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- soda0
hahaaaa i love it when you say "whit"
vespa
(Apr 14 05, 03:56)
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this is the dirtiest I have felt in this entire thread.that should say something to you all...
- emecks0
tortured + talented = *swoon*
vespa
(Apr 14 05, 03:51)Two new hingmys Ah huv tae learn...
- ********0
I play football with an architecture student every saturday afternoons (if i'm up to it). I've found architects to be a very dreamy bunch. Almost effeminate (though i don't mean that as a critcicism). Very zen like. This guys a real idealist, an unabashed romantic. Which often means we clash over a pint (due to my cynical vitriol). Which means we rarely share pints anymore, only ever see him at football. Sad. Funny thing, he's the first person I met at Uni all those years ago. His dorm was next to mine in halls. He just finished an internship with Rem Koolhaas and I even saw his name mentioned in Koolhaas's book - Content. I know he's destined for great things as an architect. Both his parents are architects, and he breathes the subject (in his romanticised idealised way of looking at the world). Sometimes at football, after I see him pull out of yet another crunching tackle, and he complains about the physical nature of the English game - i look at him and think "man, you're gonna get all the girls".
- paraselene0
heads in the clouds completely! i don't usually buy into much malarky (especially not the kind that chossy's selling for £5), but i tell you something, if i throw a rock i'm liable to hit either an architect or a gemini. i've known a number of gemini architects and they're just like your mate you've described, kuz. what's his sign?
- paraselene0
heh. look what i found!
"i've been in there,
didn't see anyone, but i most definitely saw a pink dildo 6 shooter by the couch
weird shit man"
version3(Apr 14 05, 03:50)
- ********0
total heads in clouds. I don't know his sign.
- vespa0
yea kuz it's true, they're like elitist hippies. i think it's because of the scale they work in, they really get to see how their work affects people.
i'd probably be a terrible architect. too many nights out on the piss and i'd forget a crucial engineering facet. i'd be deadly.
- soda0
i think architects should be held accountable for their work.
Like war criminals.
Especially the ones who 'dreamingly' designed inner city estates in the uk in the 20th Century.
No, really!
Pfffftttt!
- ********0
I cud never handle the responsibility that comes with the power of the architect. It's one thing creating art that expresses yourself to others. It's quite another imposing yourself upon the world. I think that kinda responsibility and the insane amount of bureaucracy they have to go through to get their projects realised does something to their psyche. Coulnd't handle that shit.
- ********0
Ok I got it now:
*burns guitar
*weeps in a tortured manner
*buys banjo
*stutters a bit, but not too much
*Cracks clever word deconstructivism
*Has threesome with Vespa and Para
- paraselene0
oi, where's your ville radieuse, mister?
there's no threesome without a dymaxion car at the very least!
- vespa0
yea you'd criticised from all sides and spend years working on something for it to get pulled cos of politics or bureaucracy. you'd HAVE to believe in it or you'd go mad.
and nearly moth, only you have to be real too. That's why i like banjos and speech impediments and boxing. authenticity.
- paraselene0
yeah, you're either mad romantic adam ant stylie or slitting your wrists, i reckon. one of my archy mates said to me the other day that he couldn't immagine not simply KNOWING what you wanted to do. he always just knew he wanted to make buildings. i get super jealous of that kind of passionate direction. sometimes i despair of ever finding the thing, you know, the big zone. archys always have that shit in spades and it burns me up. don't know why i spend so much time with the bastards, really.
- soda0
That's why i like banjos and speech impediments and boxing. authenticity.
vespa
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I USED TO BOX!!!
Ask Para, I showed her my old boxing club in Bethnal Green!!!Whooooo hooooo!!!
*get's excited about finally the broken nose and brain damage pays off with the ladies!!
**gets deflated as he realises no banjo, or tatoos and brain damage isn't bad enough to give speech impediment...
- vespa0
i can't imagine not knowing what you want to do...? my only problem is that i want to do EVERYTHING!! (and no puns on the word "do" there, you filthy bastarts!)
oi soda have you been watching The Contender? missed the past couple of weeks but i love that show!
- ********0
no banjo, or tatoos and brain damage isn't bad enough to give speech impediment...
soda
(Apr 14 05, 04:42)
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So they like Chavs huh?I don't think we need to sink to this level soda.
We have each other.
And Kuz, our bitch.
- ********0
aii soda, i think Albert Spier was tried as a war criminal - was he not?
- ********0
Speaking of architecture, did anyone see grand designs last night? This total maddy building a house on a 5 meter wide strip of land between two houses in Putney.
It could only be one story and couldn't look like a house from the road. Turned out shit hot in the end. Was very impressed.
- ********0
intersting point you raise soda. And i fucking agree
Like all those Israeli's using architecture as another weapon in their war against the palistinians. Architecture is used as a weapon of war. Batarts.
- ********0
and nearly moth, only you have to be real too. That's why i like banjos and speech impediments and boxing. authenticity.
vespa
(Apr 14 05, 04:36)
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I'm the most authentic musician I know! You've heard me! None of this one-man-band cover-act...Pah.
In all seriousness - I want to buy a mandolin. What do you think about them? My friend who went to Aus had one and I loved it.