-O- music, books, and bodmods (OH MY!)
julie pavuk
i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
here's mine:
CDs-
puddle dive, ani difranco, not a pretty girl/ ani difranco
adventures in afropea 1/ zap mama
the best of, vol. 2/ ladysmith black mambazo
a few of the books i'm absorbing-
(For classes) _in search of respect, selling crack in el barrio_, philippe
bourgois; _world orders old and new_, noam chomsky; _the chomsky reader_;
_the eyes on the prize civil rights reader_;_a people's history of the
united states_, howard zinn;
and textbooks and other stuff for my current classes.
(personal interest:) _black like me_, john howard griffin; _nappy hair_,
carolivia herron.
body modification:
-considering 2 cartilage piercings, nipple piercing, tattoos on hands and
brands (locations TBA). most of these are FAR off in the future, though.
:(
-julie (no, i'm not putting off doing tons of reading for tomorrow. not i.
i've never procrastinated in my entire life... i think that if you're
sitting in front of a computer, it coulds as homework.;))
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i'm invincible. so are you. (ani difranco)
Burrito19
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
CDs:
--FTCH, Tori
--Now I Got Worry, John Spencer Blues Explosion
--The new DMB CD (I forget the damn name)
Books :
--_Nana_, Emile Zola
--_Les Miserables_, Victor Hugo
--_The Aeneid_, Virgil
--_Get into Medical School!_ (author's name evades me)
Bodmod:
--curved navel ring (my SO digs it)
--celtic knot tattoo on lower right back
--thinking of Chinese symbol for life on upper left back (below shoulder blade)
Beth
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fastrada
>
> i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
> to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
> brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
>
hmmm, haven't had much time to try new stuff lately, but here's my list:
cd's i'm listening to:
loreena mckennitt, "parallel dreams."
dead can dance, "toward the within."
"celtic christmas." (doesn't sound christmasy in the least, but still
very pretty)
books:
"the spiral dance" by starhawk
"10 questions every first-time homebuyer should ask"--dont' know the
author.
body mod:
well, my cartilage ring is still healing so i'm not planning anything
right away. on my wish list are at least one more hole in each ear lobe
(currently 2 in left and one in right), possibly an outer cartilage, and
maaaaaybe a navel ring someday if i catch myself in an adventurous mood.
'course, all this depends on where i end up working. but with the way i
wear my hair, i could have 10 holes in each ear and still cover it up
for work if need be.
joe and i also have been considering tattoos for a while. i have an idea
of what i want--prolly a sun with a ring of celtic knotwork around it,
on my back--but i need help drawing it out. that's far off in the
future, though, as joe wants quite an extensive one and we agreed we'd
get them together. we're talking about a lot of money here, i suspect.
fastrada
Karen Hooper
julie pavuk <jpa...@warren-wilson.edu> wrote:
> i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
> to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
> brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
>
> here's mine:
>
> CDs-
> puddle dive, ani difranco, not a pretty girl/ ani difranco
> adventures in afropea 1/ zap mama
> the best of, vol. 2/ ladysmith black mambazo
Nifty. I've been listening to the ani live cd and the counting crows
double set, with some dmb thrown in. I'm not in an obsessive music phase
right now, but I'm trying to start making tapes for people again,
something I loved to do when I was younger.
> a few of the books i'm absorbing-
<snip books, sorry, feels like blasphemy>
ok ok!! I've been waiting to recommend this to you guys!! You must pick up
a copy of Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. Just do it. For all of you
wondering what life is about, for those of you dealing with death and
dying and growing older and choosing what is important to you...did I
leave anyone out?...this is a great and touching story about a guy getting
back in touch with his old teacher, during the teacher's final days.
Wonderful!!
Other than that, Shakespeare, Ulysses (Joyce), and Thoreau, mostly for
grad school requirements but I like them all. I also absorbed a lot of
Sylvia Plath a couple of weeks ago.
> body modification:
ooh, none for me thanks. I'm a wimp.
karenfromtx
geekthegrrl
> >julie pavuk <jpa...@warren-wilson.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
> >>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
> >>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
>
e - by irving welsch (the guy who wrote trainspotting), a book that
supposedly proved that Lizzie Borden was innocent, I Don't Want to Live
this Life (something to that effect ) by Nancy Spungen's mother, and
right now I am working on Valley of the Dolls. I love to read and read
just about anything I can get my hands on.
In my cd player right now-
White Chocolate Magick For Lovers - Drugstore
Fumbling Toward Ecstasy - Sarah Mc.
Up up up up up up- Ani
Bodmods-
Each one of my ears is pierced four times and I have a black cat
tattooed on my right calf. I know I am going to get another tattoo soon
(it's almost addicting) but I just haven't quite found the right design
that I want. The first one I *knew* would be something cat related, but
this second one, it's a little more elusive.
-Geek
(going to look at some more body art pages)
Goatstar Offspring
out another dream when julie pavuk <jpa...@warren-wilson.edu> offered
this bit of information to distract her:
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
Okie. Here I go. :)
CD: Depeche Mode: Songs of Faith and Devotion (sue me, it's old!)
Book: _Neverwhere_ by Neil Gaiman (I'm almost done tho)
Bodmod: I want to get a tatoo around my wrist, like a bracelet, that
is like maroon and orange flames. I don't really know how to describe
it. It heard it's really gonna hurt. I just want to know how much
it's gonna cost.
shelby
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SocPhd2B
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
>
Book:Social Theory by george ritzer, 4th edition and various articles
concerning studies dealing with emile durkheim
Bodmod: well.... i am on an epic trek to find that perfect shade of blonde :)
++Samantha Faw++
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point,
however, is to change it." --Karl Marx
jonathan dale mccall
>
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
>
(snip)
>
Hm. Just purchased: Replacements, <Don't Tell A Soul>; Cranberries,
<No Need to Argue>; Garbage <V.2.0>, Bjork, <Telegram>; Husker Du,
<The Living End>; Bio Ritmo, <!Que siga la musica!>.
Reading: Just finished the unbelievably good <Voyage of the Narwhal>
by Andrea Barrett; also just finished Dan Simmon's <Hyperion>; halfway
through sequel <Hyperion's Fall>. On tap: Dan Simmon's <Endymion>;
Connie Willis' <To Say Nothing of the Dog>. Also reading poetry:
Anne Sexton, Marge Piercy, and Philip Larkin.
No body mods planned for the forseeable future. : )
--
Jonathan
Margaret Turner
>
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
>
CDs-
- VAST- Visual Audio Sensory Theater (has not quit playing on my stereo
since I got it a week ago. Jon Crosby is a god. Excellent.)
- Jeff Buckley- cd single for "Everybody Here Wants You" (has an excellent
acoustic version of "Lover You Should Have Come Over." Huge Buckley fan, I am.)
- Hole- Celebrity Skin. Almost beats, (and I did say "almost"), "Live Through
This." Good.)
- NOW 40- double-cd featuring the top 40 hits in the UK as of Christmas. Nice
dance music for the most part. Good to listen to in the morning when trying
to drag self to class.
- Radiohead- Unplugged. A bootleg with tons of great and rare live Radiohead
tracks. "Motion Picture Soundtrack" is gorgeously incredible.
- Nirvana- The Singles. A six cd collection featuring all the singles Nirvana
released in England..plus b-sides, etc. I still love the hell out of their songs.
Books on my bedside table-
- "How to Uncover Your Past Lives" by Ted Andrews. A Xmas gift from my best
friend, Suzanne. Pretty interesting so far. Mostly teaches various relaxation
and meditation techniques to help you reach your past consciousness, etc.
- "Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation" by Steven Levenkron. The
best book I have ever found on this disorder. Very easy to read. The author even
puts all the psychology terms in bold and then follows them with a defintion. I'm already
familiar with the terms but the book would be really easy to read for someone who never
even came near the word "psychology" in the past. Designed for the patient, family/friends,
and therapists. I highly recommend it to anyone who has this disorder or knows someone
who does. It's helped me a lot.
- "God Is A Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism" by Rabbi David A. Cooper.
A translation of one of the books of the Kabbalah. Written in a form easy to read for the
non-Jew who may not have any clue about the structure of Judaism, like me. Very interesting and
certainly enlightening.
- "PTSD/Borderlines in Therapy: Finding the Balance" by Jerome Kroll. Not really a pleasure
read. I am reading it to a) help me with my psychology education and b)to help understand
myself a bit better. This book is written in the clinical research-paper style which makes it
a real chore to read for me cause it's boring. Still it is very informative.
- (for a class) "Nichomachean Ethics" by Aristotle. Very interesting. I've always liked Aristotle.
I just wish I didn't have a class on it. My philo professor manages to suck everything interesting
out of the book during his lectures...thus leaving it a mass of utter boredom.
Body modification:
- Really don't have anything to say in this category. The only body modification I have, (for
cosmetic purposes, that is), is the 2 piercings I have in each ear on the lobe. Um, besides
that, there's really nothing. I have been really thinking about getting some mendhi (sp?). You
know, where someone draws really pretty and intricate designs on your hands with henna? Cool.
Higs and cherry smaes,
Maggie the VSS
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"I thought I should try and be smaller,
to climb out from beneath your shoe.
I didn't realize I could ever grow taller,
and turn the tables on you." - Me, from a poem in progress
"Dreams are the answers to questions we haven't
yet figured out how to ask." - Mulder
FairyMange
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
In the way of music- I've been listening to my Led Zeppelin: Remasters like mad
since I got my paws on it. A Thousand Leaves by Sonic Youth, and Tori's Crucify
single. (Can't get enough of that Rolling Stones cover!
Annnngiee.....Annngie...)
In the way of literature- Not much. I've been halfheartedly trying to finish
Lasher by Anne Rice but it spoils the story when ya read the last book of the
trilogy first.
And finally! Body-modification!- Well, I have my nose done. What I'm reeeeeally
really wishing for is nipple rings (or barbells, rather) However, that's going
to have to wait for a bit.
~Amberella ((2 of goth- You will be assimilated!))
http://members.aol.com/FairyMange/index.html
"I mope very infrequently" -Robert Smith
Kath
>
>>
>>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
Listening: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Live Seeds; Rufus Wainwright;
Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth; the Grosse Pointe Blank
soundtrack; Leonard Cohen - More Best Of
Reading - I've been on a bit of Steinbeck kick lately, probably
inspired by *finally* managing to read Grapes of Wrath all the way
through, and loving it. I'm now reading Cannery Row/Sweet Thursday,
and may tackle East of Eden next. I read the latest Gaiman short story
collection at Christmastime, as well as Pat Barker's The Ghost Road.
Modifications - I'm trying to work up the courage to pierce my nose.
- Kath
angstgirl at mindspring dot com
*remove the space shuttle to reply*
PoetGrrlAC
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
i love this poll. books and music, my favorite things. :)
books-i just ordered seconds ago from amazon.com (through the dent, of course)
"dangerous angels", the collection of weetzie bat books by francesca lia
block. i was gonna buy em all, but when you can get them in one book for half
the price, why not?;) i am also gonna buy "i was a teenage faerie" by miss
block next week. i have recently read:
glass mountains-cynthia voigt
bright days, stupid nights-
I amjust starting "the by oscar wilde
music-
hole-live through this, celebrity skin
(i love these. live through this is harder, angrier. violet and doll parts,
reasons to be beautiful and northern star are my faves)
Tori Amos-little earthquakes, boys for pele (diana complains she has hey
jupiter memorized)
smashing pumpkins-adore
carole king-tapestry
sarah mclachlan-fumbling towards ectasy, surfacing (don't you just adore
angel?), adia single ("i will remember you, will you remember me?")
body mods-
gonna buy more magnetic earrings next time i get to the mall. otherwise, i
gotta wait about10 years. ;)
now i gotta order from amazon. i can't wait to read the other weetzie books, i
only read the latter and witch baby! yummy books. i'll type out my favorite
w.b. passage at a later date. :)
[1] (not a ya, adult, i'd get in trouble if i used it for a book report) read
this quote from it, which i think is very thoughtful:
"You know," I said, signaling and then turning off onto the Garden State, "it's
asking a awful lot, asking to be understood. As if it weren'tenough to be
loved."
yummy, huh? :)
peace,
manda c (*remove faery from my addy to e-mail me*)
tinkerbell, here to sprinkle faery dust and grant wishes
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my ICQ number: 28476873, listed under Amanda Choutka, manda
URMy5thAve
>julie said:
>>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
Books:
im currently about halfway through Stardust by Neil Gaiman. its good, but its
no Neverwhere. that is one of my all time fav books. Im also skimming my way
through a photography book, and i just finished Where the Heart Is by..um.. i
dont know. ( yes, it was an Oprah book, but i bought it before i knew that..and
yes, it was quite good.)
