Bloody Foxtongue ([info]porphyre) wrote,
@ 2006-08-15 19:11:00
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Entry tags:april, bob, concerts, employment, events, his lordship, oliver, parties, sam, toot-a-lute, wolf parade, zombiewalk

spellcheck doesn't think "motherfucker" is a word

"London, London" a video by Cibelle featuring Devendra Banhart.

I went to Vancouver Island alone for the first time in my life on Friday. All I knew was that somewhere in front of me was Oliver, whose name creates the feel of kisses on my tongue. He is an older man, as mine are, and sweet as I always wanted them to be. He won't tell me he loves me yet, but says instead that it's close, as if the words are a race he hopes to win.

I like the way he looks at me, mildly stunned, as if I am some ultimate unexpected good fortune. Silva likes it too. He is a nervous man, but his worries are only an outward mark of his extreme consideration, like a gold birthmark that stutters in the sun. He wraps his body around mine when we sleep, so always I wake with his arms curled around me, warm ribbons tying me comfortably to him.

I wonder if I will like his parents.

My inclination is for description, for setting down my appreciation for his hair and the length of his body, but no matter how charmed I am with his colours, his skin darker than mine, the streaks of tarnished blond silver that paint the frame of his friendly Brian Froud smile, it is other things that want to drop here. Moments of personality, of detached devotion. Thanks you's for finally bringing me to somewhere safe. Today he gave me a key to his house. On my way home, I had the men at the hardware store cut him copies of mine.

Mexican court rejects full ballot recount, leftist candidate blasts partial tally.


Coming back was not as difficult as going. In spite of a messenger glitch, meaning I didn't get one damned message all weekend, there was plenty of news waiting. I didn't get the job I'd hoped for and there's nothing I can think to do about it. I have a little design portfolio made-up now that was in case of a second interview, perhaps it will come in handy later. At any rate, there was good news too. This week looks to be intensely and awesomely busy.
Tonight (or tomorrow night, her and the websites have different opinions on when), April and I are going to the Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band concert at Richards on Richards. (A group led by founding Godspeed You! Black Emperor guitarist Efrim).

Thursday and Friday I have extra work on a film named Hot Rod, out at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds. (I have to figure out how to bus there first thing in the morning, augh).

Friday is the Robot Skytrain Party plus Sam's big party at the Treehouse. ("Come to the party that will send a shiver down your back years from now as you suddenly think "Oh, God... I remember that party."").

Saturday is Vancouver's first Flugtag, our Second Annual Zombiewalk, and Bob's party.

Wolf Parade plays the Commodore on Sunday, (not that I have a ticket, I'm just lusting after one), and Andrew says there's something else but he forgets, so if you remember, I'd love a heads up.

Oh! And Snakes On a Motherfucking Plane is this Thursday at the Rio, (Broadway & Commercial), at 10pm.

If you comment here saying you can't come, Andrew will have Samuel L. Jackson call and persuade you.

Also, he checked with the box office, you can buy your tickets at the Rio anytime it's open now.

Oh, and CROSSPOST this mofo! We want to own the theatre.


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[info]natowelch
2006-08-16 02:47 am UTC (link)
I can't come.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 02:48 am UTC (link)
What's your phone number?

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[info]fred_smith
2006-08-16 02:55 am UTC (link)
A Softer World is amazing.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 03:16 am UTC (link)
A Softer World and http://www.alessonislearned.com/ always read well together to me.

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[info]radiodog
2006-08-16 04:29 am UTC (link)
As per SOAMFP: Think they'll sell out of tickets before thursday?

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 08:21 pm UTC (link)
I refuse to answer on the basis that you just used an acronymn.

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[info]radiodog
2006-08-16 10:18 pm UTC (link)
I'll be wandering into town early tomorrow to be harrassing people with my resume, so I'll check then. Ring me if you'd care to hang out before Snakes On A Motherfucking Plane.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 10:49 pm UTC (link)
I'm doing extra work Thursday & Friday out in ... boo.. Cloverdale! I dropped by the Rio this afternoon, but they weren't open, I'm going to hit them up again later today. I'll try to get you a ticket then.

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[info]radiodog
2006-08-17 03:43 am UTC (link)
Danke!

Should I bring your hard drive tomorrow? I can either drop it at your place (Assuming Graham is there) or hand it over at the theatre.

Oh, and know anywhere that sells blood for cheap?

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[info]ridenowhere
2006-08-16 04:59 am UTC (link)
Spellcheck doesn't think "variometer" is a word either. Or "synth". Or "Bussard ramscoop" either as individual words or a phrase.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 08:22 pm UTC (link)
I don't know if I consider "Bussard ramscoop" a phrase, either. It sounds to me like a name.

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[info]strumpetofmeat
2006-08-16 05:40 am UTC (link)
I like snakes! And planes!

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 08:22 pm UTC (link)
And snakes on planes?

