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EXCELLENT show. Very funny and INCREDIBLY well acted. First show I've ever been to with almost perfect British accents. GO! I was really impressed. And its really funny too. Go, go, go!
Congrats also to Brian and Upright Egg for their awesome Pinocchio performance at SampleNightLive at the Bryant Lake Bowl this past Wednesday. Hopefully more of you will be able to check out the show on the first Wednesday of every month - sample DIVERSE performances across the Twin Cities from excellent artists (yey for vaudville). And quote "MEMBERS" to get a discount on your ticks...
ACT I: 7-8:00 PM; Act II: 8:15-9:30PM |
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| Sample Night Live 2008 |
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| 10:04am 30/11/2007 |
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Hello everyone,
Apologies for the e-mail blast, but I wanted to send out word about this amazing new production that's coming to town next year.. it's called Sample Night Live, and the long and the short is that, for a very small fee, you get to see snippets of the broadest kinds of performance art in the Cities... Because its only $15 ($10 for students and seniors; $2 off with your fringe button), I'm guessing it will sell out soon, so you're getting this message with encouragements to buy ASAP if you think you'll like it. .. after all, you can sample the first one and then decide if you like the format! Check out the page for more information: www.samplenightlive.com - its an unprecedented format for your daily dose of what's new and good in the art world...
Showtime (every first Wednesday of the month): 7PM
Location: Bryant Lake Bowl
Tickets: www.bryantlakebowl.com (click on Jan 2, 2008 for this show)
If you know anyone who might want to participate and strut their stuff, contact producer@samplenightlive.com - and yes, please feel free to pass along this message!
Thanks...
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| One way to make space for your Thanksgiving calories... |
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| 12:05am 14/11/2007 |
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I know you have heard much of this "Dance Band" phenomenon that I keep talking about, and I would like to translate that phenomenon into a real party night with you. Check them out and taste the magic: www.myspace.com/mydanceband - you will be unable to resist the movement.
Pre-party at my place, 7:30 PM (depending on roommates' consent). Bring a dance-inducing beverage to drink yourself or to share with the Bountiful Baaaaaaaaaaaar :)
DANCE BAND
November, 17 2007 at Lee's Liquor Lounge w/Magic Castles & Chemical Hawk
10:00PM , MPLS, Minnesota
Cost : $6
Your significant non-dancing others/friends can come and look pretty while they liquor up as WE shake our sexy babymakers. And because we all care about the environment, let's carpool from here! :) RSVPing for this event would thus be nice, for you and for me.
Be there, if you're cool. And if you like them, mark Thursday, December 15th on your calendar, too. You'll be busy! ;)
Can't wait to groove with you... |
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| 12:47am 25/09/2007 |
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To say, I am alive. And I like Amy Winehouse. And I miss you, yet it seems natural that this is what it is, now that everyone is busy with their lives. So many changes, so much happening, so many moves...
Well, I certainly wish you all the best. |
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| To my fucking soulmate |
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| 02:24pm 24/08/2007 |
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mood:  aggravated music: Hung Up - Madonna
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"Hung Up" - Madonna
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you
Time goes by so slowly for those who wait
No time to hesitate
Those who run seem to have all the fun
I'm caught up
I don't know what to do
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
Time goes by so slowly
I don't know what to do
Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you
Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you
Ring ring ring goes the telephone
The lights are on but there's no-one home
Tick tick tock it's a quarter to two
And I'm done
I'm hanging up on you
I can't keep on waiting for you
I know that you're still hesitating
Don't cry for me
'cause I'll find my way
you'll wake up one day
but it'll be too late
Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you
Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you
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| 07:50pm 10/06/2007 |
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quick note: this week - peacemaker.
heat, tiredness, uncertainty and misinformation. that is today. yesterday was bonding, work and play. directed play. can you believe I didn't buy a thing?
so much shopping with absolutely no money spent. so many words without a single bit of comprehension.
tomorrow we start research in the midst of a facility that has been nothing but genrous towards us. Amazing. i wonder what the catch is, where it is, what's going to blow up in my face. where is the storming in my group? one week of disparate orientation is not adequate preparation for 2 months on a shared project that we jointly know nothing about.
we are documenting the sucess of unicef training programs on birth registration rates in rajasthan. or maybe we are documenting the lack of efficacy of training programs on the ground, for the people. or maybe it is simply the complete failure on the part of india to give its citizens a birthright, an identity.... even citizenship. what useis recordkeeping if no one ever looks at the records again? if there is no proof it was made? how can you do a case study on something with so many external factors? unicef is a world organization that hasn't a clue that streamlined programs cannot reach a diverse context like india in any uncustomized form. Every last word must be translated, transmitted and correctly transferred to the necessary party in the most personal andunique way possible. can anyone do it? no. can india do it? no. i feel like we need someone to spring an out-of-the-box idea to solve this problem. and i think we are missing it by miles.
in the midst of external factors, one must get ones guns together and find a way to work within the context to produce the desired results in such a way as to frame the problem uniquely enough to make an impact and really help those onteh ground to whom so much injustice has been done, and is being done on a daily basis.
