nonsense, vanity, suspicion

29 November 2009 @ 12:54 pm

Finished Kavalier & Clay and driven to write porn / lay out my large feelings on the matter. See below for my intense cousin-shipping commentaries. Links to the supplemental short stories? Or good fan fiction based on this book??? ??? ??? where is it. Why are Gentlemen of the Road requests all over Yuletide while Chabon's more obvious nude dudes getting busy book goes overlooked. Thank you

tlc010 you have captured a realistic portrait of my daily pose

( it doesn't mean you're gay just maybe don't get married )

Tags: about my obsessive compulsive disorder!!, detecting for cock, my beautiful dream

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25 November 2009 @ 08:36 am

increasingly nonsensical

Last night I went to see the film Meres et Filles, which was terrific, esp for fans of Mad Men and French cinema. Beautiful cinematography! A surprise ending!!

Then we went to Breakfast In America, a friendly little American diner where the servers are Irish, the TV plays futbol, and the most recommended of the wines is from a little Californian town called Napa. I got loaded. My veggie omelette was delicious, as were the milkshakes. Then I forced Magali to go to the Champs Elysees and tell me about Napoleon and now she hates me forever ♥

Here are the last (?) of the photo set, mainly from Disneyland Paris. It was an odd visit, but I loved their hyper hardcore version of Space Mountain, which is a loop-de-loop roller coaster!! To start things off, you get shot out of a giant space cannon into the dark of a supernova *___* i love

Now I am about to get on a plane uuuuuuu

I do not want to leave, words cannot describe!!!! Paris is like the Moscow of my childhood, which doesn't so much exist anymore. I tell myself I don't deserve this city just yet, I have to work harder! So I must

Two songs I liked this week:
A. C. NEWMAN - Submarines of Stockholm + a song about the metro
BELLE & SEBASTIAN - Winter Wooskie + so pretty and a little french

Tags: i am a hideous monster, is california on fire?, it's warm isn't it

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24 November 2009 @ 10:05 am

last day sobbbbb sobsob

Wahhhh I don't want to leave. Going to the Jardins Luxemborg, to read a little if it isn't raining. To the Paris Mosque, where for $3 you can get hot sweet mint tea and tiny pastries. To St Michel for lunch, then by the Notre-Dame and the Ile St Louis to the Marais, where I can perhaps find something I would like to buy. I like the secondhand shops there!

Here are belated photos of the cute cute mural above a doorway at Shakespeare and Company, the 16eme, and the Marmottan:

Tags: it's warm isn't it, taco tuesday, where is natalia

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23 November 2009 @ 07:31 am

tonight we dine in eurodisney

Today I made it to the Musee Marmottan despite many rains and train delays! The Marmottan is located in the 16th Arrondisement, a pleasant area where people are rich and cheerful, having produced many small children who run around parks, squealing under colorful umbrellas. At the moment the Musee has a terrific exhibition on Fauvism. I have always liked the Fauves because their movement has a bad ass name and they paint like it is the 80s except everyone is still wearing two-tone shoes, full skirts, or nothing!

Like all great museums, the Marmottan is a converted mansion, still furnished as such so that one (me) can pretend it is 1890 and dinner guests are about to arrive. Sweeping staircases! A turret! Such things these houses have

Then I headed over to St Michel to attempt to find a Monoprix (the Target of Paris), but it is Sunday and some stores are closed in recidivist Catholic observation. So I drowned my sorrows in Beaujolais. A new crop is just in all over the city, and every cafe advertises it!

The bizarre zigzag business space on Rue de la Harpe that once housed the internet cafe whither I would make daily pilgrimages in 2004 is now a horrible PinkBerry!! щ(ﾟДﾟщ) How I hate yogurts. But just down the quai, Shakespeare and Company is still a pleasant oasis of Anglophone and warmth on a rainy night! I talked to a girl there who said that newcomers to the area can get brief housing upstairs while they look for other lodgings, albeit without many amenities and provided that they volunteer at the book shop two hours per day. Me. I should get housing. I don't need showers! I want to eat this city so that it is in my stomach nourishing me and so that I can carry it around with me until I need to poop I guess

Meanwhile I have found a card reader and read my camera card so there are so many photos below that I had to use an LJ cut!!!!!! wow

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Tags: i am alive with the power of love, it's warm isn't it, some photos

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22 November 2009 @ 02:53 pm

a high end production

We spent the morning making a movie for Magali's French Gender Studies class! In it I played a French girl lmao, it was fun but I had to walk in heels on grass which is the worst. Magali wants to call the film Romance Mauvais to get some youtube hits.

Now heading off to la FNAC to find a card reader and maybe to the Marmottan, eugh it is so wet and windy outside idk whether I'll really make it anywhere. I want to curl up by the heater and look out at the International Quad and the attic turrets and finish writing about Lavinia Perregia, Gaspard Arneri, and the Mystery of the Stolen Bicycle.

