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how is everyone? i havent had much time lately to read or post and ive been wondering how things are for people here.
people have moved house, found and lost relationships, changed jobs etc and i want to know how you all are!

possibly because i have come to view ilx as a sort of 'side community' of people i kind of know and think / worry about.

so, please tell me whats news with you. it feels a tad ridiculous really but i realised i actually Care about what is happening to you all!

― donna (donna), Saturday, 1 February 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

im fine btw, moved house again and my son is crawling now so thats keeping me busy :-)

― donna (donna), Saturday, 1 February 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

still broke. still out of shape. still depressed. still in redneck/corny indie fuck hell. still tired.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 1 February 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

hi jess, what are you doing work-wise? or not.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 1 February 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

still not got a job, still not got a flat, still in pain, still not lovin' police but I've still got love for the streets [n.b. not mike skinner's the streets].

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 February 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

school is a little better now but i'm in major fear of my thesis and have recurring nightmares about it. other than that life is ok! NYC is cool but will be cooler when it gets warmer. i don't like winter much. also i need a haircut.

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 1 February 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I've decided January was a bit rub, but oh well.

I'm thinking about doing lots of things: learning to drive, moving out of London, going to visit Norway, Sweden and Finland, going back to university again.

glad to hear you are doing well Donna.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 February 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

hi donna, how is your new year so far? I am well. I have been spending my time with people well outside my age bracket in both directions, it's weird. I like the two year old the most.

I wrote a song using words from one of Steve Braunias' columns in the Listener, that one called Summer Homework. I hope he won't mind too much.

I have given in to my secret desire to wear tops with only one shoulder/sleeve, it's working out quite well. I am sticking to thinking about small details of my life like this because aspects that would qualify as significant seem to be in hiding. Everything seems very simple right now. Which is nice, but I wouldn't want it to be this way for ever.

― rainy (rainy), Saturday, 1 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay for your son's crawling- is he getting into all kinds of trouble now? :- )

I FINALLY got over my cough (it ended up lasting almost a month... blech!), work is really stressful but managable, and I'm fast becoming addicted to the roasted almonds from the bulk food bins at the grocery store. I ate about 6 handfuls of them yesterday while I was working, without even noticing. Hmm, and the hole in the side of my sneakers (where the cloth part connects to the rubber that wraps up the side a bit) is getting a lot bigger... I fear I'm going to have to replace them soon.

Jel, what are you going to study if you go back to school?

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

January was my 'start again' month. February is looking like being *much* less taxing.

Right now, I've just put the finishing touches to my eye make-up and I'm off out.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

OK. has been OK for the last few months so I want february to be different somehow.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

life was dull until friday night and now it is turmoil

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Eep! What's wrong, Jim? :-/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

gurl trouble

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

:-( I command the Melbourne massive to support Jim with free drinks as needed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

wahey! yes, heed the word of Ned

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

donna i am writing, but not enuff to really keep me fiscally solvent. (also, the pay is bad and editors are lazy.) (but i'm lazier.)

keep those freelance assignments coming people!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i have just said yes to the man who is going to build me two more floor to ceiling whole-wall book-cases!! when they are up, i will be able to finish all writing assignments evah (books, asctually commissioned, 1, in two vols; books, not yet quite commissioned, 3; FT articles, 6; replies, ILM, to meeder, colin, mainly, 2000005; blog AAARGH!!)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, well it all doesnt sound Too Bad, apart from those of us who remain 'financially challenged', but that is something that can always be worked on. sorry about your gurl trouble jim, but yay for you rainy with the one-sided sleeves! RJG where do you live with no job and no flat?
yes lyra my boy is exploring all sorts of things and even managed to unpack one of my bags for me the other day, what a clever lad! haha.

i just managed to squeeze my desk through a door that was theoretically too narrow for it. i have no idea how it worked but hopefully it is a sign that this move was a good idea if i can temporarily bend the rules of the physical world!
it would be nice to have floor to ceiling bookcases in here too, and one of those ladders on wheels that you stand on and push along the shelves..............

