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What's it like to be you?

 
  

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Persephone
19:11 / 21.11.02
You know how stringing beads is popular in remedial classrooms? My head is a classroom like that, with all these dishes of beads set out... but no string. No, wait --not no string. Short, little pieces of string.

*putting my head down to laugh helplessly*
 
 
Char Aina
19:31 / 21.11.02
i suppose its a constant battle against my own stupidity,
except that from the outside it looks like a battle for.
 
 
Seth
19:32 / 21.11.02
LOL. That really reminded me of the "I hate him so much, I... flames... flames! On the side of my face!" thing from Clue for some reason. That bit always has me in stitches.

Imagine a bunch of meticulously, obsessively organised filing cabinets standing on strange, magickal rock formations perched perilously over a lava flow. With lots of silly made-up words, enthusiasm, song fragments looped out of context and miraculous solutions to un-named problems. Somehow the entire thing stays kinda peaceful apart from for the odd eruption.
 
 
Andrew C*** passing himself of as Haus
19:58 / 21.11.02
A href="http://www.upsaid.com/monkey23">Check it out
 
 
Saint Keggers
21:07 / 21.11.02
You know that muppet that played the piano and kept on bashing his head against the keys.....im the keys.
 
 
woodswalker
21:16 / 21.11.02
The sea where it meets the shore. Sometimes heavy waves, sometimes gentle. Always moving, always changing, always the same.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:22 / 21.11.02
Recall, if you will, the cartoon where Bugs Bunny's trying to play "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" on the piano. The piano's usually loaded with dynamite, courtesy of either Daffy or Yosemite Sam. You know - he gets all the way to "young charms" and muffs the notes? I'm that tune, baby.

Of course, when I'm not rocking like a motherfucker, that is. Hm.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:23 / 21.11.02
OK. It's Yosemite Sam. Try here. But wait! There's a Daffy one on xylophone here, too!

So very fitting.
 
 
Laughing
21:36 / 21.11.02
You know when you're waiting for your latest romantic obsession to call you, and you've been waiting by the phone for hours but there's not a single ring, so you figure maybe the phone isn't working and pick up the receiver to make sure there's a dial tone, and then you have the sudden sickening feeling that the person is trying to call you at that exact moment so you hang up quickly, and then you spend the rest of your long lonely evening wondering if you screwed up your one chance at happiness through your own idiocy?

That's what my life is like, if you add a jazz soundtrack. A xylophone jazz soundtrack.
 
 
Mazarine
21:57 / 21.11.02
You know that experiment they used to do on Mister Wizard, where they've got this huge plexi-glass box with one wee hole at the top, and the bottom of the box is lined with set mousetraps, and each of them has a ping-pong ball resting on it, and to set it all off, you huck a ping-pong ball through the hole in the top and there's this huge flurry of mousetraps going off and ping-pong balls flying around, which eventually subsides to a few pops, and then quiet again?

That's my life. Except all the ping-pong balls have obscure quotes and random words written on them, come in a variety of colors, and the box is about the size of a football field. It's fun.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:01 / 21.11.02
Currently? About as interesting as Derek Jarman's Blue with the sound turned down.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
22:11 / 21.11.02
Like a striking fireman. I deserve more but suspect I'll end up settling for a jam donut in the end.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
22:55 / 21.11.02
You know the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you? It's like the inside of their mouths just before they shoot the bees.
 
 
Persephone
00:20 / 22.11.02
Oh my God, you all are so funny... I kiss all of you.
 
 
darknes23
00:37 / 22.11.02
...like the inside of a slightly transparent disco ball. with a light shining through it.
 
 
w1rebaby
01:28 / 22.11.02
Like being the one cigarette in the pack that someone has put in their ear for a joke.

Or like a sculpture made out of all the feet that all the pigeons in London have ever lost.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
02:38 / 22.11.02
It's as though the entire world is managed like a two-bit peep show, where just as you are getting interested in the show, the shutter slams and you must ante up two more bits -- but when the shutter opens it's a completely different show in there.

Also, there's a guy walking around lighting firecrackers, like that scene in Boogie Nights.

And I have no patience with anyone.
 
