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diomedesofcrete

PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:38 pm


My ex-friend made me an account when I didnt even know this site existed.. and I decided to stay. When I joined it was more serious and people discussed only political matters and the like. I miss that. The thing is...I HATE anime and all the rest of that bs. I dont watch it or read it...so Im pretty much an outcast on a site like this. I only post in the music forum,music guilds...and sometimes the gd.

BTW you would like www.thecomatorium.com its a Mars Volta site but everyone there is super smart.


what are you most judgemental about? Oh and why do you come here and why did you make an account?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:02 pm


Most judgemental about? Let's see... Bad taste in music (though I really don't care... I just love to insult people's taste in music and see how upset they get... I litterally will listen to almost anything... Sometimes Nickleback makes me physically ill though....), I tend to judge people who blindly follow tradition, or push their religious views as universal morality, those who judge based on race or sex piss me off immensely, generally accepting the status quo irritates me, so I judge people who do that... I can't stand fat people or ugly people for that matter (just kidding... I hope you assumed that), I hate people who like money or blatently put themselves above others. I hate people. I'm not sure if this answers the question. Let's see... Honestly I'd say taste in music, art and movies, that sort of thing causes me to judge people the most, becuase I generally like people who like good music and movies, even if I don't necisarilly like them, as long as I can appriciate that they are good, or if they have good reasons for liking them. I'm also very judgemental about sociopolitical views. If you just totally love the government and want to give the finger to the poor, then I might judge you harshly... And kick your dog. Or sister. Or something.

Why did I get on this site? My bestest friend in the whole wide world was impossible to get in touch with via phone or email or anything like that, and she lives like 1000 miles away, and used this site, so I got an account so I could talk to her. Honestly, I like some anime becuase the art for one and the unique storylines, but mine are farely adult-swim typical stuff, and often times I can't stand anime-obsessed people. I just like how the ones I like have multidimensional characters, and I like the art of them if it is good, which a lot of times it isn't. Like every supposed artform, there is good stuff and there is garbage, and most people like what I would consider garbage. It's mostly escapism, just like the rest of TV... but there is occationally some really really good stuff in it.

I don't actually post anywhere just about. I post on the Rage thread, I harass this rasist ignorant b*****d on the System of a Down forum, and talk to you on the Incubus guild, and pm my friend. That's all I do on this site, besides waste countless hours on who knows what. I'm really not much for the internet. Honestly I probably wouldn't come here half as often accept I enjoy this particular post a lot. There is something terribly zen about getting to know someone like this, that in all likelyhood I will never meet outside of the internet. Plus you seem like a very cool person. Aww.

Why is your name Diomedes of Crete? Is it your love of the classical period or what? Oh, and I guess what are you most judgmental about too. That was a pretty neat question, though I'm still not sure if I answered it right.

Greer Lion
Crew


diomedesofcrete

PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:27 pm


awwww. Actually it is a very cool way to get to know someone. You dont have to waste time on small talk- you can just get straight to the important/interesting questions that truely reveal a person.

Diomedes of Crete. You guessed correctly. I first read The Iliad when I was...13...14? The thing that struck me the most was my strong hate of the character Diomedes...this warrior that never gets injured, always succeds. In the famous opera Idomeneo it says Diomedes was a native of Crete, but Homer never really says. I created this username, and I know this is going to sound insane, to deal with my hate of the character. I thought I might be able to understand it if I surrounded myself with it.

I am most judgemental about people- Ignorant people, evil people, "stupid" people, ultra liberal or conservatives ect... I am judgemental about the choices people make and the things they like/believe in.

Why is your name Greer Lion? What are the things you would do with your life if you couls (profssion, travel ect..)
PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:43 pm


My name is Greer Lion becuase I look like a lion in real life and the sound a lion makes is "Greeeer!" It's sort of an inside joke. But I really do have huge puffy mane-like hair, and me and another blonde puffy mane-like sporting friend decided that we were going to be lions, and I was always like "Greeeer" and sounding like a whimpy lion... And I think that is my name on her phone too. And we both have stuff lions on the dashboards of our cars that we got eachother, only she spent probably a lot more on mine then I did on hers. But yeah. Lions are cool.

Profession wise, I would like to be a renaisance man of sorts. I would like to write both prose and poetry, play multiple instruments, compose, do visual arts like sculpure and drawing and all that jazz, be a jazzman in general because the whole idea of expressing your soul through improvisation is just the coolest thing ever, and I would like to combine this into some sort of conceptial art... And then I would like to be a philosopher mixed in their, and perhaps a religious demigoge, God willing. And perhaps teach on the side or something. Some combination of all that, especially the music part... oh, and sing. I want to do all of that. And considering all of it is just as unlikely as the rest, I'll be a factory worker so I have money to live off of.

