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Name: Caraxus pass: useme
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Just a little to...pointless for me, Tim Burton struggling to TimBurtonise the material. Just too creepy, I know that's how to Dahl is, but I like the book better. This one seemed a little to menacing and simplistic - it didn't really have a soul, only the bits with the family. And what was with the disco-glam Umpa loompas...
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Thanks hun - how's things bye the bye? Honours, uni etc?
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That's so harsh :) That's why there's writers like me and editors like you...so I can continue to spell the way I like. Anyhoo language is fluid etc all a rich tapestry...ehhehe
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What about a boy who types too fast and is too lazy to check his posts? Work with me here...
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OH my god!!! That's it - this country is iredeamable...move to Canada with me and everyone - start the revolution!!!!
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I blame the right faction. bastards. at least the cute twin won though.
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Fuck Tim, fuck the Left, fuck the Right. Fuck factions. I just wanted an actually interesting person who didn't bore me senseless to win. Instead it'll be the standard fucking boy thing, where the one with the least personality will win.
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Hey babe!! Thanks - hope all is well...
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Thanks darlin', it's good to know you're still around. Although you have been up to what?
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Hey babe.
Did you get my email about the Party? You wanna come? Tessa (from Goldberg St) should be there as will Eve, Propeller and slumper...pls bring people.
Drop me an email if you need an invite...
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Nah, you're one of those people who thinks they have an untidy room because they don't know what an untidy room *really* looks like. ;)
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Hey!! Thanks for the luck...oh and Jennifer Government rocks!! I wanted to turn it inot a movie (but surprise surprise) the film rights had already been bought...wicked cool book though. And I feel I should add some comment to the lesbian/touching/groping/sexually deprived Lia thing from the LJ world...but I can't really think of anything that isn't smutty...teehee
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Self-eros in a Narcissus sense or porn sense?
hehehe...porn...
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Well indeed...surely there is some Eros? And I reckon Philos is under-rated, but yeah it's hard to love your fellow peoples if they're alwyas hacking each-other to death...
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Hey lia...yeah I have noticed the funniness of my page in Firefox (which I use religiously...) and yeah Mephit's lovely page is all fucked in Firefox...sigh...
How's life? Love? SUDS?
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Hey, I've been searching your archives for the entry where you wrote about how much you love tutorial debates, but I can't find it... little help?
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Okay, these are actually bloody hard but you volunteered :) 1) If you were Grand High Lia of everything, what would your world be like? 2)If you had to choose one piece of literature to teach someone everything they need to know about living, what would you select and why? 3)What are you trying to do when you write, what does it make you feel, and why do you do it? (okay that’s three but … but … who cares, they’re thematically linked) 4)What, be it a piece of art, music, literature, an experience, a memory, an encounter, whatever has inspired you most in life? 5)And a frivolous one: If you were a character from Harry Potter, who would you be and why? (don’t go down gender-divisions for this one, that makes it too easy)
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Awwww, I'm sorry you feel it's time to part ways with dear ol' Diaryland. I have enjoyed your sporadic re-visits but I shall keep abreast with your fabulousness on LJ :)
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You will no doubt be disturbed to hear this, but last night I dreamed that you and I were going to London together. We only had enough money for the plane tickets but were convinced we'd survive for a month over there, no problems. I asked you where we were going to say and you shrugged. I remember thinking we'd probably share a bed because it would be cheaper *purrrrrrrr* hehe I'm worried about me :)
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I sometimes feel that time is my enemy too but I'm gradually learning to just take life as it comes and not fight it all the time. Fighting and questioning everything only makes you frustrated, it doesnt change anything. Try and focus on the positives love, you will be infinitey happier. I promise *cuddle*
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Stop that at once Miss Lia!! I am twenty-two.
(and, yes, it was St A. but in Brideshead Revisited Sebastian Flyte quotes him, and I'd much rather be Sebastian Flyte than St Augustine so...)
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Wow- I'm sure my thesis would have been somewhat better if I'd had anywhere near that much idea about it at this stage of the year! Good luck with understanding men- maybe that will be good for your fiction. I haven't read or watched American Psycho yet, probably because the I'd want to be convinced that it would be funny enough to make putting up with the violence worth it. But I like things like Pulp Fiction and Starship Troopers so maybe I'm just lazy. :-)
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not that it matters one iota what i think or would argue, of course. but its nice to get a different standpoint on the same subject.
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Well, I did get some work done, so, yeah, I guess maybe it did help. ;)
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The tutor was adorkable too, which led to much indiscretion =P
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You did get the mini-critique I left in your guestbook, yes? I guess my answer to your question (which I know is rhetorical and therefore not really in need of an answer, but I intend to give one anyway) is that you'll get better just by writing; and people telling you that you're good at it is one way to encourage you to keep going. I guess I don't really believe that you make a piece of writing good by taking out the flaws, you know... this is the kind of "hygienic" model of critique where you make a list of mistakes and then you "fix" them and you're left with a "clean" result... See, it's easy for me to identify and locate the things that I see as problematic in your writing because they stick out for me... but, what makes it good is much harder, because it's something that can only be described in the vaguest way... I think in the end what makes one piece of writing good and another bad is essentially mysterious. I remember a while ago that you wrote something about... how did you put it? Your "obsession with orthography"? I guess it's symptomatic of the same kind of perfectionism... in the same way that you don't want to have any grammatical or spelling mistakes in your writing, you want to avoid stylistic mistakes too. But... my advice, for what it's worth, is that it's not worth getting hung up on what are or aren't mistakes in a specific piece of writing... because you'll learn more just by experimenting, playing with words, trying something different in the next piece of writing. And the other thing is that my personal take on what is a "mistake" is just my preference... you don't want to develop a writing style that just panders to the preferences of one reader... in the end you have to pander to your own preferences. ;) You know... if you end up developing a Rushdie-esque style I probably won't like anything you write (well, maybe...) but there will be plenty of people that will... um, yeah, this is getting way too long for a note, but, uh, um.