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| Amazing Arctic Journeys and Other Musings |
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| 09:18am 02/06/2007 |
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For the first time in my life, I have learned that international travel between the first and third worlds can actually be pleasant. Who knew? American Airlines takes the Arctic curve instead of the usual latitudinal bulge around the Equator, so you can get from Chicago to Delhi in one smooth 14 hour flight. And arrive at a decent hour like 8:30 PM and leave at a decent hour like 2:50 PM (from Minneapolis). Its crazy. And I only had to go through the security harassment once - ONCE. I feel like someone decided to bestow a kindly glance at me from wherever or whatever controls the forces of yes and no.
Except for the usual missing-of-your-significant-other, its been pretty sweet. I don't even really hate the hotness, since it hasn't rained, and since I haven't had to be out in the sun lately. So yes, that might change soon. But it sure helps the acclimatization along. There are riots all the way from Delhi to Rajasthan, the proposed internship site, so who knows what will happen in the next week. It's sad, really. Firstly, Rajasthan is the tourist hub, so its usually the safest place to be, and chock-a-block of cultural heritage preservations and wonderful old monuments. Secondly, the riots are because a tribe called the Gujjars are fighting for the right to be recognized as a "Scheduled Tribe" by the government, since another Rajasthani tribe, the Meenas, have received that status. In a country as diverse in every way as India, its been necessary to implement our own form of affirmative action, since groups have historically been disadvantaged if they were part of a tribe, or lower in the caste ladder, and so special rights and privileges (meager though they are) are awarded to those who meet the criteria. But the Indian government found that the Gujjars did not meet their criteria, while the Gujjars strongly feel the opposite, so we've been deadlocked for the past few days. Uh, whoever we is?
UNICEF Orientation starts on Monday, so I'll be busy from morning to evening, which is kind of nice. This is the first time I'll have anything other than pure vacation on my mind in India. I've never worked in India, other than on a volunteer basis, so this is the closest I'm getting to a real-life experience that will help me figure out what I'm going to do once my time in the US and the safety of academia is fully over. We're being partnered with Non-Government Organizations to actually do our work in various states across India (there are 80 students from all over the world, in groups of about 5 people each, I think) and so I'll get a view of the people who are really doing the work on the ground. NGO's are grassroots, fixing the issues the government is too overwhelmed or too corrupt to fix, pretty much the same as the non-profits in the US. I'm excited.
Funny how the easy flight made the transition easy too. No sign of jetlag, other than self-imposed bad habits, and a fun time with the parents. If at all, I miss the idea of the Minnesota summer and all the fun that comes with it in the habit of camping and lakeside adventures, and Matt, and the fact that when I get back my best-friend trio is reduced to a couple, since Ina will be gone. But on the other hand, the prospect of learning my own country again is quite dazzling and wonderful. It took going away to find this patriotism, probably because I escaped the shackles of real-life living like no electricity and heat and poverty for so long... but it does make me realize that I've been shirking my duties too long. I HAVE to use it to do my social justice work HERE, not there. There is too far away, and unwanting of me anyway. People here find it hard to believe that I want to come back, to a life that is harder than the ease and comfort of America (in every way, race, politics and disprivilege included, also) but can one sometimes be motivated by greater ambitions, even in the midst of selfish ideals? I don't know. I have yet to discover many things about identity and ambition. So many Indians write of India from the luxury of a foreign passport... maybe its not as wrong as I thought. I don't know.
So much to figure out, to do, to risk, adventure, challenge... |
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| Oh... also looking for a roomie |
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| 12:40pm 04/05/2007 |
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do please spread the word... to responsible, tidy people
$325/month (except a little higher JUST for August), need 2 roomies to sign a lease July 1. Heat, trash, water, recycling, plowing, mowing, dishwasher, free laundry included.
Only pay to split electricity and wireless internet.