Travel has never mattered very much to me. I would like to perhaps live in England or Canada, but staying in the US is acceptable I suppose. I want to see Mecca someday. I don't know if that is okay for non-believers, but I think that seeing so many people of so many backgrounds comming together like that would be insperational. Plus I would just like to spend time in the middle east and India, that sort of thing, to learn about their music culture, becuase it is so different. Like Moracco. It seems like everyone who is anyone went there at some time. I'd like to learn arabic too, not only becuase it is a beautiful language, both spoken and written, but becuase it sounds like magic words if you speak it randomly in public.

I don't want to get married. I think the whole idea is stupid. Even if I wanted to spend my life with someone, I don't need to make some socially acceptable promise to everyone else that I'm going to fit into their little niche. I don't want kids either. The world is ******** up enough as it is without me having progeny. I mean, what is the point of having kids? I realise that when I die, I'm gone. I don't need to pretend that I have affected the future, or that I will continue past my death in some vicarious way. And I'm not playing biology's game either. My whole life is not a quest to create the next generation. I'll probably be proven false on both accounts and fit into society's neat little hole for me anyway, but not right now! Right now I'm a totally rebel! And chicks totally dig it!

Being noteworthy enough of a musician to play with your heros would be cool. I would like to write the score for a movie. And my friend wants to be a writer/director and he is currently in film school in New Zealand, so if things work out for him, I may have a shot at that. I want to live an aesthetic life, and I'm not sure if I want to own a house. I suppose if I was successful, I would buy like a little cottage in the woods or something, but I would rather travel and stay with friends, or have an apartment so it would be easy to move arround. I read an essay by some author, don't remember the name, and it was about how owning property makes it difficult for you to move, and then he related it to the Bible just like everyone else in the 19th century, but the whole idea of the burden of property was very interesting to me. Honestly, in that respect I really don't know what I'm going to do, and that's okay, becuase I'm a long way from having to make any descisions about that. I want a nice guitar. And a 5 or maybe even 6 string bass. I want to get good at key board, and play with a band, hopefully as vocals with maybe some assorted instruments thrown in their. I don't want to be famous, but it would be convienient to be able to do music as a career... although doing something artistic for money might change the whole shape of things, I don't know at this point. That's why I want to be a factory worker. You get enough money to live, and you probably have quiet a bit of free time. Especailly at Mercedes, those dudes get payed like $20 an hour. I could probably live modestly off of that. But yeah, probably not going to be a factory worker, but it's fun to say to all the AP teachers. I think it would definately be interesting to be famous, and I would like to be able to totally screw around with the whole celebrity culture, but at the same time, I hate America's obsession with fame and wanting to be famous. The very existance of American Idol... basically makes me hate all of humanity, for the transgressions of... the greater part of America. Honestly I would like to be like the artists of old, where they did these amazing things, but nobody appriciated them and then after they died, it was like "Holy s**t, we missed out!" Like if when I died they looked at the files on my computer and it was like the most amazing music ever, and they were like, "How did we miss this when he was still around?" but of course, being dead, I wouldn't get to enjoy it. I would also like to fake my own death, if only to add credability to Elvis, Jim Morison, Tupac, Paul McCartney and all those others who people think might be alive, even though they are most certainly dead.

That's all the answer you get for right now. I have other things to do. But the open ended question was pretty fun. I can really write if I have the urge, and right now I really really want to create, but unfortunately, I have work to do...

Okay, so same question for you. And who do you think the 5 most influental musical groups of the 90's were. Don't put too much thought into it though. Basically the first 5 that come to you, or so.

Greer Lion
Crew


diomedesofcrete

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:22 pm


Thats so odd. Basically what you said is exactly what I would say.

I want to surround myself with beauty. I want to spend my life writing, playing music, and being an activist. Ive been focusing on bass a lot now but I play a lot of other instruments and sing. I want to immerse myself in music. I want to play with Ornette Coleman before he dies AND John Frusicante. I want to sing in a band with people I love and respect, good musicians. I want to write. Just write for the sake of writing...poetry, prose, philosophy ect. I want to make my own clothes, and create visual art. I want to study anthropology. I would like to spend a lot of my life in the Mountains (sierra nevadas) and in Beechwood canyon (LA). I want to do something different- something people havent done before. I want to "break on through to the other side"...realize the 4th dimension. See through all lifes s**t. OR maybe Ill just die...who knows.

