Comments on: We’re Here, We’re Green…?

By: Darth Sidhe

Darth Sidhe — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:44:06 +0000

Yeah, I know. I’m just being a twatwaffle.

You know, I tend to believe that even the most generic people I know lead rich and interesting lives that I don’t hear about or don’t care to learn about…but I think that this is some form of wishful thinking, a desperate desire to believe that people really aren’t that boring. Maybe people really are that boring, and this belief is the last shred of fantasy from my childhood struggling to stay alive.

Either that, or I just try too hard to be nice, and it’s so uncharitable to think that yes, Virginia, someone really is as boring as they look, that my genteel and considerate core is shocked that I could ever think such a thing, and remedies it immediately (perhaps overcompensating at the same time).

By: tekanji

tekanji — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:32:01 +0000

TP: Thanks for the compliments and the heads up on the song! I’ll definitely check it out.

Joyce: Not surprising, since I am a nerd! ^_^ Also, and I think you’ll appreciate this, you can’t see the front of the shirt in the pic, but it’s a Sailor Moon print. I know, I know, but back in the day before anime got popular all there was in terms of shirts was SM and Tenchi Muyo.

DS: Wasn’t knocking vanilla. I know full well that it can be (and often is, even with mediocre brands) incredibly rich and complex. I mean, as a purely ice cream flavour, it’s definitely one of my favs. And, anyway, I think that interpretation of the flavour suits the friends I was talking about; it’s not that they aren’t rich or complex, but that they tend to gravitate towards the “default” settings in life. Does that make sense?

By: Darth Sidhe

Darth Sidhe — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:10:19 +0000

For the record, vanilla can be an incredibly rich and complex flavour. It’s just that the dfeault ice cream flavour has been so chemically screwed up and degraded that when we say “vanilla” to mean “plain,” we really think “boring-ass chemical Lucerne ice cream in a gallon tub shit.”

By: joyce

joyce — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:48:27 +0000

wow.. u really do look nerdy in the 1997 photo @.@

By: TP

TP — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:15:20 +0000

I really identify with this post - I love dressing up the way I do, despite the associated hassle and sometime praise.

Plus, I’m trying to rock the obvious piercings in a corporate job look, nose ring and flesh tunnel, but it’s not such a corporate job working for a conservation charity…

Also, when you discuss being labelled, I can see what you mean. Despite calling my blog travelling punk, and identifying myself primarily with punk subculture, I’m not always your typical punk. I think it’s more important to be who you want to be, and wear what you like rather than to try and achieve some form of stereotype.

There’s a song entitled labels by a (punk) band called Subhumans that you might be interested in - it discusses the negative effect of labels.

ps. great hair - and fantastic specs!