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last modified Dec 22, 2001 at 22:31


Saturday, March 29, 2003

Might as well...never posted one before....

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE ME:
01 | Humans loosing their humanity
02 | Red splattered on denim or blue fabric
03 | Udder Cream

THREE PEOPLE WHO MAKE ME LAUGH:
01 | Tim
02 | Percy
03 | Oscar Wilde

THREE THINGS I LOVE:
01 | Learning
02 | Cats big and small
03 | Martial Arts

THREE THINGS I DON'T UNDERSTAND:
01 | Polyamoury
02 | Politics
03 | Hitler

THREE THINGS ON MY DESK:
01 | Title to my Motorcycle
02 | An Exacto knife
03 | A big arse ceramic mug

THREE THINGS I'M DOING RIGHT NOW:
01 | Sitting On my Chair, Not in it
02 | Planning Birthday Mischief
03 | Being awake before the sun is up for some ungodly reason

THREE THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE:
01 | Make Swords
02 | Backpack around the globe
03 | Work in the woods/with wild animals

THREE THINGS I CAN DO:
01 | Euclid
02 | Listen
03 | Numerous Hindi Pushups

THREE WAYS TO DESCRIBE MY PERSONALITY:
01 | Self Contained
02 | Active
03 | Silly

THREE WAYS TO DESCRIBE MY LOOKS:
01 | Arian
02 | Sprightly
03 | Athletic

THREE THINGS I CAN'T DO:
01 | Throw Pizza Dough
02 | Ski
03 | Come out to my Grandmother

THREE THINGS I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD LISTEN TO:
01 | Stories
02 | Dreams
03 | Their local Poet or Daemon

THREE THINGS I DON'T THINK ANYONE SHOULD LISTEN TO EVER:
01 | Dr. Laura
02 | New School Rap
03 | Chamber Music

THREE THINGS I SAY THE MOST:
01 | "Schite and Onions."
02 | "I’m too sexy."
03 | "Bugger."

THREE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE FOODS:
01 | Vegemite
02 | Ginger
03 | Garlic

THREE THINGS I'D LIKE TO LEARN:
01 | Diesel Mechanics
02 | How to pee standing up better
03 | Wein Chung

THREE BEVERAGES I DRINK REGULARLY:
01 | Tea
02 | Fruit smoothies
03 | Water

THREE SHOWS I WATCHED WHEN I WAS A KID:
01 | The Muppet Show
02 | Warner Brother’s Cartoons
03 | Agro’s Show

59284 | posted by AussieAri at 6:25 | 0 comments

Men by and large like to pump weights, women on the other hand like training with their own body weight.

59281 | posted by AussieAri at 5:50 | 2 comments

Riddle me this: Aside from Disney type animated films (and even then sometimes), name a good movie that does not have any characters that smoke in it.

59280 | posted by AussieAri at 5:49 | 2 comments

Thursday, March 27, 2003

Random links in my demented surfing.

The Tattoo Baby Doll Project
As Meninas Gothikas (the goth powerpuff girls)
A Woman's Guide on How to Pee Standing
The People's Webcam
Lockness Cam
Hyperspace Studios
Ghost cam for the Evansville Library (HEY ADELA!)
dental cam Ever wonder why dentists have the highest professional suicide rate?
Psycho-Ex Dot Com and you thought YOURS was bad...
T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project - Haiku Version
Optical Illusions
Flash Flase. Thanks Emily
I Love Bacon. And stupid funny pictures.
Drunk Men Work Here. For obsessive compulsive clickers.
Gus the Cat has a very cool tattoo.
Third Nipple Piercings
Virtual Prositution Museum
Dame Edna Everage. Aussie Drag Queen comic extrodinaire.

59150 | posted by AussieAri at 23:02 | 0 comments

So mum is gearing up for a big trip this summer to Europe with me and my Aunt Carmel from Australia. I'm excited about seeing Carmel. England, France and Italy are the targets for this romp. I’d really just like to go to France and Greece but this isn’t my party. She can worry about visas, dates, traveler’s checks, light weight travel clothing, weather forecasts, travel restrictions, suitcase size and weight and which spots she absolutely must see along with the best tours to take. I’ll probably just end up in a pub to keep my sanity. I’m looking forward to finding the most nutritious lagers and ales.