Travel. Id like to go to the Middle East (thats where my fathers side of the family is from). Id like to go to Guatamala, India, Ethiopia, Italy (Im going there next year to see the museums), Japan, England...maybe a few other places. I want to travel, for the most part, for art and history reasons.

Im not sure if I want to get married. I dont see the point of it...if I do end up having children I might get married. I really dont know. Ill probably meet someone I want to spend my life with...but thats not a concern of mine.

Right now Im the vegetarian that wears leather- the freak thats accepted because shes good-looking. And Im fine with that for now. I realize people hate me because I dont want to be like them and wont even pretend to try- but why should I care about that?



Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins
Nine Inch Nails
Rage
Red Hot Chili Peppers
oh man I thought of Janes Addiction at the same time as Rage...oh and now Pearl Jam...5 is not enough

Obviously those came to mind because I love them all.


Whats your deepest regret? Did you enjoy your childhood?
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:29 pm


diomedesofcrete
the freak thats accepted because shes good-looking
Oh, now you're going to have to send me a picture. Whenever I get around to emailing you Radio Free LA, you got to send me a picture.

I've always eaten meat for one because it's less of a hassle, especailyl for other people, and also becuase I don't taboo death. I mean, I respect the fact that stuff dies so that I live. I crush spiders in my laundry pile. Plus, even if I was ethically vegetarian, I'd just be living in ignorance, becuase the harvesters kill plenty of stuff.

My list was more like Nirvana, Radiohead, Tupac, The Backstreet Boys, and ... I never came up with a 5th. Probably Green Day or someone else ******** terrible. Unfortunately influencail bands aren't always good. Thus the persistance of garbage bubblegum and pop-punk...

Deepest regret. Not doing anything with my childhood. Not getting any skills, not writing or drawing more, not picking up an instrument early. Never learning the piano. Never like playing saxiphone in the school band or something. I just resent the hell out of people that started playing guitar when they were 8 or something, becuase I know I have the raw talent to atleast be pretty good... But at the same time, not only is it a waste of my time to worry about it, but maybe I wasn't ready to play then. Maybe I needed to ferment in front of the ******** TV for the first couple decades of my life. I don't know. All I know is that I can't do anything about it now. Then again Tom Morello got his first guitar when he was 13 and didn't actually start playing until he was 17... Then again, ******** Adam Jones was in his first band... Damn. Doesn't matter though.

I guess I also regret not having too much faith that a higher power will take care of me. That would make the wordl a much friendlier place and I don't mean the social acceptance thing, I mean the "the world is a ******** terrible place, I need some personal God to rationalize how bad it is" even though by being "bad" it leaves room for perfection... But that side of my spiritual philosophy is best left to another day. Basically the whole "ignorance is bliss" thing on this one. It would be nice to not know that people only invent an afterlife becuase they can't imagine a world without themselves and only believe in a god because they need someone to punish the wicked acts that go unpunished in this life. Sorry, no universal justice.

I'm not going to say that I didn't enjoy my childhood. The person I am now looks back at my childhood in disgust. Or atleast like "Damn, I'm glad I am past that". I'm fairly happy with who I am now, so I'm glad whatever happened in my childhood happened to make me who I am, but I don't long for those simple days of innocence or anything. I guess I was a nicer person back then. But I don't know if being nice to everyone about everything is doing anyone a favor. I find that honesty is best because then when you are nice people know that you aren't faking. That's how I would like people to act to me, even if when they do it does kinda hurt my feelings... I would rather know the truth than not trust any of the hyperbolus "Oh, you are the coolest person ever, everything you do is like totally wonderful" even if it does feel decent to hear, it's much better to hear it from someone who actually thinks that. I am lucky enough to have a friend who actually thinks I am one of the coolest people ever. I'm like totally changing lives and s**t. I'm going to make an effort to be less harsh in the future.

Buckethead wrote an album for his mom who was in the hosptial so she would have something to listen to while she recovered. Best musician ever. It's so beautiful that it kinda makes me want to cry, well, that and the fact that the song "Too Many Humans" is very emotional as well.

So how about you? Same question. Your questions are open but at the same time penetrating, and I like that. Mine are just of trivial interest, which I guess is a lot like my attitude towards life. Um. Also, when you said that you don't want to be like other people, what does that mean? What about other people do you reject in your own personal philosophy or way of life or whatever?