CD's:
at this very minute im dubbing the Louisville show for someone, so thats what
im hearing. ive been *trying* to get into the new Ani cd "up up up up up up" (
was that enough up's?) but it hasnt happened yet... its not grabbing me like
her others. Soul Coughing's "Irresistable Bliss" is what usually plays in my
car.
bodmod:
i currently have two regular plain ole earrings in each ear, and a cartilage
pierce at the top of the right one... and a tattoo of a pegasus on my..heh. im
sitting on it ok..? i got that one about 12 years ago, and that was the only
place my parents wouldnt see it. hence, its location. :) as soon as our
schedules allow, im getting 2 more from a friend, who is a tattoo artist, as
birthday and xmas gifts. a swirling tribal with a purple-ish ball in the
center between my shoulder blades, and a black dove on my right calf. im also
thinking about getting my tragus (sp?) done. that little sticky-out thing in
the middle of your ear. it looks so groovy with little hoops.
:)
~ lisa
Elise421
Concrete Blonde (Bloodletting)
The Cure (Galore and The Show)
Depeche Mode (101 baby)
Tori Stories (I got this a couple of months ago, and i swear, disc #3 hasn't
left my cd player...absolutely gorgeous)
Books:
"if" The question of life book, i also love quote books, astrology, and the
supernatural.
Bodmod:
six piercings in one ear, five in the other, one cartilage with a tiny hoop
through it, naval ring, and two tattoos (one of a design i drew on my back, and
one that has tori amos's name on my ankle, so call me obsessive :)
งง glo งง
she used to just stand there and stare
and roll her eyes right up to heaven
and make like i just wasn't there.
eva...@usa.net
urmy5...@aol.comwhatever (URMy5thAve) wrote:
> Books:
> im currently about halfway through Stardust by Neil Gaiman. its good, but its
> no Neverwhere. that is one of my all time fav books. Im also skimming my way
> through a photography book, and i just finished Where the Heart Is by..um.. i
> dont know.
no no no no no. Neverwhere was okay. I mean it was good. But Stardust is just
magic. It's lovely. It makes me want to sing and run and dance for joy while
I'm reading it. And it has Tori in it too. And when I finish it I start again
at the beginning. (True, I'm now on my fourth go through it.)
i just want Tori to make the songs that go with it now.
E/v
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Elise421
>Up up up up up up- Ani
If it was one more up, it would be 7-UP
haha
ok..enough laughing...back to your corners :)
Red
>
> i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
> to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
> brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
OKAY, this'll be fun.
> here's mine:
>
> CDs-
<snip>
Ani Difranco -- Up Up Up Up Up Up (I'd give this *** out of 5)
Pink Floyd -- Dark side of the moon
Ah...that's about it for CDs....seems really limited. But, these are
new (to me) cds, and I tend to focus on one or two CDs at a time when I
first get them.
> a few of the books i'm absorbing-
> (For classes)
Thankfully, I don't have to worry about this :)
> (personal interest:)
_The Wives of Henry VIII_ by Antonia Frasier
_Tigania_ by Guy Gavriel Kay
(The Henry VIII one is *wonderful*...I just started the other one by
Kay, so I can't really comment on it yet. Anyone else read it? Is it
any good?)
> body modification:
OUCH. Um, I did get a mole removed a couple of months ago???
Adding one:
> Movies seen lately:
"Elizabeth" I'd give this a **** rating (out of four...cuz that's how
movies should be rated...)
"Patch Adams" **1/2
"A Bug's Life" ***1/2
--
Cheryl
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I just wanna walk
through my life unarmed
to accept and just get by
like my father learned to do
but without all the acceptance and getting by
that got my father through
-- Ani Difranco
http://pilot.msu.edu/user/lafount1
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Andrew Wright
from Kafka:
>
> i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
> to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
> brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
As always!
Dans le stereo:
Jonatha Brooke Live-- only available through www.jonathabrooke.com. VERY
cool. Energetic, emotional, all the things a live CD should be. Also, it
doesn't have the problem that bugs me with most live CDs, in that the talking
is kept to a minimum. And the military drums on "West Point" make that
beautiful song even more touching.
Ultra Lounge: Crime Scene and Bongo Land. I'd been meaning to buy some of
these for a long time, but was always afraid I'd get the ones that weren't
very good. Then I heard the three that Christopher had, and decided they must
be cool. I'm a little disappointed in "Crime Scene", but "Bongo Land" makes
me happy.
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours. Because I'm releasing my inner sap.
Pour litterature:
I'm all about Steven Millhauser (as a former student of mine might say.)
After my Saturday morning class, I stopped at a coffee house in Toledo with
my copy of his book _Little Kingdoms_, and read the one novella I hadn't read
yet, "The Princess, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon." It's a really brilliant
cross between Arthurian legend, fairy tale, historical reality and
metafiction about the uncertainty of stories. With each Millhauser story I
read, I like him more. Good to read alone at a table in a coffee house, I
think.
Another book I read recently that really moved me is _The Hurry-Up Song_ by
Clifford Chase. Subtitled "A Memoir of Losing My Brother," it describes
Clifford and his brother, who are both gay, growing up, living in dreams,
coming out, and then dealing with AIDS. This book truly broke my heart. It's
not sentimental, weepy, cliched, self-pitying...just very honest. And sadly,
it appears to be out of print. If you can find a copy, snatch it up for me.
Pour faire du bodmods...
I think I established at nye that I shouldn't be in the same room as a bodmod
in progress...much less in the same body.
Wherever you run, it's yourself you face there in Ohio,
'drew
Current Resident
julie pavuk wrote in message ...
>
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
CD's
bruiser queen- Cake Like
broken - nine inch nails
under the pink
mutations - beck
let it be - Beatles
Books
east of eden - steinbeck
and i am currently working on a probably very out of print book called a
Confederacy of Dunces which is very funny.
Mods
horizontal hood piercing
in a few hours, two nipple piercings
Lynda
ly...@thehelm.com
Heather A Philp
->i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
->to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
->brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
I feel a spending spree coming on. :/
CDs:
Milla's Divine Comedy, which I just got. Brian stole it for his car
CD player, though. Hmph.
Tori Stories
...and that's it. I keep forgetting to bring more CDs here...
Books:
I just finished Einstein's Bridge (by an author I can't remember). It
was pretty good, but I'm not sure I believe it was truly "hard"
science fiction like the cover said it was.
I picked up Lady Chatterly's Lover again. It was on my bookshelf of
good intentions, which I'm trying to clear out before I go spend
more money at Barnes and Noble. I've gotten a few pages into it,
but that's all, so far.
Next on the list is a big ole book that has three from Michael Crichton
in it....one of 'em is The Andromeda Strain, which was one of the
first sci fi movies I loved. *sniffle*
Body Mod:
I have three piercings in my left ear, two in my right...all just the
normal stuff.
I'm considering dying my hair an outrageous color, but Brian seems
opposed to the blue or purple that I'm toying with...he'd prefer
a more normal auburn red color. Truth be told, I'm not sure
I'd ever be brave enough to actually dye it an outrageous color,
either. *sigh*
As far as other pierces or tattoos go...I'm a wimp. Pain scares me.
--heather
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Beth Armitage
> julie pavuk wrote:
> >
> > i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>
> _Tigania_ by Guy Gavriel Kay
>
> (The Henry VIII one is *wonderful*...I just started the other one by
> Kay, so I can't really comment on it yet. Anyone else read it? Is it
> any good?)
best (probably his best, but I don`t like to make sweeping statements like
that!). I really enjoyed it, and I reread it every so often, because it`s
one of my favorites.
Now, my turn -- I`m at school, so this is mostly from memory of
what is at home!
CD`s: _Recovering the Satellites_, Counting Crows. I blame bramble et al
for getting me on a CC kick.
a mix tape of Tori b-sides and live songs
another mix tape of songs my roommate made for me
_Solace_, Sarah McLachlan
ummm.... I think that`s all in the recent past....
Books: (for class): Plato, _The Republic_ and More, _Utopia (for my
Utopian fiction class)
_The Turn of the Screw_, by Henry James, for Modern Brit (just
finished it, actually.)
an assortment of Wordsworth poetry
(for me): _The Last Unicorn_, Peter S. Beagle. Again. I love this book.
_Strangers are like Children_, by Joan Baxter. My 2nd cousin (I think?
I`m not sure about the exact numerical relationship!) -- short stories
about Africa. Pretty good, actually. ;)
Bodmod: Erp. No thanks. Needles and permanent marks... I can admire it
on others, but I just don`t have the nerve or the desire for myself.
And Cheryl added Movies:
Shakespeare in Love -- I really enjoyed it actually. My English-major
friends and I had far too good a time. I think the rest of the theater
thought we were nuts. Terrible title, though.
Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition) -- had to re-watch it with a friend.
Leia is still cool. ;) She`s my hero.
Captain Blood -- heh. It was fun, actually. I want to be a pirate! ;)
um... that`s over the last 2-3 weeks or so. I don`t really get to see
movies that often.
Keep Smiling,
Beth :)
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Angela Reid
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<snip>
>and i am currently working on a probably very out of print book called a
>Confederacy of Dunces which is very funny.
It is very out of print. :/
I was working in a bookstore when that book came out. The story at the time
was that its author had committed suicide -because- the book was rejected.
It's true that he committed suicide after the book was rejected, but I don't
know if the two are connected. Anyway, I just always found it incredibly
sad that he never got to see its critical acclaim. :(
Angela, wishing John Kennedy Toole well, wherever he is.
Koren Gould
: i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
: to modify. so speak up.
Good deal. :)
cd's-- Jewel/Spirit
Sarah McLachlan/Rarities, B-side and Other Stuff
Dar Williams/Mortal City
Tori/FtCH
Ani/Living In Clip
books-- _The Politics of Women's Spirituality_, various authors
_The Angel Book_, Karen Goldman
_Letters to a Young Poet_, Rainer Maria Rilke
_To Light A Sacred Fire_, Silver Raven Wolf
body mod-- I've already got nostril, tragus and inner cartilage piercings,
a butterfly tat on my left wrist and Korenstopher's symbol on
my right calf. New considerings are little angel wings on my
shoulder blades and piercing the right labia.
That was fun!
Koren
Koren Gould
: thinking about getting my tragus (sp?) done.
Go Lisa! I just got it done, and I love it. Only thing is htey
used a huge freakin' ring for healing purposes, and I can't wait to stick
a smaller one in there.
Koren
Koren Gould
: "dangerous angels", the collection of weetzie bat books by francesca lia
: block. i was gonna buy em all, but when you can get them in one book for half
: the price, why not?;)
I saw this particular volume in a bookshop near here and was in
instant booklust. I didn't buy it, tho. :( You're reminded me that I need
to have it in my life, manda.
Koren
Koren Gould
: Fleetwood Mac: Rumours. Because I'm releasing my inner sap.
*koren goes running for a tin pail* ;)
: I think I established at nye that I shouldn't be in the same room as a
: bodmod in progress...much less in the same body.