― donna (donna), Sunday, 2 February 2003 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

my life still sucks. I am working two jobs, sometimes 60 hours a week or more, and I am still not making enough money. I am still in the process of saving to move to New York. I am still hoping that my goal of moving this June or July will hold up. Part of the problem is that I have no furniture, and my electronics are all busted, so not only am I saving for a down payment on an apartment, but I am also saving for everything that would go in that apartment, as well as saving enough to ensure that I have savings when I am done procuring the apartment and the furnishings for it. I am saving so hardcore that I can only afford to buy myself lunch and cigarettes (only $3 a pack here so shut up :). Everything else, like dinner, cds, movie tickets, etc., I either get from my parents (dinner), or I can't afford (all else). I hate being dependent on my parents.

Also, I am living at home, and I don't get on with my parents too well. My dad is becoming more conservative, and I am scared. Out of all of the good friends that I have ever made IRL, only one lives in this area. I miss so many people. Also, I have a cold.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

hrmm. "personal life"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi, Donna!

I've got a new flat, living with Suzy and Ed, I've got a new job doing "data recconciliation" which starts on Monday, my band is *not* breaking up after all, and I've got TWO, count 'em TWO new crushes. Which makes my life pretty sweet right now!

― kate, Sunday, 2 February 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

lyra - I want to study the social impact of new technology and/or pop culture. But I fear it's all a pipe dream.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 February 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"doing everything doing anything doing nothing to feel something"

(this is not a downer, my life is great)

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 2 February 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor Aaron! :-/
hope your cold gets better soon, at least.

i'm doing fine - in my last semester of college, thinking about traveling to london, germany, france, and scotland after graduation.
and then moving somewhere - right now i'm thinking boston, but yesterday was portland.
and i just bought a disco inferno cd, so that makes me happy too.
i think i'm doing alright.

― stolenbus (stolenbus), Sunday, 2 February 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Disco Inferno CDs = always a good thing. Rah. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 February 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

''i have just said yes to the man who is going to build me two more floor to ceiling whole-wall book-cases!! when they are up, i will be able to finish all writing assignments evah (books, asctually commissioned, 1, in two vols; books, not yet quite commissioned, 3; FT articles, 6; replies, ILM, to meeder, colin, mainly, 2000005; blog AAARGH!!)''

so you're telling us that lack of space for yr books has been stopping you from finishing your books?!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I AM GOING TO GET MONSTA JAMS

WHY YOU FRONTIN

YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT

― ron (ron), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

7 of my cousins friends died today, near revelstoke.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty content. relaxed. still girlless, though. job as freelance illustrator pending. got a new niece a couple days ago.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh that's awful Anthony. Are you okay?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Details on the accident Anthony mentions. Pretty horrible. :-( *hugs for Anthony and his cousin*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

im ok.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought another one sleeved top today.

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 3 February 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

*hugs for anthony*

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 3 February 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

oh anthony, thats awfu. i'm so sorry.

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 3 February 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry anthony, I didn't even re-read this thread before posting. XXOO

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 3 February 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

God Anthony thats awfull *hugs*

― smee (smee), Monday, 3 February 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

terrible news, Anthony. best wishes to your family.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 3 February 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Sympathies to Anthony :(

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 3 February 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

my sympathies to anthony, too

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 3 February 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Sympathies to ase...

Glad to see you're still around, donna. My January was rather on/off.
My youngest sister collapsed due to not eating and became suicidal, but she is taking some time off school now and I got to see her yesterday. Hugging her was like hugging NOTHING as she is nothing but skin and bones these days.
But I'm glad I got to see her.
And, outside of that, life is grand. I'm playing in two bands and going to shows constantly and meeting lots of new people.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor Anthony.

Rainy pictures please!!!

Ned???

― Graham (graham), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, yes?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony, that's terrible. My thoughts (and infrequent prayers) go out to you.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

(where are your NZ pictures?)