Beautiful interior wood panelling & furniture.... across from a park, 5 minutes or less to Como, on a bus & bike route on Como & Snelling, close to U f M St Paul Campus & Hamline (and Java Train coffeehouse! and Bascali's! And an asian market!), easy access to U of M Mpls campus/280/36/35/Lexington... State Fair. s
Free ALWAYS available street parking on a quiet residential street ;)
Many of you have seen this place.....
Email me... ASAP. I would like to have people in place before I leave for India May 30... :)
DANKE!
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| Lucky bitch |
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| 12:26pm 04/05/2007 |
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Dat wud be me. Had a luverly night hanging with Kels... seeing friends... hanging out, free at last from the ball-and-chain of a humoungous project. Now one or two more humugous projects, and I am done. Done for the year.
Then I pack. Why? Yes, back to the thick of blistering sun and the busy-crazy hullabaloo of Dilli-Delhi-Dum-Dum. Which, in otherwords, is situated in India. I will be in Delhi for my internship. Yes. Wooohoooooooo!
Woo fucking HOO. Seriously. I am over the moon. My dad was trying to convince me to "get my own pad" but I would much rather live off my parents, as I would rightfully have done for some time had I not been abroad/in boarding school so long ago. YES. Good food, home. Better than a vacation because I HAVE STUFF TO DO.
But I will miss the few of you who still care to hang out with me. A lot. 2 months was bad, this time its THREE. Yeah. Crazy stuff. I am over the moon.
I need to do homework, I'm sorry. This is just keeping my heart thumping.
BTW my computer broke, and I haven't a dollar to fix it. So I can't check much of my internets unless I come to school, like now, which is rare... so I am sorry to have been offline. I try to keep uptodate with your news, I do...
I'm glad so many nice things are happening. And its summer.... |
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| 03:18pm 29/03/2007 |
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How is it that I paid more than $3000 in taxes last year and STILL have to pay an additional $1073 now that I have completed the tax forms? I was unemployed for FOUR MONTHS last year, and I wasn't even making a teacher's salary, besides spending craploads on my fucking car! I HATE being an alien.
And now I am unemployed, I have not a single fucking sue to pay them. Why don't they take it out of my paycheck, when I actually have money? Anyone know of any jobs, preferably under 25 hours/week (temporary or not) that are open and need someone to fill them immediately? Oh yeah, on my visa I can't do waitressing or coffee-shopping or something that would actually be perfect right now. I have to do anything related to nonprofits/advocacy/social justice/liberal arts/psychology/management (basically anything else).... great, right?
I don't know what to do. I have sent countless applications out, and I thought, with an almost-Master's, at least SOMEONE would want me, right? Wrong.
Anyway, so instead I sit online and cheer myself up reading you guys. And finally checking old links from my daddy. Here is Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire, so you can finally understand it:
http://home.uchicago.edu/~yli5/Flash/Fire.html
Okay, nothing else to say. If anyone else has coped with 6 months of unemployment and has advice for me, please, fire away! |
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| The Namesake is finally in the Cities! |
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| 02:42pm 25/03/2007 |
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Namastey!
I wanted to let you know that this awesome movie (made out of a Pulitzer-prize winning book by Jhumpa Lahiri and directed by the famous Mira Nair: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thenamesake/) is playing at the Uptown Theater (Hennepin & Lagoon in Uptown, OPPOSITE the McDonald's/Cafe Zeno) ONLY till Thursday, and its about an Indian guy growing up in Boston, and the struggles between his traditional family and his American life. I'm emailing you because I thought you would be interested in watching it - it plays at various times all day till Thursday March 29th, so you should catch it! |
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| Fun help request |
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| 11:30am 19/03/2007 |
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Its my mum's 50th birthday tomorrow. I'm hoping to have her get 50 cards starting then till the end of the month. She's heard about many of you, and I thought it would be kinda' awesome if she could get a card from people like that? So if you'd be willing to send a card, let me know - even E-cards work, or we could find a way for me to get you one to write. Just reply to this post or email me and I'll send you her address (if you're doing the E-card thing).
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| You are invited! |
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| 08:04pm 01/03/2007 |
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My dearest LJ buddies,
Come snow or shine, Kari and I are throwing our annual birthday bash - with a twist - this coming Saturday, March 3rd. It'd be really nice to see you there, if you can make it! 9:30 PM, my house ... there will be drinking, dancing and - tada! - Karaoke Revolution.
What's the twist? Ohh yeah...