59097 | posted by AussieAri at 13:01 | 0 comments

Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Humph- It's like the fucking crusades.

59034 | posted by AussieAri at 23:01 | 0 comments

While on 14, for all those who haven't been there.

I visited the famous Mineshaft Tavern in Madrid for the first time (pronounced with flat 'a' and emphasis on the first syllable, 'mad').
The lady at the door (probably the owner) said "Welcome aboard" to me, and amongst all the signed dollar bills stuck on the wall was a sign that said:
"Welcome to Madrid. Madrid has no town drunk, we all take turns."

59031 | posted by AussieAri at 22:45 | 0 comments

a friend on you know who:

"Christina Aguilera is wrapped up tighter than a pork link at the VH1 Big in 2002 Awards. The pop tart's swathed in a snug hook-front fire engine-red leather minidress and lace-up stilettos, with smudged black eye shadow that actually works with her skunky black 'n' white hair. And hey, you can even see her scalp, which is usually hidden beneath hip hats and scarves. Now, if only we could scrape off a few layers of that pancake makeup. Bet there's a pretty girl trapped in there."

59029 | posted by AussieAri at 22:40 | 1 comments

Into The Woods

well well now... I've been thinking Mid Summer Nights Dream all day long, re-reading and note taking, but i won't bore you with that. I may be able to go on a road trip adventure if i get my paper done before writing period is over.

What i did also think about because of MSND is how i rarely go long into those lofty far off mountains of metaphysical thoughts anymore. The ones with endless possible paths at every turn. The ones that end up making little sense at first to others and needing a fair bit of explaining and structure to bring other up to (if not simply indoctrination). I know where they are, and how to get there. It's not like I’ve forsaken this un-navigated and strangely vegetated terrain for easier friendlier and more familiar roads, but freshman year i would never have said half the things i say in classes this year. The things i'm saying makes much more practical sense and other understand more of what i say, i certainly speak more and have more to say that i've come up with on my own. Things like factual summations and blunt realistic accounts of what's going on between the words in the beautiful literature we read, swearing and cussing appropriately, talk of body parts and functions, and things both lusty and crude.

Guess I'm just going basic for a bit.

In other news:
I got a haircut yesterday. Not that bad a sheering, it'll look even better in a week. I caught a respiratory infection and have been weak all break. So much for training. I'm gearing up for my birthday. Apart from what i've already gotten/will get, i really just want a birthday hat (cone shaped of course, viva la conics!), some laughs, maybe a cupcake or something delicious, and a birthday spanking. I'm not that hard to please short term, probably because i can amuse myself...easily.

58997 | posted by AussieAri at 18:02 | 0 comments

First ladybug and squirrel sighting of the season.

58979 | posted by AussieAri at 15:57 | 0 comments

Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Why do significant others often think they own your hair?

58825 | posted by AussieAri at 14:06 | 1 comments

Thursday, March 20, 2003

Reike would sacrifice his life to write the world's best book. I'm not so willing.

Some of the best people i know don't love themselves as much or as they should but a lot of arseholes do. In fact, these same people sometimes fear loving themselves.

I associate fear with the feelings of flowing endorphins, adrenaline, the tightening of muscles, and pupils contracting all in aid of a potentially dangerous situation. I haven't been afraid otherwise in a while. The closest has been saddened, angry, worried, and sometimes disturbed.

I'd light myself on fire (again) if you could plausibly assure me it would make my lungs clear again.

Thank the gods for trust.

"Do not use brain. Abnormal."

That's going to scar; but chicks dig scars and i'd say it was almost worth it so it's ok.

"Springtime for Hitler in Germany"....Sing along and sharpen your knives!

If this schite gets worse, as is always my threat and retreat, i am going to go back to Australia.

"Allo Bruce! G'day Burce! Allo Bruce! How are you Bruce? Fine thanks Bruce!"