Greer Lion
Crew


diomedesofcrete

PostPosted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:59 pm


Ill have to take some pictures. I havent taken any lately.
Ok my deepest regret. I want to have no regrets- to be tied down to nothing...but I regret many things. I guess most of all I regret wasting my time. Ive wasted more time than Ive used. Ive sat around just to sit around. I hate to even think about it, but the fact is I still do it a lot. Sure Ive got all my usual self-destructive traits- but this one is pretty odd. I also regret judging without thinking- but that hasnt been much of a problem for many years.

My childhood was enjoyable enough- but thats because I was tough. I was the essence of "girly," always wearing dresses and flowers (Im still that way, though not as much so). I had the waist length hair then, as I do now. The only problem was my parents fought constantly. The second I could talk I was breaking op fights. It destroyed my family, but I think its also made me a stronger person. I dont take any s**t. I dont think Ive changed that much. I was nice then, and I still am. I was insane then, and I still am. I was never innocent. I wish I had been.

Guided By Voices...such a good band.
I have friends like yours- that think Im amazing. I wouldnt want to be my own friend though. Mine must be crazy.

Other people. I reject lifestyle, the way they flock to things ( I respect the need to believe in something though). I don't want to follow silly fads. I don't want to be fake to make people comfortable. I don't want to pretend to be sane, whatever sane is. I don't want to be tied to the 3rd dimension. I just dont want to be TRIVIAL. People are to obsessed with what they SHOULD be, with achievement...why cant we just have art for the sake of beauty anymore? Why cant we just live? I dont ever want to be the follower.

hmmmmmm. As someone whos had relationships with both sexes ( I prefer guys) I have to ask...men or women? Are you like your parents? What do you think of spirits, if you believe in them?
PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:15 pm


As someone who has had relationships with neither sex, I have to say... neither. Sexually speaking, guys don't "turn me on" but I generally find the male form more appealing aesethitically. Even if I find most people mediocre in looks. As people go, I used to be more drawn towards girl friends, but then I learned that they can be just as fake as anyone, and guys have the most ******** up prioreties ever. I mean, almost all of the guys I hang out with are so screwed up, even the relatively "sensative" ones. When it comes down to being in a group of guys, the conversation goes to sports or girls or some other mindless garbage, so I generally avoid that. "Most of my conversations with men seem to revolve around music" (a quote by Saul Williams and so true to my life). I guess I hang out more with girls, but there are a few halfway decent guys and a handful of really cool ones. When it comes to "relationship" relationships I'm mostly not interested, except for that tiny part of me that wouldn't mind fitting in just a little. I think physicallity is a load of self-gratifing bullshit, and anything meaningful can be done in the sphere of friendship. So plutonic and all that. But I don't know, I mean, that might all change if I had any sort of experiance. I have the sneaking suspicion that it all might be me self-justifing my solitude. But whatever. I don't mind talking about this, but I feel sort of self-concious about it.

I don't think I'm like my parents all that much. I mean, my mom is a good person, if almost too self-sacrificing, and she has good taste in music and art and all that jazz. Most of the time that I talk to my dad it's about music (like most men) and he is a classic rocker kind of guy (my mom is more modern alternative/eclectic, so it's a neat combo for me musically) but he works most of the time. They're a lot more of realists than I am, in my youthful naivety. I really don't know. It's not something I've ever put a lot of thought into. The more I know people, the more I realize that I don't know anyone at all. I mean, I agree with them on some things and disagree with them on others. I don't know if it was really a positive or negative environment to grow up in overall, but my mom is a real cool lady. Or something.

I don't really care if spirits exist or not. It's not so much that I deny their existance, or admit that "there is a possiblility" so much as that either way it doesn't make a difference. My belief system doesn't require the existance of a personal God or anything, I don't need to believe that there is something for me after this life, I can not exist, that's okay with me. I dont' need to pretend that evil people get their "divine justice." I think a negative lifestyle makes you unhappy, but if they don't care I don't need to think they will burn or anything. It seems that those are the major questions that modern religion answers, and sense I don't need those answers I really just don't care. I use to believe that "god" was the fact that love exists in a world that otherwise should be totally self-centered, now I don't even know that. People might suck. They might actually be alright. It doesn't seem to matter. Honestly, nothing seems to matter. "Mattering" is something that people bestow on things. Nothing really is significant unless you give it significance, and right now, the only reason anything matters to me is out of habit. Maybe it is biology, or human nature at this point, I guess I really don't care. People call it a lot of things and it doesn't make a difference. Nothing does. Everything is meaningless. Let me go write some sad poetry and take pictures of my feet, maybe shop some Hot Topic (I feel like a whiny b***h when I talk like this sometimes, but I really don't care). It's not really sad or depressing, just sort of numb, and not all the time, it sort of comes in waves, especially when I'm alone and disappointed about something. But whatever. I'm not sure if I answered the question. Sometimes I thnk about how weird it is that anyone could read this, but really, who would waste the time? And why would I need to hide what I think anyway? But somehow I think we abuse the Incubus guild. Even if we are the only ones here. So questions...

