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05/04/2006 15:43 #33688

get my nerves on
I'm getting nervous now. Maybe I'll throw up right on the floor at Hallwalls.
Hope to see y'all at 8.
beware the bloody hernias.

05/03/2006 18:07 #33687

going insane
I'm going around the clock. I have 3 hours to get this reel together. Then I head to soyeon's house. She is having a party lil b-day thing for some art grads and I'm going to dub my shit out to mini-dv while I'm there. Then there is a possibility that I could get drunk. Considering the fact I've been awake for over 24 hours, again... I'm not sure if that would be wise. I'll be so happy when this is over an done and I'm sitting in some weird art place in Greensboro, NC, sweating my vulva off, thinking "what now?"
I've been making audio today. It's insane. My throat hurts. Y'all ever heard my preachin' voice? I'm up to 2 or 3 packs of Marlboro reds a day. This I blame on Courtney. She brought back all my teenage angst. Damn I should go live on her couch in Portland. Ok, enough rant I'm going back to editing. Time to fuck with Schopenhauer, hehe. I enjoy making fun of the dead.

05/03/2006 03:33 #33686

haircut day
tom just sent me a few pics from when Arzu cut my hair(she beat you to it Lil ho), last Easter Sunday. It's the middle of the afternoon for me. I'm going to be editing video all night. You (e:peeps) had best come out to Hallwalls on Thursday to see my screening... or else, yeah.

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mike - 05/03/06 23:54
when is your screening?

04/30/2006 23:47 #33685

research
my serious academic research lead me to this


mrdt - 05/01/06 00:11
oh my God!!! that was a perfect break. thanks.

04/30/2006 07:40 #33684

men are scary
I walk alone at night. Usually a few blocks down to the 24 hour Walgreens to get smokes. At least once or twice a month I get hit on by some man from his car. What is creepy is that the last two times it happened, at first I thought the guy was someone I knew so I slowed down to look.
Tonight, or this morning, when it happened I was only a few steps from my house. This man did a U turn and pulled up beside me. I thought it was Chris, my neighbor, so I slowed down. Then I saw it was a complete stranger. He asked me "Where are you going" and I told him "home." Then he asked "where do you live" so I turned away and said "see ya."
Am I a paranoid freak for thinking that this man was insane if he thought I would get into the car with him?
Do any of you men have this problem with unwanted attention from drivers when you are a pedestrian?
Do any of you try to give strange women rides in the middle of the night?
I've been thinking about women's fear of men and wondering about the logic of it.
In the video class I teach it's not uncommon to encounter misogynistic videos made by young men. The last one made me think. Why do young men want to make films that depict violence towards women?
and now...
Why am I afraid to get a ride with a strange man?
kookcity2000 - 04/30/06 22:14
I guess it doesn't really matter if all men are creeps. The only thing that counted was if the one guy that did a u-turn was.

Yer feelins were saying big-time he was a creep.
Thinking about it long enough, our big brains can fool themselves (was he a creep, was I wrong to be creeped out, etc.)

jason - 04/30/06 16:08
I'm sure your teachers are trying to get you to think "Oh, well, this is how men think, they are all nasty and violent." And so you think about this in your everyday life.

I will inject some reality - The vast majority of men wouldn't dream of being violent toward a female. The others....stay away. Always good to be cautious.
mrdt - 04/30/06 14:47
actually when I was in Florida I rented a brand new convertible Ford Mustang. On my last night in Ft Lauderdale I was driving along the A1A with the top down and tunes blasting and passed some girls who started screaming and throwing their arms around to get me to pull over. I thought what the hell so I pulled over and the asked me for a ride to the hotel we were both staying in. They seemed friendly and really drunk. and really young.
metalpeter - 04/30/06 11:39
I can Honestly say that a female has never asked me to get into her car, and no one problably ever will. I have herd that hookers used to patrol Niagara and that part of elmwood right around Walgreens and that Hotel can be kinda sketchy sometimes and I have heard some crazy things go on at the Lenox. So I'm guessing that is what that guy was up to but who knows. Maybe he was just a nice guy or maybe a serial killer who knows.
libertad - 04/30/06 10:43
Come here little girl. I got some candy for you.
zobar - 04/30/06 09:10

Do any of you men have this problem with unwanted attention from drivers when you are a pedestrian?



Yeah. Cab drivers.

- Z
mrmike - 04/30/06 08:59
That's good caution tempered with a little fear. There is no way to tell what folks are truly thinking in those situations nor what makes those folks think the way they do. Lord knows that Walgreens has some characters. You're wise to avoid em