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yakalskovich) wrote2004-09-05 06:31 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2004-09-05 06:31 pm
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Varia, miscella and sundry
From the Department of Literary Pimpage and Enthusiasm:
If you like words that capture a world, and are willing to read something that neither contains a fandom nor a plot but is simply a vignette, a short piece of utter and admirable Literature with a Capital L, you need to read what John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith aka Ji wrote. I have no idea where she took the subject from, but what she writes is the truth - I lived that sort of life from 1997 to 2002 and am eternally grateful that circumstances conspired to allow me to free myself from it and be myself again. I don't know if there's a comm where one reports LJ entries suspected of Literature, Poetry, and The Transpersonal Truth, but this should go there.
From the Library Department:
I got "Monstrous Regiment" back!!! I had to go meet the fellow who'd borrowed it and taken it to the Canary islands at the Spanish-speaking baptist church here in Munich, but I've got my book back!! Now I can read up on the canon for:
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oliverperks
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to say nothing of the additional canon for
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and
ottochriek
YAY!!!!
From the Department for Religious Experiences
So, as I was fetching my book from that Baptist place, I felt compelled to stay - it would have been so impolite to just go. I find Baptists a bit odd, especially after having become accustomed to Orthodoxy. Liturgy as such is yuck for them, it appears. There was some fellow who prayed, first, and people raised their hands and read quotes from their own bibles they had brought with them. Baptists really thumb bibles, I noticed; it's not just a phrase. Then there was a part with a band that sang rousing songs of a very modern and Latin Pop sort of way, and the congregation sang along, swayed with the music, clapped and generally behaved as if at a pop concert. Part three: a sermon of 45 minutes' duration during which people looked up the verses quoted in their own bibles (more thumping, that is). And all of it in Spanish. There was a very modern translation system with wireless headphones, but the interpreter was a rank amateur. But as my derived-from-Latin understanding of Spanish wasn't enough for the sermon, I tried to follow, and developed a monumental headache. After that, coffee. I don't really subscribe to all that stuff the fellow said (after all, I've got Orthodox leanings if any religion at all), but there was one good quote from some religious writer: "If two people have exactly the same opinion in every aspect, one of them is superfluous." Harsh, but to the point, and so in favour of all kinds of diversity. After the Lutheran confirmation last week in Berlin, and this Baptist do, I urgently need an Orthodox liturgy next week, and then perhaps no church at all any more for a while, thank you?nazgul_nr_5, you get to pick whether Russian or Greek. The Greeks sell the nicer icons, but cycling out into the woods to the Russians, and having to wear headscarves, has a certain something as well. Not to mention their otherworldly music.
From the Department of Meeting Fictional People in Real Life
Afterwards, at the coffee in that Baptist church (my, do they brew strong and very good coffee - my headache was gone the monent I got to smell the stuff!!), there was an RL instance of Mr Pointy who played the piano at us. No, really, totally an incarnation ofthetomjon. Or rather, to be even more precise, he was like a young version of tvitoller from the AU on greatestjournal.com. Pinstripe suit, long, straight pony tail, totally skinny and pointy, very polite and incredibly nice to everybody. No idea what in blazes he was doing there; perhaps he came for the coffee, which was really good enough for the AU version of TJ. He took a turn at the piano in the room where we'd repaired to to have our coffee and look at holiday pics on my friend's computer in a bevvy of enthusiastic Argentinian ladies whom I hadn't met before but who knew my friend and his family and instantly loved me as well. I was sekritly and mightily amused and thanked Mr Pointy very politely for the music, which of course he claimed was nothing, he had really hoped the room would already be empty, yadda yadda...
If you like words that capture a world, and are willing to read something that neither contains a fandom nor a plot but is simply a vignette, a short piece of utter and admirable Literature with a Capital L, you need to read what John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith aka Ji wrote. I have no idea where she took the subject from, but what she writes is the truth - I lived that sort of life from 1997 to 2002 and am eternally grateful that circumstances conspired to allow me to free myself from it and be myself again. I don't know if there's a comm where one reports LJ entries suspected of Literature, Poetry, and The Transpersonal Truth, but this should go there.
From the Library Department:
I got "Monstrous Regiment" back!!! I had to go meet the fellow who'd borrowed it and taken it to the Canary islands at the Spanish-speaking baptist church here in Munich, but I've got my book back!! Now I can read up on the canon for:
oliverperksmaladict_lofty_hushtonkerto say nothing of the additional canon for
les_mots_justesand
ottochriek YAY!!!!