What about you and spirits? And... honestly I can't think of anything else. What gives relationships meaning to you? I mean, why bother? Besides art, what has signifigance to you? Talk about something important, I don't know. Wing something. I'm not feeling altogether there right now.

Greer Lion
Crew


diomedesofcrete

PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:55 pm


Hey at least Im bothering to read what you have to say. And I see something in it. But maybe we should start a different thread for it-or something of the sort.

Spirits. To me spirits are not the souls of the dead. They are raw forces of energy- and Im not sure how they come into existence. Well I hope this doesnt freak you out to much, but Ive seen spirits my whole life. Theyre everywhere. One of my odd qualitys is I see and feel things others dont because I have a deep connection with the earth. I feel its ever tremor and breath. When I was a kid I saw a lot of "ghosts" and spirits. I still see spirits. You can think Im insane, because I am, but they are what they are.And I honestly dont care what others think about it. I believe in spirits obviously because they are very real to me.

What gives relationships meaning to me? Thats an odd question. I dont need them to have meaning. Having a person to care about and love me in return is enough. Someone to share my life with (I mean friends, family, and lovers) and talk about what I bother to care about with...thats enough in itself. As long as a person is on the same wavelength, and can contribute philisophicaly, musicaly, or physically...thats what I need in a relationship. I know its very human and basic, but thats the truth. Its time for you to have a basic human relationship. Even if you dont really want one- its important.


How can I talk about something important when nothing really is important?

I need to go listen to Frusciante.

What controls you - logos, ethos, or pathos (logic, ethics, emotion)? What are your thoughts on drugs?
PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:01 pm


First off, if you say you see spirits and all that, it's cool by me. Apparently I lived in a haunted house when I was little. There were presences and all that and apparently something locked my dad in the bathroom for a couple minutes. Honestly if I have any spiritual powers or anything like that I don't really notice. I'm okay being totally mundane. I'm not a unique snowflake, if you get my reference. And insanity just means that a lot of people disagree with your worldview.

So it's important for me to have a basic human relationship but at the same time "nothing really is important." Nice. That's sort of how I live my life. Nothing is important, yet I do stuff. But to some extent I do, but at the same time, I feel disconected regardless and am very untrusting of the people I know. Sort of paranoid and all that... It's okay though. I really don't need other people. They can occationally be alright some of the time though. People really don't tell eachother how important they are to each other enough. Oh well...

When you talk about Frusciante, are you talking solo albums, cause I hear they are really good. I want to get some. But Buckethead is my avant-gaurd guitar hero...

What "controls" me I guess is more of a mix of those than anything (obviously). I mean, I have a pretty strong grasp of logic, as flawed as it can be sometimes. Most of the time. But it seems pretty decent. Basically I use it to justify my ethics, which I guess I listen to too. I have a pretty strong moral compass I guess and I try to be fairly consistant, but at this point in my life, I have become very spontanious compared to in the past when I was very planned and premeditated. I guess ethics is the material, logic is the plan, and emotion is the execution. Or something of that nature. The basis is in my personal moral code, as justified by some sort of loose personal logic, and then emotion does or does not do something with it. I don't know. That sounds decent though.

Drugs. I have a really good friend who is incredably anti-drug. I have a friend who has a problem with acid dependancy. Actually that is probably my two best male friends. If people want to use them, that's their deal. It pisses me off when people smoke pot at concerts. It smells terrible. Drunk people scare me (alcohaulism is a problem in my family). I don't generally like talking to people that are tripping. But I don't condemn people for it. Personally I don't use any drugs, including medicine like tylanol or anything (pain is a part of life, and people need to get the ******** over their whiny "I hurt. Let me use some drugs so I don't anymore. Tough it out wimp. I'm only sort of kidding). I can't even spell them apparently. I value a consistant perspective. If I see things differently, I want it to be comming from me, not an outside source. And some people tell me I have a sort of natural high or something. Apparently I see the world differently, and I think mostly in metaphors. Maybe I should be a writer. But I don't have a big problem with their use (although I would be definately justifed in having one), I just disagree personally with them. I guess I sort of frown upon it but I"m not going to tell people what to do with their bodies.