58331 | posted by AussieAri at 22:42 | 1 comments

Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Maybe because the weather is as heavy as my head cold and i can't see any better, maybe because the sleet reminds me of the metal of bombs and how countries can never be the same again, or maybe just because the dorm echos oddly now and then with only a few souls living in it. I'm willing to give over and i'm big enough to ask for help... I never thought i'd say it.. but, i want my mum.

58249 | posted by AussieAri at 17:15 | 0 comments

Swingers:

Are relationships constructions and/or fabrications in the way works of art are?

58232 | posted by AussieAri at 14:59 | 0 comments

Have you ever met those tortured people
Who by emphasizing evil
Are only more depraved because of it?

58230 | posted by AussieAri at 14:57 | 0 comments

Songs that may make me cry for different reasons:

Daughter- Pearl Jam
Fast Car- Tracy Chapman
Funny Valentine - Billy or Ella
Cat’s in the Cradle- Cat Stevens or Ugly Kid Joe
Time in a Bottle- Jim Croce
Will You Miss Me- Bitch And Animal
Unchained Melody- Rightious Brothers
Pretty Penny- Stone Temple Pilots
Hearts and Bones- Paul Simon
Last Dance With Mary Jane- Tom Petty Band
Mother, Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
Freshman- The Verve Pipe
I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally- NIN

58229 | posted by AussieAri at 14:56 | 2 comments

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

On the eve of a dark dawn.

So a short while ago Maia was telling me about her future self-sufficient private island in the sea for all the people she liked once she has enough cash to forget about the capitalistic dream.

"Working within the system to beat it?” I asked, "Is that really beating it then?"

She posited that the only way to truly and fully beat something is to attack (or what ends up being dismantling, rearranging and maneuver subversively) within it on its own terms.

58155 | posted by AussieAri at 22:48 | 0 comments

I’m envious of the fact the men’s restrooms in the main buildings on campus have grout puns written in the grouting. ‘God is that which none grouter can be thought of’

58128 | posted by AussieAri at 21:17 | 1 comments

Axolotls rock. Sarah has an amazing white one. He's very alert, inquisitive and fearless, which is not to say stupid.
Today while watching Monsters Inc. for the first time I discovered the only ‘monsters’ that were ever in my dreams were either formless or variations of Minitors. One notable one always appeared in dreams connected with breathing problems in sickness. A huge hairy lumbering beast behind an equally huge bolder that was running down a track (a la Indiana Jones style) in dirty aired caverns. I never got a clear look at him but he had many eyes. If I saw a ‘monster’ in my dreams now, I’d probably think it was my spirit animal…

57877 | posted by AussieAri at 1:09 | 2 comments

Monday, March 17, 2003

Break falls, break ups, and all break forms- break it down.

Snowing and hailing on spring break?? gaarrrhhh...that's all i can complain about. Besides my libido killing me... *Sings 'My Love Is Killing Me' by the Red Elvises.*

I might as well read A Midsummer Night's Dream again while listening to Don Giovanni.

57818 | posted by AussieAri at 18:05 | 2 comments

Friday, March 14, 2003

I bought my first pair of Carhartts at JR Clothing. They're like a pair of sails. Wooo! My pants don't have holes in them!

57376 | posted by AussieAri at 19:15 | 0 comments

Thursday, March 13, 2003

"Lentil soup is- mental fruit and- ginger root is- good for you..."

One very wasted Apples to Apples playing nights (which thankfully didn't turn into a dadaist contest) i was introduced to Dead Prez. Alas, i missed them when they were in ABQ.
I still can't stand beans other than soy, snow or string green.

57233 | posted by AussieAri at 19:30 | 2 comments

Colleges to visit in the US:

Oberlin, Evergreen, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Marlboro, RISD.

And of course, the Annapolis campus.

57202 | posted by AussieAri at 16:36 | 2 comments

One of the few things that makes me feel uncomfortable for no good reason.

57201 | posted by AussieAri at 16:16 | 1 comments

Good names:

Kane
Luke
Xavier
Danea/Diane
Elladia
Joan/Jeanne

57200 | posted by AussieAri at 16:15 | 0 comments

Dreams or Visions?