It's an Iron Chef party! That means YOU - yes, you - get to exercise that hidden cooking/baking muscle. FLEX IT BABY! The secret ingredient is BANANAS (or plantains for our discerning chefs) :) And no, you can't get away with banana bread... sorry :(
But. All is not lost. If you don't feel like cooking/baking then BRING ALCOHOL TO SHARE :)
Voting commences at 11 PM. So if you want the food and/or want to compete... you know what to do!
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| Food AND play! |
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| 01:55pm 22/02/2007 |
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COOKING CON KARIMI AND THE QUEST FOR THE SECRET INGREDIENT
Featuring Mero Cocinero Karimi, Comrade Castro
and the Community Cooperative Collective of Bucko, Gutiérrez, Lundeen, Murphy and Reynolds
Directed by Meena Natarajan
Costume Design by Erin Lavelle Lundeen
March 1 - 11 (Thursdays - Sundays)
7:30 p.m.
@ Pangea World Theater Studio
711 West Lake St, Suite 101
Minneapolis, MN 55408
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!! at www.pangeaworldtheater.org or 612-203-1088
Tickets only $18/discounts for seniors, students, and groups!!
FREE FOOD WITH YOUR TICKET
Back by Popular Demand, Pangea welcomes progressive public access chef, Mero Cocinero Karimi, the idealistic, Iranian-Guatemelan, public-access host, and chef to revolutionaries, dreamers, and community builders for Cooking Con Karimi and the Quest for the Secret Ingredient. Mero Cocinero Karimi is the host of Cooking Con Karimi, a traveling public access show, and is joined by his leftist right hand man in the kitchen: Comrade Cocinero Castro, on their War-Causes-Indigestion Tour. Both Mero and his Comrade will cook up revolutionary recipes LIVE in their quest to spread culinary consciousness and create social change one kitchen at a time.
There will be comedy, food, and politics swirled together into a feast for the senses!!!!
Don't forget every audience member eats! Yes, free food for everyone! Post-show community discussion and food!
Get your tickets now , as this show sold out last time in the preview run in Minneapolis. And there's only 8 shows, as Mero and Comrade Castro will take their show on the road where they will finish their tour in New York City at the 1st Annual Asian American Theater Festival in June 2007.
Come early and nominate your proletariat employee of the year (Must be present to win) and bring a recipe to the show and it may be included in our episode or in our cookbook.
about the show:
Mero Cocinero Karimi becomes overwhelmed by the continuing war in Iraq, community apathy, and the idea that the Home of the Food Co-op: Minneapolis is also hosting the Republican National Convention in 2008. With the help of community friends, he seeks the secret ingredient that will bring the community together to share stories and revolutionary recipes in order to stop a war that is making everyone sick in the stomach.
Cooking con Karimi is a concept conceived by spoken word artist/performance artist Robert Karimi, Mero Cocinero's cousin, who sees the show as a way to discuss social change and concepts of mixed culture in a project that engages audiences and performers alike. The show is written by Comrade Castro's cousin John Castro, and Robert Karimi, who volunteered their time to help the two chefs create the show. Also as part of the creative team are the Community Cooperative Collective of Steven Bucko, Armando Gutiérrez G., Erin Lavelle Lundeen, Melissa Anne Murphy, and Scott Reynolds, who helped invite the other community members who are part of this fun-filled, yet provocative episode.
Costume design by Erin Lavelle Lundeen, set design by Kaotic Good and Pangea, and the show is directed by Meena Natarajan.
Cooking Con Karimi is made possible in part by a grant from the National Performance Network's Performance Residency Program. Major contributors of the National Performance Network include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Altria and the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
The National Performance Network is a group of cultural organizers and artists facilitating the practice and public experience of the performing arts in the United States. NPN serves artists, arts organizers, and a broad range of audiences and communities across the country through commissions, residencies, culture-centered community projects and other artistic activities. For more information: www.npnweb.org <http://www.npnweb.org> .
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!! at www.pangeaworldtheater.org or 612-203-1088 or tell friends in Minneapolis.
kaotic good productions
[politically sexy | culturally mixed]
www.kaoticgood.com
www.myspace.com/karimi
510-593-6708
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| 12:38am 17/02/2007 |
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I haven't really updated. I guess, I don't know what to update about, since I'm kind of a stangant unemployed pool right now. But the winter freeze IS lifting though, the ice is thawing and I can begin to sense the outline of companions again. Did anyone enjoy the pure delight of SUNSHINE today, accompanied by the merry cracking of ice? NICE!