And how you talk about something important is to talk about something that's not really important but is fake important. Like global warming. I'm excited about global warming. I mean what have coastal cities ever done for us? I hope when the next ice age comes, everyone dies. Because if we don't get them all, they just repopulate earth again. (That's actually from a conversation I had with someone. Honestly, I don't care about global warming. If everything dies, than everything dies. It would have happened eventually anyway. And for that matter, why do are Christians afraid of death if they think they go to heaven? Wouldn't that be better than earth? Unless they really doubt it's existance. I've never got a good answer for that one.)

Now I have to come up with questions. I guess I'll recycle your two and add... Something. When you said "And I see something in it" at the begining of your last post, what did you mean by that? Describe something beautiful to me. Like the song I'm listening to for example - it's so, just soothing in it's very nature, that for just a moment, it made me forget how pointless everything else is. I guess that is the fuction of art. The sort of ultimate escapism, almost a transendence of the mediocrety of life, even transending the need to "become" something, the need to even label things with values like "mediocre" or "special" or that sort of bullshit that seperates us (To me, that seems like something that is really important).

And this is sort of spontanious (despite that statement and the fact that it is comming at the end and had that as it's opening), but honestly reading this thread is really something that I sort of look forward to every day. You say some really cool things. And although I sort of frown on the whole idea of "special" I must say, for lack of a better phrase, you seem like someone very special. That all sounded a bit too awkward, but whatever, the point being that we should tell people when they are important to us, and even though we are psuedostrangers, at this moment, you are important to someone who has never met you. So that's pretty cool for you, I'd say.

Greer Lion
Crew


diomedesofcrete

PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:18 pm


in order:
Frusciante- Yeah Im talking about solo albums. Theyre AMAZING...but Ive been a fan for years so I know he either clicks with you or you pretend he does but actually hate his work.

My recycled questions. I suppose Im equally controlled by all, but ethos and pathos can take rein pretty easily. I have the instinct to use them all whenever need be. My logic can be a bit warped, as well as my morals, but theyre all intregal parts of me.

Drugs. I use some. I stay away from some. Ive always found pot to be a way to open the creative floodgates. But honestly I dont see that as a drug. I started using everything when I was pretty young so I got it out of my system fast. Really drugs are a choice, and while true junkies upset me greatly, I cant and wont judge others because of it. I dont have a great interest in them but if any of my friends ever do, I dont care.

"And I see something in it" I like the way you write, the things you think (well most of them at least). I see something meaningful and worthwhile in what you have to say. Simpley put.

Something beautiful. Most things are beautiful to me. Im working on a ceramic piece right now, and just seeing the curves, the easy mobility of it, is like staring at pure beauty. The Frusciante song Im listening to, "The Slaughter" is so beautiful. The simple chords, the voice...it reminds me of a sunny walk in the hills of the canyons of Los Angeles. The lyrics are so simple and so meaningful to me, and the song is so...normal- for him at least. It puts a soundtrack to my life...and thats all I want from it.

I think were both two special people who have made the most random connection. I love reading into who you are- and telling you who I am. Its...thereputic and quite interesting.

hmm tell me...something you dont want me to know about you. and...what are you most jealous of?

Oh and heres a basic "who am I" chart
Im Hannah
Im short.
My best friends go out.
I have eyes that used to change colors so much they go stuck mid change, so theyre pretty intense.
I attract more attention than I deserve.
I raise money and give presentations on Ugandas Invilible Children and global awareness. Im not super passionate about it...but thats ok.
I am listening to spanish music right now.
My hair is rediculously long. I dont mind.
FIN
PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:30 pm


RJD2 is amazing. I've listened to "Sense We Last Spoke" every day this week. Just had to say that.