Tags: it's warm isn't it, no it's cold

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21 November 2009 @ 08:59 pm

districts white people like

Today I dragged Magali all over the first Arrondisement and took a crapillion photos. My old, overpriced, overclassed stomping grounds, which I still know almost like the back of my hand! We had chocolate at Angelina's, made a pilgrimage to Colette, and ran about Printemps like disgusting tourists -- at least I did; Magali just shook her head and taught me to roll my eyes like a French girl so that I could blend in better. Later in the day, a real French girl asked me for directions, which was simultaneously validating and embarrassing. I was all, Lmao super sorry but I do not even know where the fuck I am right now. Also everyone keeps asking to use my lighter. In French, this translates to, Do you have the fire?

Yes I have the fire

I also walked all over the city because my Metro carnet is already all but used up and I felt I should economize. Got yelled at again, this time by bicycle police who were raiding a Serbian grocery just as I was trying to buy an apple and a soda. The shop owner was surprisingly kind despite the circumstances, and gave me directions.

So that no one would bother me I had on my headphones. The Phenomenal Handclap Band. They are solid and you can not walk to them without swaggering a little

☆☆☆ PHB - Dim the Lights
☆☆☆ PHB - You'll Disappear

So my camera just died and I forgot my charger in SoCal so I have to get a reader at the horrible FNAC tomorrow :C and make do with my iPhone sob sobbbbbbb have some phone pictures

The bar in bottom right photo was called OPEN BAR and painted with rainbows

Tags: are you happy now magali i love you, it's warm isn't it, music recs, stuff white people like

Current Music: Le Corps Mince de Francoise - Something Golden | Powered by Last.fm

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20 November 2009 @ 08:16 pm

making magali fail every class

Today we went to the Ciel de Paris (SKY OF PARIS) for brunch, and the view was astounding even if the food was kind of what my grandmother would make. But even so in a good way;

magaliiiii and I talked about growing up in Antibes and the Moscow countryside, respectively. I still know how to pick mushrooms! Wow.

Then we went to le FNAC (THE FNAC) which is, as ever, a hateful place where nobody wants to use their computer to find Les Douze Royaumes (THE TWELVE KINGDOMS) even as they summon the gall to apologize for their incompetence. I did however use my own eyes find tomes 9 and 10 of Mushishi Version Francaise (MUSHISHI FRENCH VERSION), all the way in a corner marked MANGA so that nobody ever goes there by mistake.

Then we fell asleep because we are lazy idk I guess I should go look at monuments at night now, like the MacDo at the Champs-Elysees

magaliiiii relayed a joke by a comedian she recently saw, about the difference between the ways French and American women shop for clothes. American women go in giggling and are all, What do the numbers mean? Do you have a larger size in this? Have a good day! French women just pick out what they want, go into the dressing room, try it on, throw everything on the floor, and leave.

Tomorrow we are going Angelino's for hot chocolate, then hitting us up some Musees Picasso and Rodin. MAGALI HAS NEVER BEEN TO THE RODIN MUSEUM but she is yet young. Will also hang around the Madeleine in the 1er, maybe go to Colette, and to the cafe atop Printemps! It will be a day for comfortable shoes because today I wore heels and they killed my feet rarrrrr. I feel shamefully counter-Francaise. When I shop for clothes I must make sure to leave my dressing room looking like a bomb went off

( and here are some more places I want to see!!!!! )

Tags: it's warm isn't it, les cartes ont les cheeps

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19 November 2009 @ 01:49 pm

a moveable beast

Two hours in Paris and I have already gotten yelled at by the housekeeper of the Cite Internationale Etats Unis (she turned out to be ok though) and tripped over my suitcase at the RER station. I am very tired! I am going to take a nap while I wait for Magali to get out of class ♥ Soon we are going to get Vietnamese food. Then I will stay up all night working because I will be under the impression that it is the afternoon.

I started Adventures of Kavalier and Clay on the plane. A book I am always starting on long flights. I heard it is pretty gay though. Is this true????? Seems like it should be true. The beginning portion about Prague in 1939 always makes me cry not joking

In the subway today I found a French gamer magazine and read their review of Assassin's Creed 2 and it made me think of

halcyonjazz.

Tags: it's warm isn't it

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15 November 2009 @ 12:19 am

home!!!!

