25 reasons stooky loves life
Submitted by stooky on Tue, 05/04/2004 - 12:48
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- 1) Sleeping in a moving car.
- 2) Great sex.
- 3) Axe body deodorant.
- 4) Oink.
- 5) The National: Alligator
- 6) Driving really fast into a dip and getting butterflies.
- 7) The Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonegut
- 8) Chocolate.
- 9) The easiness of talking to good friends.
- 10) Color photography.
- 11) Showers.
- 12) Ipod 4g, 20gb.
- 13) Wool socks.
- 14) Listening to an album when you realize how great it is.
- 15) Sleeping.
- 16) Cuddling.
- 17) Winston sleeping.
- 18) Listening to music at work.
- 19) Wishing the best for someone else.
- 20) Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- 21) Understanding someone even when you don't speak.
- 22) Dilated pupils.
- 23) A painting I saw in Quesnel.
- 24) Staying out late with people you like.
- 25) Telling people they are very cool.
Wow, good reasons! I can get on board with a huge chunk of these.
This is one of the best list-memes evah.
Thanks.
Tallyho
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Your list makes me smile
Word to your mother <---thanks.
Tallyho
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nice list stooky
Heres my reason...
1)Avril lavigne
2)Britney spears
3)avril lavigne
4)Avril lavigne
4)Avril lavigne
6...well you get the idea !! :[]
Ha! interesting.
T'ho
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Re.1 Is that a new self portrait on your My Content page? Tell me about it.
It's a rhetorical statement on the current myth that women as ballerina's can't be more than 2 dimensional beings in a man's world.
Just kidding.
It's a compendium of women...ie. certain girlfriends, friends, aquaintances. all mooshed into one painting. I guess it's my psyche breaking down feelings about women in general. (Re.1: I am not, nor will I ever be that thin, but thanks anyway.) I don't know why I painted the little boobs, but it must've been for effect in the painting. Who knows. Anywho, I'll change them every week and eventually I'll have shown the entire portfolio. Woohoo!
T'ho
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I was thinking you got a new home and an extreme makeover. Those are legs! I see. What a relief. Please do show the portfolio - oh, and the pictures in it :-D
Ha! You're very, very sly Bert.
T'ho
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Does "Re:1" relate to my painting being excellent? I just caught that in my foggy brain.
T'ho
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It was my way of abbreviating "In reference to Item 1 on this list..." - D'oh! so much for abbreviation :-)
I'm tempted to restore balance to the universe of Listology with a "22 reasons to kill myself" list, but I don't think people WANT balance here, they want the good stuff. And rightly so :-)
Good list.
Ha! I understand, but do you realize that stumpy has already done a list covering most of the pessimist ground somewhere. Ask the Stump-meister and he may drag it out of the archive (which for some reason I can't access). It was quite amazing.
My list was to balance out his list. :?)
T'ho
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Re. your latest artwork. Did I miss any? (Is this your third? I've seen three.) Did you miss any? (Is that the whole picture?) Would you care to give an account of it?
You haven't missed a single yet B. Yes that is the whole work.
It's a mixed media piece designed out of 4 seperate pictures to be one. There are three different images which I've blown up and distorted using a computer, then doctored with paint, the re-scanned and distorted again with the computer. What'dya think? I'd love to hear the Bert-man's thoughts.
T'ho
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What think I? Well, the bluey boney background puts me in mind of H.R.Giger. Overlain by a nice juicy t-bone (don't worry about it). The lower right corner of the image is a bit grainy :-D
You gave me a technical account of the picture, which wasn't what I wanted, so I've given you a less than serious reply. In all honesty, it doesn't do much for me, which is why I'm curious to hear from the artist what it means to him. If you were to tell me, for example, that it's a protest against starvation and disease in the underdeveloped world, then I might have more regard.
Btw, I'm honoured I was on the list, if only for a little while [stifles a sob].
Ouch. I was rather proud of my technical efficiency. Anywho, to put the piece into some kind of perspective:
1) I love turtles (not as pets cus they're stinky and slimy but just free-range turtles) which happens to be the blue green section looking like bones.
2) The middle section is a picture of a flag taken from the National Geographic series on Russia's "liberation if you will" from communism. Before they realized they were broke and the country turned into a orgiastic sleeze-fest.
3) I enjoy the creation of pieces that entice the viewer into creative thought. I've obviously underestimated the bizzarness of this piece. So:
This is my statement about freedom, ie. see turtles, waving flag, distorted lines of undulating motion. The word "rice" serves as the title but also as a play on context (I thought the turtle shells looked a bit like rice) and I've always thought of rice in corallation with buddhism and taoist faiths. I realize it's a stretch of logic but there's no coralling my flaky brain.
You will make another appearance next time due to a list I discovered in your content. But can you guess which one?
