Dream Haze

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Monday, January 22, 2007

Moron of the month goes to..

I cannot find the words to describe this complete idiot.
There is a time and a place for freedom of speech protests. Wearing an ugly Bush t-shirt (and smelly by the sounds of it) on an intenational flight to get a bit of public attention is moronic. Yeah there may be some rules that are a bit extreme in the new flight security measures but save a bit of thought for the many, many thousands of people who have already been directly effected by terrorism - who have to glance at your pathetic clothing statement mid-flight. Have a bit of respect for the people who do a lot of work to try protect ignoramuses like yourself from uneccesary fear or harm. A major part of terrorism is that it makes people afraid, uncomfortable, unsure, uncertain, etc of continuing their everyday activities, so standing out like a weirdo in a Bush-Terrorism t-shirt and adding wood to the fire for no real purpose, should be banned in my books.
Just get over yourself and stop causing a fuss over nothing. Have a whinge when your back in London or something.

Grr.

posted by fauxen at 1:25 pm  

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Shopping

I dedicate this to all those who have frozen in a mix of shock and poorly disguised suspicion when a woman says “Man, I HATE shopping”.

I really feel I owe the gender debate my own theories as to why one of the female kind absolutely loathes shopping. However I dislike it so much that I cannot bring myself to hypothesise, form comprehensive sentences and the whole proper beginning, middle, end thing that english teachers drool about. How about point form?

1. It often involves clothing. Clothing is boring, follows bizarre trends that mean many sheep like people wear mostly absurd and unattractive pieces of largely overpriced thread, bringing me to my next point.

2. It involves money. Money is a pesky thing that just sits there when you don’t have the need to spend and somehow goes missing right when you really desire to buy something. Most annoying.

3. Clothes shopping is gender biased. Especially in summer. Girls tend to wear skimpy barely existant bikinies and such. They pay twice the price a male does. More than twice if you’re a certain person who appreciates the commando style of living. Admittedly the price difference is becoming less as this whole ‘trend’ thing is sucking guys into its evil vortex of money-mind-individuality-sucking doom, but it still annoys me.

4. Shopping involves many people. People smell. Especially people in crowds of snatchy whiney gigglepots that wear the same thing (suprise suprise) and throw their rubbish over balconies to see which pram they hit (I witnessed this today, hence today = people in general are on my bad list).

5. Shopping involves decision making. Any one that has known me for 5 minutes.. or was it 6.. will know that decision making is my largest flaw. To be put through shop upon shop of ‘ummmmm should I or shouldn’t I’, is pure agony.

6. Many forms of shopping involve mirrors. Mirrors in public places should be banned. Mirrors in teensy rooms that make your skin go funky colours should be banned. Shop attendants that gawk at you in the mirror instead of looking at the real you in person, should be banned.

7. Shopping attracts nice people who accidentally or perhaps intentionally provide backhanded compliments right at your weakest moment. You really would be gorgeous if your wore nice clothes is an interesting one that requires further thought.

That’s it for now, I need a shower to rid myself of shopping germs. Did I mention I had the most succesful shopping trip ever today? I have expanded my shoe collection from 2 to 4. My dress collection from 1 to 3. My short-short collection from -1 to +1, and my wardrobe finally from winter, to summer. Yay.

PS - I quiver in fear of those 5 ppl who will prosecute me for the untrendy use of trendy grammar above.

PPS - and I’d take Johnny Depp’s hand-me-down rags anyday over real clothes.

PPPS - Electrocution by clothes dryer after spending 2 hours fixing it = Bad Mood

PPPPS - Trendy. Dude.


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posted by fauxen at 8:02 pm  

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Words that Stuck

We’ll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don’t need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget
the world?
- Snow Patrol, Chasing Cars

..”its actually a great way to leave, because it’s giving Gavin the message that we haven’t been defeated, we are up for it, we’re young, we’re in control of our lives again, we can charge into the future with confidence.”
- John Marsden, Circle of Flight

“My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa contrictor digesting an elephant.”
- Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.”
- Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp), Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

“I’m not sure I’m an adult yet”
- Johnny Depp

“With the assistance of a couple of good mates we set upon digging an air-raid shelter in my backyard. My father took a lot of convincing that he was playing his part in Australia’s survival by giving up his much prized rhubarb patch.”
- John McGrath (My Great Uncle), Johnny’s War

“Attention customers, if there is a Guy in the store, could he please come to the register areas to meet his.. oops..”

- Myself, Kmart P.A

I could analyse each of these quotes as to why they’ve stuck in my mind over the summer, but maybe that’s best left to the imagination of the reader. Life and the way I choose to negotiate my way through it.. is greatly shaped by the words that float by day by day, yet we all interpret everything so differently.. No wonder some people just don’t fit in.

.. and my favourite photo (so far) of Summer 06/07


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posted by fauxen at 9:52 am  

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