What a traveling month! I have lots to catch up on it seems ♥

whew

For now: two mixes for the early holiday seasonnnnn~

#1___ SWORDSPOINT + TPOTS, fan mix, Richard and Alec / 8tracks

.ZIP

#2___ November Mix, Mock-Retro Rocks / 8tracks

.ZIP

Tags: music recs, nude dudes getting busy, swordspoint, taco saturday

Current Music: Blitzen Trapper - Miss Spiritual Tramp | Powered by Last.fm

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11 November 2009 @ 03:34 pm

dudes and dudettes:

I have lost the power adapter to my MacBook and the vampires at the Apple store want $80, so before I pay them I can't do shit online. Waughhh and I just bought a nice sea-green, silk dress I will now have to return, because I can't have nice things. I am not not drawing yous I love you all so much sobbb.

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

Tags: just chillin in my underwear, where is natalia

Current Location: US, California, San Diego, San Diego, Mission Bay Dr, 4461

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08 November 2009 @ 04:19 pm

a good meme

DRAWME!

I am a very good artist who wants to draw all of you

sexually

ETA: SOON WALLPAPERING MY USER INFO FFFFFFFF SO GORGEOUS YOU GUYS

Tags: giant orgy

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08 November 2009 @ 03:43 am

so

Ladies on the twitters asked me to upload a clip of me singing karaoke at PMX
but I have something uh better

3AM ACOUSTIC HALLELUJAH CHORUS FFFF

ALSO I HAVE A PLURK
IT IS HERE I have 4 friends yesss

Tags: bonus materials, exciting news

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07 November 2009 @ 12:05 am

bgm: backstreet boys

✦ I am staffing PMX Karaoke at the LAX Hilton this weekend! Come on over and say hello ♥

✦ mikei_puu just posted EVERY DUCK TALES EPISODE

✦ Whoever linked my DSRK fst yesterday, thanks brahhh :Dvv /shame

Sometimes I forget how much I love things and the people who give me the things asdkjsa

so exciting:
Last week I got a package from

5cmprince!!
ILU LAWNY IT IS FULL OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS
And I got a copy of

innueneko's wonderful comic
And some other solid stuff

( MORE MORE MORE )

Tags: congripe, i am alive with the power of love, i swear i am replying to your comments

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02 November 2009 @ 10:41 pm

so lonely now

HOME. I want to do a properer Halloween post but I am tired after driving 600 miles and I still feel like someone punched me in the lip. I think I drunkenly bit the inside in my sleep??? on Friday night. When I woke up complaining that my mouth hurt, April was all, A LIKELY SIDE EFFECT OF YAOI CON!!!! lolol So then I shelved the comment about how much my hands hurt from hauling sharp-edged crates of Smirny all over the hotel sobbb sob son of a bitch I am still in pain

Late latelate Halloween night we all watched UP on my lap top. The version I have is very strange as the audio is dece but text is partially in French, so from time to time I had to translate: "Thanks for the adventure. Looking forward to the next one!" That is the portion that always gets me misty, the one where Frederickson leaves all his memorabilia on the clifftop so that his house might float again. This movie is intensely personal, someone's very real and real-world pain met and solved, dream-like, by a cheerful five-year-old. Which gives it a living, shining soul. Rare these days! I think we are all tired of Wacky Sidekicks, which Pixar, for one, either reinvents or leaves out entirely. Disney itself, conversely, has been rife since 90s. I blame Robin Williams in Alladdin, who played his part so well and so fittingly (pop-culture is not out of place with all-powerful Genies lol) that every movie since has tried to imitate his energy by hiring, like. Chris Rock. Or Danny DeVito. GET ON THE HYDRA'S BACK.

CON RE CAP except I didn't buy a badge or anything
it was weird I guess
I like

jibii's art
And

innueneko was so so cuuuute

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Tags: congripe, everyone else is cute, i am a hideous monster, nude dudes getting busy

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31 October 2009 @ 12:36 pm

brb gone north

Last night

jibii had a big party at the hotel.

dotiscute and I spent the night making drinks themed after Saiyuki which was the theme of the party lol. WE MADE $75 IN TIPS MAIDO MAIDO MAIDO :Dbbbb I don't know what Saiyuki is about exactly but I think it is about four dudes who smoke cigarettes and fight crime (?) with magic (?) and have sex with each other a lot. At first I thought they were assassins but then I realized I was thinking of Aryan Flower Shop

Here are some photos about my week

I miss you guys ;A;
I am listening to the Raidou Drama CD2 and crying

Tags: congripe, i am a hideous monster, it's warm isn't it

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27 October 2009 @ 02:22 am

dananana

I made a play list for DSRK: King Abaddon. It is also @ 8tracks.

catiechu overheard it and was all, ...DSRK = Starsky & Hutch in Taisho Tokyo?
And I was like ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ

Stay tuned for even manlier NaruRai mix made entirely of doo wop (not kidding)