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i think I read Jane Eyre when I was about thirteen ... the first "romance" I ever read. It was a complete revelation to me at the time, I think, and informed my teenage for ages, well until I learned about sex and pain, obviously ;) Surely it's the very neediness of Rochesters that make them so compelling ... the fact that they'll bluster passionately and grab you so hard they'll bruise you and then cry like a girl :) My attraction to pretty boys is probably all tied up with the fact I prefer girls ... maybe you're repressing :)
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I read your story. I don't have a title for you, I'm afraid; maybe something about "I Spy", like "I Spy Something". Anyway, I don't have any specific criticisms to make but my general impression is that you've improved a great deal as a writer and that it's really worth doing the work to continue developing your talent, which means, keep writing. Um. I guess I see a few signs of artificiality in it which come out, perhaps, of an effort to be "writerly" but they only jar, I think, because overall the piece has a very natural feel to it. Hmm. Yeah, I think that's all: the main thing is just that I think you're bloody great for someone your age but, it's easy to kind of get attached to the last good thing you wrote and not want to write anything that isn't going to be better, and so, avoid that trap by continuing to write things. But you've probably got that one taken care of if you're in a writing group, anyway, so it would seem I have nothing useful for you after all. ;)
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I think it's because I alternate randomly between notes and guestbook, and in notes you don't need a name; it's not that I have supreme arrogance and expect to be instantly recognise by my bad spelling and erudition. Oh don't get me wrong, I love that P&P adaption, I just like to mock it gently. JA would approve of such an attitude ;) What adaption of Jane Eyre are you thinking about, that it so saturated your teenage consciousness? Surely not Timothy Dalton as Mr R? Besides, if Jane Eyre had really done so much for you, you'd be searching for old, rugged roues minus limbs instead of pretty elfbois :)
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Do you have your new confident posture or something? Congrats on a joy moment... and remember one day you'll be the really lovely girl that the other girl can't help but like :-)
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How about "Filling/Negating Silence" or "What will we talk about?" or something that evokes that sense of dread one feels before a long car trip with an unknown/boring person? PS If you don't get a boyfriend soon I've a mind to come up to Sydney, gather together all the 20-30 year old single boys with IQs above 140, put them on my knee and give them a damned good thrashing for their scandalous behaviour...
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Tee hee. I reckon Elinor Dashwood could handle fungus as well. The thing is, I'm probably more of a Marianne Dashwood kind of person, which probably means bursting into tears and going into a decline over the fungus. Point on Beast well made and thus taken on board... will endeavour to shake the angsty "i'm so minging" teenager out of him :) Oh, and by the mini-series do you mean the Mr Darcy Jumping In a Lake to Produce Screaming Fangirls mini-series? Yeah, that rocks :) But it's not the most subtle of interpretations of a very subtle book. The less said about the Window Twanky approach to Mrs Bennet the better!
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Glad to hear you're better. :) Also, it's nice to know that there's still someone to notice/care when I update...
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:( *hugs*
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See the 5-7-5 haiku thing I did actually know, unfortunately with me things get lost in translation between my head and what I say/write. But yay for for haiku love!
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Ah but I've always known you've liked Rapunzel, because I quite a while ago now I read your re-telling of it. Hmm...Eros and Pysche ... yes ... that's the one where she's not allowed to look at him at night, yes, and, being a woman and all, she peeks anyway and he turns out to be a hideous monster. Then she has to go on a bunch of quests to prove her love for him and he turns back into his beautiful self. I love those sort of stories but I always find them cheapened by the transformative aspect. Perception could transform, not reality, otherwise it doesn't hold true. But then I'm a bit odd, and I like my Beasts bestial and my phantoms horrific! :)
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Does it need to be a 2003 release or something I saw in the cinema? Looking over my diary I see that I saw the disney cartoon "Beauty and the Beast" at the relevant time...
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You are so completely right about Phantom. The odd thing is that I enjoyed it massively, despite the fact it was utterly rubbish, I think probably *because* it was so utterly rubbish. Although the Phantom did come across as making a huge fuss about nothing re. mild scarring aka "hideous deformity" - I think he oughta to have got over his silly crush on the stupid chick and settled down with Miranda Richardson's daughter who was blatantly into him :)
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Amen to that, sistah! That's exactly how I felt for a frickin' long time. So if I ever complain about having a girlfriend, send Mario and Luigi over to beat the crap out of me :-) Have a good party! Love J xxx
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Yep, I know exactly how you feel Lia, it's weird and gross and erch. It does get easier though if that helps?
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READ SOME FUCKING HEMINGWAY RIGHT NOW OR I'LL BEAT YOU UP, WHELP! Uh... does that sound more backbone-y? I can like, try it again with more conviction if you think it wasn't good enough... um... uh... *shuffles awkwardly*
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Well, you might like him... or dislike him. Hmm. Anyway, he's a good example of someone with a very, very simple style but great depth. Uh, I like him, anyway. Start with "The Old Man and the Sea", uh, if you're interested, it's a good one and in the event you don't like it it's very short, and over with soon. But, um, yeah.
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Yes. ;) I was going to leave it as a one word answer because I like to be pithy but more is probably merited. I think that writing is often at its best when it is simple and clear, and the efforts of writers to be stylistically adventurous are often merely the result of a desire to conceal what they fear is the lack of substance in what they're saying. But there's no knowing what the "substance" in any writing is, if you see what I mean... because of the inherent mysteriousness of all communication. You don't need to be anxious about what's at the bottom of the cool, clear pool of your words because it's not given to you or anyone else to know... tell me, have you read any Hemingway?
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Hey, no need to apologise... blunt and tactless doesn't bother me, it's just not what I normally think of when I think of you...
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:| This is not the kind of comment I normally associate with you. Nonetheless, it's accurate, which I suppose *is* what I expect from you. ;)
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You have to go overseas... don't let that go. Perhaps even pick the European country you think you'll spend most time in and take a beginners course in the language next year... though Gaelic only really happens seriously way out in rural Ireland :-) Otherwise French, German and Italian are all good too, depending on your tastes, cheers- J
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Well, you have 2 years to cultivate new friends, don't you? ;)
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Hmmm. Something that might be worth experimenting with is writing "packets" of stuff, scenes, things that you want to see your characters do without knowing yet what makes it all happen... just something to play with.
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*Here beginneth the rant* You shouldn't apologise for your own style. Critique it yourself and let it develop, but as long as it serves your purpose you should let it be as it is. It may become your "Early Style", but as long as the substance is there, it will still be good art. Northanger Abbey is in a different style from Persuasion, but Austen couldn't have written her later stuff without the earlier stuff, which is still very funny. And the fantasy genre exists to illustrate truths close to the hearts of the readers (according to me). You may not have nearly got killed trying to escape moving walls, but you have experienced love and heard beautiful music, which I imagine will comprise the emotional heart of the book. *Here endeth the rant* Looking forward to reading chapter 4 :-)
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You better watch out... I have friends who are librarians- but my lips are sealed :-) Any thesis topic that requires you to annotate a lot of novels sounds promising.
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My Pleasure, I assure you.
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Welcome back. :)
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Welcome back! I really liked that entry...
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...a way with words, is perhaps putting it lightly.
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No, but if it's any consolation, you only have to read "In Search of Lost Time" once in order to get the same dispensation... ;)
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I haven't read Waiting for Godot, but I've seen it thrice, and it's amazing theatre. It probably would be tough going to read, as I'm finding Ulysses. Still.
