If you like to know...

goodness, AP, something told me that you liked to go here and there, but i'd no idea! how wonderful, all the places you've been. :)

i am inspired by smarmy, mundane things, that have value simply because i think they shouldn't be overlooked as so often occurs, stray phrases that accompany mind pictures that i have to try to write down the properly fitting words to, a dream i had last night - an epic poem that began:
"It rained in Lorchan this morning"
followed by a plethora of "I will continue...'s"
and the usual horrific, beautiful, quirky, terrible things that we see and feel all around us everyday. i am inspired by other art forms, in the sense that when any artist thinks outside the box, it helps to liberate my own sense of rhythm/language. by music - especially tempo, by experiences, by deep-seated desires, questions, fears, and hates. i also like writing that makes me slightly uneasy, exposed. and trying new styles.

i wonder is this too long.

an analogy: quilting...my aunt quilts; she recently made a scrap quilt, and for poetry i collect what i call "pieces of eight" - my latest additions are from titles to boggle games i began in an online setting:

"between promises"
&
"when the alphabet sneezed."

AP: very same question. :) :)

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Koa..that's a very interesting Q :D

My Q for you, what makes you throw that Q?

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LOL well i don't know...I just had a moment of affection (forum style mind you!) for baddad and that's it... I remind you that I'm against marriage so that's purely for forum fun :D

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Koa: in reference to a previous post, what would you call an ideal Saturday night?

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The one where I don't have to think that it's Saturday night. It just feels good, it might be Thursday afternoon for what matters, but I'm having fun.
Having to mention a situation, those that come to my mind are a good long relaxed chat with friends, or a Depeche Mode party (but the best ones I've had were on Fridays) :D I've enjoyed parties in Hungary due to the good feeling, but I wonder if I would find the same feeling anywhere else...

Why can't I think of interesting questions to others? It feels strange to me to ask things, because I feel I know things about you all because they have been said spontaneously aorund... I'm sure I've wondered about something sometime, but I can't recall...

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Mono: If you could make one thing in the world better, what would it be? (Does not have to be anything material...)

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Someone asked me a question similar to this fairly recently.
Finding the answer required some thought, but I would certainly choose something intangible, non-material. If I could improve anything, I would have to choose reverence, a rare virtue - a very general topic that I could type whole pages. The category of reverence stretches, I think, to much more than catches the eye, but mostly refers to tolerance, empathy, and understanding of diversity, mostly in terms of art, religion, race, gender, general interests, and communication. With more of this forgotten virtue, I feel there would seem much more tolerance and respect of others, less racism, less sexism, less religious wars, less discrimination and attacking of art and religion, and more natural ties between everyone.
Perhaps this sounds like my plea for world peace, but, oh well, call me the utopian idealist. :D

Miss Darcy: you ask wonderful questions - I ask your question back.
Isagel: where have you gone, and have you recovered well?
crisaor: do you study much philosophy, and, if so, any particulars?
subterranean: I have felt worried about your region of the planet - have things improved?

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Subterranean: They killed Kenny?

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D'arcy, there's this one episode in South Park, season 3, where Kenny died. I was just a little upset that THEY, people behind that cartoon, made that episode.


[QUOTE]I don't know. I suppose so, at some point. Seeing they chose Brave New World sparked my interest, but the voting for the new page limit kinda turned it off.

I asked because, well, IMO, I think you'd unlikely join the discussion again, coz of that thingy....well, you know what I'm referring to..

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Sub, which one do you like best, Radiohead, The Doors, or Led Zeppelin?

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Cris, I can put The Doors on number 3, but I can't decide which one in the 1st or 2nd place.. I love Jimmy Page (in particular) alot and seeing him play (even if it's only on DVDs) is something so amazing for me, and Led's songs are great!!! As for Radiohead, I think the music and lyrics are awesome, and sooo love Thom's expressions when he sings.

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SubT: How did you get into Radiohead?

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I was 13 when I saw this band on tv. Can't forget how the lead vocalist sing "Creep", and he instantly became my first crush. Later I found out that the band's name is Radiohead.

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subterranean: I have felt worried about your region of the planet - have things improved?

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Mono, Jakarta is fine, despite the bad weather we're having in these past few days. And as for the Nias Island, which strucked by the quake few days ago, there's an exodus of people now, coz people are afraid that new quake will struck again. And for Aceh, which was hit by Tsunami last December, it's slowly recovering..

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I remind you that I'm against marriage so that's purely for forum fun

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Even in virtuall world? :D. Koa, why? If I may ask


Crisaor, are you a party kind of person ?

AP, What do you think of Thom Yorke?
Also, does your family (excluding you) belongs to any particular religion/belief???

