what is it like...
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- CaP0
i don't know why i always picture cities as women... barcelona seems to me like this young playful loving mother who hugs you and welcomes you just becouse you are there, whilst london seems this appearently middle-aged mum, who seems very strict but is just a bottomless pit of wisdom and mistery... although i haven't lived in london, so i'm just figuring that out from close friend's experiences...
- paraselene0
i miss my new orleans, that grizzly old whore in a sumptuous ball gown!
- Gorbie0
thinking is good. sleeping is too.
this is my 8,000 post and my last one tonight.
thanks for sharing everybody.
good night.
- paraselene0
g'night, gorbie. congratulations on your 8k and sweet dreams.
- CaP0
i miss my new orleans, that grizzly old whore in a sumptuous ball gown!
paraselene
(Jul 1 05, 03:49)+++++
lol! i did likes milano, though... that posh lively good looking lady who is somehow living also a dream...
- vespa0
"the city of which london most often reminds me is havana, with all it's pulsating jungle sex frenzy threatening to burst up through the concrete."
yer a goddam genius para.
if i'm ever driving out of london i can physically FEEL the dark mass of london pulsing behind me, it's like a magnetic heart that we can't escape for long. whenever i'm driving back in at night i feel like a little bloodcell getting pumped back in, all the red lights of the cars in front of me are the red cells and the white lights coming the other way are little white haemoglobins sent out to look for oxygen in the countryside.
re the book, have you read "London: A Biography" by Peter Ackroyd, or seen the bbc series? awesome stuff. i read about the farringdon marxist stuff in there. he talks a lot about how specific places in london have been used for specific purposes for thousands of years, as if particular personalities and purposes get physically etched into the concrete.
- paraselene0
this is a fun game!
san francisco: super hip young trannie with a social conscience!
- save0
- chossy0
Braco a small town with around 100 houses, going to sleep with the sound of silence and waking up with the sound of wood pigeons a step from your door and you are in a private woodland makebelieve it is unknown to anybody else nothing to do here but read relax think and enjoy.
- CaP0
vespa, you're a poet...
para, maybe this deserves a new thread!
turin = middle aged woking-class woman who had a very flamboyant past.
- brains0
Go see the victoria, what it's like thread.. or else :
- paraselene0
you're pretty bloody brilliant yourself, doll! i love the biography. i haven't read it since ought-two. i'm thinking of reading it again. i'd loooooovvveeee to see the series! didn't even know ackroyd had done one. amazing guy. amazing work. i really dig farringdon and clerkenwell; already miss my po-faced city down here in icky canary wharf.
- Kuz0
that series was amazing. peter akroyd is brilliant. made me fall in london all over again.
- dijitaq0
is that your real opion of jakarta?
sounds like a shithole.
Gorbie
(Jul 1 05, 03:22)that's what i think of jakarta. well, most part of jakarta.
i live in the south side. it's much greener here. luckily i dont commute much. i live like 10 minutes from where i work.
i used to live in a univeristy town in the states in the mid-west. jakarta it's like a 180 turn. that's why the rant hehe
- vespa0
yay to this game!
perth (australia) is the miraculous bloom of youth that has somehow managed to blossom in the cultural isolation of a desert on the far side of the moon.
she's the gorgeous, clean living, wholesome girl next door who is equally likely to either spend her future cracked out on diet pills or to breed the perfect family complete with spotty dog and white picket fence.
she's a little bit boring to talk to if we're going to be honest but looks fucking fantastic in hot-pants when you get her drunk enough to lose her self-conscious inhibitions.
- kelpie0
I like the sound of Perth.
*drizzles absynthe over a spare sugar cube
- Mattiadesign0
It sucks! Can't wait to move! Too hot, humid, flat, and boring.
- who0
I am living at Athens of Greece,
Athens is crowded (imagine that has 5 mil people the half population of Greece). In summer time it’s really hot here (40o C - 45 o C) but you can visit great music festivals and you can swim at the sea.
After the Olympic Games, Athens (and Greece) suffers from economic depression.
- bk_shankz0
Bangkok is a labyrinth of twisting streets and caustic smells. There are beggars, and blind singers. Many ugly street dogs who nap anywhere and food carts displaying chinese sausage, ducks and noodles. The air is filled with shrill sounding Thai language that has a range of pitches. Climding from this urban chaos are skyscrapers and sky trains boasting a modern city. The roads are filled with stopped cars like a backed up toilet. The women are beautiful and will scar your retinas, making you forget your wife. The people are warm, embracing like old frirnds and eager to accept you into the family but until you master the langugae you will always be an outsider.
I like it here a lot but am eager to return to New York. It is a great experience for people thinking about it. It is incredibly humbling and my blood pressure had dropped proabbly 50%. Lifestyle is superchill compared to New York but still very productive and busy.
- CaP0
ok, to continue with the game...
viña del mar (chile) is this tanned young teenager in a bikini, a little shallow but very friendly. she's also eager to go with you wherever you'd like to take her.