Yes, I think you did. And we respect you for it, lovey. *mwah*
Koren
Lady Miss Thang
: i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
: to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
: brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
: here's mine:
: CDs-
: puddle dive, ani difranco, not a pretty girl/ ani difranco
: adventures in afropea 1/ zap mama
: the best of, vol. 2/ ladysmith black mambazo
:
: a few of the books i'm absorbing-
: (For classes) _in search of respect, selling crack in el barrio_, philippe
: bourgois; _world orders old and new_, noam chomsky; _the chomsky reader_;
: _the eyes on the prize civil rights reader_;_a people's history of the
: united states_, howard zinn;
: and textbooks and other stuff for my current classes.
: (personal interest:) _black like me_, john howard griffin; _nappy hair_,
: carolivia herron.
: body modification:
: -considering 2 cartilage piercings, nipple piercing, tattoos on hands and
: brands (locations TBA). most of these are FAR off in the future, though.
: :(
: -julie (no, i'm not putting off doing tons of reading for tomorrow. not i.
: i've never procrastinated in my entire life... i think that if you're
: sitting in front of a computer, it coulds as homework.;))
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: i'm invincible. so are you. (ani difranco)
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B. Chas Parisher
:) CDs-
Well, I've been trying to listen to all the CD's I have, and to make
sure that I hit all of them, I'm listening to them in alphabetical order.
I started this sometime ago (in May I think), so my most recent "listened
to" list is a bit biased:
1. Dave Matthews, "Under the Table and Dreaming"
2. Joni Mitchell, "Blue"
3. Monty Python, "Instant Record Collection, Vol 1"
:) a few of the books i'm absorbing-
"Why People Believe Strange Things" -- (Forgot the author... pretty cool tho)
"Stardust" -- Neil Gaiman
"Naked Photos of Famous People" -- Jon Stewart
:) body modification:
I shaved my goatee off. Does that count?
--B. Chas Parisher
Copygurl
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
ooooh. good idea, julie baby. :D
>here's mine:
>
>CDs-
>puddle dive, ani difranco, not a pretty girl/ ani difranco
i've had "little plastic castle" and "napg" on
repeat for the last couple of days. and when
i'm doing my women's studies reading, i opt
for "puddle dive" and "out of range". very
angering, but positive.
>adventures in afropea 1/ zap mama
>the best of, vol. 2/ ladysmith black mambazo
oh my. i must buy those. i've heard a bit of
zap mama, and i like.
[snip]
>-julie (no, i'm not putting off doing tons of reading for tomorrow. not i.
>i've never procrastinated in my entire life... i think that if you're
>sitting in front of a computer, it coulds as homework.;))
*laugh* me too! right now, i'm taking one of
my 2-hour study breaks. ;)
ok...my list of cool stuff right now:
cds:
- 1039 smoothed out slappy hours / green day
- listen without prejudice / george michael
- baduizm / erykah badu
- utp, ftcgh / tori amos, duh. ;)
- this euphoria / david garza
- post / bjork
- mental jewelry / live
- assorted mix tapes and jello biafra that corey
so lovingly taped for me. :)
books:
well, lots of textbooks, but also:
- bulletproof diva: tales of race, sex, and hair /
lisa jones
- alice in wonderland - lewis carroll
that's all i have time for at the moment. btw, i
finally finished "the power of myth" by joe
campbell. i'm so happy! :)
body mod:
i just got my nose repierced. i have PLENTY
of cool photos of that. maybe i'll put 'em on my
web site if i ever update it. as for the future, i'm
considering getting my nipples done this
summer. and maybe some more ear stuff. i'd
like to say i have an "ear project" actually...heh.
i'm hoping to get an industrial. i think they look
cool.
also, i'm pondering a couple of tattoos. those
are a ways off, though. i don't think i have the
cash for a tattoo. piercing is a bit more affordable.
anyway, i'm pretty happy right now. i need to
buy some new cd's, tho... ;)
xox.karen
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i think that i'm happy i think that i'm blessed - ani d.
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Copygurl
[snip]
>- Jeff Buckley- cd single for "Everybody Here Wants You" (has an excellent
>acoustic version of "Lover You Should Have Come Over." Huge Buckley fan, I
>am.)
must....go....buy.....that! i didn't even know
there was a single for that track. i'll have to
find it. "lover" is prolly my fave track on "grace". :)
>- Hole- Celebrity Skin. Almost beats, (and I did say "almost"), "Live Through
>This." Good.)
thanks for playing this en route everywhere
while we were in milwaukee. i might actually
have to pick that one up, thanks to you! :D
[snip some damn good books!]
>Body modification:
>
>- Really don't have anything to say in this category. The only body
>modification I have, (for
>cosmetic purposes, that is), is the 2 piercings I have in each ear on the
>lobe. Um, besides
>that, there's really nothing. I have been really thinking about getting some
>mendhi (sp?). You
>know, where someone draws really pretty and intricate designs on your hands
>with henna? Cool.
if you get mendhi done, please take photos!!
i wanna see. it sounds like it could be a lot of
fun. let us know if you go through with it...
PoetGrrlAC
>: thinking about getting my tragus (sp?) done.
> Go Lisa! I just got it done, and I love it.
young asking! :)
(turn on a light, i'm in the dark)
PoetGrrlAC
>>mendhi (sp?). You
>>know, where someone draws really pretty and intricate designs on your hands
>>with henna? Cool.
>if you get mendhi done, please take photos!!
>i wanna see. it sounds like it could be a lot of
>fun. let us know if you go through with it...
it dried orange, then turned brown-red. i did a woven design, in and out,
celtic inspired. it was supposed to last for a month, it lasted two weeks. i
loved it, and got many compliments when swimming. we discussed it on the bus
one day this year, and i showed mine. it was pretty cool, and i'll definetly do
it again, but go for a better type of henna. i got the cheapy stuff. :)
Heather A Philp
->>I have been really thinking about getting some
->>>mendhi (sp?). You
->>>know, where someone draws really pretty and intricate designs on your hands
->>>with henna? Cool.
->karen said:
->>if you get mendhi done, please take photos!!
->>i wanna see. it sounds like it could be a lot of
->>fun. let us know if you go through with it...
->i got some this summer, followed the instructions, and did one around my navel.
->it dried orange, then turned brown-red. i did a woven design, in and out,
->celtic inspired. it was supposed to last for a month, it lasted two weeks. i
->loved it, and got many compliments when swimming. we discussed it on the bus
->one day this year, and i showed mine. it was pretty cool, and i'll definetly do
->it again, but go for a better type of henna. i got the cheapy stuff. :)
I got some done last fall, at the international festival. It was a cool
swirly-flowery kind of design that ran from the tip of my right index
finger down to the right side of my wrist. It lasted a good long time,
too, and I got tons of questions about it here at work. It's a nifty
non-permanent tattoo alternative for wimps like me. :)
They said it lasts the best and turns the best, darkest color on skin
like the palms of your hands...which I guess means more calloused or
something. ;)
--heather
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jonathan dale mccall
Au contraire, it is very very _in_ print! I've seen copies of it
recently in B & N and in the Bull's Head. In fact, there's been a
recent oversized softcover printing of it done.
It's achieved the status of a classic now, and is being taught in some
lit courses. It's probably going to stay perpetually in print now,
given that...
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Lady Miss Thang
: julie pavuk (jpa...@warren-wilson.edu) wrote:
: : i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
: : to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
: : brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
: : here's mine:
: : CDs-
: : puddle dive, ani difranco, not a pretty girl/ ani difranco
: : adventures in afropea 1/ zap mama
: : the best of, vol. 2/ ladysmith black mambazo
: :
: : a few of the books i'm absorbing-
: : (For classes) _in search of respect, selling crack in el barrio_, philippe
: : bourgois; _world orders old and new_, noam chomsky; _the chomsky reader_;
: : _the eyes on the prize civil rights reader_;_a people's history of the
: : united states_, howard zinn;
: : and textbooks and other stuff for my current classes.
: : (personal interest:) _black like me_, john howard griffin; _nappy hair_,
: : carolivia herron.
: : body modification:
: : -considering 2 cartilage piercings, nipple piercing, tattoos on hands and
: : brands (locations TBA). most of these are FAR off in the future, though.
: : :(
: : -julie (no, i'm not putting off doing tons of reading for tomorrow. not i.
: : i've never procrastinated in my entire life... i think that if you're
: : sitting in front of a computer, it coulds as homework.;))
: : +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
URMy5thAve
>forgive me, but where is your tragus? i'm assuming below the belt? i feel so
>young asking! :)
its above the waist actually. :)
its the little part the sticks out of the middle of your ear.. like, connected
to your head..
know what i mean..?
hope that helped.
~ lisa
Ann Shaffer
> Lady Miss Thang (asha...@sophia.smith.edu) wrote:
> : julie pavuk (jpa...@warren-wilson.edu) wrote:
>
> : : i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
> : : to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
> : : brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
aaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!! dammit. i tried to post my reply to this
*twice* and tin decided to quote all of the original message and none of
my reply. so i'm going back to pine and posting that way, dammit. sorry
bout the double non-post. :P
listening:
i was listening to The Trial all afternoon on NPR. blah,
blah, blah. don't ask me why i torture myself this way. yuck.
dar williams-- the honesty room
ani difranco-- up up up up up up
sinead lohan-- no mermaid
tori stories (thanks, hyoun!)
kronos quartet-- black angels, winter was hard
reading:
_naked_ by david sedaris
_the road to santiago_ by cees nooteboom (my cello teacher lent me
this book last september, but i haven't really read any of it lately...)
the newest issue of the _journal of the viola da gamba society of
america_
and books lying around that i'm planning to read:
study guidebooks for the GRE general and music subject tests. :P
_the notation of polyphonic music 900-1600_ by willi apel (for a
class i'm auditing)
_women's bodies, women's wisdom_ by christiane northrup
_little altars everywhere_ by rebecca wells
_cello story_ by dmitri markevitch
bodmod:
right now i've got one hole in my right ear, 3 in my left (2 lobe,
1 cartilege), and my navel pierced. i've been thinking about getting my
nose, tongue, and/or more cartilege done for a few years now, but i'm
getting to the point where i have to start looking reshpeckawiggle [1] so
i can get a real job. blah. but i'm also trying to work back to going
regularly to the gym, try to lose some weight and get all buff. or
something. but hey, that's modifying my body, right? ;) i also need to
get a good radical haircut sometime soon.
movies: (a good addition, i must say)
shakespeare in love. go see this now. it is soooooo good. i
could drown in joseph fiennes' eyes forever...
scream. just saw this for the first time last night. it was fun.
i really thought only the opening part when drew barrymore and her bf die
was scary, but then i found phone stalking much more frightening than
being gutted with a knife. go fig.
from dusk till dawn. mmmm, george clooney, harvey keitel and
mexican vampires! okay, there were a lot of flaws, and it was really two
different movies crammed onto one tape, IMO, but deep down inside i kinda
liked it. ;) for some reason, i'm just on an action/horror kick.
the twilight zone (the old series, not the movie, but we watched
so many that i'm counting it as a movie.) kenya treated us to a marathon
of episodes from her collection this weekend, and it rocked. kennie,
you're awesome! and so's tz.
i also just bought a really old, probably really bad, jackie chan movie
called dragon strike. haven't watched it yet. but it was $5, how could i
pass up jackie? ;)
okay. carry on.
higs,
ann
[1] haven't been able to say "respectable" without thinking of the drunken
marshwiggle in that one narnia book for a few years, especially as my best
friend had a penchant for imitating him now and then. ;)
Andrew Onifer
{I'm piggybacking}
> julie pavuk wrote in message ...