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It's freaky isn't it? One day the woman I bought lunch from every day was replaced by a note on the shop door saying she'd died in a car accident. It makes the clear image you have of them in your mind's eye strange somehow.
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Thankyou muchly for that info darling. I will definitely look into that. *gives you a big slobbery kiss* :)
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Ahhh that's true and it IS an awful infliction blah blah blah. I'm just immature and will never get over the fact that it's herpes....on your mouth. Miss Lia - is it possible that you get them and I've totally offended you?
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You make me sound far funnier and intelligent than I really am, but thanks for all the excerpts you do. I get all giddy and blush
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Here's hoping. :(
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Hiya, saw this, thought you might enjoy it. It's a short clip about letterpressing. http://elsa.photo.net/video/firefly-small.mov
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Hmm. Hmm. I'm not sure... on the one hand, Lizzy *is* an attractive sort of character. But on the other, I think she's definitely written as the kind of "vessel of experience" that the reader is meant to identify themselves *with* rather than... admiring or disliking or whatever. I guess that's how I felt reading the book, anyway; while you read, you sort of "are" Lizzy in a funny kind of way... the other thing is that, well, I think that men who have a rich emotional fantasy life which revolves around making a suitable marriage are very rare. Perhaps it is a gross generalisation but it does seem to me that one the whole, men don't fantasize about marriage and women do. Which is not to say that men don't fantasize about love, but... well, that's getting into a whole other thing.
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I'm going to miss you tremendously, my sweet. x x x
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Thanks sweetheart. :)
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Until next time. ;)
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Couldn't agree with you more on that one, I was exactly the same. Supid damn liberal parents.
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Live my life. ;) Seriously, though, that's a scary question, but I think I'll try to get a temp job for three months, travel for three months, and then see if I *want* to go back to academia or if I like the real world enough to want to stay out there. I mean, that was how I ended up in uni at all... I spent three years after high school doing this and that and then realised I wanted to be at uni... so maybe I'll end up going back the same way. But right now I want so badly to be out that I can't ignore it any more...
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Not to mention Article 2 which says you have these rights regardless of where you're from, and Article 9 which says that no-one will be subject to arbitrary arrest or detention. The whole basis of *mandatory* detention is that it is *arbitrary*. I do agree with you that bludgeoning people into agreeing with you is a bad idea, and I've done my best to try to restrain that aspect of my personality over the years, with some (but not total) success. But on an issue like refugee detention, it's hard for me to restrain myself because it just strikes me as so totally immoral... evil, really, if I can use that word without irony. Locking up children who have committed no crime, for periods of years on end, is evil. Argh, it makes me so angry. So, yeah, I have to some extent learned to mask that anger and to discuss these issues in a calm, distant, rational way, instead of frothing at the mouth... but, hmm, I guess I don't meet people who support mandatory detention often enough to know how well I would deal with that sort of situation.
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Awww, thanks. You r0x0r my s0x0rs too. :D
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Ah hears ya, Leea... I have to buy batteries to make the home phone work, and fruit to make me healthy, and the shop is two minutes away, but have I got around to it yet? Ah down't thaink so!
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Daylight?
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I never noticed you had a disclaimer before! I feel just terrible for not reading it. I don't know you in 'real life' though and I found your diary through Sif. Please let me stay and read? Pretty please??
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Have you read "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco? Enough crackpot conspiracies in that to fund a lifetime of mad pampleteering. ;)
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Well, that's the question, isn't it? I don't know, is the short answer. I mean, my current theory is that it's because I get sick of being a lapdog... but that's... it's a theory I've come up with in an effort to try to explain the facts, not a... it's not really my direct experience. Because... all I really know for sure is that in all the relationships I've been in so far, after a certain period of time then "the feeling is gone". So... yeah, I don't really know where the feelings come from and I don't know where they go to. So, I try to figure out where they go because I don't want it to happen again, but... whatever I figure out is always just a guess, you know? It's not like a puzzle you can guess the answer to and get a tick for if you get it right... sorry, rambling...
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Ooh, a good idea! Incidentally, where have you been hiding?
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If EB's friends had taken the time to get to know you they would have been envious of him, the shallow bastards :)
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You, using "elitist literati" as an insult? ;)
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I never would have imagined it, but it seems even the elfin have squares wandering in their midst...
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Hey, baby, take a walk on the wild side... I don't know how many elves I could handle at once ;) There probably is a lesbian subtext in the Dumas, and the year the translation was published may offer a clue as to how coy the translation is...
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GOOD. WINK WINK.
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This is a SECRET, ok, but I watched the wedding too and when Freddie started crying my heart MELTED. TELL NO-ONE.
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... and in orchestra I was playing flute, and also french horn. All sorts of places I shouldn't go... :)
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Also, um, sorry about the whole violent drunken father thing. :( I wish there was something I could do, but, short of volunteering to come over and beat him up, I'm not sure there is, and somehow I don't think that would really help. Um.
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Uh, it is a word, but not the one I was looking for, which I think was just "distancing". "Distanciation" apparently comes from Althusser and... well, read about it here: http://faculty.uwb.edu/mgoldberg/courses/definitions/distantiation.htm
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Here's my two penneth worth to the trope discussion ... to build on what Tithonus has said I think the "figurative" sense of trope can be applied to situation as well as words if that makes any sense at all. So you could see a metaphor and say "ahah, a rhetorical trope" but you could also refer to incidents in the narrative, implying an allegorical or figurative sense behind an apparently literal event. Does that make any sense at all? To give a lame example, let's say in a story you're reading, every time it rains, something correspondingly emotionally crappy happens the central character. This is would be a trope (not a very good one admittedly) because the rain comes to signify far more than just bad weather.
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Ok, I was going to pretend that I already knew this, but I didn't, I found it in Wikipedia. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trope -- So. A trope is a turn. I made a zoetrope out of a book when I was about 8 or 9. And there's heaps of heliotrope growing on my parents' farm. Anyway. Right. So, if you take "trope" to mean "turn", you can see that both ways of using it are supportable. A figure of speech, especially one that is twisted from its usual usage, is a turn, as in, a turn of phrase. Or, it is a common phrase, "turned on its head". But, also, when academics refer to "common tropes", they mean, common turnings in narrative. ie, it "turns out" that the monster is just misunderstood, or that the answer to the riddle is difficult to get because it's so obvious, &c &c. These are turnings that are so common that anyone who's done much reading is unsurprised when they come across them... uh. Actually, it's really interesting to think of just how much "turn" and its derivatives figure in the language we use to talk about language... hmm. Thanks! :)
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My understanding of trope is also different to dictionary.com. The good old Catholic Encyclopedia has it at http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15065a.htm - a trope embellishes a liturgical text with extra words that enhance the original words without taking from their original. Still trying to work out if it's good or bad that I knew that- I suppose now I have a use for it it's good :)
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You admire my creative output? You're writing a novel, for gods sake! Thank you, though. That means a lot.