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Baddad[/B]: If you wrote a book right now and had to decide on the title immediately, what would you call it?Darcy.

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Kinda' like word association eh? Ok, I would call the book IMMEDIACY, and I would want the title printed with a soft blue ink on some kind of pastel background to help imply a huggy-feely nature of the tale........but of course, at the end.......real life intrudes and most characters get what they have earned or deserve.....

Koa: Need to know know this before the nupitals: If you had to highlight one fundamental change in your perspective in the last year, what would that be, and what do you suppose the cause is?

Mono: Is your self described idealism something fundamental to your 'SELF', something innate that you feel in your core/soul, something that wells up from within naturally, or is it a response on your part to perspectives/experiences empirical to you?

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Miss Darcy: What are you studying?

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Well, Music, mainly (the violin, piano, and music theory/history), otherwise English (creative writing, any other writing, HSC workbook), Ancient History, Czech (HSC Course), Computer Studies (well...mostly web page design), Biology, and Geography.

From the length of the list you can tell I'm still at school, as for Uni I'm hoping to go to the Sydney Conservatorium, unless I change my mind for some strange reason. I'd also like to do an English Literature course, but maybe after the Con...

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Subterranean: They killed Kenny?

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D'arcy, there's this one episode in South Park, season 3, where Kenny died. I was just a little upset that THEY, people behind that cartoon, made that episode.

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Well he'll always be alive in the other episodes, so he's not really dead. Sorry, I just found it amusing because I know somebody of that name.

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Miss Darcy: you ask wonderful questions - I ask your question back.

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Oh...let me think...your answer was really good, I'll have to try to match it. :D

I'd want people to be less egocentric, to respect others (what you said, basically! Sorry for being a copycat...), to act so they could respect themselves (deep down), and to act more responsibly towards the environment. Oh - sum that all up and I'll just say, world peace, and everyone work for a better environment.

Now, the questions:

AP: Where do you live? I have some vague idea of the UK, don't know where that comes from, perhaps you could clear that up? :)
Sub: What do you like doing most in your spare time?
Mono: What's your favourite Hubble photo? :D
Taliesin: What inspired your using that username? :)

Darcy

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I want to ask HELGA;

What kind of spiders do you have where you live, if any? Or, insects, maybe?

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only very small onesand no deadly ones. Some people bring a tarantula home from vacations but that is illegal. I love spiders and I wish I had a big one, but on other insects it's just worms and flies mainly, but I wonder why you ask me that?

AP: very same question.

My inspiration generally comes through reading, listening and walking. I like the whacky side of life. I'm often inspired by observing the meaninglessness of things, by patterns in word structures and generally by ideas. Walking through various landscapes inspires me too. Often I will think of something totally unrelated to where I am, or something with a vague relationship. Once I have an idea on something, I follow it down many twists and turns and end up discarding a great deal of excess baggage. On other occasions I just sit down and write something straight off from a memory of an experience or other (generally relating it to something I've read). What I find difficult is recording the present: I always like to mull things over in my head, creating memories that end up as writing. My partner, she is far more visually inspired than I am. Her writing is much more descriptive and I think you can tell from what she writes that she is an artist (as well as a musician). Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino are amongst my favourite writers. I love the pursuit of ideas.

AP, What do you think of Thom Yorke?
Also, does your family (excluding you) belongs to any particular religion/belief???

I think Thom Yorke is great. Radiohead are my favourite band. It seems to me that so many bands tried to copy them, but no-one that I have heard in the last few years has quite managed to create something as different as Radiohead did in The Bends and then again with Kid A / Amnesiac. (I used to love Led Zep too. Kashmir still rocks)

I don't think anyone in my family is seriously religious. Some of my brothers and my mother pay a kind of lip service to Christianity. But the last time anyone from my family entered a church for a service, was many, many years ago.

AP: Where do you live? I have some vague idea of the UK, don't know where that comes from, perhaps you could clear that up?

Yeah I come from the UK. A smallish county on the north-western border of London, 20 mins from the capital by train. I work in London and have come to love the place, despite the packt-like-sardines-in-a-crushed-tin-box conditions on its outdated rush-hour transport systems. I also love my home town, a place that transformed itself from a brewing and printing market town when I was born, to a service sector town that it is now. It boomed first with the coming of the canals and then again with the railways.

Anyway enough of that. Back to work for me.......

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Shea: How long have you played the harp?

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I've been playing harp for 9 years but I first started music with my piano lessons when I was about 6 (18 years) I've tried to play many instruments, but nothing compares with my harp! My dream is to one day play in an orchestra, but I haven't really had much formal training, so I think it may remain a dream, but I'll still work at it! Another hindrence, I only have a non-pedal harp, as the orchestral ones are very expensive!