> >to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
> >brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
>
Well, these are all in my little CD holder, which means I've prolly
listened to them recently
Hysteria - Def Leppard
The Very Best of John Lee Hooker
Talking Book - Stevie Wonder
Life's Rich Pageant - REM
Up - REM
OK Computer - Radiohead
U2 The B-Sides 1980-1990
Muddy Waters, His Best 1956-1964
Purple Rain Soundtrack - Prince
So - Peter Gabriel
Kick - INXS
Achtung Baby - U2
Jackie's Strength single
Document - REM
Little Earthquakes
Robert Johnson's Complete Recordings
Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
Homogenic - Bjork
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely blah blah
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
From the Choirgirl Hotel
The Joshua Tree - U2
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
Book
Mathematical Methods of Physics, by Arfken and Weber
My last fun book was Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett.
Mod
I shaved this morning.
I clipped my nails sometime last week.
I plan on getting a haircut soon.
And 'cause I just finished it...
Game
Grim Fandango. This game is too cool for words.
jay
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Copygurl
i usually explain my tragus piercing (to people
who can't see it) as that little flap of skin in your
ear that you use to plug noise out. make more
sense now?
hth.
jonathan dale mccall
(snip Confederacy of Dunces being out of print)
>
>Au contraire, it is very very _in_ print! I've seen copies of it
Committing gaucherie of following up to own post...
I checked at the Bull's Head tonight - there were no less than 20
copies of <Confederacy of Dunces> on display - in fact, it's a
"Recommend-a-Bull" this month - you get 10% off. : )
Most recent printing by Grove Press.
--
Jonathan
Margaret Turner
>maggie that siren chick wrote: ;)
>[snip]
>>- Jeff Buckley- cd single for "Everybody Here Wants You" (has an excellent
>>acoustic version of "Lover You Should Have Come Over." Huge Buckley fan, I
>>am.)
>
>must....go....buy.....that! i didn't even know
>there was a single for that track. i'll have to
>find it. "lover" is prolly my fave track on "grace". :)
Yep, I found several Buckley singles while I was in England for Xmas. Alan
the Wonderful bought them for me for Xmas. Whee!!
I've got 4 Buckley singles in all:
1) "Everybody Here Wants You" w/ "Lover You Should Have Come Over" (live/acoustic)
and "Tongue" (live groovy instrumental "I must have sex now" piece.)
2) "Eternal Life" w/ "Eternal Life" (road version) and "Last Goodbye" (live acoustic)
and "Lover You Should Have Come Over" (live acoustic)
3) "Last Goodbye" w/ "Last Goodbye" (edit) and "Kanga-roo"
4) "So Real" w/ "Tongue" and "Lost Highway" (cool)
I don't think you need to run over to England to buy these though. You can spank
me if I'm wrong but I think they are available from Amazon's music department.
>>- Hole- Celebrity Skin. Almost beats, (and I did say "almost"), "Live Through
>>This." Good.)
>
>thanks for playing this en route everywhere
>while we were in milwaukee. i might actually
>have to pick that one up, thanks to you! :D
Yeah, I did have that on pretty constant rotation in the car, didn't I? (btw, please
hold silent moment of prayer for Maggie's car which was greatly injured on NYE and is
thus currently in some garage in Ky with the car healers, no humans harmed though).
Anyways, my fave tracks on CS are "Northern Star" and "Reasons to Be Beautiful" and
"Dying" and "Heaven Tonight" and well, hell, the whole damn album is amazing. There
is so much anger/sadness/grief on CS and it is beautifully expressed through the music.
I say it doesn't "beat" "Live Through This" simply because it's impossible to say so because
it's like comparing apples and oranges. They are both incredibly intense and amazing works
but they come from totally different emotional realms. You really should go get it, Karen.
You won't regret it.
<snip-o-rama>
>if you get mendhi done, please take photos!!
>i wanna see. it sounds like it could be a lot of
>fun. let us know if you go through with it...
Yeah. Apparently this barber shop, (of all places!?!), has a woman who works there
who does mendhi for you while you your boyfriend gets his hair cut or whatever.
Obviously, my bf will not be flying over just to get his haircut so I'll go on my own. It
only cost $10 I think. My friend, Kathy, had it done by this woman and it's gorgeous. It's
all over the back of her hand and her palm. She had it done over a week ago and it's only
slightly faded. Tres cool. As for tatoos and piercings, etc, I know I have the pain tolerance
for it but I just think that I'd probably get some design I thought was really cool and then
a year later I'd be like, "What the f*** was I thinking?!!" So, I haven't had anything like
that done. Oh, well, though....who knows what tomorrow might bring?
higs and watermelon-blow-pop-smaes,
Maggie the VSS
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I didn't realize I could ever grow taller,
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Dances With Cars
<jpa...@warren-wilson.edu> wrote:
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
<snip>
CDs I've been listening to:
Jehovahkill - Julian Cope
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - The Beserkley Years
The Pogues - Hell's Ditch
Rasputina - How We Quit the Forest
The Original Broadway Cast Recording of _Sunday in the Park with
George_
Books:
Currently reading -
_Mansfield Park_ - Jane Austen: I _always_ read Austen when
depressed, under the weather or just generally in a major funk. She's
very cheering. Complex yet simple, and very witty. _MP_ is no
exception.
Lined up to read -
_Race: The History of an Idea in the West_ - Ivan Hannaford: It
seems like it will be a bit dry, but pretty interesting. We'll see.
It's not a subject I tend to read much about, but my sister mailed it
to me because she had to read it for a class and thought I'd like it.
_Darkness Visible_ - William Styron: I've read it before, but
recently I've been missing it terribly. I figured I'd visit it again.
Body Mods:
I am planning (at some point in the fairly near future) to get a
circular/two swirling arabesques joined and forming a four-pronged
swirly thing in the middle tattoo on the back of my neck. The
description makes _no_ sense, but it's a very nifty design.
As ever I remain
-Dances With Cars (and yes, i'm aware that getting a tattoo on the
back of my neck will _hurt_)
~~~~~~~ dwc(at)banzai(dash)net(dot)com ~~~~~~~
"You can't be one with the universe until you can be
one with your annoying neighbors first." - Unknown
Dances With Cars
<geekt...@earthlink.net> wrote:
<snip>
>I Don't Want to Live
>this Life (something to that effect ) by Nancy Spungen's mother
Very good book.
As ever I remain
-Dances With Cars (it's not a one-liner when you're sort of
recommending very sad and somewhat disturbing book about a girl who
just never really had a chance at a normal life from the get-go)
Heather A Philp
->julie pavuk sez:
->:) body modification:
->I shaved my goatee off. Does that count?
I say no, cos oyu can have it back too soon for it to be a really
radical thing. However, Brian says, "Bold move!", so I could be
wrong.
--heather
resisting the joke she hears in her head along with that
statement
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pavuk cried out in the night, letting loose a great wail, followed by the
following rational thought. It was kinda wierd.
:
:i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
:to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
:brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
CDs: Well, I promised Eden I would go three weeks without buying any CDs. It
hurts. It's not easy. So what have I been listening to....
Well, I have 600 CDs and I'm trying to give everyone equal time. Most recent
it's been Fairground Attraction, Songs of the Siren (a great compilation of
electronica by female bands), Deep Forest, Jarre, Yello... nothing I've been
playing repeatedly.
Reading: currently reading both The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories
(almost finished) and The Summer Queen by Joan Vinge. I'll prolly move on at
some point to a book my brother gave me for xmas, They Call Me Mad Dog by
Erica Lopez. It's an insane book. An illustrated novel.
Body mods: I have one earring, that's all I WILL have. You peeps getting
nipple piercings are out of your fucking minds (which is not necessarily a bad
thing...).
-=><=-
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Midnight Tree Bandit
cried out in the night, letting loose a great wail, followed by the following
rational thought. It was kinda wierd.
:CDs:
:Milla's Divine Comedy, which I just got. Brian stole it for his car
: CD player, though. Hmph.
So which one of us talked you into it? And isn't it absolutely beautiful?
Many dismissed it as a vanity work by a teen supermodel, but she wrote this
stuff herself, and it's VERY impressive.
Hmm. Now I must go put it on....
-=><=-
Margaret Turner
<snippy snip snip>
>And 'cause I just finished it...
>Game
>Grim Fandango. This game is too cool for words.
Whee!! Someone else who has played "Grim Fandango"!! Ah, I love that
game. Weren't the graphics just amazing? And the dialogue hilarious!!
I think I've played it like 3 times now. Wow...excellent game.
I swear, if Manny Calavera was human, I'd marry the guy. :)
higs and cheesey-chicken smaes,
Maggie the VSS (incredibly happy to have found another Grim Fandango person :)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder.
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her.
It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter.
It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever."
- Jeff Buckley, "Lover You Should Have Come Over."
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Michael the Polar Bear
07:35:53 GMT, and determination is found in small packages marked 'do
not open until Christmas,' Margaret Turner <mag...@ix.netcom.com>
decided that it would be better if they typed:
>
> Whee!! Someone else who has played "Grim Fandango"!! Ah, I love that
>game. Weren't the graphics just amazing? And the dialogue hilarious!!
>I think I've played it like 3 times now. Wow...excellent game.
>I swear, if Manny Calavera was human, I'd marry the guy. :)
Mmmm.... yes they were, I'm waiting for the sequel, and while
doing so I'm trying to figure out a way (basically sitting down and
picking out the right cables and actually reading TFM to sample
Glottis and Manny for my windows sounds...
>Maggie the VSS (incredibly happy to have found another Grim Fandango person :)
Ari and I have played the game as well..... check the .sig,
I've been sporting it for a while. <proud strut> <laugh>
Higs, Michael.
P.S. Have I done something to warrant not getting email replies or
are you just not answering my mail... just wondering, nothing more.
---
Michael Scheetz, Jr. O- 45.31N 122.40W mtpb @ rmta . org
'Love love is a verb, love is a doing word' - Massive Attack
'Manny until now we scraped along the ground like rats. But
from now on we soar, like eagles. Like eagles on pogo sticks!'
- Glottis
SamF
> : i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and
deciding
> : to modify. so speak up.
>
Books: Just finished: Fred Goodman, "Mansion On The Hill" (a kind of
history of the rock music business); Umberto Eco, "The Name Of The Rose";
Robert Harris, "Selling Hitler" (An account of the Hitler Diaries hoax).
Currently reading: Dave Sim, "Cerebus" (The whole thing, issues and all);
Joe Queenan, "The Unkindest Cut: How A Hatchet Man Critic Made His Own
$7000 movie and Put It All On His Credit Card". Sitting on desk looking at
me in a guilty manner: Howard Zinn, "A People's History Of The United
States" and Daniel Yergin, "The Prize" (History of the oil business).
CDs: Hell, what's hanging around the player... Lucinda Williams, "Car
Wheels On A Gravel road"; soundtrack to "Three Colours: Red", Was (Not
Was), "Are You Okay?" and Bob Dylan, "Live 1966"; disc two features some of
the best rock ever recorded and a document of one of the nastiest audiences
ever assembled... scary, wonderful stuff.
Bodmod: erm... I'm a bit of a wimp in these things... well, I'm starting
to exercise and swim in an effort to lose my love handles... does that
count?
sam
Andrew Wright
Ann Shaffer <asha...@sophia.smith.edu> was all like:
> reading:
> _naked_ by david sedaris
YES! YES! YES!
Sedaris rocks my world. _Naked_ wasn't quite as funny as I thought it would
be, but I think that's the point... that the sense of humor comes from some
very screwed-up events and relationships. I particularly like the chapter
entitled "I Like Guys," because it captured the awkward teenage years so
vividly.
For xmas, I gave my mother a copy of _Holidays On Ice_, because I thought
she'd really get a kick out of "Santaland". After she read it and passed it
on to my brother, he called me and said that he thought it was a misguided
gift she wouldn't appreciate... It was an odd discussion. Ok, true,
"Season's Greetings to our Friends and Family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" makes fun of
people who write xmas "update" letters...like my mom. And maybe Mom wouldn't
fully appreciate "Dinah, the Christmas Whore." But *I* think she liked it.