From the Department for Religious Experiences
So, as I was fetching my book from that Baptist place, I felt compelled to stay - it would have been so impolite to just go. I find Baptists a bit odd, especially after having become accustomed to Orthodoxy. Liturgy as such is yuck for them, it appears. There was some fellow who prayed, first, and people raised their hands and read quotes from their own bibles they had brought with them. Baptists really thumb bibles, I noticed; it's not just a phrase. Then there was a part with a band that sang rousing songs of a very modern and Latin Pop sort of way, and the congregation sang along, swayed with the music, clapped and generally behaved as if at a pop concert. Part three: a sermon of 45 minutes' duration during which people looked up the verses quoted in their own bibles (more thumping, that is). And all of it in Spanish. There was a very modern translation system with wireless headphones, but the interpreter was a rank amateur. But as my derived-from-Latin understanding of Spanish wasn't enough for the sermon, I tried to follow, and developed a monumental headache. After that, coffee. I don't really subscribe to all that stuff the fellow said (after all, I've got Orthodox leanings if any religion at all), but there was one good quote from some religious writer: "If two people have exactly the same opinion in every aspect, one of them is superfluous." Harsh, but to the point, and so in favour of all kinds of diversity. After the Lutheran confirmation last week in Berlin, and this Baptist do, I urgently need an Orthodox liturgy next week, and then perhaps no church at all any more for a while, thank you?
nazgul_nr_5, you get to pick whether Russian or Greek. The Greeks sell the nicer icons, but cycling out into the woods to the Russians, and having to wear headscarves, has a certain something as well. Not to mention their otherworldly music.From the Department of Meeting Fictional People in Real Life
Afterwards, at the coffee in that Baptist church (my, do they brew strong and very good coffee - my headache was gone the monent I got to smell the stuff!!), there was an RL instance of Mr Pointy who played the piano at us. No, really, totally an incarnation of
thetomjon. Or rather, to be even more precise, he was like a young version of tvitoller from the AU on greatestjournal.com. Pinstripe suit, long, straight pony tail, totally skinny and pointy, very polite and incredibly nice to everybody. No idea what in blazes he was doing there; perhaps he came for the coffee, which was really good enough for the AU version of TJ. He took a turn at the piano in the room where we'd repaired to to have our coffee and look at holiday pics on my friend's computer in a bevvy of enthusiastic Argentinian ladies whom I hadn't met before but who knew my friend and his family and instantly loved me as well. I was sekritly and mightily amused and thanked Mr Pointy very politely for the music, which of course he claimed was nothing, he had really hoped the room would already be empty, yadda yadda...
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One of the models at my figure-drawing class kind of looked like him, too. That was weird.
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But the model looking like him, of course, would have meant that you were free to draw Mr Pointy in that class, and nobody ever the wiser. This one didn't so much look like the icons of Andrew Robertson, even, more like the Mr Pointy you draw.
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That is very very very weird and he should be famous so's I can see too.
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And it would be so rude to ask my friend to take an .avi video with his fabulous digital camera showing the pointy fellow playing piano, the next time my friend goes to that Spanish Baptist thinggy, with the justification that a lady in California would like to giggle and goggle at the piano player...
*evil grin*
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Only problem is my friend who'd have to have too much explanations before he'd see what I want the pointy fellow on an .avi movie for. His camera makes good .avis, he'd shown us some of his kids on the beach, and of some dancing ladies on the Canary islands that he had on his computer.
So no RL Mr Pointy pics/videos any time soon.
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I do however read things. And usually listen to things. *weird*
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Do you look at pictures, though? You commented on the tigers, and that was pictures.
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How amusing.
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Speaking of which, have you watched any more Gormenghast yet?
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No, it took me too long to find time to watch it so we sent it back. :(
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Really. You so seem not to like watching things.
By the way, I have recently taken to watching a French cartoon on TV, Agrippine . So hilarious. I have been toying with the idea of being her in Milliways one day...
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I'm really bad at it. I have about five movies that belong to friends that I should watch so I can give them back.
She looks...uh...special...o.O
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You do have to try again; it's such fun to see what kind of wuss he is. And Gomrneghast as such is very much worth watching, anyway. If you watch anything at all, chose that.
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Well the next thing of mine that's supposed to come is Goodbye, Lenin! so it'll be that really.
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I will have to find "Bon Voyage" as well. As far as I kow it's not yet been published on DVD here, so Falk won't ahve it.
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The Metropolitans can by now copy DVDs; if there was a Netflix in Germany, they would so start gobbling up movies before you could say "copyright" out loud...
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Actually, if we have time we could go once a month, changing between Greek and Russian.
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And going once a month, and alternating between Greek and Russian, is a very, very good idea, and I'm all for it! Let's do it this winter.