Miss Darcy: Same question for your violin, and what kind of music is your favorite to play? Another Q: What are your favorite things to do with your mom? I miss having cross-stitch sessions with my mom, I live too far away now. :(

AP : Have you ever visited Sutton Hoo?

Baddad and Koa : Have you set a date yet? :p

Shea,

Yes I have visited Sutton Hoo (and its relics in the British Museum). Its a remarkable site. I think it was King Raedwald who was supposed to have been buried there in a ceremonial ship. The associated jewellery, the intricate goldwork and the amount of precious stones, is quite amazing. The Anglo-Saxon site is located some distance from the minor road leading out to Bawdsey. The ground is very sandy and the site is bordered by a pine forest on its western side (I think). I went there one Spring morning. The weather was a little chilly and there was a frost on the ground and a bite to the air. It seemed very barren and desolate, and did much to enhance the mood of the site.

If ever you are in the UK I would recommend you visit (that's if you haven't already) Like Stonehenge, Avebury, Calleva Atrebatum or Maiden Castle, the average tourist who expects to see something with a Hollywood blockbuster magnificence, is likely to be disappointed. (Which is just as well, as the crowds would be intolerable!:) ) I might add that Suffolk is also a very lovely county.

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Taliesin: What inspired your using that username?

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Well, it started, when a witch (We think that she was called Ceridwen) wanted us to toil at some sort of cauldron. Stirring and stirring all the day long, well it was actually a half-time job since we had to go to school in the morning (advice to you: never go to school and work at the same time, it is bloody tiring), but it was nevertheless boring. Well, we stirred on workday evenings for what - three years (in our opinion the witch was slightly mad, or actually insane, but well, money doesn't stink) and then she told us that she was testing a new, probably radioactive brew for her son (Why didn't she tell us before!? You know, workers have rights too. But no. You know We may never had any children because of that ) Well, we got a shock and the thing with what we stirred it suddenly fell out of our hands. We tried to recatch it, but we just burnt our fingers. And well, to make matters worse, we put our fingers to our mouth (we mean, it was friggin radioactive!!) and then, bang, we suddenly knew everything (the other possiblility was that we went mad, but we do not believe it) Well, then we turned into various animals though possibly they were hallucinations and then she ate us when we were in a form of a grain of rye and then gave birth to us (does this thing sound freudian to you?) and then she put our casket in water for she didn't want to kill us (man, we're handsome) . And then a fisherman pulled us out of water with his nets. And since our brow shone (probably something to so with radioactivity again) he called us tal iesin which means "shining brow" in Welsh which means that we probably drifted quite a long way. Anyway, then after some years, we returned to Estonia.
We hope that this answers your question.

Helga;

I asked, 'cause of where you live. I have dreams of relocating to another part of the world when I am old enough (retirement I mean) and I have to pick an environment which will compliment my blue hair and deeply recessing wrinkles. It has to be spider free though, for I fear the little beasts, would rather run up against a pittbull...

Stan: Do you have any miniature trains or do you collect them?

AP, I'll hopefully be going to England for 2 or 3 weeks this summer. My university sponsers the trip there to study at Cambridge. The courses I'll be taking are 2 weeks long, but if we can afford it I'd like to come a week early so that I can do some touring. I'm particularly interested in Sutton Hoo because of my new-found love of Anglo-Saxon literature. Too bad I have to go in the summer though. Your early spring description sounded wonderful!

Ihaeber, don't retire to Florida. We've got tons of spiders and all kinds of other crawly things. Right now it the time of year where you hear nothing but ads for fire ant killers. Our only consolation is that we also have many cute frogs and lizards to counter them.

Taliesin : what do you do for a living, really? You've got a wonderful imagination!

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I asked, 'cause of where you live. I have dreams of relocating to another part of the world when I am old enough (retirement I mean) and I have to pick an environment which will compliment my blue hair and deeply recessing wrinkles. It has to be spider free though, for I fear the little beasts, would rather run up against a pittbull...
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Ok in that case, I can tell you not to worry, you can lay in the grass without fear. Every atumn people go out and search for berries, THAT is when you find spiders. Sometimes they make webs in the windows but nothing big. This is a good place to live, except if you were thinking about the vasteness of space and time, no bugs or anything there, but it's not the best place to spend your time...

Yes, Darcy I'm aware that Kenny is not actually dead. But I just don't like that episode, in general, I don't like a story about someone died at a very young age..:(

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Sub: What do you like doing most in your spare time

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Well I think other people I guess, hang out with friends, going to bookstore and/or record store, go to museums (though I have visited them hundreds of times), sometimes I take pictures, go to movies, or just stay at home playing The Sims or watching TV :D..Nothing particular about my life ;)

Darcy : Do you have bros or sis?

baddad : how many kids you got?