So you got a playboy mommy in Ohio,
'drew
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Red
>
> After being visited by the funky penguin, geekthegrrl
> <geekt...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >I Don't Want to Live
> >this Life (something to that effect ) by Nancy Spungen's mother
>
> Very good book.
>
> As ever I remain
>
> -Dances With Cars (it's not a one-liner when you're sort of
> recommending very sad and somewhat disturbing book about a girl who
> just never really had a chance at a normal life from the get-go)
>
Along these lines (but with maybe a happier ending?) I'd also recommend
"She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb. Absolutely enthralling book (at
least I thought so).
--
Cheryl
**********************************************
I just wanna walk
through my life unarmed
to accept and just get by
like my father learned to do
but without all the acceptance and getting by
that got my father through
-- Ani Difranco
http://pilot.msu.edu/user/lafount1
**********************************************
Heather A Philp
->CDs: Well, I promised Eden I would go three weeks without buying any CDs. It
->hurts.
Ah! No wonder you have money for T-shirts!
->(my hair is getting longer, though, and I'm getting a nice beard growing in
->now... CarolinaCon people are in for shock when they see me at CarlaCon)
A beard? Ick!
--heather
who likes whisker-rubs, though
--
Heather Philp (* Let's tell the future *)
haphilpatlucentdotcom (* Let's see how it's been done. *)
Lucent Technologies, ASCC (* Suzanne Vega, Predictions *)
Heather A Philp
->cried out in the night, letting loose a great wail, followed by the following
->rational thought. It was kinda wierd.
->:CDs:
->:Milla's Divine Comedy, which I just got. Brian stole it for his car
->: CD player, though. Hmph.
->So which one of us talked you into it?
It's all your fault. =P
->And isn't it absolutely beautiful?
->Many dismissed it as a vanity work by a teen supermodel, but she wrote this
->stuff herself, and it's VERY impressive.
I like it, definitely...especially the folk song thing at the end, whether
I can understand the words or not. (Not. It's in russian, I believe...)
However, it is still in Brian's car, so I've only really listened to it
through twice now. *grumble*
--heather
--
Heather Philp == Lucent Technoliges == ASCC == haphilpatlucentdotcom
== "Sometimes the best intentions still don't make things right." ==
=========================== Tracy Chapman ==========================
Red
>
> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.990125...@sophia.smith.edu>,
> Ann Shaffer <asha...@sophia.smith.edu> was all like:
>
> > reading:
> > _naked_ by david sedaris
>
> YES! YES! YES!
>
> Sedaris rocks my world. _Naked_ wasn't quite as funny as I thought it would
> be, but I think that's the point... that the sense of humor comes from some
> very screwed-up events and relationships. I particularly like the chapter
> entitled "I Like Guys," because it captured the awkward teenage years so
> vividly.
>
> For xmas, I gave my mother a copy of _Holidays On Ice_, because I thought
> she'd really get a kick out of "Santaland". After she read it and passed it
> on to my brother, he called me and said that he thought it was a misguided
> gift she wouldn't appreciate... It was an odd discussion. Ok, true,
> "Season's Greetings to our Friends and Family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" makes fun of
> people who write xmas "update" letters...like my mom. And maybe Mom wouldn't
> fully appreciate "Dinah, the Christmas Whore." But *I* think she liked it.
>
OH GAWD my eyes are tearing up when I think about "Dinah, the Christmas
Whore" -- that's from _Naked_, right? Someone bought me that book for
Christmas and I adored it!
I also love when the main character was working on that farm...and his
boss would alway shout "Buenos Dios" to the migrant workers...and then
comment on how jumpy they were....
<giggle>
Lady Miss Thang
Distribution:
Red (lafo...@pilot.msu.edu) wrote:
: Andrew Wright wrote:
: >
: > Ann Shaffer <asha...@sophia.smith.edu> was all like:
: >
: > > reading:
: > > _naked_ by david sedaris
: >
: > Sedaris rocks my world. _Naked_ wasn't quite as funny as I thought it
: > would be, but I think that's the point... that the sense of humor
: > comes from some very screwed-up events and relationships.
i really like this book. i'd heard some of his commentaries on NPR, and
i thought they were hilarious (especially the one about his boyfriend's
vacation home in france); i find the essays in the book get darker (and
longer-- i was beginning to think "c.o.g." was never going to end!) as i
go on, but they're still pretty wry.
: > For xmas, I gave my mother a copy of _Holidays On Ice_, because I
: > thought she'd really get a kick out of "Santaland". After she read
: > it and passed it on to my brother, he called me and said that he
: > thought it was a misguided gift she wouldn't appreciate... It was
[lil' snip]
: > And maybe Mom wouldn't fully
: > appreciate "Dinah, the Christmas Whore." But *I* think she liked it.
: OH GAWD my eyes are tearing up when I think about "Dinah, the Christmas
: Whore" -- that's from _Naked_, right? Someone bought me that book for
: Christmas and I adored it!
yeah, "dinah" is from _naked_, not _holidays on ice_.
: I also love when the main character was working on that farm...and his
: boss would alway shout "Buenos Dios" to the migrant workers...and then
: comment on how jumpy they were....
:) my favorite was "a plague of tics," with the obsessive-compulsive kid
who was set in all those patterns of weird repetitive actions, and his mom
and teachers drinking up together.
--ann
who has a cold and feels like her head is a big block of snot. yuck.
--
julie pavuk
> julie wrote:
> >CDs-
> i've had "little plastic castle" and "napg" on
> repeat for the last couple of days. and when
> i'm doing my women's studies reading, i opt
> for "puddle dive" and "out of range". very
> angering, but positive.
you have to listen to ani to get angry? you know, i have some extra anger
i could loan you if you're ever in a pinch... :P
> >adventures in afropea 1/ zap mama
> >the best of, vol. 2/ ladysmith black mambazo
> oh my. i must buy those. i've heard a bit of
> zap mama, and i like.
zap mama is FABULOUS. i hereby decree that everyone here go to the
international/african/european section of your fave CD shop and check them
out. i own "adventures in afropea 1" and "seven". i'm not so enamored of
"seven", but "adventures..." kicks obese ass! :) women singing in a
variety of african and european traditions, a capella (with the occasional
drummer). it's absolutely infectious. and while i don't understand most of what
they're saying, save the occasional english or french, it's made my life
that much richer. gorgeous.
and ladysmith black mambazo. i recall dancing around the livingroom years
and years ago to my stepdad's ladysmith albums, lovin' 'em like nobody's
business. then i forgot about them till a few months ago, when a friend
was wearing a LBM tee shirt, and another friend was listening to a miriam
makeba album that reminded me a bit of them. mbube, the general category
for the south african style in which they sing, is blowing my mind. the
one album i own, a kind of greatest hits album, seems to be prayers ending
in "alleluia amen". again, no idea what they're talking about the majority
of the time, but that doesn't make it any less beautiful to my ears.
both zap mama and ladysmith black mambazo create harmonies that are beyond
what i can express here. zap mama is more danceable, ladysmith more
contemplative. for me, at least. they come heartily recommended. :)
> books:
karen(not copygurl) suggested _tuesdays with morrie_ by mitch albom. i
read this in december and it was incredibly touching and all around potent
and important. read it, y'all. :)
> - bulletproof diva: tales of race, sex, and hair /
> lisa jones
i ordered _bulletproof diva_ from interlibrary loan, so i'll have a full
report in a few weeks. can't wait until it's in. :)
BTW karen, one of the last times one of these threads appeared, you
recommended _color lines_ by anauthorwhosenameiforget. i read a bit of it,
but somehow couldn't finish it. it looked fascinating, and i was
interested in it initially, but it the story seemed to unfold so slowly
that i wanted to read the first and last chapter, and call it done. :/
[was that random?...]
-julie
fastrada
>
> PoetGrrlAC <poetg...@aol.comfaery> wrote:
> : forgive me, but where is your tragus? i'm assuming below the belt? i feel
> :so young asking! :)
>
> *grin* Well, if no one's answered already, it's that bit of
> cartilage midway between your earlobe and the top of your ear. It sticks
> out and is the perfect spot for a new hole. ;)
does it scare anyone else that the popularity of body piercing these
days is teaching us the names of all sorts of body parts we didn't know
had names? :)
fastrada
--
"i don't have to put up with this shabby crap--i'm a
journalist!" --transmetropolitan
be...@mail.uca.edu
julie pavuk <jpa...@warren-wilson.edu> wrote:
>
> i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
> brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
Music:
Mamou, "Ugly Day"
Cajun with a ferocious edge to it. This band usually does
hard rock / Cajun fusion; this is an acoustic album, but it
rocks nonetheless.
Peter Gabriel, "Passion"
Aside from the fact that I approve of anything that annoys
fundamentalists, this is magnificent work. . .
Beethoven, Symphonies 1-9 (Vienna Philharmonic, cond. Leonard
Bernstein)
Reading:
Adrian Desmond, _Huxley_
VERY thorough biography of one of my scientific heroes.
Mircea Eliade, _Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy_
Otto Kraus, "Phylogenetic relationships between higher taxa of
tracheate arthropods." Pp. 295-303. In: Fortey, R. A. and
Thomas, R. H. (eds.) Arthropod Relationships. Systematics
Association Special Volume 55. Chapman and Hall, London.
Well, you asked. . .
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, _The Illuminatus Trilogy_
What a rip-roaring mindfuck of a book! I see the fnords!
Margot Adler, _Drawing Down the Moon_ (recently finished)
Lined up to read: Don't get me started. . .
Bod-Mods: I've been thinkin' that that trilobite on my left arm
looks awfully lonely. And there is, in fact, a tattoo parlor in
Conway. I just never seem to have both spare cash and gumption at
the same time, so it may be a while before my Elliptocephalus is
joined by a Nevadella. . .
--
Ben
Koren Gould
: forgive me, but where is your tragus? i'm assuming below the belt? i feel
:so young asking! :)
*grin* Well, if no one's answered already, it's that bit of
cartilage midway between your earlobe and the top of your ear. It sticks
out and is the perfect spot for a new hole. ;)
Koren
Midnight Tree Bandit
cried out in the night, letting loose a great wail, followed by the following
:->:Milla's Divine Comedy, which I just got. Brian stole it for his car
:->: CD player, though. Hmph.
:->So which one of us talked you into it?
:
:It's all your fault. =P
Oh, er, sorry.
:I like it, definitely...especially the folk song thing at the end, whether
:I can understand the words or not. (Not. It's in russian, I believe...)
:However, it is still in Brian's car, so I've only really listened to it
:through twice now. *grumble*
As I said I would, I put it in my CD player last night after reading your
message. My roommate[1] popped his head out the door during Gentleman Who
Fell and said "I absolutely adore this song" then disappeared again. And he
thinks *I'm* a little odd? So anyway, I got some very nice new speakers, two
little ones with a subwoofer, and they sound brilliant, better than my big
speakers, I think... besides which I get real stereo where I'm sitting.
Divine Comedy sounded better than I've heard in a long time.
-=><=-
(currently in CD player: Thomas Dolby, Astronauts and Heretics)
[1] Who still denies vehemently that he look like an IBMer. "I'm NOT an
IBMer!" he says, "I am an FBI agent!"
Rosser Schwarz
: i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
: to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
: brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
cds:
* portishead: portishead
* ani: up, up, up, up, up, up; out of range; little plastic castles
* garbage: garbage
* boingo: boingo
* juliana hatfield: bed; only everything; please do not disturb
* pulp: this is hardcore
* jets to brazil: orange rhyming dictionary
books:
* anais nin: henry & june; delta of venus
* david bohm: wholeness and the implicate order
* david deutsch: the fabric of reality
* gabriel garcia marquez: one hundred years of solitude
* danah zohar: the quantum self
* jonathan pinnock: professional dcom application development
* greg bear: psychlone
and i just finished watership down. yum!
bodmods:
none, and none being considered atm.