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He is a lovely boy, except for giving me no boy advice except for some tit-ho voodoo concoction.
That was the place and I didn't try the lamb but the octopus had my name all over it, good lord. I'm going back again this weekend.
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Circe was a bit of a femme fatale, wasn't she? Maybe it's the case that it's women that turn men into pigs :) Speaking of which, have a good Women's Week. I just googled liadlaith, and your entry about telling all of them your moniker comes up third... but don't worry- if they have any sense they won't tell Elf-Boy Mark II. As I discovered on Big Brother tonight, it's usually pretty obvious who fancies whom, so there shouldn't really be any big news for them in your diary, except that you think they're a fun bunch of people and that you're sure you can't sing ;)
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You know what I like about you? You set things out so nicely, and then I copy you (re the way you set out your questions and answers). Ahh. The joy of knowing that something looks neat, and not having to work at it.
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and it's the Mephit again. Re the post-modernism, I think I was being silly (or ironic in a post-modern way =P) ... I was just fascinated by the unfolding Austen Debate. And you were the one who brought up post-modernism in the first place, Miss Lia :) Y'know, I'd just love to lock you and Caraxus and Tithonus and Mindriot in a room with me and watch the linguistic fireworks start...
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Love the new layout! be well xxoo
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First I get "darling" and now "honey" - I hope I haven't offended you too deeply! ;) Seriously though, uh, I don't mean to offend and I know that my opinions are potentially quite offensive... um. Uh. And, uh, also, would it be ok for me to include your responses in my next entry?
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I hope you feel better soon dearest *lick*
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Ooh, linkage McSpinkage, what else can make me feel so good? I guess I should update sometime this century so I can reciprocate...
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I tried emailing you earlier but my email is a dirty communist and it didn't send. I'm free any time this week (except Saturday) so if you want to meet sometime just let me know what time's good for you.
As for where, uh, I can come there or we could meet up in the city? Whatever's good for you.
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...ceremoniously [with correct spelling] dump him with a clear conscience...
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Is it better to say to EB-II "I'm seeing you because you're my type" or to say to the nice short-black-haired boy "I'm seeing you because you're not my type"? I say get to know EB-II better, then you can ceremoneously with a clear conscience. And most guys with short black hair are dodgy ;-)
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I really liked JoM, although it was a while ago that I saw it. But from memory it seemed to be... I don't know if there was just one "message" in it... I think partly it was meant to remind you of how shocking and violent some of those gospel stories are by making them more immediate... but also partly that the way Jesus was treated then would also be how he would be treated now...
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Easter is the Sunday after a full moon, which is a bit of a worry for a cancerian :)
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Hello darlin'. Just to let you know, I'm back. Thanks for the patience and support. I really appreciated your notes, even though I was hiding behind locked doors. All is well and sane again.... much of the love and thanks again xxx
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i don't think you are conservative at all, but i must admit, there is something in you akin to eliteism. i hope you are not offended, i wouldn't have called it being elite and i don't think its a negative thing. so worry not. and you are not a bitch, under any means.
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You know, quite a few fantasy novels begin with an event somewhat akin to this (for example, Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionovar Tapestry). There's some event which indicates that the "gate" between the fantasy world and the normal world is open, and then someone comes through from the fantasy world and tells you that there's an important quest you're needed for in the other world... anyway, typically with these things you get to choose some people to go through the rift into the fantasy world with you, and just in case this is what is happenning, I *insist* that you include me. INSIST!!!
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Well, you fooled me - I thought you'd gone COMPLETELY mad :) Thank you for the guestbook love - I'm feeling much better, and don't worry about the letter - you concentrate on your Uni work.
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Hm. Isn't there something in what Cooper is saying, though? Basically, if we understand the "proof" of love to be the provision of something that we need, then there is an inherent contradiction between independence and receiving reassurances of love. In fact, if you take the argument a little beyond what Cooper is saying it resonates even more strongly; if you need him, you're not independent and therefore failing to conform with the modern imperative to be a "strong, indepedent woman". But if you don't need him, what's he for? Is he just a badge of your success in another field of life? Is he there to provide symbolic gestures like proposals of marriage to demonstrate that you're not the bully all your friends think you are? I don't know. I'm not sure exactly what I'm trying to express, except that there's something unsettling about the idea that "strength" involves the elimination of need... P.S. Did you get the soundtrack thingy?
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{ "At least when the boys do propose the girls will know they're really ready." That's always bothered me - why do guys not have to worry about girls being ready for marriage? } They do, because they'll get refused if the girl isn't ready. Of course that depends on the girl having good sense (usually) and the guy not pressuring her (ok, touché)
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It's funny about women 'not being allowed' to propose. I know a few girls who are waiting for their long-time boyfriends to propose. At least when the boys do propose the girls will know they're really ready (hmmm... for a couple of years and maybe a little drunk :) ). Another of my friends has finally got together with the guy she's liked for years (he had to leave his girlfriend for this to happen), and now the M-word is out in the open and on the agenda. This guarantee of acceptance is sort of like a proposal, and his proposal will be like an acceptance :)
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I had an 8.75 hour day today, and I find 7 hours arduous enough... This morning I started my latest piece, about one and a half bars worth which I will almost certainly throw out later, but it's a start. When I was trying to do a masters degree, by far the best bit were the informal seminars with my supervisor and the other early music students. It made looking up bibliographies and ploughing through page after page of academic French seem positively dull :)
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God, could you get any more perfect with your last paragraph.
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And in the thirteenth day of the first month of the reign of Sloth, behold, there was much agitation in the House of Liadlaith of Sydney. And Liadlaith said unto her sister, known as Brat of Sydney: "Oh woe is me, for our very father and mother shall return on the morrow, and they shall strike us upon the crown of our heads and say 'Ye been stupid fat hobbits, for behold ye- the house is an very pigsty!'. Let us then put everything back in his proper place. Thus did Liadlaith and Brat toil until the house sparkled like an polished shield. And Liadlaith thought much upon her dog, a small beast with much haires.
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Thankyou for the admonishments...you're right, no one is 'forcing' me to go. But I have only 2 subjects left till I graduate - so the proverbial gun is there. Only two, both of them apalling taught and boring as guano - it's frustrating cause I relly looked forward to doing some work and it seems bitching about it's all I've got left. Don't want this to be my last memories of uni...but I'll deal...
