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What's it like to be you?

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Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

18:00 / 23.11.02

I used to live in Hounslow.

suds

20:09 / 23.11.02

i'm the moment just before a kiss. it's tremulous and exciting but horrible and confusing at the same time. my mind is a jar full of skittles. if you cut me open i'd burst glitter clouds.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

22:16 / 23.11.02

its like a party in your mouth
and everyone is throwing up

lately its been like that old man you see every morning walking down the block to by a paper, cane in hand. It makes you wonder either "wow, at that age and he still walks to get his paper every morning" or "doesnt that dumbshit know he can get the paper delivered?"

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:16 / 24.11.02

It's like eating a bowl of ice cream and wishing it had chocolate chip cookie dough in it. And it's like, okay, eating ice cream is good, it's not *bad* ice cream, it's not even vanilla ice cream, but somehow the absence of the cookie dough knaws away at the back of your mind, because you could have had some, you could have made a different choice at the ice cream shop, maybe, but you didn't. And now you realise you've eaten too much ice cream and you fill a little sick.

That's twee as fuck but it works on so many levels. Maybe add "plus the money you spent on ice cream was supposed to be used to buy bread and cheese" for another.

Cat Chant

21:10 / 26.11.02

It's like one of those conversations when the two of you are hinting around something and taking it for granted in such a way as to make your whole conversation all multi-layered in an enjoyable-yet-scary, portentous, intimate way. And then they go away and you realize that they didn't know that thing at all and you've just made a complete idiot of yourself.

It's not being able to remember quite how the song Bells For Her goes because a junkie ex-housemate stole your Tori Amos CDs, but being sure it sums up your life, but for some reason Kazaa won't let you download it and check. So instead of listening to it and having a few minutes of cathartically intense, well-soundtracked, beautifully choreographed, satisfying, unhappiness, you just go to bed feeling unsettled.

uncle retrospective

22:15 / 26.11.02

It's like being a character in the Young and the Restless having Cheech and Chong calling round to your house every now and again. Nothing happens for ages and when it does it takes months for it to play out, and everyone is confused.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:36 / 26.11.02

Right now... it's kind of like being like ANYONE you could possibly imagine. Only pissed.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:37 / 26.11.02

And before anyone asks, that DOES include Godzilla.

Linus Dunce

23:39 / 26.11.02

But I hope not Godzuki.

Beer is good. Good is beer.

Constitution Hill

00:43 / 27.11.02

It's like reading one of those books that you simply adore. the ones where you rip through the first few hundred pages before slowing down at the because you never want it to stop. And it's one of those books that you know will have an absolutely killer last page and a half, with a last line that changes everything that comes before it. Except, and you haven't noticed before now, that the last page has been torn out. By you. While you were sleeping. It's like that.

wembley can change in 28 days

05:05 / 27.11.02

Ancient Rome. Caesar wearing ye old laurels. Big crowd, many togas. Large 'playing field.' You, undernourished. Six lions, undernourished.

Enjoy.

Cop Killer

18:49 / 27.11.02

It's like, totally fucking easy to be me, for me at least; I'm sure that other people would probably have a heart attack being me. In my abnormal psych class we took this stressor test and I got something like an 85 out of 100 on it, meaning that I should be on the verge of a nervous breakdown or something to that extent, but when we took a test to see how much stress we have, or something like that, I got me an 11 out of 100. Being me is effortless, I get by purely on good looks and charm, baby.

_pin

21:16 / 27.11.02

It's like compiling The World's Greatest Shopping List In The World Ever Bar None and then going to buy it all, only to find it's a sunday and the shop's shut and work underpaid you so you couldn't afford it all anyway.

Eloi Tsabaoth

21:20 / 27.11.02

It's like watching a very well made and interesting film that has no cuts. You watch the characters do everything, sleep, eat, go the toilet, all in real time. If a pivotal event takes place six months later, you watch the film for the intervening six months.
And the person next to you keeps on whispering.

Mourne Kransky

22:14 / 27.11.02

It's hungry! *dreams of Mr Persephone's pumpkin cheesecake*

Bear

08:59 / 28.11.02

Very very very confusing at the moment, I think I need a new operating system or maybe just a de-frag. And I want to write about it on here, but I can't. But it's all good, I like it when things are complicated.

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