Jilli, thanks for the twitter name of the spider person.
Actually not needing validation right now, but thank you.
Buffy ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Jun 01, 2011 5:22:23 pm PDT #10791 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sarameg - Jun 01, 2011 5:23:26 pm PDT #10792 of 30001
A few of my neighbors/neighbor's SOs are self supporting musicians, mostly classical, but also jazz and rock. A handful are financially secure enough now to own homes, and mostly around my age. It is fascinating to me, because in this town of MICA and Peabody and JHU, you have got to be damned good to achieve that level of demand locally, whether through performance or teaching. And even so, their lives are so itinerant (the viola-ists have regular summer gigs out of state,) especially those whose primary income is performance.
They all ran plan b at some point to get to where they are.
And it is so lovely to walk down the block hearing the strains of cello and violas and voice and guitar practices.
Beverly - Jun 01, 2011 5:29:48 pm PDT #10793 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh, sara, you just reminded me of walking through the basement corridor at school past all the practice rooms--they were soundproofed to each other, but not completely to the corridor. The orations! The arias! The snatches of instrumental phrases as you walked past. Man, I miss that.
Cass - Jun 01, 2011 5:30:13 pm PDT #10794 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Oh, I should have realized. Part of it was started by comments from Amanda Palmer.
Color me ... yeah, should have seen that coming, actually.
I find her difficult. I just deleted the rest of what I wrote. But I find her difficult.
meara - Jun 01, 2011 5:31:26 pm PDT #10795 of 30001
I am somewhere slightly more romantic than ita. But definitely on the "pretty much never get to know someone I wasn't attracted to and then become attracted to them". I might get MORE attracted to someone I already thought was hot, or less attracted to someone I though was an ass, but...
Steph L. - Jun 01, 2011 5:32:23 pm PDT #10796 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
"Timsexual" seems like a fairly narrow parameter.
Although there are a LOT of Tims out there...
Oh god, is Tiny Tim still alive? I don't want him turning up on my doorstep with his ukelele, thinking I'm into his groove.
Amy - Jun 01, 2011 5:33:18 pm PDT #10797 of 30001
Because books.
Oh god, is Tiny Tim still alive?
I think he died! I'm not sure why. Wow, I hadn't thought about him for a lonnnng time.
billytea - Jun 01, 2011 5:34:44 pm PDT #10798 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Oh god, is Tiny Tim still alive? I don't want him turning up on my doorstep with his ukelele, thinking I'm into his groove.
I would like to point out that, if he is in fact deceased, this scenario doesn't get any better.
Cass - Jun 01, 2011 5:36:20 pm PDT #10799 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Although there are a LOT of Tims out there...
Kon will cut you, if you try anything.
Atropa - Jun 01, 2011 5:36:45 pm PDT #10800 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Whoo, I need to stop backreading on the plan b stuff. Because I keep running across exchanges like this one:
@amandapalmer You are a towering talent. Many are not, I hope you raise a glass for those who #fuckplanb and end up fucking their future.
@FluoroNinja if anybody fucks their future due to striving towards a passion, i'd say it was a probably a fantastic fuck.
And then I get all head-explody. Because you know what? No one lives in a vacuum, and if someone has fucked up their future, they've probably also done collateral damage to other people's lives.