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Ack. I'm sorry, I know, I know. I got into a terrible mess when some friends (Wedgewood and La Danaide) read their way thro' the entirety - the fucking entirety of my diary - and found much that displeased them. So my social life has collapsed like a pack of cards, and I feel quite horrendously invaded and ... well ... I'm trying to work out what the hell to do.
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Harlowz!~ 2 things to note:
1) I like your layout; it's very original.
2) I have this thing for well-written entries and yours fit the bill, period.
I'm linking you up, hope you don't mind!
~Wats
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I think it's a bit of both, although mainly the latter. Uh, to elaborate: trust grows gradually over time, or, finds the appropriate level over time, and this is a slow process. But sometimes that process can be accelerated by taking a big risk; if the person justified the faith you've shown in them by taking that risk, then you'll trust them more in future, whereas if they don't then all your trust in them will be shattered. Um. I guess maybe there are two kinds of trust, separate but related; the trust you feel and the trust you show. And the first kind is involuntary and the second kind is voluntary - but each changes in response to the other. Uh. If that makes any kind of sense...
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Goodness gracious, anyone who thought you had the slightest goth tendencies would have to be a little bit wubbly-jubbly in the head, I would think!
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I figured you were a goth when I saw you trashing the last vestiges of the Roman Empire. ;)
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i've come by twice now to leave you a note, and then proceeded to get caught up reading and left without saying anything. i guess that is rather complimentary to your diary. anyway, i've never actually watched any monty python. aren't i horribly deprived?
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I think you'll have a great time with the choir, if only because those choirs have lots of fantasy-loving people who may also be goths in them. At least the Melbourne Uni Choral Society does :) Who knows, maybe you'll abandon your groupie status one day and join the altos...
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I want that badge!! So you agree right/ Were did you get such a badge?? Tell all...
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I did! That is why Bag End is so cute in LOR/Hobbit - yeah I think people get too caught up in the actualities of the crucifixion...kinda miss the point of the whole thing...
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the book is better than the film. and i saw cillian murphy in galway in ireland, and he is so short. i am talking like 5'3 or something. he is this tiny little man and way sexier on screen!
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Cheers to being maths free!
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Carats? Interesting...but greater than/less than thingies makes sense, like in maths (curse its evil soul...)...eeeek
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Hey - pooey to honesty, internet borrowing ahoyhoy. It's post-modern, it's pastiche! As Picasso said - 'It's a poor artist who borrows - a good artist steals.'
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It has taken me a good while, but I'm no longer the most confused diary-reader ever. And weakling that I am, will now try and get minquë hours of a weakling's pastime.
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Ahaha, my diary no longer assaults the eyes. Always an advantage. And Sean Astin is sooo cute! *wants*
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Yes I know about the red (it makes me wince to look at it) ... I just haven't been bothered to change it yet. Give me time, dear heart, give me time :)
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Uh... um... because, like, uh, I'll be going around ripping mobile-phone-antenna-relay-thingos off rooftops? And the beaches... well, I think that's just obvious. Uh. Regarding your address, then, uh, I'm trying to dig it up... I seem to have quite a lot of emails from you, though, so if you could send it again it would speed things up for me. :)
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NEVER!!! I WILL NEVER GIVE IN!!! I WILL FIGHT THEM ON THE BEACHES, I WILL FIGHT THEM ON THE ROOFTOPS, &c. Also, I have the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack, let me know if you want a CD-R of it. Also, I haven't read your story yet, I keep forgetting, but I will remember it. Maybe even right now.
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"I hope you enjoyed O Brother, Where art Thou"... George Clooney—duh!
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Hope you enjoyed O Brother, Where art Thou. I'm in an occasional, special purpose singing group that calls itself the Soggy Bottoms, for want of a better name. We don't go by this name when we sing in churches :)
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Yeah, but Paul... well, to be honest I just don't get Paul. I know he was responsible for bringing Christianity to Rome and therefore he's the real reason Europe was Christian, but... he seems to be seriously out of whack with the Gospels. Maybe I should read him more but I find him rather depressing, apart from anything else.
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You can make a plausible argument that "The Bible" isn't anti-homosexual. All of the things that specifically say that homosexuality is sinful are in the old testament, and appear alongside prohibitions against eating blood and shellfish and praying when you're menstruating, all of which modern Christians pay little or no attention to. Because Christ says, in the new testament, "all that old junk about what you can and can't eat and when &c isn't as important to God as what really counts, which is your ability to love and forgive one another." (I'm paraphrasing - but there's a good example of Jesus' thinking on this sort of thing in Luke 11:37-42) I think Christians who are against homosexuality are really just using the Bible to justify their own feelings of hatred and disgust at something that they don't understand.
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Oh, I'm not trying to excuse anything... I just want to understand... I think I am interested in other people's bad behaviour because it helps me get some insight into my own. :)
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Maybe he was feeling guilty because he thought what he was asking was unreasonable? Hence his defensiveness in advance of asking, and the short fuse he was on - because any calm discussion would, he worried, result in a reduction of the demands he was making?
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Lia my love, light of my life!
I like alliteration. (and you. <3)
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I turned up late because I wasn't especially interested in seeing the support band (Something for Kate)... glad you're feeling <I>hardcore</I>. ;)
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Well Josquin, now I think it’s perfectly obvious that html tags <b><blink>DON’T WORK</blink></b> in notes. :-)
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Don’t deny it liadlaith, you’re <i>hardcore</i>. Who would read just any old softcore diary?
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Ooh, you said I'm one of your favourites, the ego has been stroked! *purrs* Actually, I'm a bit... worried that my "fuck you" joke on Caraxus was in poor taste... tell me, how do you think you'd have responded if I'd done the same thing to you? And, speaking of stroking egos, can I read your stories? Although I'll probably come up with some interpretation like with the Rapunzel thing that'll make you wish you hadn't shared them...
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Uh, I know I am constantly recommending books to you, but for another perspective on Christianity I recommend "On Religion" by John D. Caputo (which is very short) and "Belonging to the Universe" by Fritjof Capra, David Steindl-Rast and Thomas Matus, which is a collection of dialogues and a nice, light, easy read.
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I love your newest entry. I've felt the same way about my church (and I am a baptised Christian) for a long time, but haven't been able to put it in words. Thank you.
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Dammit, and I was really looking forward to you drinking from my jewelled chalice ;)
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geniuses do tend to be on the certifiably insane side of life. which is why i do my best to remain adequately obtuse.
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Pin-stripe, eh? Is this the new executive side to liadlaith that we've never seen before ;-)
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Uh... maybe a couple of months will be all I need?