T'ho
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I realise it's a bit crass to ask an artist to explain one of his works, so I guess I deserve what you've given me - which is largely confusion. The connection between turtles and freedom doesn't strike me as obvious, or even plausible - slow little things encumbered by a shell all their lives. In fact, I still don't see turtle or flag in the image. Sorry if this disappoints you.
Am I still going back on the list? In any case, I'm glad you've found something in my content that increases your love of life. Your flakiness is so...um...like what snow comes as...that I wouldn't like to hazard a guess as to which list you mean. So surprise me.
Okay, let's just move on shall we. ;?)
T'ho
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Stooky, sorry to report your current 'stooky's photo' refuses to reveal itself to my browser.
Aha, well the reason for that would be...I deleted the file off my website. :?)
But it's back on...and with a vengeance.
T'ho
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Interesting. I like this one; it grew on me (after about 20 seconds). The eyes really are the focus of most portraits, are they not? (I can think of an exception, a famous one by Da Vinci). Like the earthy colours too. Suggested title: High Contrast Stooky :-D
Yep, the eyes tend to be the focus in most portraits, harbingers of the soul and all that mumbojumbo. I'm glad you liked it given the last one.
You wouldn't believe how hard it was to get that photograph, the camera didn't want to focus on anything and kept turning everything green or pink.
Certainly does catch the eye don't it. :?)
T'ho
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You have dogs!! I love my mutt Pepper. She gives me great joy.
What kind of dog is Pepper? and what age?
My dogs Winston & Brandy are an odd couple one being a short Bassett Hound and the other a huge Wolf/Malamute but they seem to make it work. Winston's the Jack Lemmon of the two, always irritating Brandy.
T'ho
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She's a second-hand lost-and-found dog, a short-haired black lab mix, a dime a dozen, but the sweetest, most mild-mannered, dearest little dog in the world. She's never met a stranger (lousy guard dog), short and stout, only about 22 inches tall. I think she's mixed with dachshund, except she almost never barks. I feed her the cheapest Walmart food, but she has a coat that shines in the sun. She lived with a cat before I got her. Oh, and she's five years old.
Definately a hound trait to meet strangers with excitement. Sounds adorable. Any pictures?
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No, I'm afraid not. Being solid black and shiny makes her very hard to photograph. She shows up as a black blob with eyes.
You've said this before somewhere in a conversation I swear...now if I could just remember where. I'd take a well behaved dog over a championship purebread with a bad attitude any day of the week.
T'ho
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Is this stooky's photo on his My Content page? If it were monochrome I'd say it was influenced by those portraits of The Beatles done by that German fraulein early on in their career(s).
Or just bad photography. Thanks Bert.
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Under what circumstances is this:
"8) Feeling pockets of fat returning."
a reason to love life? Just curious, as I know when my friend broke her back and became scarily skinny for years, it was great to see her finally pack on a few pounds, but I was wondering what your reasons are, if you're willing to share.
I thinned down a while ago (I had always secretly thought skinny people are weird beings, obsessed with everything pertaining to thin culture, and tend to be intolerant of people packing the extra poundage) and was treated with such hysterical enthusiasm by the people around me I was thankful to put on some weight. And I love my tummy, to rest my hands, drinks, snacks upon and also for carrying my dog. When I carry my dog I perch the front half on my tummy to account for his weight. Tummy's rock, it allows you to do all sorts of things tummy-less people can't. :)
Gotcha. Not to mention that you can't belly dance without a belly.
What's great about Axe body deodorant? I've never used it; I'm asking for a consumer report.
It makes women randy in a overtly sexual manner, or at least that's what my friend says, she says it's a female aphrodisiac. :)
I just assumed the TV ads were totally lying. Axe has pheremones in it or something?
Weird. Sitting in the office in South Manchester, UK, browsing on the internet, I never expected to see a reference to Quesnel. Are you from that area? Or just visiting? I've been through there once or twice while camping throughout the province.
Used to live in a little fly turd called Lac La Hache about 350 kms south of Quesnel. I worked in the area a couple of times and it's very beautiful up in that area, good choice for camping.
Believe it or not, I've been to Lac La Hache. That was a long time ago, though - back in the days when my Dad used to stop us in all kinds of random places on our way to either the Queen Charlotte Islands or Edmonton. I've camped in Spuzzum. Heh, that name still makes me laugh.
What was the painting of, anyway?
The painting was this: a small, round-headed, asian figure resembling a girl with a predominent head and small body standing by a fridge, done in a very simplistic style with absolutely gorgeous color. I was prepared to buy it but the artist, the owner of a small cafe in Quesnel couldn't part with the painting. She said it represented her battle with cystic fibrosis. Quite exceptional really.
Hmmmm... I'm slightly confused as to whether her battle with cystic fibrosis is expressed in the content (a little asian girl with big head, small body standing by a fridge), or in the act of painting the picture. In any case, it had resonance with you, which I guess is the point of a lot of art.