--rosser
--
"we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
-- anais nin
rosseratqualiadotorg
Midnight Tree Bandit
cried out in the night, letting loose a great wail, followed by the following
rational thought. It was kinda wierd.
:That's what I said! Or maybe it was Midnight Tree Bandit who wrote:
:->CDs: Well, I promised Eden I would go three weeks without buying any CDs. It
:->hurts.
:
:Ah! No wonder you have money for T-shirts!
Well, I will until it's time too replace the clutch in my car. Still trying
to decide if its worth it, but then I have a large tax refund heading my way.
:->(my hair is getting longer, though, and I'm getting a nice beard growing in
:->now... CarolinaCon people are in for shock when they see me at CarlaCon)
:
:A beard? Ick!
Hmph. Well, 'snot for you anyway. Actually, it's Amiee repellant, should she
go insane and decide to like me for a day or two. Besides, I look better in a
beard. Really.
-=><=-
Coi...@mindspring.com
grew dark, the wind stopped short, all Earth became sullen and still;
and the Ancient Ones, yearning to vent their wrath, claimed the soul of
mtba...@mindspring.com (Midnight Tree Bandit):
... Besides, I look better in a beard.
As do all *real* men.
Natural selection must have endowed us with them for a reason.
(Carol claimed they reliably indicate the color of... other hair...)
--
Peace,
Randy aka Coi...@MindSpring.com
Why does Coises have a web site? Why do peanuts come with directions?
Pages at http://www.mindspring.com/~coises/ were updated 21 Jan 1999.
WyrdWoman
>does it scare anyone else that the popularity of body piercing these
>days is teaching us the names of all sorts of body parts we didn't know
>had names? :)
What about the guiche? While doing room service at the Embassy Suites, I
met this body piercer who was bragging, "Yeah, I just got my guiche done."
He was so proud, then I had to ask my own customer what the hell he was
talking about. To sum it up, it's also referred to by men as a "scranus" or
a "taint." Scranus is midway between scrotum & anus, and..."taint your
balls, taint your anus!" I hope some are enlightened (not like Siddhartha,
though, I'm sure!)
WyrdWoman
*is a labret something Frenchmen wear as a hat?*
dpur...@forest.drew.edu
>> i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>> to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>> brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
>
Lisa Loeb, "Firecracker"
Sarah McLachlan, "Fumbling Towards Ecstacy"
Billy Joel, "The Bridge," "Songs from the Attic"
Tori--"Choirgirl..."
> Reading:
Marion Zimmer Bradley, _The Forest House_, _Lady of Avalon_
Ann Marston, _Cloudbearer's Shadow_
> Bod-Mods:
Debating the navel or eyebrow ring for the zillionth time--I'm so
chicken!
deidre
be...@mail.uca.edu
elis...@aol.comglo (Elise421) wrote:
> geekthegrrl wrote:
>
> >Up up up up up up- Ani
>
> If it was one more up, it would be 7-UP
Hmmm. . . not bad, glo. I'd give it a 7.2. Keep practicing and you
might someday be a world champion smartass-punmeister yourself!
--
Ben
And it's a good thing that it would be 7-Up. Otherwise we'd have
to assume that Ani did it out of sprite.
be...@mail.uca.edu
"Angela Reid" <ang...@rmta.org> graciously allowed me to piggyback on her
post:
>
> Current Resident wrote in message ...
> <snip>
> >and i am currently working on a probably very out of print book called a
> >Confederacy of Dunces which is very funny.
Awesome book. Y'know, I lived in New Orleans for three years, and the
best part of the book (OK, one of the best parts) is that Toole absolutely
*nailed* the dialects and accents. I can read that book and hear exactly
what the dialogue would sound like.
And, very occasionally, I used to eat Lucky Dogs (the real-life model
for the Paradise Vendors weenie-wagons in the book). They're pretty
awful (shades of CMOT Dibbler). I never got refused service by a fat,
over-educated vendor dressed as a pirate. . . but I do remember the vendor
at St. Peter and Chartres, who always used to call out
"Hot!-dogschillidogsluckydogscajundogsPehhhhp-siColas!". To which the
nearby shoeshine man would always answer, "Don't be a meanie, get a weenie!
Eight inches of fun, on a bun!"
Reason #5529 to hold the Con in New Orleans. . .
--
Ben
Angela Reid
jonathan dale mccall wrote in message
<36ad149...@news.mindspring.com>...
>radi...@mindspring.com (jonathan dale mccall) wrote:
>
>(snip Confederacy of Dunces being out of print)
>>
>>Au contraire, it is very very _in_ print! I've seen copies of it
>
>
>Committing gaucherie of following up to own post...
>
>I checked at the Bull's Head tonight - there were no less than 20
>copies of <Confederacy of Dunces> on display - in fact, it's a
>"Recommend-a-Bull" this month - you get 10% off. : )
Wow. :) That's what I get for trusting Amazon, eh? (I looked for it about
two months ago, and they told me it was OoP).
Angela
Chat2pat
>
>>Along these lines (but with maybe a happier ending?) I'd also
recommend>"She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb. Absolutely enthralling book (at
>least I thought so).
>
I agree with you 100%. This was one of those books that I finished in an
afternoon because I just could not put it down. I haven't had a chance to get
my hands on his newest book, but once it goes on sale, I'll get it.
Another author that I'd forgotten about until this very moment is Armisted
Maupin. I can't remember the exact title of the books I've read by him, but
they are absolutely wonderful- oh yeah! Tales of the City - I believe it was a
mini series on HBO, but I didn't catch it. There's another one by him, and for
the life of me, I can't remember the title, although it wasn't part of the
tales series. Moonlight and... I don't know, it will probably come to me about
3:30 this morning and i will wake up with complete knowledge and then forget it
by the time I wake up.
-Geek, using her undercover AOhell work account
Coi...@mindspring.com
dark, the wind stopped short, all Earth became sullen and still; and the
Ancient Ones, yearning to vent their wrath, claimed the soul of
... Tales of the City - I believe it was a
... mini series on HBO, but I didn't catch it.
"Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City" was a three-part 1993 mini-series
broadcast in the United States by PBS.
"More Tales of the City" was a 1998 sequel series done for Showtime.
Both are currently available on videotape. See:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?%22Tales+of+the+City%22+%281993%29+%28mini%29
http://us.imdb.com/Title?%22More+Tales+of+the+City%22+%281998%29+%28mini%29
and various links from those pages; and, believe it or not:
http://www.talesofthecity.com/
which I just discovered in the course of verifying the information
above. I haven't poked around it much yet, but it looks worth a visit.
Carla Pettigrew
julie pavuk <jpa...@warren-wilson.edu> wrote:
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
books:
reviewing The Exorcist and Legion for the January Group Read for grimoire;
The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe--a couple of chapters a night with Larry, aloud
Drawing Blood, Poppy Z. Brite (as well as Lost Souls)
a couple of writing reference books (as always, duh)
scrapbooking magazines
on deck to be read--too many to mention
CDs:
Jewel, Spirit
Tasmin Archer, Sleeping Satelitte
all my Melissa Etheridge
Miss Saigon
Les Miz
horror movie music
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
current movies on rotation :) :
City of Angels
Scream
Halloween
The Exorcist (compare and contrast)
Spider Baby
body mods:
currently--two holes in each ear
getting my right second hole repierced [1]
considering a small shamrock tattoo
considering redying my hair
O:) Carla
--
Horror, I have learnt, has little to do with haunted castles and
graveyards. True horror is compounded of human intentions; it arises
from a soul depraved. _The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein_, Theodore
Roszak grimoire, the horror literature discussion list
http://www.mindspring.com/~screamqueen/grimoire/
Carla Pettigrew
(Andrew Wright) wrote:
>Jonatha Brooke Live-- only available through www.jonathabrooke.com. VERY
>cool. Energetic, emotional, all the things a live CD should be. Also, it
>doesn't have the problem that bugs me with most live CDs, in that the talking
>is kept to a minimum. And the military drums on "West Point" make that
>beautiful song even more touching.
Larry has turned me on to Jonatha Brooke and The Story. :) Anyone else
besides us and drew?
<Carla trots off to the website>
O:) Carla
--
"Boy, Ghoulies really takes off when those Nazi midgets appear."
--Joe Bob Briggs
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9370/drive-inGhoulies.html
Heather A Philp
->fastrada wrote in message...
->>does it scare anyone else that the popularity of body piercing these
->>days is teaching us the names of all sorts of body parts we didn't know
->>had names? :)
->What about the guiche? While doing room service at the Embassy Suites, I
->met this body piercer who was bragging, "Yeah, I just got my guiche done."
->He was so proud, then I had to ask my own customer what the hell he was
->talking about. To sum it up, it's also referred to by men as a "scranus" or
->a "taint." Scranus is midway between scrotum & anus, and..."taint your
->balls, taint your anus!" I hope some are enlightened (not like Siddhartha,
->though, I'm sure!)
*begins to look queasy* *starts looking pale* *makes a strange "gak"ing
noise*
OW! OWOWOWOWOWOWOW! Why on EARTH?
--heather
told you I was a wimp
--
Heather Philp ---- haphilpatlucentdotcom ----- Lucent Technologies
"If you love enough you'll lie a lot, guess they did in Camelot"
Tori Amos -------------------------------------- Jackie's Strength
jonathan dale mccall
(snip)
>
>Wow. :) That's what I get for trusting Amazon, eh? (I looked for it about
>two months ago, and they told me it was OoP).
>
Hm - I wonder if Amazon doesn't occasionally tell people OoP when
they're merely out of stock. ; )
"Oh, that book - we don't have it, and I'm sure no one else does. No,
no, don't bother looking..."
Seriously, Toole's mother, who holds copyright on the book, has
extended permission for schools and universities to excerpt it and
anthologize it for free - no royalties.
--
Jonathan
Shelby Walker, GoatSpring OffStar.
out another dream when "WyrdWoman" <amy....@mindspring.comSPAM>
offered this bit of information to distract her:
>What about the guiche? While doing room service at the Embassy Suites, I
>met this body piercer who was bragging, "Yeah, I just got my guiche done."
>He was so proud, then I had to ask my own customer what the hell he was
>talking about. To sum it up, it's also referred to by men as a "scranus" or
>a "taint." Scranus is midway between scrotum & anus, and..."taint your
>balls, taint your anus!" I hope some are enlightened (not like Siddhartha,
>though, I'm sure!)
I just hope he told you, and didn't show you. =)
Are there any good web sites about tatoos and body piercings? I feel
like looking around tonight. =)
*giggles*
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*this url soon to change!*
Julie
> Larry has turned me on to Jonatha Brooke and The Story. :) Anyone else
> besides us and drew?
it's about jonatha brooke. i wouldn't say that i harbor any ill will
towrds her, but she drives me *nuts*. people had been telling me for ages
"you'll love jonatha brooke, you'll love chantal kreviazuk, jann arden,
blah blah blah..." and so i go out and buy a buttload of CDs and hate them
all. i can handle one JB song, but other than that i don't dig her music
in the least. so that's why it's making me pissy that the sole post that
gets through to me is about her.
i'm tempted to start a paula cole pit hair thread. it's been a while. ;)
because, you see, i get all of my posts, but very few of anybody else's. i
figure if i post up a vengeance, i'll have something to read next time i
want a study break. but then, it's easier and wastes less energy to just
sit by myself and talk out loud. posting here is like talking to oneself
with a hell of a lot of reverb...
<pay no attention to the deranged individual off in the distance who's
thinking about paula cole's armpits...>
geekthegrrl
>
> 27 Jan 1999 17:27:41 GMT --- a day like any other --- 'til the sky grew
> dark, the wind stopped short, all Earth became sullen and still; and the
> Ancient Ones, yearning to vent their wrath, claimed the soul of
> ... mini series on HBO, but I didn't catch it.
