Memories Here & There
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dotintheskyThe guy who books my tickets to Brasil used to sleep with a gun underneath his pillow. I know this because his mother-in-law is my mom's best friend. I once had to spend the night in a hotel in Sao Paulo because he'd booked my connecting flight to Londrina the day after I arrived. I was very pissed off. We still use that travel agency because friendships are sometimes thicker than blood.
When I was a kid, my father would sometimes take my brother and I camping near the sea during Summer. We'd spend the whole day at the beach and, at night, I'd read Agatha Christie novels inside the tent until the mosquitoes got the best of me.
When I started smoking pot in high school, I'd make my best friends (Karla, Sue, Susannah and Janet -- yup I was the only boy) watch Siouxsie and the Banshees videos. I thought they were the trippiest videos ever; they laughed at Siouxsie and said she was Robert Smith in drag. I got my revenge when Karla was spooked by the skeleton dancing in the video for "Cities in Dust".
I did mushrooms for the first time in Janet's dorm room in McGill University. She played Abba and I felt like the music was coming to me from another planet. Then I cried during Tracy Chapman's "Drive".
When Kevin and I moved to London, we lived in hostels for two weeks. It was a week exactly after 9/11 and there was a young american student, Aaron, in our room. I still dont' know if he figured out we were a couple. He'd go jogging in Hyde Park in the morning, wear a shirt and tie to the theatre (which he would attend by himself); he was from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and he had native blood.
When I was a kid, my father would sometimes take my brother and I camping near the sea during Summer. We'd spend the whole day at the beach and, at night, I'd read Agatha Christie novels inside the tent until the mosquitoes got the best of me.
When I started smoking pot in high school, I'd make my best friends (Karla, Sue, Susannah and Janet -- yup I was the only boy) watch Siouxsie and the Banshees videos. I thought they were the trippiest videos ever; they laughed at Siouxsie and said she was Robert Smith in drag. I got my revenge when Karla was spooked by the skeleton dancing in the video for "Cities in Dust".
I did mushrooms for the first time in Janet's dorm room in McGill University. She played Abba and I felt like the music was coming to me from another planet. Then I cried during Tracy Chapman's "Drive".
When Kevin and I moved to London, we lived in hostels for two weeks. It was a week exactly after 9/11 and there was a young american student, Aaron, in our room. I still dont' know if he figured out we were a couple. He'd go jogging in Hyde Park in the morning, wear a shirt and tie to the theatre (which he would attend by himself); he was from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and he had native blood.
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on 2006-04-19 07:38 pm (UTC)If you don't mind me asking (since I'm relatively new here), where did you grow up?
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on 2006-04-19 08:04 pm (UTC)I always like your posts, even when I don't reply :)
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on 2006-04-19 09:36 pm (UTC)I love Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure! ( I had to look up Smith's band - my brain is so usless ) I saw them here back 4-5 years ago. It was great gig! That's it I'm going to open the box with my CDs and listen to the Cure! After I gog to the store and get another beer! :)
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on 2006-04-20 07:18 am (UTC)I did my BA in Concordia university, but had friends who went to McGill. Also, once I was finished with my BA I did a 6-month intensive french course in McGill. So, yeah, in a way I did go to McGill.
What's your story about McGill?
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on 2006-04-20 07:26 am (UTC)pictures from london
on 2006-04-21 03:33 pm (UTC)Ollie, the group of drag queens & freaks from the pub I work at were in London for the film festival/ movie about "tranny shack". here are some photos. I performed with this group last night at SFMOMA, twas absurd!
have a wondrous weekend!
xo -david
Re: pictures from london
on 2006-04-21 04:15 pm (UTC)Have a wondrous weekend yourself!
Re: pictures from london
on 2006-04-21 06:49 pm (UTC)-david
Nice quote
on 2008-05-16 09:24 am (UTC)Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work,
work till we die.
-- C.S. Lewis
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