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So, you don't think I'm a genius, huh? WELL I'LL SHOW YOU!! I'LL SHOW YOU ALL!!!!! THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE BEFORE MY MIGHTY ARMY OF GIANT ROBOT CICADAS!!!!!!
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No it isn't. You understand me well enough, don't you? ;)
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Wouldn't you rather be a clearly understood genius? ;) I guess you're right about the work vs uni thing... I made a lot more friends through work than I did through uni, but when I left work I lost contact with all of them, whereas my uni friends, though fewer in number, have proved far more resilient. Still, wouldn't it be nice to have the best of both worlds?
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So, once they turn 18, just feed 'em to the sharks, huh? ;) Seriously though, I agree that you can't make sociality work but on the other hand... well, in courses like Law or Engineering then you have a lot more of the kind of structural attributes which make it easy to make and keep friends. You're in smaller classes with people who are in your other classes too, the faces stay fairly stable from year to year... it's like you get to know these people whether you make an effort or not. Whereas making friends in arts or commerce is like catching random trains around Sydney and trying to make friends with someone in the same carriage as you... it's hard to approach people, when you do it often turns out that you have nothing in common with them, and once you get out of that carriage the chances of you ever running into them spontaneously again are vanishingly small... and, see this isn't just about making university "nicer" for people or whatever, I think it actually affects the way people approach their work because... uh... this is going to be too long for your notes page, so, here endeth the rant.
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Yeah, I've heard that Buffy stemmed from Elizabeth. However, in the show there is no indication at all that Buffy isn't her actual name - it's even in the school registration database thing that way. So, I am left to conclude that her mother was just severely misguided. :)
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Yeah, laziness is a curse, I'd do something about mine but it would be too much work. :) It's a pity university doesn't... force people to all have lunch together in the same way school did. Or, you know, it'd be good if... um... man, I've spent two ideas writing about this and I still have no idea what, if anything can be done to make university sociality work better.
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:( Well, you haven't managed to lose me yet. ;)
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That reminds me, I really should polish my shoes... It's been a hell of a long time since I polished anyone else's shoes. And I'm sure all the inner thoughts you had while 'not doing anything worthwhile' were worthwhile to you.
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Ooh, tell us more! What kind of polish did you use? Did you use a brush or a rag or both? Do you have a special technique for those hard to get-at seam edges? ;) Seriously though, one worthwhile thing puts you ahead of some people...
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Well, I'm also of the opinion that breastfeeding is morally suspect - remember that woman who got thrown out of parliament for breastfeeding there? Anyway, breastfeeding involves contact between an immoral part of a woman's body and a young child - isn't this an open-and-shut case of child sexual abuse? I demand that something be done!
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No, in fact they are the devil himself. Tia Maria Tim Tams ARE the most important problem facing our society today. That and Janet Jackson's breast. Alaric is at the gates!
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Hehehe, Ah Ian darling...email me and I will tell the details...
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Lionised. Not fired. Am I always right, or what?
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Oh my god!!!! I totally thought that was you - thw writing style, the subject matter - that was totally you and I thought - nah it can't be and sure enough you have confirmed my deepest suspisions...rock on girl!!
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You wrote a Heckler! And it got published! You're famous! I bet all your work colleagues will lionise you now...
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Yeah... I hope you won't take this amiss, but I foresee a difficult and acrimonious divorce about 10 years down the track for Rapunzel and Ashleigh... if she is choosing to give up her own power and her own possibilities in order to become part of *his* world, then I see a lot of wistful regret and bitterness and blame following on from it. Even if it was her choice - in fact, especially because it was her choice. I'd describe a vicious drunken shouting match between the two of them but, uh, maybe I'm... uh. Um. I'm scared you're going to be cross at me misreading your story.
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well THAT'S an unfortunate typo, eh? You're actually quite tolerant of my frequently poor typing ;)
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Thanks! Now the diary is going to start reflecting what a mean, small-minded arrogant bastard I really am...
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Boo
That is all...
xxoo
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It is a bit misleading, yeah. But I bet you only noticed because you're jealous. ;)
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Uh, if you recommended a competitor to a mystery shopper, they may not have been impressed. I hate upselling, both the word and the practice. Maybe the mystery shopper got one of your less-helpful co-workers. Um.
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Yeah, the Brad Goodman reference was intentional - I actually know quite a lot of Simpsons off by heart, which is why I was riven with shame and didn't know what to say when you reminded me that the beer bottle thing came from it. Um. I'll write my next entry about why I'm feeling loved, maybe.
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Yeah it's true- I should stop whining, but I'm a white bourgeois intellectual, it is my job as the pseudo-heir to the intelligenstia in this country to be a wanker and complain alot - I think I do a good job at it :) Love your work
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:| Uh, did Daddy actually hit the referee with a beer bottle? Or, uh, is that an amusing quote from something I don't know? But, uh, yes, I don't think suppressing it day-to-day and then purging it all with unrestrained acts of violence is an especially good strategy... maybe I should get a voodoo doll or something.
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When I heard that Howard was criticising public schools for being "value-neutral" I was just about ready to explode with rage. I don't know what to do with my anger, but I'm glad there are people like you about who can find something creative to do with it. :)
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i'm just passing through (you asked for people who read to leave you a note). anyway, i love your layout. it's really unique.
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It's true - i'll find the article for you, the wobble of the ack of the arrow aerodynamically stabalises it during flight, as it forces the centre of gravity slightly forward preventing drag from sending it off course... oh, and my pleasure...
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Did you know that scientists tried to correct the wobble that an arrow displays in flight to make it fly cleaner and straighter only to discover that that wobble was vital to the true and accurate flight of the arrow...
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Discovered you through Sif's diary. I loved your 99-things list. Beautiful writing. :)
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Speaking of lacking tact and being insufferably rude, don't you mean "self-deprecating" rather than "self-depreciating"? Oh no wait, it seems that both are acceptable. Damn!
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*blinks* You're already thinking of a thesis topic? Start worrying about what it's about 2 months before it's due is my advice. ;)
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From someone who is both and Fencer and a Sniper (ex-army-reserves) - they're both noble in their own ways. However, I do agree that there is more romanticism and personal skill involved in a sword-fight, more finesse and commitment to fighitng close up (plus you look hotter fighitng with a sword, it's the swash-buckling romantic thing...) but toaly agree - why the fuck do you need a sniper rifle expcept to shoot someone from far away. Hunting rifles are different anyway to 'sniper' rifles, the 50 callibur means also it's a VERY large weapon and I doubt they use it to legitimantly hunt anything in Carolina...