So lately Matt's been very generous with his time and compliments, and I am not averred to those, and I have spent many happy hours studying again with Chook (now THERE is a remedy for mournfulness!), and Colin, Laura, Kari and I watched Tsotsi together. Last weekend I was in Milwaukee, WI with DanceBand & 2 other groupies from the TC - yes, we all slept with the lead singer (the shiny underpants... you'd only know if you came to a show...), so it was true to Hollywood - er, I mean, the way its supposed to be with bands, you know, everyone gets to sleep with the lead singer and nobody ends up with the drummer. Tomorrow, Chinese New Year with Ina and Stina, maybe Pizza with jamesbean (?) and HOPEFULLY Sunday marvels with icestormred - because it has been TOO long! Not to mention Bollywood dancing with Erin & Janet tonight... damn, my lifestyle really (unfortunately, sadly, horribly tragically) needs the infusion of a few nicely earned bucks to throw back into its normal flalooting.
But on that note - YOU can help, yes, YOU. Got any ideas?:
What can one do around the Twin Cities without spending money, other than the Sculpture Garden? You know, something you can spend hours doing, hanging out with a friend (and I certainly don't mean Malls of ANY kind!!) that is (in this season) preferably indoors? Sadly this rules out running, biking, parking and other external activity... damn. A whole wide city to explore and no way to do it with company, greenback-less? When did food, drink and paid entertainment take on the friendly guise of "hanging out"? How did I get so stupid not to know?
But come to my party. At least I'll see you there since I'm currently unable to join the Tea Bar reunions of late... please? |
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| Birthday Planning!! IRON CHEF |
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| 05:18pm 14/02/2007 |
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Iron Chef-Style Dance Party
Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 9:00pm
Location:
Our house
Description
The (not so) secret ingredient is the banana (or, if you prefer, the plantain).
Come to our house armed with your culinary masterpiece or -if you don't feel up to the challenge- an alcoholic beverage to share.
Dishes will be judged based on creativity, deliciousness and adherence to the theme.
Everyone gets to vote on the dishes and the winner will get a prize and eternal notoriety.
Don't make banana bread. We're going to have some there already for you to eat.
Allez Cuisine!
There will also be prizes and notoriety for winners of dance-offs. (You may bring your musical preferences to play!)
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| 01:15pm 14/02/2007 |
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I'm having a nice Vday. Vaginas Unite! |
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| 01:37am 28/01/2007 |
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Who knew? Two days and I'll be flying backwards straight into the arms of the sun-kissed winter. I'm beginning to count the hours without stretching my legs, beginning to watch movies run lightly over closed eyelids and that god-awful parched throat, not to mention feeling the crick in my neck from sleeping in seats not made for me. And aimless boredom in a strange place where no one speaks my language or knows what I came for, for hours that take longer in the passing, before I can again board the winged giant sweeping me up and across the oceans toward my broken-in accent and yet unlearned self.
The bosom of family is missable indeed, especially when you realize quite the value in the separate person you become, without fear of being alone nor of being who you are, because your past has defined it for you. Its sometimes comforting when there are no rooms full of memories to hold on to, yet, what is left in the shadows and cobwebs then to define your new outline by? Creating and recreating images that look somewhat like a "me" but never one that entirely makes sense... how long can a background dictate the foreground, the context define the core?
But enough of that. Suffice to say that I have rediscovered, perhaps through lucky fortune, that it is NOT as dirty or smelly or poor or backward or embarrassing as I once wrongly believed. I am pleased to be patriotic and glad to know that in many ways it far surpasses the shining light of its moneyed, casino-esque, material comparision. And that in being judgemental at all, I fail the learnings that have traversed through my veins for centuries - centuries! I am amazed at everyday geniuses, woefully underpaid for work that exceeds all that I have seen thus far in the so-called glory of development. I am astounded by history and beauty in the midst of squalor and destruction, and deeply pained by the contradictory forces of - how does it come to this? - human vs. culture/animal/history/leisure/beauty. I am no longer afraid, though I am far from certain. There is yet so much to see! |
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| 02:45pm 15/01/2007 |
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how come people post so little about love and relationships? how does one get such a good focus on things outside of those? please teach me, i am sick of those two topics, but they provide my mind so much mental wrestlage (brought on largely by boredom, perhaps?) that it appears that i end up back on that beaten path many more times than i would consciously LIKE to acknowledge. how does one change a world view built up since the earliest, fluffiest fantasies? |
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