Of the short list of things I don't want people to know about me, one I don't really want to talk about, so I'll go with the other couple. Actually, the first 2 I tell people because I really don't give a ******** what most people think of it and it's so fun breaking taboos. 1. I don't bath as regularly as most people. This seems to suprise people to no end, but only a couple of my friends are ever like "You haven't bathed in a while, have you?" just becuase my hair gets clumpy after about 3 days. Usually I bath once every 2 to 4 days, which isn't bad, but for Americans it is so taboo. 2. I have a tendency to go in the bathroom and pick at myself until I bleed. Not severly or anything, just a little bit. It's sort of a compulsion type thing but I'm trying to not. It's sort of like picking of scabs and that sort of stuff. Only I EAT THEM! But I'm working on not doing that so much any more. I still don't get why people are afriad of their own blood. This is sounding way more cutter than it actually is. It's more like popping pimples than anything. Besides that... let's see. Sometimes I worry that the only reason I like some bands is because other people do. I sometimes feel like a whore when I buy band merchendise. I got into a lot of bands when I was younger because girls I liked liked them. Like Nirvana for example. Nirvana is good though. Also Avril Lavigne, who I still sort of like. I don't care if she's a terrible person. Same thing with Ashlee Simpson. I mean it's not good music, but it's very catchy. Plus I think female pop singers have sexy voices sometimes. And I have this sort of facination with sucubi that I would rather not go into. That's vaguely everything that I can think of that I don't generally want people to know.

I'm most jealous of good musicians. Everything else I've got pretty much good self-esteem on. I've gotten to the point that I'm a competent guitarist, but it would be nice to have like started when I was 5 or been taught by Paul Gilbert (like Buckethead) or something. Basically that's the only thing I'm jeleous of. I guess I would like to be a little more athletic too, I'm not as tone as I once was and would love to know how to do backflips and breakdance and all that. I wish I could hold 5 melodies in my head at one time (apparently that is the definition of "musical genious"). I guess to some extent I'm jelous of very religious people cause they don't have to worry about as much stuff. Like my mom. She always puts her faith in god, and I just can't do that. But mostly good musicians. The other stuff is more like "wouldn't it be cool if," and I think my perspective on spiritual matters is important, if not easy.

Here is the not so basics of who I am (with some basics thrown in):
I'm Alex. Sometimes I randomly tell people that my name is Xavier or Sid, but I always confess eventually. I like my name a lot. I never remember other peoples names.
I'm 6' 1". That's the same hight as Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. It's my favorite story ever. He is basically the reason that I grew my hair out. I haven't cut my hair at all in the last 4 years. It's longer than most girls I know. I get complements about it from total strangers.
I think my eyes are beautiful. Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror becuase I'm so pretty. Other days, I think I'm ugly. It's totally a state of mind.
I was voted the most interesting person at my school according to a newspaper poll. The most common responce for why was "COMMUNISM." I guess I attract a lot of attention, but I never really feel like I'm trying to. Except when I'm depressed, then I want everyone to notice me so I feel loved, but they never do. It's pretty depressing.
I don't really do anything for any organizations or anything like that, although I would say that I try to do a lot for the people I know. I wonder if I personally have the capacity to make a difference on a global scale, and if I can, would that difference be good or bad.
I tend not to trust anyone, but at the same time, I spread things I hear as if they were fact. Especially stuff I read on wikipedia or Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
I have an opinion on vertually everything. Usually I state that opinion.
I started wearing girl's jeans before I realised that it was the "cool thing to do". My friend told me that on a whim, he tried a pair on and felt like a 60s rocker. I wanted to do the same. I got a few pairs from a friend who was going to give them to the Salvation Army. I never bought any. Then emo kids had to go and ruin it for me. I also have a pair of purple jeans that I dyed in a trashcan. They also recieve complements from random people including actor/musician/poet Saul Williams.
I have a two-foot tall stack of Rage CDs on my TV.

So, um, same questions to you. And also... what single work of art (any kind: visual, music, literature, film, etc) has influenced the most who you are as a person? How do you think other people define or label you? I guess I'll just throw this one in too, "what is your favorite article of clothing that you own?"

Greer Lion
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diomedesofcrete

PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:38 pm


The scab bit is actually a bit weird. But Im one of those people that doesnt bathe everyday either. Everyother day mostly...it takes too long to wash my hair.

What I dont want others to know...1) Im extremely paranoid. I already have hereditary insomnia, but Im so paranoid it doesnt matter because I would never be able to sleep. 2)Im lazy to an extreme- not in a slobish way- but in an apathetic way (which is probably worse). I hate my laziness...its what you could call "un-American" anti-competitive apathetic bullshit.

Im not the jealous type...honestly I cant really even think of anything or anyone Im jealous of. I know thats odd...but I just could care less about other accoplishments. I guess I write it later if I can think of anything.

