How do you feel today?

Sartori

Ponygurl said:
^ That's when you say.."Does this bump on my lip look like herpes to you?" ..then keep touching your mouth.

Come on then...let's all think of more blowoff lines!

One which worked the wrong way when I was 18 -

Young lady - "Do you mind if I sit next to you ?"
Me - "No you can`t , but you can sit on my face"

iuventus

:-q

Ponygurl

Whickwithy said:

Ponygurl said:
...let's all think of more blowoff lines!
"Would you like to hear my armpit routine?"

Yes.

Whickwithy

Ponygurl said:

Whickwithy said:

Ponygurl said:
...let's all think of more blowoff lines!
"Would you like to hear my armpit routine?"

Yes.

That's NOT the way it's supposed to go!!!!! But, since you asked...

cw37frapp

I know it bugs people on here but, I have got a really heavy cold. I knew it was starting last night. Anyway i will not moan again. I will be tough and carry on regardless.

Hells_Bells · Post edited by Hells_Bells at 2014-02-20 17:19:25

Relieved to get the OK from my optician after having a painful eye yesterday making it bloodshot and sore. Vision was still blurred to day but he says all is OK and it was a minor infection. A few special eye drops later and much better.

cw37frapp

That sounds nasty. I would find it a nightmare getting the drops into my eyes. Also i would not be able to put contact lenses in.

rewak

You could drive a railroad spike through my head and i wouldn't even notice.

cw37frapp

Still got my cold but so what ?. A free day so i am off to Wigan shopping.

Hells_Bells

Had a really nice night out with the girls but the booze is making me feel like I want to pick a fight with someone mentally and physically. Pent up anger and not felt like that before =))

cw37frapp

Mixed feelings today. Stuffy nose. My Rugby League team lost. But England RU won their 6 nations match.

The_Carpathian · Post edited by The_Carpathian at 2014-02-22 19:02:56

Overflowing, in a good way.

Last night had two hours of Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive which, it turns out was sumptuous and intoxicating - Tilda Swinton especially. I've seen other Frappers have watched it too and loved it so that was extra excellent. Always nice to see others having the same fun. {waves at Caro}

This morning I got up to a parcel via Berlin courtesy of Carmen & Tomás from the Argentinian band Mueran Humanos. It was even hand-sent by Tomás himself judging by the post label! Seems to be loads of extra stuff more than expected - they seem to be such lovely people!

This afternoon, one of my favourite musical artists, Devin Townsend, launched a new album pledge thing for a very personal labour-of-love ("Casualties Of Cool") which seems to have exploded beyond all expectation for him to the extent that he already has so much pledge money he's donating to some animal sanctuaries as a bonus! Having been a fan of his for years and having met him a few times I'm really chuffed for him that he can now see how much all us fans love him. Such a true gentleman.

Then this evening (well, the whole of it) subjected myself to the "One Night Stand" event for Nymphomaniac, the new Lars Von Trier 4 hour plus two movie set in the cinema. Bold, bizarre, hilarious, odd, explicit, cold, intriguing, hard, wrong, mesmerising, unwatchable yet impossible to look away. Typical of his work but swerving from brutal to sexually explicit to genuinely hilarious from minute to minute.

As a weekend so far I'm sated and tomorrow I think I'll take time breathe out as Tuesday sees the start of "Frapp Month" with my Manc trip to the Lowry then cinema then gig. After purposefully taking my foot off the Goldfrapp Gas for a few weeks (I'm learning to pace myself, hence the back seat on here for a bit) it's now very much time to accelerate again.

So yeah, how do I feel today?

Full. Wonderfully full.

A_is_A

Hi Carpy,
You're the second GMB'er to give Nymphomaniac the thumbs up. Since it is so very long, part of me had secretly been hoping it wouldn't be good enough to merit a whole Sunday afternoon. Now I'm actually considering it. I hesitate with time consuming events because every once in a while i think about Paul Bowls line from "A Sheltering Sky":

"How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."

-This thought makes me want to rush out into the real world and absorb everything I can. Until, like you say above, one feels the great overcome of satiation.

Wouldn't it be great to have that feeling everyday. I want that everyday, I think it's important we should try.

I'm rambling now :D You were missed X

ping

^ I kinda get what you mean A, but you get pleasure from different things so I guess it depends what you're in to?
Your comments particularly resonated with me cause the friend I went with has recently been diagnosed with cancer and it looks like a really tough road ahead for him, and he is processing the idea that time maybe genuinely limited. But films are a massive part of his life and are what he loves and there was no way he wasn't coming to see it!

The_Carpathian · Post edited by The_Carpathian at 2014-02-24 06:10:21

I'll warn you - it's a very heavy and full four hours. You will see things you didn't want to see and many things you didn't expect to see but if you have ever followed Von Trier's work then I'm sure you know to expected the unexpected/unwanted anyway. He pushes our buttons and we respond - that's kinda the rule. It will be affecting, probably in a mixture of gladness and repulsion.

All that said, I'm very glad I went and submerged myself in his world for that time. It actually feels now, after the fact, like one normal length film in my head - not at all like some sort of marathon to be endured. It kinda flew by. There were moments you could literally feel the whole cinema push back into their seat in complete pin-drop silence and other times where you'd think you were at a Hollywood comedy from the laughter.

You're absolutely right though. This should be in the film thread but it has a bearing here as much as anywhere.

We are, directly and indirectly, the culmination of the things we do and the things we have done to us. We only have real control over one of those two so we should do our damnedest to make that 50% the best we can.

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