I dreamt St. John’s was a St. John’s of Britain. My dorm room floor was worn red brick with dirt for mortar. Like an old sunken basement it tilted upwards towards one end that once had a shower but now was an odd empty side space with a heater, a water fountain, a mirror and a worn wood dresser. There were no windows. It must have been the beginning of the year as people were moving in and I was wondering what to do with the odd cracked space. I had just flooded it by mistake leaving the water fountain on and standing in the puddle, caught a distorted enlarged reflection of my face in the mirror above it. I could see every tone, wrinkle, and bump in my skin. There was a knock at my door. Wearing a theater mask one of the Fates would, a 4 ft. tall gypsy looking girl with a three quarter size guitar, a small vintage suitcase and a pair of morning doves in a crate stood there. She had one long thick black braid down her back and her head was covered by a patterned silk shawl. She was crippled and walked oddly and with a bit of trouble. I took all this in for a few seconds in silence before she said ‘Hello’ and came in. I knew then she was my daemon, or at very least a fate teller and advisor here for me. She never was bitter or complained about anything. Actually, she was often more active and extroverted then I was. Usually though, people their paid attention to me and didn’t even noticing her. The rest of the dream was running around with other students and my daemon in tow. Eventually her mask was gone and thought there was her flesh beneath; it was the same form as the mask- dark and murky unnatural flesh tones that were opposites and all twisted. Her face wasn’t ever expressive of just one look. Her eyes were always formless and blank black holes.

57199 | posted by AussieAri at 16:12 | 2 comments

Books to read before writing a Euclidian Play.

“If you could just find the geometry in life, apply the algebra; you’d have the facts figured out.”
"There is no math at infinity damn it."

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions- Edwin A. Abbott
Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension- Rudolf V.B. Rucker
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace- Leonard Mlondinow
One Two Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science- George Gamow
Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So- Ian Stewart
The Phantom Tollbooth, The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics- Norman Juster
The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat: The Mathematical Cat- Theoni Pappas
The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures- Malba Tahan
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland: A Math Adventure- Cindy Neuschwander
The Greedy Triangle (Brainy Day Books)- Marilyn Burnes
Math Curse- Jon Scieszka
A Remainder of One- Elinor J Pinczes
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snark- Lewis Carroll
Conics- Appollonius of Perga
The Elements- Euclid
The Bones- Euclid (Green Lion Press)
The Joy of Pi- David Blatner
An Introduction to Symbolic Logic- Susanne K. Langer
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science- Carl Sagan
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History- Howard K. Bloom

57196 | posted by AussieAri at 15:49 | 2 comments

Monday, March 10, 2003

Once again, your greatest strength is also your greatest weakness.

56793 | posted by AussieAri at 23:35 | 0 comments

Eric, you promised me one of these shirts…

56683 | posted by AussieAri at 11:14 | 0 comments

Foul...Osturduckenpheasail?

Forget Turducken, I want an Ostrich stuffed with a Turkey stuffed with a Duck stuffed with a Chicken stuffed with a Pheasant stuffed with a Quail.

56682 | posted by AussieAri at 11:10 | 6 comments

Spring again and some new formed conclusions.

The great myth of ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’, I’ve often thought adults asked half-heartedly to get some more ideas. As if being you weren’t enough, as if one thing should be your main or sole doing, that the definition of your life is your livelihood. Really this school year I’ve found that I’m not sure I’m going for the truth (capital T) anymore, that understanding is inevitably overrated, as with pure equality. There is so much more than just me that I will never know nor be able to reasonably put words to. Not that the virtues of the Greeks don’t exist or aren’t important; there is however, the actual, the non-dualistic, and the experience out there and every day. It’s not that my sensibilities have succumb to some form of Hedonism or Epicureanism, (i don't believe everything i breath or think) but you can feel good and goodness where as truth has become a precarious point- the general locality of which I’ve probably rarely visited outside of the actual and textual of my experience.
I have however, spent long enough fucking around, moping or being a lone to know better.
My tutors still call me a Platonist and i'm content with the assessment, for now.

56681 | posted by AussieAri at 11:10 | 0 comments

Here's lookin' at you kid.