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Was definately not gauche or vulgar - thankyou for the comment. Funny how the stuff you don't think about'writing' always ends up being the best stuff...be well, take care
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In that case, I shall have to go back and read it, too. :) It's wonderful being on holidays and reading novels for fun...
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Eowyn *swoon* (enough said, I feel)
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Self-serving rubbish? Nonsense! It's always a bit hard to be outstripped by one's younger siblings in anything (happenned to me more times in more fields than I care to think about) but you're right, nobody is summed up by a number, and taking the view that the HSC is the one chance to prove your worth will lead to some major disappointments at uni when you realise that two weeks in and nobody gives a euphemism what your mark was...
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Anything constructive beyond correcting my spelling? Language is fluid - deal...teehee :)
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Yes, my spelling sux - I shall endevour to prevent you leaving spelling correcting type notes in the future! Thankyou spelling-fairy!
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Yes, I do read my gb, I just made it a little more click-intensive to get there, so you're the only one who has seen fit it use it yet. Which is just fine by me, but it also means I don't *regularly* read it, if that's what you're asking
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I am a writer (he asserts childishly) just a lazy one with little real spelling ability...oh woe is me :)
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Or maybe she was expecting a fairy with big, sharp teeth...
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:| Scared by the tooth fairy? How did she manage that?
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My brother is 26 and he still gets a stocking at the end of his bed every year. As do i, but i'm not 20 yet :)
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Well, I decided to scientifically prove that the tooth fairy existed by putting a tooth under my pillow *without* telling my mother that I'd lost a tooth. The tooth was still there the next morning, I was distraught, I cried and told my mother and she was in a hurry so she shouted at me and uh, yeah, it was a whole big horrible thing. I think I was very attached to the whole idea of fairies in general at the time. I think my later fascination with elves was basically a transferral of all my fairy-imaginings to a more believable race, or something...
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Actually, it was finding out about the tooth fairy that really did me in. :(
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Okay, yeah, the resemblance between Mel Gibson and the big stone head is just... disturbing.
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P.S. I do like "the elf in bloom", though; terrible but still pretty clever. :)
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"Oh my darling Legolas/ You've won the heart of a peggo-Lass/ Uh, "peggo" meaning my name is Peg/ Except it isn't/ Oh fuck/ Uh, anyway, I'm the sort to be full of grief/ Thinking of my unrequited love for Mr Greenleaf/ Being you, Legolas, et cetera" :P
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"There is a really really nice elf/ To whom I'd introduce myself/ He's brave and tall and fair and stuff/ of watching him I can't get enough..." ;)
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Why am I getting this funny kind of "LOTR obsession" vibe from you, I wonder?
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Oh my god - weird eh, Stella rocks my world totally. She's great, who knows, maybe we'll meet up one day!
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Thanks for the layout compliment! The colors of your layout make my day.
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I got rid of them deliberately. The epileptic one was just a bit too ugly... see for yourself at http://tithonus.diaryland.com/images/epilep.gif Regarding the whole commitment issue... does that mean you would never be totally committed to... argh, I've been trying to talk about commitment in general terms but it's probably obvious I'm thinking of personal relationships. So, you would never be totally committed to a partner?
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Oops, that's meant to be "from", not "for", although I guess both would fit. :)
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More advice for The Sage (tm): Being good at a bad job will cost a lot of your social life, because they will always want you to work more shifts. Good luck with the whole "saying no" business. ;)
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You're in la-la-land. :) Enjoy it, it's a wonderful place... sadly it never lasts. :(
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You mean you read that entire chunk of crap? Wow. I'm impressed. Went to read your review, and you're absolutely right. Our reviews WERE scarily (if there's such a word) similar. Hehe.
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I wrote something in your guestbook about exactly what kind of God I am, but then it disappeared... maybe a sign that the real thing is angry at my presumption, so I might stop kidding around now... *looks scared*
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Presumably because *you* think of me as a god... ;)
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Of course. And not just a golden god either, but like... a god made of diamonds and rubies and pearls and then *coated* in gold... Uh. Actually, that entry would have made more sense if I'd explained more of Moore's ideas... he's basically saying that in a monotheistic society then we tend to divide ourselves into "good" aspects (which the one true god will approve of) and "bad" aspects (of which he will disapprove), whereas for the polytheist then there are different gods, each of whom is reflected in different aspects of our self, and so what is bad in the eyes of one god may be good in the eyes of another... there's a lot more to it than that though, but if you want to really understand it, you should just read the book yourself. :)
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Thanks for the review!
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You mean, he's singing about how much he loves *himself*? Well... I never would have thought of that. But that works. It works surprisingly well!
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:( regarding your entry. Um. Regarding the song, I guess the thing is that for me it doesn't really work as a double entendre... it's more like an agglomeration of stuff that is obviously about the show, generic "emotional phrases", and generic "love song phrases". That's what I meant when I said it didn't make any sense. I mean, you could read it as being a love song... but it just doesn't ring true for me. It bothers me.
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Well, if it's their love that's from God, rather than HIM being from God, why not "Angels brought *us* here", ie, Angels guided us to this moment?
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No worries. :) Speaking of Idol, have you noticed that the song doesn't make any sense?
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It is done, oh magnificent one.
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Not at all. (The "am I too preachy" question). I really shouldn't do this, but I can't help but take you "sex is like food" analogy one step further... the very best food is prepared in a spirit of love, and shared in an atmosphere of warmth and companionship, so that even something very meagre can feel like a feast. But does that mean that there's something wrong with being hungry and in a rush and just grabbing some junkfood? Well... see, I think at this point the analogy sort of breaks down and sort of doesn't. Because the sexual equivalent of junkfood is the one-night-stand, and... I think there are many men who want to subsist on a diet of junkfood all their lives, and because of differences in supply and demand, a lot of that junkfood gets paid for not with money or bad health but with lies. Although, I suppose you could say that bad health is analogous to the kind of bad faith that... hmmm. It's a good analogy. I'm going to think about it some more.
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Hmm. So is the crucial factor that with other things that affect you, you can kind of will yourself not to be affected by it (this applies not only to the CD but also to being nervous in a social situation, or even something like being in pain) whereas with alcohol (or other drugs) then once you're under their influence, willpower is no longer effective?
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Wrote this in your guestbook already, not sure if it worked so lucky I ctrl-c'd it. Um:
Well, I don't want to be argumentative because as I said before, I'm not trying to persuade you that you ought to do something you don't want to. But, people experience changes in personality of this sort all the time. You have a different personality when you're tired to when you're energetic, right? Somebody looks at you a certain way and it makes you feel nervous, and you behave differently - you could say that they've changed your personality. Or you listen to a piece of music that makes you happy and you find yourself smiling at everything - music changes your personality too. Now, you might make a distinction between "natural" and "unnatural" changes, but how natural is a CD player? Is it more natural than the by-product of yeast eating sugar? Which only leaves, imho, the difference between desirable and undesirable changes - but on those grounds, of course, it is completely reasonable for you to regard the changes wrought by alcohol as undesirable, which is why, as I say, I'm not trying to tell you to "overcome your fears" or any such thing. :)
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It's the start of a *very* slippery slope! Get it in TODAY!!!!