 
The Strobe
07:13 / 22.11.02
Bag of shit. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone at the moment.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:58 / 22.11.02
It's kind of like the mice off Bagpuss at the EXACT moment when Professor Yaffle susses that their chocolate biscuit mill is a stinkin' fraud.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
09:48 / 22.11.02
Today it is much more fun being me. It's still like being a striking fireman but I've eaten my donut and been kissed by Persephone! Woohoo!
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
10:04 / 22.11.02
Like a bubble in a water cooler. Bloop.
 
 
Trijhaos
10:18 / 22.11.02
You know that old unfinished jigsaw puzzle sitting on your kitchen table that you've been working on for the past two years? There's a few pieces missing and if the pieces can be found and the picture completed everything will be great and you can go on and do other things. The problem is that the missing pieces are sitting in a large stack of pieces from other unrelated puzzles so you've got to waste time and search in the stack looking for the pieces that will fit.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
11:13 / 22.11.02
They sometimes say that you don't have to be right, just so long as you follow your heart, or you have conviction, which is just crap.
I think the wrong thing at the right time, say the magical words which turn out to be the wrong thing at the right time, make the wrong choice when it matters. All the while looked over by a giant rotating head that looks like Colin Baker. Or was it Arthur Lowe? It might have been Christopher Biggins...
 
 
paw
12:03 / 22.11.02
Autechre: Tewe
 
 
Baz Auckland
12:33 / 22.11.02
You are in a world where:

The sky is not blue.
Cats speak Spanish.
Coffee is Life and God.
Travel pulls at you along with Temptation.
Barbelith is there.
Maps make you happy.
The food is spicy.
The weather is cold.
 
 
ephemerat
12:43 / 22.11.02
Spaghetti in a tumble-dryer.

My head. My life.
 
 
Rollo Kim, on location
12:52 / 22.11.02
There is a film called The Producers ("Spring time, for Hitler, and Germany..."). In it, Gene Wilder falls over, he lands on his keys: "I fell on my keys." He says.
 
 
Sax
13:45 / 22.11.02
At the moment, it's like being Jack Kerouac during a rail strike, but in about six hours I'm rather hoping it's going to be like Davey Crockett being thrown over a desk and buggered by a gang of grizzly bears.
 
 
cusm
19:57 / 22.11.02
The background music never ceases, though often it loops little phrases for hours, like a radio you can't turn off. The DJ keeps prattling on as well over the music, only when he stutters your muscles twitch with the dissonance unless you dance to the music to work it out. The Sekrets Of The Universe (tm) tantalize from just ahead, but fail to help you make dinner or do the wash. Its a noisy place full of dreams, bound demons running machinery, books of trivia, ecletic collections of tools, and black magick, lit with the stolen fire of the Gods. All signs are written in paradox, making navigation through the twisty corridors a difficult process. The drum keeps beating. It won't let you rest cause Inner Peace doesn't get anything done, and you have so much to do, and like it that way. You're driven by a higher purpose, but can't know what it is. But the parties are mad fun.
 
 
The Monkey
20:24 / 22.11.02
That scene in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" where Daffy and Donald Duck are playing Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsody #2 while bantering and pummeling one another in pure, toonish, anvil-on-the-noggin fashion. Only with some bits in Russian.
 
 
cusm
20:29 / 22.11.02
The soundtrack in my head sounds an awful lot like Soul Coughing, incidently.
 
 
Vadrice
20:42 / 22.11.02
You know that guy from... damn... what was the film called...
the one where the guy had no memories since his wife died and he got shot in the head.

Picture him in referse, with neat electronic toys taking the place of his tattoos, and LOTS AND LOTS of time walking city streets for lame reasons.

throw in a little bit of imagined Catholacism and a Unitarian minister as a father, and you've basicly got me before I met Barbelith.

After that, it's been kind of hard to explain.
 
 
Vadrice
21:07 / 22.11.02
web foo! Memento.
 
 
Turk
05:05 / 23.11.02
Great.
People are surprised whenever I say something that isn't stupid. Sometimes I even save clever stuff up just for greater affect when it does come out. See I am smart.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
09:27 / 23.11.02
Being me is like when you've been or full clip all day without smokes or coffee and finally you get into the dingiest greasy spoon on the south side of town and drop your last 50 on some miserable no name black liquid and bum a three year old Gaulouis Disque Bleu off of some miserable git in the corner.

It's good, a very bad kind of good but still it's good. It's like that feeling of being pleased to have something you've wanted for so long you dont care how bad it is. There is no other moment than my life that you call being me good but right now it's just fine.
 
  

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