R. Mutt ([info]photostrand) wrote,
@ 2008-04-19 16:54:00
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I have to be at work in one hour. And there is a guy with a mac book next to me that is running so smoothly it makes me want to punch microsoft in the face. I think I am going to finally go mac when I get home, especially as I just had a virus that took me like three days and six hours of research on the internet to get rid of because it blocks the installation of most antivirus programs. Clever clever Fun.exe. And now my computer runs slow as shit because antivirus programs eat too much damn CPU, especially on startup.

But enough of that.

I am fucking confused shitless lately. I just really really want to get home, as if that would somehow give me all the answers. IT is kind of like how I felt when I first left the states. As if leaving would make everything make sense. Is this a bad thing inside me? Confusion makes me want to run away, get perspective, then become confused again and run away again? It certainly makes for an interesting life, but not exactly a happy one.

I am so damned depressed lately.

Put in my two weeks notice. Which is weird. Like a sort of official finality thing. You REALLY ARE LEAVING Rob. That is strange. I keep thinking about the friends I have made in Australia and how I will probably either never see them again, or not see them again for years and years. Like when I left the states I knew I would be abck and see you all again, but I don't know when I will be back to Australia.

Yeah, and I keep thinking about my life and what the hell am I doing with it. Am I moving to Germany? Am I going to College? Am I making films? WTF?

I just want to take pictures and have everyone leave me alone. Everyone meaning my damned thoughts.

Blah.

I keep dreaming about having an art show, or making a short film again. I want to be recognized. I don't think I want to be famous but I really really really want to be recognized. I want to stir emotions in people. I want to tear people out of their silly self induced eotional trances. I look around me and see so many numb people and it drives me mad. I want to make at least some people feel something for at least some time, because if you don't feel then what the hell is the point to life?

I feel stagnant again. I need to create. I need to get this shit out of me. I want to feel that release of someone else feeling my emotions. I haven't felt that in a long time. Maybe that is why I am so driven by art, maybe I just want to get all of my emotions out of me and give them to someone else because I can't handle holding onto them all the time.

I am emotionally constipated.

I need a poetry slam.

I need an art show.

I need a film festival.

I need more ideas.

I need money to do what I want to do with my art.

Blah.

Anyway, I should go get ready to serve people over priced pasta and drinks. Seriously $25 for a bowl of Spaghetti? What the fuck is that about?

I geuss that is all.

ta ta.



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[info]type_quantum
2008-04-20 04:27 pm UTC (link)
I feel silly commenting on your entries because I will see you in a few weeks and I don't want to settle for typing things out anymore.

But I cannot imagine what coming back feels like. I am hugging you when I see you, though, you giant dick.

And running away is an effective strategy; fight or flight, eh? I'm just not sure how much you hold on to if you're always running.

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[info]photostrand
2008-04-22 06:50 am UTC (link)
"I'm just not sure how much you hold on to if you're always running."

Exactly what worries me.

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[info]greenbedroom
2008-04-21 01:20 am UTC (link)
I can't wait to see you! I am afraid that you will be a different person when I see you again. You have been through so much in all your travelling, I imagine it has changed you. Just to warn you it will be weird when you get back because no one will understand what you experienced. I think you will have a lot of inspiration to bring back with you and put into your art. I am sure you will find opportunities to show your stuff here. And I imagine you will be back in Australia in a few years and hopefully will be able to re-connect with friends.

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[info]photostrand
2008-04-22 06:51 am UTC (link)
I have changed a lot, but then again, I haven't. It will definatley be strange going home, you are right. but ti will be good.

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[info]liebslied
2008-04-22 05:21 am UTC (link)
It will be good to see you but it will be kind of intimidating because you are the only expat that I know (this is cool though). Ange is better at elaborating this. Regardless I am looking forward to mexican food hangouts sometime this summer.

Macs sound so appealing now, don't they? I have an anti-virus on my compaq and I feel like I have to restart the thing every time it updates, it is so clunky. If only a Mac did not cost as much as a small house.

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[info]photostrand
2008-04-22 06:54 am UTC (link)
expat? woah. No one has ever called me that before. Am I really an expat? It is funny, since I have left home I identify myself more with america than I used to. It becomes more a part of your identity, what makes you unique. In america everyone is american. But when you are travelling, people refer to you as where you are from, ask you questions about it. It sort of makes you more attached to it in a strange more abstract way. So does it take expatriotizing yourself in order to regain your patriotism?

more on this later.

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[info]liebslied
2008-04-23 08:12 am UTC (link)
I don't use the term explicitly, though now it sounds like kind of an interesting thing to propose. Technically an expatriate would be a dude that's spent enough time definably somewhere else but still keeps bits of where he came from. Maybe this doesn't fit. I used it half-casually just because you've been out of the country for a while but now it sounds pretty appropriate because it implies a characteristic of carrying between.
I won't bother with the political semantics but that is an interesting point - maybe an expatriate is a dude that's sufficicently accustomed to being elsewhere that he's no longer just 'an American somewhere else'?
If I were addressing patriotism and being optimistic (at which point I wouldn't be addressing patriotism HAR) I would say that no one should be patriotic about any single country without spending enough time outside of it to understand orienting yourself with a place which in turn thus defines you to others. You ought to be subjected by a definition before choosing to subject it.

You caught me in the middle of a paper so I hope it doesn't sound too much like it.

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[info]photostrand
2008-05-04 09:57 pm UTC (link)
I like that your comment sounds like an essay. We should discuss this in person.

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[info]blackmagebasser
2008-05-08 11:08 am UTC (link)
You oughta hit me up when you get back.

We can have Outback steakhouse to celebrate, and then find some man-made beach and bowl with coconuts.

Talk to you later, you b0tch

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[info]photostrand
2008-05-10 12:51 am UTC (link)
Oh I'm back bitch.

How ya goin'? Let's get together one avvy and get some tucker. Just shoot me your number and I'll give you a ring to say g'day.

Alright mate, I gotta go to the dunnie now and drain my snake.

See ya soon.

Cheers.

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