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- paraselene
...living in the flight path of a major international airport. Far enough away that there's little noise pollution, but close enough so you can always hear and see planes.
I think I find it comforting because, until I was eight years old, we lived in a shack with a tin roof not far from the railroad tracks. That sounds a bit sad and coal-miner's-daughter when I say it now, but there was nothing I loved more than to lie in bed at night, around this very same time of year, and half-awaken to the sound of an electrical thunderstorm screaming at you across the desert, barely drowning out the sound of the trains, staggering their way to the costal hotspots of wealth, carrying canned tomatoes or car parts or porcelain sinks.
Oh me, oh my... I didn't realise until I wrote that how very homesick I am.
- Concrete0
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- kidswift-0
Know exactly what you mean para, I grew up in a house in a pretty shitty area of town. Not that I reaslized this until late on when I grew up but at the end or our dead end street ran the railway lines. Every night a trains would rumble past our street vibrating all the houses and in my mind I would be on that train with my dreams. The sound of the big horn that rang out like a fog horn in my dreams will be a sound that always takes me right back.... argh childhood left on that train methinks..
- mr_snuggles0
What's that Australian movie with the family that lives by the airport? The Mansion or something? I've never seen it, but hear it's great...
- kidswift-0
The Castle... it's fuckin legendary the only movie i have almost seen my Dad cry in and he's hard as fuck!! Great movie though so many wicked quotes...
- kidswift-0
"Dad, he reckons powerlines are a reminder of man's ability to generate electricity. " - Darryl Kerrigan
"Wayne Kerrigan: How's Mum?
Dale Kerrigan: Good.
Wayne Kerrigan: How's Dad?
Dale Kerrigan: Good.
Wayne Kerrigan: How's Trace?
Dale Kerrigan: Good.
Wayne Kerrigan: How are you?
Dale Kerrigan: Good.
Wayne Kerrigan: How's Steve?
Dale Kerrigan: He's all right.
Wayne Kerrigan: Good.
Dale Kerrigan: [voice-over] We could just chat for hours.
- mr_snuggles0
yeah The Castle, thanks KS! gonna try and find it this weekend... or maybe we can rent it when I stay at your flat, we can all have a good cry, me, you, dad, your girl...
;P
- kidswift-0
It's a staple on the shelf, I will watch it anytime. We can call my Dad back in Noo Zealand so he can make hard arse grrrr noises while complaining that a dust storm has just picked up in the lounge hence the given state of his watering eyes... dam it son that movies go morals and values...take notes and other fatherly advice.... Oh most definitely we shall watch it Snuggles!
- mr_snuggles0
word booty...
- paraselene0
hi fellahs.
maybe i should have put this in the blog thread...
- mr_snuggles0
the PVN is the new blog thread...
- Crouwel0
my shrink is my new blog thread
- mr_snuggles0
janne, my number is the same as before...
- chossy0
whatever you mad yankie broad :D, see the word broad where does it stem from please?. Is it form broadway chicks or ocht I don't know.
- Rand0
I'm weeping
- chossy0
I'm sorry to hear that Rand when you weep I weep forever I am with you.
- vespa0
homesick para? poor pet!
- Redmond0
The sound of loud machinery lulls me to sleep. Sometimes I get home sick and kind of like places that aren't wrapped in luxury too.
Is The Castle some witty social drama or is it some DRAMATIC DRAMA drama?
- dirtydesign0
I've seen that movie.
- CyBrain0
Wow, Para, that was well written. I loved the sound of Long Island's Great South Bay, as I was three blocks from it. Usually you couldn't hear it, but if yoiu could, it was great white noise for sleep.
After I move from Greenwich Village I will very painfully miss my Jefferson Market clock. Also because I got married in the garden behind there last month.
- paraselene0
ah, so i am not the only one!
:D
cybrain, it's awesome that you had a chance to make such a great memory there before you move. now it will be with you forever!