What went extraordinarily good? Has the perplexity of it ever disturbed you? Have you ever locked yourself away for a while to wonder it out loud, repeating the instance over and over again to no avail? It may just be over contemplativeness, but oh, what prompted it was fantastic. Don't forget that.

56679 | posted by AussieAri at 10:54 | 0 comments

Friday, March 7, 2003

Schite and Onions. Another johnny band. Only these ones don't eat meat.

56313 | posted by AussieAri at 20:37 | 0 comments

things i never hope to eat

Manwich??

56312 | posted by AussieAri at 20:28 | 0 comments

For Nico

They speak in Freudian slips
Rolling off her hips as his head’s tongue
Is going down to basics.

56311 | posted by AussieAri at 20:22 | 0 comments

Poetry beholds from all over- groping not blindly, or grabbing blind things but things otherwise in a blind spot.

56281 | posted by AussieAri at 16:31 | 0 comments

Plays as symphony music- Act 1, then Act 2, then Act 1 again, then Act 3 then Act 3 again. I don’t think it would be too successful.

56279 | posted by AussieAri at 16:31 | 1 comments

Righteous anger that distills and crystallizes, not rage that blurs and distorts.

There are several lines of defense that I just skip. It has to do with being so offended and insulted when a person thinks they have the right to accost me or any fellow member of humanity thereby invading and encroaching on liberties- or worse. Far, far worse. There is always letting them know they’ve made a mistake in assessing you but after a warning, gods help us. I can’t find myself so easily smiling subtly as I break a wrist lock, blowing a kiss or cracking a joke in their face. I’d probably just go for the wrist break outright, cuss or growl, unfortunately for both of us- I still rely on my strength and force more than other advantages I could develop.

56278 | posted by AussieAri at 16:21 | 0 comments

Why long for what you can not know? Odiously then, because knowing is not the end.

56277 | posted by AussieAri at 16:20 | 0 comments

I think I have a problem with listening to Beethoven.

56276 | posted by AussieAri at 16:19 | 0 comments

Thursday, March 6, 2003

HAHAHA little weblog, you are again mine- you dysfunctional degenerate little slutty smut pup.

Well here's news before i have to go to seminar:
Life is,... sort of.. up in the air... and suspended…in moments of effluvious ether. i’m not sure what i’m doing today, let alone next year, or even this summer, but i seem to be doing more than just getting by. i’m so blatantly use to portioned time because of school/work and what ever is left is playtime. i’m moved and moving though- most often it’s a feeling of light heartedness and being queasy at the same time. Struth- up in the air.
beautiful.

56175 | posted by AussieAri at 19:51 | 1 comments

Monday, March 3, 2003

So many daily ascetically pleased with myself thoughts

The authors we read and study are not the common man and never will be. They are the top and slim end of the bell curve of intelligence that does not fit well any other function of rationality, occupation or heritage. And here these fantastic people write about humanity- usually the largest chunk of people, if not the whole. Just by virtue of their reason and caliber I grant that they get things right. But they still have written great books- not good books, and are exceptional, not common. There’s a whole life they can never have or be susceptible to- and often just plain dismiss. Maybe this split, the gap that falls between them and everyone else is nothing besides themselves. If they had that- which is exceptional- I doubt the common would be so foreign.

55962 | posted by AussieAri at 11:37 | 1 comments

Rumi was right. Hopelessness can be useful- instead of moping about hoping at something you may just go and do it when you otherwise wouldn’t. Nothing to lose, right?

55961 | posted by AussieAri at 11:37 | 0 comments

Saturday, March 1, 2003

My 2 main parameters for a girlfriend/date.

1) They are not a tutor or my boss or my instructor. This gets complicated and confusing. You never know where you stand and if pursuit is acceptable. Enter the epitome of unattainable and unrequited romantic endeavors.

2) They don't lose interest if i don't sleep with them on the 1st or 2nd date. I'd rather not have to ask 'how did you get in my bed??' Besides, they need to be able to last more than a week.

...and of course there are other general parameters of humanity that apply.

55745 | posted by AussieAri at 15:42 | 0 comments

the best dumbest game ever

rock, paper, scissors, ...punch in the face!!

55716 | posted by AussieAri at 1:58 | 0 comments