My favorite article of clothing. I love clothes so Ill have to narrow it down A LOT. ok 1) My velvet jacket 2) My lace Tool shirt 3) my Italian boots 4) My old beat up jeans. I love those things...Ive had them five years I think...I sewed butterflies down around the inside and backs of the legs...its oddly hot for butterflies. 5) My embroidered mini dress. FIN

Art....Visuual art= Primavera
Literary=either Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters, The Idiot, or Paradise Lost.
Music= Bowie
Film= Blow Up and The Red Shoes

Ill use your same questions and...tell me about your friends.
PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:31 pm


Well I mean if Xiahou Dun got shot in the eye with an arrow and ate it, then why not eat the victims of my minor battles with life? Yeah, I guess it's kinda gross to some, but I don't give a second thought to licking the blood off my fingers if I have a cut or something.

I'm really paranoid sometimes, but often too apathetic to care about any harm that might befall me due to people's out to get me ness.

It's not so much jelousy for me, as "Damn, I wish I wasn't so lazy and got off my a** and learned that so I would totally rule now." I'm more the same as you said when it comes to jelousy, other's accomplishments don't really mean anything unless you are comparing yourself to others or some illusive ideal, both are fairly negative behaviors. But I do wish I was a more kick-a** musician.

There is a book called think on these things by Krishnamurti that totally changed the way I looked at... everything. Read it. Normally I don't tell people what or what not to do like that, but in this case I will, read it. Basically he defines what is actually important in life as apposed to the bullshit that society presents us with. It is probably one of the most singlely influental things on the way that I live my life. Saul Williams work also becuase of the way he sort of uses words as a canvas to paint a deeper picture and how he plays with the sterile nature of words to communicate beyond the scope that simple writen word can normally conviey. Plus he's just an amazing guy.

Artwise, I'm not savy enough with names but surealism in general. Dada too, becuase it forces us to face the idea that everything in the world is art, and at some perspective is beautiful. Visual art in general is just very moving to me. Tools album art, that goes on the list too. It showed me that the way music is presented can be just as beautiful as the music itself. Adam Jones, I love you.

Music. Rage. They're the reason I have much political concience at all. Maybe. I don't remember far back enough to be sure. And they got me into music. And Radiohead, because they basically give sonic form to the way I feel about the world. When I write serious lyrics, it always seems to be to the tune of a Radiohead song.

Film. Fight Club changed the way I saw the world in a lot of ways. Sort of emphasized the beauty inherent in the negative and also the artistic expression of physical pain. That sort of thing. Basically anything with good cinamatography. Samurai X is my favorite movie ever, but it didn't have much impact except to make me become a serious fan of film.

Favorite clothing. My purple jeans, mostly becuase everyone just loves them so much. I have a necklace with a mirror on it that's really cool, and the story behind it is even cooler (involves a preforming artists who also sold junk art and was probably the craziest person I've ever bought anything from). Gypsy beads bought from what were real gypsies according to my friend. I have a real pirate coat, and a number of pirate shirts. I also have a black leather trenchcoat, which is especially awesome because I never went through the sort of "goth" phase that would justify owning one, nor had I seen the Matrix before I got it. I got it because a video game character had one. I have some really beat up black converses that have an eye I drew on the left toe (so I could look up people's skirts). Lot of other stuff two, but I don't want to make this too long. I ment to go to bed about an hour ago. Oh, I have a super pimpin' hat. Not that it's really related to a pimp hat at all, but I love it... I just love clothes. A DJ Shadow shirt with a guy throwing a molatav cocktail that says "Take Action" and also a Saul Williams shirt that says "******** better realize. Now is the time to self actualize" on the front.

My friends... Let's see. For one I really don't like that word, and I normally only use it to communicate the idea so it will be less complicated. It's like love, so overused that it doesn't have as much (if any) meaning as it should. My best friend lives in Washington state. I probably see her about once a year. She has good taste in music. Generally very knowledgable about it too. I have a feeling that would be how I describe most of my friends... either "has good taste in music" or "has terrible taste in music so I keep them around to make fun of." I'm not feeling this question right now (I'm tired) so I'll come back to it tommorow.

In the meantime, tell me about your friends. Also, when was the last time you were violent and were you in the right? Do you know what that is a reference to?

"Making Days Longer" by RJD2 nearly made me cry earlier today. That is the best feeling in the entire world. Someday I want to write a song that can make me cry.

Greer Lion
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Greer Lion
Crew

PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:40 pm


Oh, about films, Waking Life. That movie is another of those "See this movie now" movies. I saw that at about the same time I first read "Think On These Things." It is amazing. Litterally mindblowing (without that whole head exploding thing... But my mind was definately blown).
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