― Graham (graham), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

(one day a scanner will be mine)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

(and on that day the Web will be flooded with pictures of Ned's asscheeks)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I do not want to be targeted by the Security Council as a possessor of WMD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely you meant WAD?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Getting to the meat of the matter...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

To interrupt: I no longer know many of you here and no longer check in more than once in a blue moon because often I don't understand you (nor would you me). I go to UMass and work at an art museum (we have an excellent Rodin and some nice Renoirs but too many fucking Thomas Coles). I wear glasses now and don't know what's going on with my hair except that it looks terrible if I don't wear tweed with it. I was in Tel Aviv in Jan. when a suicide bombing killed 22. I haven't done much over the last few months except read (Musil, Gide, Bernhard, Valery, Stendhal, Virginia Woolf, etc). My favorite movies right now are Show Me Love, Masculin-Feminin, and Arthur, but I really liked About Schmidt. This weeks word is "lunchbox", used in the context of "he's lunchbox" to mean "he's out of it", and deriving from "he's lunchin'" or "he's out to lunch". The Russian version of the T.A.T.U. album is better than the English, better driving music, more savage. Sophie Ellis Bextor is great, I've found. Mostly I've been listening to classical composers (Berg, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Part, Gorecki, Bach). Hopes of resurrection (rehabilitation) rely on renaissance - new Mensen, Turbonegro soon. I have hopes that they may draw me out from my corner where I sit reading Rilke all of the day and night. Poetry! What will the merciless turn of the days occasion to next have me doing, write a novel? But that I already am! What am I, Solinger? Goethe, Holderlin, Novalis, I ask your Prussian selves: what have you done with the days of Turbonegro and Aqua, and why must you replace the nights of laying in my own sick after having disgraced myself and everyone in my company with evenings filled with sudden regretful fits of romanticism? Is it your wont that I should go to great lengths to construct a lever which I might pull to trigger that balloons fall from the ceiling, clowns appear, a bear comes riding out on a unicycle, just to counteract these fits? And is it your wish to drive me to pushing the red button, that ominous switch which stands always in the front of my mind for total abandonment of reality, for a life of rogueish bedizened vagrancy? The weather seems to be warming up but last night I wrote the following couple sentences, which right now I like: ... but I love this season, this frigid winter’s breeze that cools and sharpens the intellect; these blankets of pure white snow drift across my field of vision to offer solace and that, the simple wind, gives the air a too-severe chill, recalling in its briskness moments of distinct nostalgia a more temperate weather would suppress. The sun seems impotent as an uncaring icicle refracts its other-times harsh rays, and the mountains the snowplows have made diffract the clamor of the far-off interstate. The trees’ naked austerity is life giving; the dead space in between the branches where the leaves have been suggests healthfulness even in its absence ... People tell me I'm dead inside but I think they just have a fundamental lack of wit.

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 3 February 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

This post makes me happy as a clam! :-) Otis is again the man! Where the hell have you been? (But then, you've said.) Keep us informed about the novel, dammit!

The Russian version of the T.A.T.U. album is better than the English, better driving music, more savage.

Investigation sounds necessary.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, way to come back with a vengeance, dude. I feel all stupid and shit.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Gotta love the Otis.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, yeah: hi, guys. I hope you've been doing well.

Tatu: Prostie Dvizenija & Ya Tvoi Vrag are best. http://ciprian.promo.ro/tatu/mp3.htm

― Otis Wheeler, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

show me love? like a.k.a. fucking amal? that movie kicks ass

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Hey! What's up?

― admrl, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

nothing going on but the rent.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

or not -- i live with my parents.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

nothing going on but the 'rents.

― sunny successor, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

haha

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago)

hi adam! I haven't been around much either.

― teeny, Monday, 15 October 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

My personal life continues to issue updates with a frequency that puts Microsoft to shame, however, due to security concerns, none of these will be made available to the general public.

― Aimless, Monday, 15 October 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago)

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