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"Swift was born" is funny, but at least it's grammatical. :) Probably syntax know already word is order you, normally but we care it more about prose poetry than in. It just occurred to me, though, because the example of non-standard syntax you gave there is in a poem. And I thought, you know, we still do that quite a lot. So, I guess what I'm asking is, when you're listening to a song and there's a line where the word order has obviously just been messed with in order to make the rhyme work, does that annoy you and make you think that the writer should have tried harder to find something that would fit naturally, or do you just accept it as part of the way the medium works? A classic example being, say, Bob Dylan's Hurricane where in the second verse he sings "Three bodies lyin' there does Patti see, and another man named Bello movin' around mysteriously". Uh. I could probably come up with more extreme examples if I thought hard enough.
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I did not know that. I find it deeply disturbing. Do you know when the award was, uh, awarded? Also, Madame Pedant, may I enquire as to your opinion regarding non-standard syntax in poetry and song?
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Uh, I meant, what does "hete" mean in that poem? And, I was going to say something bagging sinny yooni's architecture heavy and everything-else light portfolio, but, well, there's something about the architecture of my own university that keeps me quiet about it...
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gabriel garcia marquez, nobel prize winner, seriously highly acclaimed novelist is know for his terrible terrible spelling and rewriting of grammar 'rules'. its all about the beauty of language and how you can reinvent it, don't you think? spelling smelming, i see.
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heh heh I didn't think it was a denomination but I thought I'd ask just in case :)
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Um... it depends what you mean "run rampant"... I'm ashamed of watching Idol, but I'm not sure exactly *how* ashamed I am, if you see what I mean...
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Uh, keep it down, ok? I'm supposed to be an intellectual... but yeah, just tell me what I need to do and when, my credit card is at your disposal...
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Hi! This is ocean-review! If you'd like a review, plz visit! Thanks!
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Hello, found your diary while doing a Diaryland on "Elf Boy" and found your entries. Thought it was interesting because I also have an Elf Boy - the only difference is that mine seemed to steer me away from someone like yours. And all the others like him. I hope you're doing better - and remember: there are other elves in the woods. =) *hugs*
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what can I say? It hates me!! Fatsss Stupidsss Guestbooksss!!! ;)
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I've given up with the guestbook...from now on I'll leave notes :) do start a design site! I really like your designs!
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Bitch! ;) As for word, it has this nasty habit of letting me change the settings to whatever I like, and then continuing to suggest American spellings to me anyway...
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Yeah, I hate word. What I really hate is when it tells me that my spelling is wrong because I'm using British spelling... or telling me my sentences are too long... or criticising my constant use of elipses...
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Sounds very sensible to me. But then, I guess it would take the wind out of the sails of a lot of grammar pedants like you and me...
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Oops, I'm sorry, I should have asked that question properly, but I wanted to be succinct because I was typing over the top of a huge pile of books. What I meant was, why is there a controversy over Webster's third?
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Why Webster's third?
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'love in time of chlorea' is fantastic.
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Haha - love the title of today's entry. MC Hammer is so cool. Um. Thanks for pointing out how bad Carla's spelling is - makes me feel better. :)
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No, a completely legitimate objection. If you were attacking the creative compositions of a ten year old child in this way, I might worry, but these people are advertising an editing service! If you ever lose interest in academia, you'll go a long way in the publishing business. :)
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its nice to see that you are writing here again (although I didnt realise this till recently) and hope this is a sign of you sticking around for a bit. Take care
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very pretty! and clever with the "mouse-over" links :)
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i looked for your guestbook for about four hours, but i think you don't have one now, i am stupid. Tithonus told me to steal the layout for your diary, so i think you should probably kill him. I'm off to read 100 things about you, ho hum.
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Thanks! And, love the new layout. :)
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"Can (you) be in a relationship with someone, get totally comfortable with them, enough to slob around in front of them, and still retain the magic?" You can have it on good authority that it is possible. Though it understandably does take just a bit more time find that certian someone sexy after you've seen them puke, helped them clean out the cat litter and gone for weeks with out shaving (legs, face, whatever). As long as you are both comfortable with the other's disgustingly human natural self, everything works :P
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Hi, your review is up on the site. http://r-e-v-i-e-w.diaryland.com/liadlaith.html I'm sorry it took so long; I'm a procrastinator and haven't been in the best of mood.
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Mind is immanent rather than transcendant, equality is a property of mindful beings. Bingo! And well done on the Aquinas essay! :)
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hey :) I found you while I was browsing through my-reviews. will be back.
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Sweet Jesus I love that movie! And your nose is suprisingly like mine, I forgot to mention that earlier ;)
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why oh why did you go to the doctor and why would that affect you and elf boy.
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i have things i want to know. where is that guy, the one you used to be friends with and i met? tell me tell me. i am so sorry about elf-boy.
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Your review is (finally!) up at Quite Nasty. Sorry for the delay. I had Stress :) But I think you'll find it worth the wait.
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The essay sounds manageable, just a matter of doing the research. Am I wrong? About the drinking thing, I've recently read a very interesting article by Gregory Bateson called "The Cybernetics of Self: A Theory of Alcoholism". It's in his book "Steps to an Ecology of Mind". Some parts of it are probably a bit difficult, I'd just skip over them, but I'm sure you'd find it very interesting.
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What's the essay on?
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If it makes you feel any better, I have two tests each worth 20% in three hours and I've only studied somewhat for one of them. Eeeek!
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The french word for "egg" is great, too. I think it might be "oeuf" or something like that. Anyway, whatever it is, I like it. I also like duck eggs. And goose eggs.
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*blinks* I am?
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Hey Lia, your review is up. Thanks for being one of the first to request!
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Wear American brand clothing, or even better, clothes with American flags on them, or the insignia of another university. That way they figure you're an international student and can't vote in their election, and you don't have to say anything at all.
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We Are Totally Lewd Society! *laughs hysterically* I love it. I want to join. Also, we are on-line at the same time, I should probably get a message thing so I can send you lewd notes. Hoorah for lewdness.
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hey, email or IM or something if you need, hm? Relationships are so bloody confusing sometimes!
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woah! *big grin* rockin!
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Hey there! Welcome back! The new design looks fabulous - and did your boy really meet you through this diary?
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