dotinthesky | I think Prince Charles gets handjobs from his Valet, if you want to know....

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i was going for sensible!

Who are you!?! Those are Schiele paintings you have as icons!! WHO ARE YOU and WHERE DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT HIM!?! I have met exactly two people since I discovered Schiele accidentally who knew anything about him. You're #2.

the question is... HOW DID YOU FIND ME? Did you do an interest seach on Schiele?

I'll keep the mystery for now...

no, no interest search. in fact, when I looked at your interests to see if he was listed, I couldn't find him. but maybe I just missed the name.

and sorry, I go a little nuts when I find someone else who knows him. I work at the Met Museum of Art as a guard and the first person who asked me about him was (luckily) my age, and obviously a painter. I grabbed his sleeve and started shaking him and said, "there are none here! why are there none here? why!?" and he kinda smiled and said he didn't know. I told him where to find some in another museum.

I'm not really sure whose journal I found you through, it might have been

weetanya's,

lorigami's,

sifueireman's,

thessalian's...I just don't remember.

C'mon, spill!

Ok, and tell me why you picked those specific paintings for your icons, eh?

AHH... i know Thess, so it must have been through her.

The icon I call "man" is on the cover of a Quebecois novel i was reading... and the icon called "Teen" was from an article in The Guardian about Schiele's life... and the icon "Woman" comes from a book my boyfriend Kevin has. My boyfriend loves Schiele (more than me I think) and actually draws similarly to him... I think I chose these three because I like their faces, their look...

I have never seen one of his paintings live, but I would love to... would you know if there are any in London?

Is he your favourite painter?

Yeah, I think he might just be my favorite. I know of nowhere to see him in London, but you're so close to the continent that please, please, PLEASE go to the Mach (sp?) in Vienna someday and see their collection and tell me what you think.

i will!

:o)

heh...but go sooner rather than later, eh?

sending me some money and I will!

hahahahaha hey, you're really close, when's yer next vacation from work!

So where are you from?

ih... long story. I was born in South Africa to an English father and a Brazilian mom... lived there until I was 6... then moved to brazil for 10 years, then singapore for a year and a half, two years in Hong Kong, 5 years in Canada, one year back in Brazil and now 2 years in England!!

what about you?

Wow! Why South Africa, of all places, with parents of those countries? You sound like my friend who was a UN doctor's daughter.

I'm boring, born and raised in Florida (although that is a bit of an oddity!), moved to Minnesota after college to go to grad school (didn't), then moved to NYC 11 months ago.

Do you speak Portuguese? oh yeah, and why Singapore?

yeah, portuguese is my first language! My dad worked for Bayer (big German multinational) and they sent him around the world to work on managing their factories... so we trailed along. We moved back to Brazil when I was a kid because my mom missed her family and hated South Africa's apartheid (i was born in the middle of it.)

After I finished highschool in Hong Kong, I went to Canada for University. There, I met my boyfriend Kevin... but then my student visa ran out and I had to move back to Brazil. But because Kevin has an Irish passport (and I have an English one, thanks to my dad) we decided to move to England and... here we are!

How's it like living in New York? It's one of my favourite cities. I was there for only a week once, but I loved it.

NYC is really neat. An ex of mine visited once while we were still dating and said that I'd probably like to visit, but not live here - well, he was certainly wrong! Now I just need to be making more money so I don't feel worried about spending "too much" money going out.

Portuguese is nearly like nothing I've ever heard before. I understand some Spanish and was lucky enough to work with a woman who spoke Brazilian Portuguese and at the same time to work at a site with someone from Portugal, so the Brazilian organized for me to hear the two of them speaking together so I could hear the difference. It was really interesting! I love languages and accents, it's an amateur hobby of mine, figuring out where people are from by their accents.

I'd love to go to England. I just bought Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman, and it has a map of the Underground at the beginning. It was neat b/c Thess frequently mentions certain stops and I located them on the map. I'm absolutely in love with accents from the UK (but that's no surprise). They're one of my favorite to do, although my Irish was tinged b/c I couldn't quite get the one down by the Irish guy I knew b/c he'd spent a lot of time in Liverpool. It kept falling into Scottish, which is really easy.

Anyway, I've talked your ear off. You're so lucky to have travelled so widely!

hehe... thanks! at the time, it didn't feel so lucky. I had to leave my friends behind in Brazil when I was 16 and move to Singapore... and I had to go to an English speaking school when I had been speaking mostly Brazilian Portuguese... it was tough.

Can I add you to my friends list?

:o)

sure! better to talk that way than to make huge strings of comments. Can I add you?

of course!

oh, and though he painted a large amount in the roughly 12 years he was active before he died, a great many of them are in private collections, so it's difficult to view them outside of a few public institutions. Vienna has the one and there is one here in NYC, possibly two (I can't remember if someone told me about a second gallery here or not) called Neue Gallerie, that has them. But you know what I discovered? I'm not so sure I like the idea, but you can get museum quality repros for relatively cheap ($300-sev K) online. I would prefer to see the finished product before I plunk that much down, and how do they get the brushstrokes right? I dunno...it makes me a little nervous.

you are serious? That is a huge gamble... in any case, I wouldn't want a piece in my home that was Schiele done by somebody else... i'd rather buy a poster!

Yeah, but his pieces are enormously expensive and difficult to get. But I agree with you. I had contemplated it for about, oh, three seconds before I decided no way!

do you think so? why?

it's all over the press... it wasn't with Camilla! But with a male servant...

I am sorry! I didn't know! I mean think about it, you are the prince, your mum is the queen, I mean what else is going to happen??

HAHA...

poor bastards. They should give up the whole thing and try to be normal.

it's much too late for that I think

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i'm planning on that.

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your chances are nil

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yes it is. You goths are sooo Christian.

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your quest for Immortality smells of Kansas soul.

you too baby!

♥

It's weird how exercise, something we usually AVOID doing, can make us so happy.

i think everyone should be required by law to practice some kind of exercise.

Good idea.

I think Prince Charles gets handjobs from his Valet, if you want to know....

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Camillia is prolly horrid in bed

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