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idek:
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➊ Lollarious DSRK go-to band. I suspect 落陽 is about rocking/sunsets
➋ Akane??? ---> Incests
➌ ? Gays (note doo wop bridge)
➍ Gouto. Lol the ladies' answer to

canis_m's Setzer selection :3333
➎ Tae?
➏ Demons. Catie sent me this! Gosh I love Cambodia!! Also Catie
➐ Incest bonus!!!!!!
➑ Weird choice lol;;; ---> non geisha context >:| tsuyoku naritai Nagi
➒ WHERE IS THE OPTION FOR YES (note doo wop)
➓ I'm hungry
⓫ Gays
⓬ ? (while listening I think of gays)

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bonus track:
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN GENTLEMEN. ♥

Tags: dsrk, jammin, mfy it's gouto, music recs, my beautiful dream

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25 October 2009 @ 02:25 pm

☆ﾐ(o*･ω･)ﾉ

Guys can we do one of those GET 2 KNOW U memes where you ask me a question about anything and I answer it? Except in this version I get to ask you a question back and you answer it. Then you can ask me another question if you feel like which you probably won't but lol that's just the idea ♥

Tags: cakes, jammin

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24 October 2009 @ 03:38 pm

point formz

Haha I just got home and I smell pretty gross. It is a beach day

⦾ THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES ETC ETC
Move over, Unforgiven! We watched this last night to the point of collectively screaming BANG! BANG ALREADY! at the screen. And mind I was the only one conscious of BL tropes at work. Beautiful cinematography, complete with Ridley Scott's trademark shot of the hero's hand hovering sensually over a sea of wheat stalks. Admittedly slow and not for everyone. Most realistic gunfights ever: two dudes five feet apart, emptying at each-other and missing 10 consecutive shots. Also: superman gay. SUPERMAN GAY, I im-ed Muun over and over in disbelief and glee. Then I cried.

⦾ Y-CON

dotiscute and I are attending this year! We are cosplaying post-timeskip Claymores. I just read some of the manga and found out who Miria is and I am pretty stoked to dress up like her! She is like the Auron of this story.

innueneko is going to the con as well! And I am super excited to DJ this Halloween party.

⦾ NANO
In the tank this year. Am hardly capable of novels, but I would like to get a) over myself, and b) more mileage from current original concept a la Five Short Stories Set In Fake Mexico City. Like the one where Lavinia Perregia catches a bicycle thief, or the one where Nora and Anton Tusori make cinnamon twists and rifles, respectively. I dream of attempting Yuletide, among other things, so this shall be slightly easier practice in disciplined production. Writing is so intensely hard ugh how are you all so brave.

⦾ DOLLHOUSE
While I do not actually uh, like this series, I am increasingly impressed by what it is doing. Last night's ep especially. Can't remember the last time TV brought me something this sharp and fearless. Maybe if there were less Blue Steel Eliza Dushku Face and more high-concept Descartes stuff, and woman stuff, and human rights stuff, Whedon's high-browest show wouldn't be all but off the air right now. I concur with this parable. oof

Tags: quién es caliente?, reviews of things i saw, whores

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21 October 2009 @ 02:28 pm

mon francais est hyper hilarant

Just found me sum bargain tickets to Paris for later sdsadas;cantbreathe
sort of panicking

Will sleep on Magali's floor and subsist like ~~Hemingway~~ a filthy, half-frozen transient in the same pair of riding boots and jeans, and I will have to work while I am there, but I get to use M's student pass to get into all the museums hufhuff

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+ stuff:

BERTELLI Biciclette Assemblate

BLACK JOE LEWIS - Get Yo Shit

Tags: exciting news, it's warm isn't it

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18 October 2009 @ 12:16 pm

miss u :C

October mix is up @ 8tracks.

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Night By Night

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NYC Moves to the Sound of LA

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Light Powered

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Goodbye Silhouette

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Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Mix)

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Warm Heart of Africa (Ft. Ezra Koenig)

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D.A.N.C.E. (Alan Brax & Fred Falke Mix)

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Oh! (Friendly Fires Remix)

dotiscute and I had the Chromeo single on repeat in the car last night. I am pretty stoked for the new album!!!! ~~if only to have fresh fodder for a Balthier FST~~

Idk whether you guys like loud shouty rock like Funeral Party's (their Carwars song is popular), but I am a sucker for hand claps.

I thought "Silhouette" was mediocre up until those minor string harmonies started veering in all sorts of unexpected directions!

The Very Best + Vampire Weekend is such a meta combination! Since VW likes incorporating traditional African elements and Esau Mwamwaya must feel homesick sometimes.

Deastro makes me think of wizards C:

I am ~6 selections up on my DSRK fst. IT DEMANDS PERFECTION. For the road to San Fran later this month, Emma and I will each be bringing the most glorious of our fan mix efforts. Hopefully I will unveil my latest then, to an unbiased audience as it were

Tags: jammin, music recs

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