>
> "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City" was a three-part 1993 mini-series
> broadcast in the United States by PBS.
> "More Tales of the City" was a 1998 sequel series done for Showtime.
<snip good info>
Thanks so much. I have a swiss cheese brain, and it's amazing the things
I DO remember! I will check that out, I'd like to see the shows,
although I find most great books make only average tv shows.
Geek
Lady Miss Thang
: Larry has turned me on to Jonatha Brooke and The Story. :) Anyone else
: besides us and drew?
you know, my mom gave me "angel in the house" by the story a few years
ago, after it was recommended by a coworker whom my mom thought had
similar musical tastes to mine. i listened to the whole thing and
couldn't stand any of it... eventually gave the cd to a friend who liked
the album and only had a dub of it on tape. but i've got an acappella
cover of the title song by the jackson jills (a female aca group from
tufts u.), and i rather like it. *shrug* maybe i'm just an acappella
junkie and not a story fan.
higs,
ann
Midnight Tree Bandit
Pettigrew cried out in the night, letting loose a great wail, followed by the
following rational thought. It was kinda wierd.
:Larry has turned me on to Jonatha Brooke and The Story. :) Anyone else
:besides us and drew?
I have a promo with When Two and Two Are Five on it, and a record company
Promo with theirs and a few others' music on it, but I haven't actually gotten
any of Jonatha Brooke's discs. There was something from the live disc on the
new CMJ sampler that I liked too. I should get more, shouldn't I?
Perseis in her cave
be...@mail.uca.edu wrote in article
<01be4a8d$a0593e80$6c71e5ce@oemcomputer>...
[lots of snipping]
> Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, _The Illuminatus Trilogy_
> What a rip-roaring mindfuck of a book! I see the fnords!
Hail Eris! ; )
So Operation Mindfuck has claimed another "victim"? That's good to know.
Congratulations on seeing the fnords; your life will never be the same. >:
)
Isn't that book *amazing*?
> Margot Adler, _Drawing Down the Moon_ (recently finished)
Another great book. I read it just before I read The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
In fact, the section on Eris is *why* I read Illuminatus! immediately
after reading DDTM.
> Lined up to read: Don't get me started. . .
Do I ever know the feeling.... : )
Perseis
de-lurking because of the good[fnord]taste in books around here
Perseis in her cave
Beth Armitage <s126...@NOaix2.uottawaSPAM.ca> wrote in article
<01be48b7$e018f6a0$5171e5ce@oemcomputer>...
[various snips]
> {snip}
> > _Tigania_ by Guy Gavriel Kay
> Kay is one of my favorite authors. And _Tigana_ is one of his
> best (probably his best, but I don`t like to make sweeping statements
like
> that!). I really enjoyed it, and I reread it every so often, because
it`s
> one of my favorites.
Yes, it probably is his best. In fact, Tigana is one the best books of any
genre I've ever read. It stays with the reader *forever*. Dianora is one
of those characters who have become part of my personal mythology.
Kay is kind of deliciously maddening to me. I can't resist the power of
his writing, but our philosophies are completely opposite; he challenges me
like few others.
> (for me): _The Last Unicorn_, Peter S. Beagle. Again. I love this
book.
The Last Unicorn is my favorite book. That's a huge understatement,
really. I've read it so many times, watched the movie so many times, loved
it for so many years that it's a part of me. I think it's the most
beautiful book ever written. Peter's prose is flawless, lovely, humorous,
graceful, *magickal*. I'm in love with the Magician. I could write page
after page after *page* talking about how much I love it...but I'll spare
you. : )
Perseis
part two of my de-lurking due to good taste in reading material around here
: )
Andrew Wright
asha...@sophia.smith.edu (Lady Miss Thang) was all like:
{snip all about David Sedaris}
> : > And maybe Mom wouldn't fully
> : > appreciate "Dinah, the Christmas Whore." But *I* think she liked it.
>
> : OH GAWD my eyes are tearing up when I think about "Dinah, the Christmas
> : Whore" -- that's from _Naked_, right? Someone bought me that book for
> : Christmas and I adored it!
>
> yeah, "dinah" is from _naked_, not _holidays on ice_.
You're half right, sweetie. Go get _Holidays On Ice_. It's in there. I know
it's in _Naked_ too.
Don't judge me too harsh, little girl,
'drew
Current Resident
>And finally! Body-modification!- Well, I have my nose done. What I'm
reeeeeally
>really wishing for is nipple rings (or barbells, rather) However, that's
going
>to have to wait for a bit.
>
>
rings are actually easier to clean with, initially.
Current Resident
so
>>>young asking! :)
>>
a diagram for all those tricky ear parts...
Heather A Philp
->cried out in the night, letting loose a great wail, followed by the following
->rational thought. It was kinda wierd.
->:That's what I said! Or maybe it was Midnight Tree Bandit who wrote:
->:->CDs: Well, I promised Eden I would go three weeks without buying any CDs. It
->:->hurts.
->:Ah! No wonder you have money for T-shirts!
->Well, I will until it's time too replace the clutch in my car. Still trying
->to decide if its worth it, but then I have a large tax refund heading my way.
Come to think of it...I haven't received a single W-4 yet. *grumble*
Depending on how much I have coming to me (or going out...ACK!), we
may actually be able to get a house soon. Cool!
->:->(my hair is getting longer, though, and I'm getting a nice beard growing in
->:->now... CarolinaCon people are in for shock when they see me at CarlaCon)
->:A beard? Ick!
->Hmph. Well, 'snot for you anyway.
Eww. No thanks, you can keep it. ;)
->Actually, it's Amiee repellant, should she
->go insane and decide to like me for a day or two. Besides, I look better in a
->beard. Really.
Uh huh. I think you just got lazy and didn't feel like shaving anymore.
--heather
--
Heather Philp *^*^*^*^*^*^* who am i *^*^*^*^*^*^* haphilpatlucentdotcom
that i should be vying for your touch
Ani DiFranco *^*^*^*^*^*^* who am i *^*^*^*^*^*^* _Untouchable Face_
bet you can't even tell me that much
Nadyne Mielke
Music: none, it's too distracting when I'm trying to do this bloody
math. But I did just get a boot of my first Tori show [1], and
hopefully I'll get the chance to listen to that soon.
Books:
* _A First Course in Abstract Algebra_, the current edition blows and
I wish we'd use the previous one, by Fraleigh.
* _A Practical Guide to Usability Testing_, by Dumas and Redish, with
the absolute -shittiest- graphics. These things make me retch.
The material is good, but their graphics blow Liz Dole. :P
* _Research in Technical Communications_ by some loser who uses even
more contractions than I do. I've never seen "who'll" in a
textbook before, but there it is in this one. I never use
contractions in formal writing, and it really bugs me that
moron-boy is using 'em in this textbook. Easy to read is one
thing, and obviously something we should shoot for, but not this.
* something about rhetoric and its origins in Christian and secular
thought, by some guy at UNC, from sometime in the late 70s / early
80s. It's a book report for the class that the above text is from.
* the text written by one of my profs {argh, I hate it when I have the
prof who wrote the text, 'cause it seems that they spend the whole
semester muttering to themselves, "gotta change that in the next
edition" without teaching us anything from their text}
Bodmod:
I have braces on my teeth and two new pimples on my chin. Does that
count? Considering a nose ring, but Rich doesn't like the idea and
I'm more than a little worried about what that'd do to my credibility
when looking for a job and/or a place in another graduate program.
Too much of a wimp for a tattoo [2].
/nad
{in a kvetching mood today}
[1] Which reminds me! Greghewritesletters is now in Chicago, and
should've started his new job. I think I need to send him a
housewarming and congratulations gift. :) I'll give his address
to any Chicago-folk who're interested; his email address of
gre...@mindspring.com should still work too.
[2] But I gave blood today. My arm is all yellow to prove it. :)
Beth Armitage
{snippety}
> > (for me): _The Last Unicorn_, Peter S. Beagle. Again. I love this
> book.
>
> The Last Unicorn is my favorite book. That's a huge understatement,
> really. I've read it so many times, watched the movie so many times, loved
> it for so many years that it's a part of me. I think it's the most
> beautiful book ever written. Peter's prose is flawless, lovely, humorous,
> graceful, *magickal*. I'm in love with the Magician. I could write page
> after page after *page* talking about how much I love it...but I'll spare
> you. : )
>
> Perseis
> part two of my de-lurking due to good taste in reading material around here
> : )
Well, WELCOME. I don't seem to see anyone else having greeted you
yet, so I'll just extend my warm greetings. If you've been lurking for a
while, you probably already know where to find the newbie pack if you need
it. And if not, um, I think it can be acquired by emailing
new...@rmta.org (iirc), or it's on the website. The address of which I
cannot recall (sorry). Anyway, you've delurked now, so don't go away --
keep posting!
Keep Smiling,
Beth :)
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***
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Honours English, University of Ottawa
"you got a piece of me/but it's just a little piece of me" (CC)
homepage: http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1263233/
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Laurie Ratcliff
: Larry has turned me on to Jonatha Brooke and The Story. :) Anyone else
: besides us and drew?
I've listened to Jonatha Brooke and the Story for years and years, ever
since their first album (well, first major-label release) came out. It's a
funny thing with them--there are certain songs that i absolutely LOVE,
and others that i simply cannot stand. I LOVE Annie. I cannot stand Last
Innocent Year. I LOVE At the Still Point. I cannot stand In the Gloaming.
All of their albums are pretty much divided up that way for me. Half of
the songs hit me so hard emotionally (did i mention that i LOVE Annie?)
and the other half bore me to death.
Which reminds me.... A couple of years ago, before the Story broke up,
they were on Philadelphia radio (WXPN) performing songs from their
then-upcoming album. Of course, then they broke up, and the songs never
came out. Does anyone out there have this performance? It would have been
some time in 1994, i think, possible early in the year, and it would have
been on in the morning hours. I think Michaela Majoun was the DJ
conducting the interview. Does anyone have it? Does anyone know anyone who
has it? I remember, i didn't tape the interview and songs because i was
late for school (ah, those high school days when i cared) and i figured,
"Hey, their record is coming out in a couple of months, so i'll hear them
again then." And of course, it never did <whimper>, and i never heard
them. I seem to recall one of the songs being really good too. Well,
anyway.
Which also reminds me. Has anyone heard Jennifer Kimball's record? Is
it any good?
-=-laurie
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I dare you to show me your palms
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A web page: http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~lratclif
The boot list: http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~lratclif/honey.html
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Copygurl
>On 25 Jan 1999, Copygurl wrote:
>> julie wrote:
>> >CDs-
>> i've had "little plastic castle" and "napg" on
>> repeat for the last couple of days. and when
>> i'm doing my women's studies reading, i opt
>> for "puddle dive" and "out of range". very
>> angering, but positive.
>
>you have to listen to ani to get angry? you know, i have some extra anger
>i could loan you if you're ever in a pinch... :P
*laugh* nah, i'm angry enough on my own,
thanks. i guess ani's music just helps me
channel it a bit better.
[snip
>> books:
>karen(not copygurl) suggested _tuesdays with morrie_ by mitch albom. i
>read this in december and it was incredibly touching and all around potent
>and important. read it, y'all. :)
i'm all about it. *writing it down*
>> - bulletproof diva: tales of race, sex, and hair /
>> lisa jones
>
>i ordered _bulletproof diva_ from interlibrary loan, so i'll have a full
>report in a few weeks. can't wait until it's in. :)
i'm reading it now, in transit to/from school and
while waiting in line for various things. lisa's
writing is just AWESOME! and thanks to my
much-talked-about women's studies class, i'm
discovering angela davis and audre lorde. oh
my! they are the bomb. :)
*women rock*
>BTW karen, one of the last times one of these threads appeared, you
>recommended _color lines_ by anauthorwhosenameiforget. i read a bit of it,
>but somehow couldn't finish it. it looked fascinating, and i was
>interested in it initially, but it the story seemed to unfold so slowly
>that i wanted to read the first and last chapter, and call it done. :/
>[was that random?...]
heh. not random at all, since this thread is about
books. ;) um, i never got past the first chapter,
which happens to me more than i care to
admit. i'm trying to stick with a book til the end
and finish it, for the sake of doing so...i'll let
you know when i get to "color lines". i'm sorry
it didn't meet up to my recommendation. heh.
