouldn't surprise me by now, it happens so bloody often. goes on the list with 'don't discuss stressful things when drunk/stoned'

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:37 / 23.09.02

actually, reminds me also of how the message is slowly getting through as to how much physical illness affects my mental/emotional state. was saying to a friend that I *love* 'sickies' and malingering, but that real illness makes me grumpy and miserable. especially (like atm) when its not bad enough to be distracting and is just tedious. have really heavy-grade flu, and have fled to parents for a couple of days, so as to not spend the entire day weak as a kitten and on my own in front of the telly. and am grumpy as hell in consequence.

have come up with a question for mordant. what dyou reckon?

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:41 / 23.09.02

oh, and as my dad's just come in and told me off(oh joy, i'm 13 again), and this conversation's reminded me of the joys of sleep, am gonna give it another try... 'nnight hon.

01:45 / 23.09.02

Its a good question. I get the feeling that people want to ask loads of stuff but don't know where to start. Maybe you need to actually know a person before you can ask them interesting questions. hmmm

Anyway, Im gonna try sleep too.

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:47 / 23.09.02

re: conversational stuff. I get that too. Rather, I'm doing the same thing, conversationally. It's difficult because of the night thing, I think... but... I dunno. Time differences can wreak havoc on people. And sleep dep. doesn't help much, either.

That said, night night you two.

01:55 / 23.09.02

Mazarine - M-Slice? Is that me? If it is, wicked...

Bengali - I have to animate a very heavy ball falling from a great height, have it bounce a little, and roll to a stop onscreen. Takes about 100 drawings or so. Like this, but different. It's really not so bad, but I have to run it over to the school tonight and shoot it, then burn it on a cd, and the computers at the school hate me. I'm very inept.

So, I'm watching the Emmys instead.

And I'm in shock that I was nominated for an interview. I'm such a comics ghetto kid. Thanks for the nom, Deric, but I'd rather die.

01:58 / 23.09.02

Yup, M-Slice is you, moriarty. I think I'm gonna wander off too. Night all.

01:58 / 23.09.02

Whoo. Sorry about that pahdners. Once a moderator gets on that modify request everything will be back to normal.

02:04 / 23.09.02

OMG, I am up too.

I am getting loaded on beaujolais and smoking like a fiend.

I wish my online lover would come back but he crashed his comp.

I will try and back up and read some of the other posts to keep up tonight.

~may

02:11 / 23.09.02

uhhh, maybe it is the beaujolais but, i think there is a secret code in this thread

Wait

It could be the 'shrooms

04:07 / 23.09.02

Still about on the reverse side of yea planet. Fine sunny spring day. Had yummy baked potatoe fur lunch, now would like a nice lie down...

2.30 hours left till hometime...

08:09 / 23.09.02

5 am. Drew my project three times. Each time I made the same mistake. Finally gave up, took the third try to the school. Went into a class that wasn't mine, broke the camera neck and a peg bar, switched people's lamps adn forgot to switch them back, couldn't get my background right, the animation sucked, and, like I expected, I couldn't burn the damn CD.

Bedtime.

00:35 / 24.09.02

Whew. I just made my credit card payment, twenty dollars to spare. Anyone still up? It's a reasonable hour stateside.

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