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Plum Coloured Lipstick.

Lurid Archive

21:29 / 21.11.02

There have been lots of threads recently about how miserable people are and its worried me a lot. Here I've been, practically bursting with joy and acutely aware of the wrongness of it. To the darkly clad, happiness is a toxic chemical of the soul, that can reduce even the most brilliantly obtenebrated, the most scintillantingly beshadowed to a disgusting polka-dotted ooze of cheerfulness and bovine placidity. (For those who are lost here, imagine a happy Avon. Exactly.)

I could feel my essence dissolving, being corroded by an insidious force that might have destroyed my very identity. Luckily, today I was renewed. I may not need that terrible aphotic influx for some time.

To boil it down, the pinnacle of my day was when my boss told me that I'd never work in this business again. Perhaps now I will be in the right mindframe to buy decent clothes, jewelry and wear some makeup. War paint. Spidery eye shadow and plum coloured lipstick.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:37 / 21.11.02

Ouch.

What happened? That's a terrible thing to say. Were you in the fast-food industry, it'd probably be a welcome comment, but anywhere else - yeesh. My feelings are with you, eldritch brother of mopeyness...

(I initially wrote "mopedness" but realised that I'd look like a tit on one of those cycley things. But nonetheless, hugs.)

Mourne Kransky

21:56 / 21.11.02

We need to have a whip round so we can fuel up the Barbejet and wing over there with our suitably goth handluggage crammed full of hugs for you. And I'm excellent for advice on choosing the right shade of plum.

Did you poke vile boss in the eye with one of your perfectly groomed fingernails? Hope so, sure deserved it.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

23:07 / 21.11.02

Don't worry, drear. Plum is definately your colour, and misery suits you.

Pain looks good on other people
That's what they're for...

Lurid Archive

23:38 / 21.11.02

Its an involved job thing that is my fault (that makes me feel a whole load better, you bet) but which shouldn't really be a problem. My boss is essentially deploying his doomsday weapon, no matter how reasonable I try to be.

I often think back to adolescence at these times. I've just watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show and I'm listening to Rage Against the Machine. Oh yeah. I suppose I feel that I am being bullied by an authority figure and in the middle of the emotional turmoil, from somewhere, I think that I can see a point of stillness. Its good in a melancholy way. Ach. I'm an oversensitive guy with little sense of how the real world works but with friends who love me and a partner who I adore. I feel like watching Un coeur en hiver to remind me of how lucky I am.

Makeup tips and sad films then.

The Monkey

05:54 / 22.11.02

Oh man does that stink. Clearly your boss needs a nice thorough poke in the eyes. Doomsday statements are just tacky and never deserved...unless you obliterated New Guinea...you didn't oibliterate New Guinea, did you?

But the best I can provide is long-distance hugs from the Ohio Valley. Happiness is not all toxic slime, although there is a lot more to be said for your basic-angst wardrobe. Best Wishes, John.

The Monkey

05:57 / 22.11.02

Umm, John being me, not you...there was supposed to be a "return" in there...curse my anxiety over syntactical gaffes....

that

06:01 / 22.11.02

Hugs...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

11:31 / 22.11.02

"I miss the comfort in being sad..." Yeah, I know he meant it ironically and I'm grateful that for me it was more of a 'hobby' than a lifestyle, but in many ways the unremitting gloom of five or six years ago was better than the up-down of these days, now there's no chance to build up a tolerance...

Anyway, Hugs to you and if all else fails cover them in shaving foam and put laxatives in their coffee. Claim it as a piece of performance art and you should be able to get a job somewhere else. Otherwise smuggle yourself over here and I'll keep you in the cupboard under the bed and feed you lettuce leaves.

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:10 / 22.11.02

Oh! Lettuce leaves for Lurid, yes. Plum-coloured lip-staining lettuce leaves.

That sounds ghastly - does he actually have a means to make good on his theats, and if so do we have to tickle him into surrender?

Bill Posters

12:28 / 22.11.02

Shit. Sorry to hear that Lurid.... I have some idea what it's about, what that threat means in as small a world as the one in which you are employed. Best of luck with it, sah.

angel

13:39 / 22.11.02

Bugger! For what it's worth, consider a small truck load of love, hugs and support coming your way. For both of you! (MC that is, not idiot features).

Stupid man, doesn't he realise you have friends like us!????! What do you mean he just laughs at you when you say that, cause you know we'll come over there and ..., well, know know we'll ... just ... ... well ... change the decimal place in his equation by one place! That'll show him!

Sorry had an irrisistable urge to be childish!

Idiocy can be over come which cannot always be said of stupidity.

grant

13:53 / 22.11.02

Is this a fixable problem then?

The best goth-cosmetic value of trauma is the lovely dark bags you get under your eyes - very hard to do right with makeup, but essential to that frail, sickly, nocturnal look.

Lurid Archive

16:31 / 22.11.02

Thanks everyone. Depsite the hangover, I am feeling a lot better today. I don't really think my boss can fuck my career as easily as he is implying, though he may be able to ensure that I never work in Ireland again. Mostly, he is just trying to intimidate me into doing what he wants - not go to Barcelona. In a way, that makes it easier to just go. I really don't appreciate being pushed like that.

"I miss the comfort in being sad...". I know what you mean, My Flowers, but actually it is much, much better to be happy. It means that when things go bad you can cope and bounce back. Cool.

*Chomps on some lettuce*

Hugs back to everyone.

captain piss

17:07 / 22.11.02

It takes a certain kind of man to be able to carry off plum lippy...

But i'm not feeling very insightful on the angst/complexion axis today. Sounds like you're weathering this academic storm with yr familiar unfeigned good intentions/humour- all the best mate

Badbh Catha

17:36 / 22.11.02

You'll be wanting face powder with bluish undertones to accentuate the purplishness of the lipstick.

Sorry to hear about your bully of a boss...Try not to let his insecure manipulations get to you.

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