*hug* your letter made me smile today!
the hour i first believed...
xox.karen
-- copy...@aol.com ------------------------------------------------
i will not be afraid of women - dar / i got more than one
membership to more than one club - ani / girl power!!
----- three/diva/groovegoddess/dreamer/elfgirl/ --------------
jonathan dale mccall
>
(snip)
>
>Yes, it probably is his best. In fact, Tigana is one the best books of any
>genre I've ever read. It stays with the reader *forever*. Dianora is one
>of those characters who have become part of my personal mythology.
>Kay is kind of deliciously maddening to me. I can't resist the power of
>his writing, but our philosophies are completely opposite; he challenges me
>like few others.
>
Woo-HOO! GGKay fans! I just finished <The Lions of Al-Rassan> which
was even better than <Song for Arbonne>, which was even better than
<Tigana>, which was even better than <The Fionavar Tapestry>...
He has a new book out now, <Sailing to Sarantium>. He's also an
active Netizen - bop on over to rec.arts.sf.written, and you will find
him merrily posting away under the name GKay. : )
--
Jonathan
Copygurl
[snip]
>Which also reminds me. Has anyone heard Jennifer Kimball's record? Is
>it any good?
cool thing: my friend jill (from the paula cole
list harbinger, and from the fumblers list...) had
jennifer kimball play a show in her living room!
unfortunately, i missed it, 'cause i was dealing
with all kinds of icky work stuff and couldn't
get a ride out to bfe. but i hear the show was
great. :)
Robert the Faerie
<jpa...@warren-wilson.edu> wrote:
>
>i always love reading what everyone is reading, listening to, and deciding
>to modify. so speak up. you just might inspire us to copycat your
>brandings, or at least pick up a copy of your fave CD.
Ooh, cool thread Julie!
Music (I have a 25 disc player so this'll be a bit long)
Can: Monster Movie
Can: Cannibalism I
Glenn Branca: Symphony No. 6 (Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven)
(guitar noise as the basis of a classical symphony---influential
Sonic Youth)
REM: Murmur
Wang Chung's Greatest Hits
The Best of Howard Jones
The Best of a Flock of Seagulls
Simple Minds: Glittering Prize
Man or Astroman? 1000X
Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works '85-'92
Eliot Fisk: Segonia, Canciones Populares
The Beatles: The Beatles/Abbey Road (a CD-R Corey made for me)
Introducing Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Sonic Youth: Sister
Jeff Buckley: Sketches for My Sweeetheart the Drunk
The Pixies at the BBC
Bjork: Singles 1993-1998 (another CD-R)
The Presidents of the USA
Bad Religion 80-98 (CD-R)
Christian Death: Theatre of Pain/Catastrophe Ballet
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground and Nico/
White Light White Heat (CD-R)
The Beatles: Revolver/Magical Mystery Tour (CD-R)
The Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady
Books:
Unfortunately, I'm too busy to read right now. :( But my Medical
Microbiology book is fascinating...what, you mean Shigella
and Salmonella are now considered STDs with the increase in anal and
oral sex? wow)
Bodmods:
Not on yer life!
RtF
---
"Don't be miserable, like Morrissey,
Let me do you underneath the Christmas tree!"
Pansy Division
Perseis in her cave
Beth Armitage <s126...@NOaix2.uottawaSPAM.ca> wrote in article
<01be4b29$f6eca9c0$5a71e5ce@oemcomputer>...
> > The Last Unicorn is my favorite book.
[snipping me going on about The Book]
> You're preaching to the choir. It is a truly extraordinary book.
Books from the choirgirl hotel.... ; ) Nice to meet another TLU choir
member.
> > Perseis
> > part two of my de-lurking due to good taste in reading material around
> here
> > : )
> Well, WELCOME.
Well, thank you! : )
>I don't seem to see anyone else having greeted you
> yet, so I'll just extend my warm greetings.
I feel all toasty.
>If you've been lurking for a
> while,
Months, actually.
>you probably already know where to find the newbie pack if you need
> it. And if not, um, I think it can be acquired by emailing
> new...@rmta.org (iirc), or it's on the website. The address of which I
> cannot recall (sorry).
Not to worry. I already sent for it. My rmta-ing is now newbie pack
enhanced.
>Anyway, you've delurked now, so don't go away --
> keep posting!
I guess there's no going back....
[Perseis sticks her timid head out of her cave] I'm de-lurked, so I'd
better get used to it.
Thanks for helping me get used to it. : )
> Keep Smiling,
> Beth :)
: )
> Beth Armitage
> Honours English, University of Ottawa
> "you got a piece of me/but it's just a little piece of me" (CC)
I love Counting Crows. I gather I'm not the only one around here who does.
; )
> homepage: http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1263233/
> remove spamblocks to email me
Perseis
Perseis in her cave
jonathan dale mccall <radi...@mindspring.com> wrote in article
<01be4b2a$2b2c8480$5a71e5ce@oemcomputer>...
> >Yes, it probably is his best. In fact, Tigana is one the best books of
> any
> >genre I've ever read.
> Woo-HOO! GGKay fans!
I'm not sure if I'd even call myself a "fan". I've read 5 of his books,
and I thought they were astounding, but I use the word "fan" when I have
affection for someone (like Tori, for example). I'm not sure if I can
explain this right...I don't think of Kay as someone I'm a fan of so much
as I think of him as a force, as something for my mind to wrestle with...or
try *not* to "wrestle" with, since our major difference is that I'm a
pacifist. He really gets me to think very hard about ethics.
If it were any other author, I'm not sure I would have gone on to read so
many of his books after the "mental anguish" he caused me...but there's no
resisting his writing. He's such an intense, emotionally powerful writer.
He makes these waves of feeling run through me, it's extraordinary.
But you know this already. : )
>I just finished <The Lions of Al-Rassan>
That's one I haven't read.
>which
> was even better than <Song for Arbonne>,
which was even better than
> <Tigana>,
Really? You like A Song for Arbonne better than Tigana? Why?
I thought ASfA was amazing, and then I read Tigana and found out what the
man can *really* do. That's just me, of course. : )
>which was even better than <The Fionavar Tapestry>...
I cried like mad over the last scene involving Diarmuid. And here I'd
thought I'd hated him. And I cried over Kevin's "revenge", and I cried
over the happy news Ceinwen brought Dave at the end,...I did a lot of
crying with that series. And I fell in love with Paul.
Ooh, I just remembered Galadan. Galadan is one of the yummiest villains
ever. *sigh* Wolflord of the Andain, the subtlest mind in all of Fionavar
*sigh*
> He has a new book out now, <Sailing to Sarantium>. He's also an
> active Netizen - bop on over to rec.arts.sf.written
Bop?
>, and you will find
> him merrily posting away under the name GKay. : )
Really? Cool. Is it definitely him? For some reason, I just assumed
celebrity-types would never post using their real names.
I guess I'll have to bop on over and find out. : )
Perseis
who will probably spend hours tonight on one of her periodic Kay-ponderings
jonathan dale mccall
>
>
>jonathan dale mccall <radi...@mindspring.com> wrote in article
(snip)
>>I just finished <The Lions of Al-Rassan>
>
>That's one I haven't read.
>
It's set in a thinly disguised medieval Spain, and tells the story of
the Reconquista. It's got a very bittersweet ending. It's very, very
good.
>Really? You like A Song for Arbonne better than Tigana? Why?
>I thought ASfA was amazing, and then I read Tigana and found out what the
>man can *really* do. That's just me, of course. : )
>
Actually, I would have liked <Tigana> better than <Arbonne>...after
all, <T> has Brandin, one of the best (complex) villains I've ever
seen in fantasy. However, I didn't like the shadowlands/dream battle
sequence, which I thought felt tacked on and sort of irrelevant to the
book as a whole...YMMV, naturally. : )
(snip)
>
>Bop?
>
You know - She bop, he bop, we bop, I bop, be -bop a lu-bop... : )
>Really? Cool. Is it definitely him? For some reason, I just assumed
>celebrity-types would never post using their real names.
>I guess I'll have to bop on over and find out. : )
>
Actually, there are a lot of authors who post regularly on rasfw, and
use their own names: Guy Kay, Ellen Datlow, S. M. Stirling, Lawrence
Watt-Evans, Michael Kube-McDowell... Most of them are very nice
people, too. : )
--
Jonathan
Andrew Wright
> [1] Which reminds me! Greghewritesletters is now in Chicago, and
> should've started his new job. I think I need to send him a
> housewarming and congratulations gift. :) I'll give his address
> to any Chicago-folk who're interested; his email address of
> gre...@mindspring.com should still work too.
*/nadthwap*
That's for confusing your gregs! :)
Now we need another ChicagoCon...hopefully once my summer vacation has
started. I need to write greghedesignsbuildings...thanks for reminding me!
Your perfect blond cousin will throw his hat in the air in Ohio,
Nadyne Mielke
14:59:54 GMT, vwr...@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Andrew Wright) wrote:
:nad...@rmta.org (Nadyne Mielke) was all like:
:> [1] Which reminds me! Greghewritesletters is now in Chicago, and
:> should've started his new job. I think I need to send him a
:> housewarming and congratulations gift. :) I'll give his address
:> to any Chicago-folk who're interested; his email address of
:> gre...@mindspring.com should still work too.
:*/nadthwap*
:That's for confusing your gregs! :)
:Now we need another ChicagoCon...hopefully once my summer vacation has
:started. I need to write greghedesignsbuildings...thanks for reminding me!
Doh! Yes, I did get my Gregs confused, and I'm even the one who
coined his nickname. *hands head in shame*
/nad
Koren Gould
: does it scare anyone else that the popularity of body piercing these
: days is teaching us the names of all sorts of body parts we didn't know
: had names? :)
Heh. This would be a good thing to tell the preschool parents when
they look at me askance for my newest hole in my head. "It's all in the
name of education! The kids are learning their body parts!" ;^D
Koren
Koren Gould
: Bodmods:
: Not on yer life!
*grin* C'mon, Robert, I think you'd look quite fetching with a
nice eyebrow pierce! Or mebbe a septum... hrrm. ;)
Koren
Interplanet Janet
>CDs-
don't know exactly why, but i've been in a huge Cure mood this whole
week. basically in the past few days i've been listening to
Disintegration (still my favorite cure album)
Wish
Head on the Door
Seventeen Seconds
Galore
and a mix cure tape i made for david.
>a few of the books i'm absorbing-
it's been a neil gaiman fest for me :) i recently finished "smoke and
mirrors" as well as "Stardust" (i LOVED the latter of those two) and
i'm in the midst of finally reading the "sandman" series in order
because a friend of mine at work has all of the graphic novels and is
being kind enough to lend them to me. (in exchange for my lending her
my video copy of "neverwhere" which i bought in england and had
converted into NTSC format here)
i'm a bit disappointed that i missed the gaiman reading/signing
tonight at barnes and nobles, but i got out out of work very early
today and just didn't have the energy or state of mind to spend
killing three hours of time by myself. :(
>
>body modification:
hmm, well, i already have two holes in each ear, which is pretty much
enough for me. i pierced my upper cartilage by myself twice a few
years ago though it got slightly infected both times so i let it close
up and i'm not ready to do that again. nah, no bod mods for me....
janet
"if i shed a tear i won't cage it, i won't fear love...
if i feel a rage i won't deny it, i won't fear love..."-sarah mclachlan
Planet Redjanet: http://www.mindspring.com/~redjanet/