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[info]givemesodapop
2006-08-16 06:02 am UTC (link)
Count me in. I wanna see the sillyness that is a movie called Snakes on a Plane.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 08:23 pm UTC (link)
Aight, I'll get your ticket today on my way home.

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[info]mallinson
2006-08-16 06:45 am UTC (link)
You are so smitten. It's like some muse has painted white stars in the upper-left corners of your pupils.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 08:23 pm UTC (link)
Or, you know, I'm half living with an accordian playing morris-dancer who's planning on starting a circus band.

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[info]jazzsociety
2006-08-16 04:12 pm UTC (link)
Can't do Snakes - dinner at Dad's. Where do I rsvp for all of these parties?

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 08:25 pm UTC (link)
You're invited to both, dear thing. Drop me an e-mail and I'll send you maps.

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[info]jazzsociety
2006-08-17 06:06 pm UTC (link)
you're amazing. See you soon.

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[info]silver_notebook
2006-08-16 04:56 pm UTC (link)
My sound wasn't working the first time I viewed 'London London', but I was transfixed by all the local landmarks. Yes, that was Ridley Road market, where the West African women sell snails with shells the size of cricket balls and bodies like necrotic babies feet. They are dancing on the roof of the council flats in Haggerston I cycle past to visit friends. And that alley way is Camden Passage, which is, rather confusingly, in Islington. However, their costumes just made me think they'd watched 'My Fair Lady' or 'Upstairs-Downstairs' one time too many, and they seemed totally ridiculous and incongruous. Then when I heard it with the music it seemed even more so: Bossa nova music, with English Edwardian costumes in modern, multicultural London all mixed in together to make some awful clash of concepts. Aaaaagh. Loved the tune: loved spotting all the details in the background; but silly, silly story. It's soooo corny it hurts. When you come to London you shall encounter all these sites and more!

And stop prodding finger into his side-flesh asking for love. Anyone who falls that quickly (or admits to it) has a love that's far too thin to be of any value.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 08:29 pm UTC (link)
I agree that it's a silly, silly video, but I adore just how hard they're trying. It's like you can practically taste the effort they've put in.

I'm not prodding in the slightest, it's he who's the worry-wart. I am perfectly content and delighted with his wandering around looking like he's been hit in the head with a happy brick. *grins* We glow, I don't need hallmark words.

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[info]silver_notebook
2006-08-16 09:26 pm UTC (link)
It sounds (and looks from here) wonderful. Send out the happy bricks.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-19 04:10 am UTC (link)
omg I'm sodamneddead. Two straight days filming on three hours sleep a day, tonight I'm booked solid, then tomorrow, then sunday, then monday. I will sleep through Tuesday, I'm sure. Certain. utterly. Unless I'm filming again. In which case, I get to sleep next Saturday.

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[info]frector
2006-08-16 06:59 pm UTC (link)
If your Wolf Parade ticket-lust is meant to indicate that you'd buy a ticket if the show wasn't sold out, my brother is looking to unload his ticket.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-16 08:29 pm UTC (link)
AND it's sold out?

No, my ticket-lust indicates that if I were not so painfully underemployed, I would purchase a ticket.

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[info]skonen_blades
2006-08-17 03:33 am UTC (link)
Yup. It's sold out. My mom's neighbour's daughter goes out with a member of Wolf Parade. I have a call in to her. I also know someone who works at the commodore so that's a possibility. I'll keep you posted.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-19 04:10 am UTC (link)
*scritch*

*flutter*

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[info]skonen_blades
2006-08-19 04:40 am UTC (link)
No luck with the girlfriend. Apparently, they were booked for two nights, sold a bunch of tickets, and then were told Ha Ha, Just Kidding, Actually It's One Night. So that's why they're sold out. As a result, all of their guests lists were severely curtailed. As it is, it's still probably going to be some sort of fire hazard. I'll make some more calls.

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[info]arrogant_gamer
2006-08-18 02:58 am UTC (link)
Hi

Spellchecker doesn't think at all. I bet you don't personify that poor spellchecker when it has done well, I'll bet it has never her a single word of praise. Only when you want to chastize it does it take on mind and soul.

Cruel mistress of inanimate world!

z.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-19 03:59 am UTC (link)
My spelling is such that I never use spellcheck. It runs and catches nothing, over and over again. Of course a little red line will catch my eye. She wears it just to remind me that she's there, the little clever girl.

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[info]arrogant_gamer
2006-08-20 07:41 am UTC (link)
Hi

Aww, that's what I like to hear!

Do you spell that well? I certainly don't: we cover each other's bodies in red and green finger paint, my spellchecker and I.

z.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-20 11:12 am UTC (link)
When I was weee, my mother had my weekly spelling tests. 100 words every week for an ice-cream cone. I hated the word doctor because I didn't get it for two weeks. Dee oh cee tee oh are.

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[info]arrogant_gamer
2006-08-21 04:34 am UTC (link)
Hi

HOMESCHOOLED? Or was she just really into spelling?

z.

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[info]porphyre
2006-08-21 08:05 pm UTC (link)
Quite a bit of home-schooling.

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