It Begins Again

[poliphilo]

And it seems only yesterday we were all worrying about the Millennium bug.

We don't usually stay up for the New Year but we did this time. We were watching a show about the 100 most annoying people of 2008. The winner- if that's the right word- beating the likes of Peaches Geldorf, Calum Best and Heather Mills McCartney- talentless nobodies with a link to a deservedly famous person- was a woman I'd never heard of called Agyness Deyn. She's a model. Apart from the name (which was constructed for her by a numerologist- apparently the two y's are really, really lucky) she seems entirely blameless. Ailz suggested women hate her for being beautiful.



There were drunks on the street in the small hours, venting and lamenting. They went on and on and on. Do drunks not feel the cold? 
 
My New year's resolution (no-one actually expects you to keep these things, do they?) is to take up painting again.

Comments

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, I don't think she (if that is her) is remotely beautiful, but then I have never gone for the androgynous look anyway. If anything, it is the silly name that is a turn-off for me. And no, drunks do not feel the cold, but that also leads to a lot of them meeting their end here in Sweden due to hypothermia.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm rather into androgyny- being somewhat androgynous myself.

Also Agyness is an Oldhamer. She comes from Failsworth- just a couple of miles down the road from here. You gotta root for the local girl!

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

There's a song by the Wailin' Jennys - Starlight. It seems that in midwest Canada (she named the town, when I saw them, but I have totally forgotten it now), in winter, when a First Nation (we call them Native Americans in this country) denizen gets drunk, the police drive him (or her,I would guess) to the point furthest away from town, relieve that person of their outside clothing - jackets, hat, gloves - and have them take the Starlight Tour. That means they walk all they way home - on the far side of town.

I have toured the endless starlight
take me home
I have shattered under midnight
take me home
There are no vultures in this clearing
Except the ones who brought me here
And I'll no longer feed them
take me home

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, because I sure don't think she is beautiful. She DOES remind me a bit of a Hemingway, though. (Margaux or Marielle).

I didn't know that you had painted. I'd love to see some of your work.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think she's cute, but then I like the androgynous look.

I haven't painted in many years. I posted an old painting of mine just before Christmas. Remember the guy with two heads?

[(Anonymous)]

Painting - yes a good idea to take it up again. Will look forward to seeing your work. I've liked your fresh and inventive paintings...
Ian and I are fine with you posting some wedding images. Off to see friends now in Canterbury.
Happy New Year! We saw the new year in on the old bridge (in your photo) looking at fireworks both near and far and having a surreptitious dance and skip. How about you two?
Jenny

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

What a splendidly scenic place to see the New Year in!

We were slumped in front of the telly, I'm afraid. We clinked our glasses to Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe.

I suspect any paintings I produce now will be very different from what I was doing ten years back.

I'll post some wedding pictures, then. Gosh, but there are a lot to choose from!

Doesn't antifreeze...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

Contain alcohol?

Re: Doesn't antifreeze...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think it probably does.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

In fairness to Heather Mills, she did do SOMETHING before she met Paul, helping amputees and getting involved in landmine charities. She may not be all that likeable, but going by some of the shit that's been thrown at her you would swear she barbecued babies for breakfast.

I think it's the Beatle Wife Syndrome myself. One joke used to go: Q: What do you call a cow with wings? A. Linda McCartney

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You're quite right, of course. The media almost universally sided with Paul- that silly, self-important, over-indulged, old man. Some of the things he allegedly did to Heather (of course she may not have been telling the truth) were disgusting.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I'd say Heather was liable to fantasise. However there was a great skit of her and Paul in some C4 show where Paul would follow her around the house turning off the lights she left on and saying "Because I'm a right bastid".

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

It might be beauty, but she is certainly not making the most of it. Also, I do not understand why a (beautiful) woman would want to be a "boy".
As a gay male friend of mine maintains: "Why would I want to be with a female impersonator when it is males I like? If I wanted a woman I would be with women!" I believe that same idea holds true for the female.
My idea of gay female beauty is the TV star Ellen DeGeneres - she is always herself, does not attempt to be anything else, and she is truly a beautiful person, inside and out. I told one of my gay male friends that if I were a lesbian, Ellen would be my ideal. Since I am not, handsome Harrison Ford is my film hero.
And yes, please please do start painting again!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, there's no accounting for sexual taste. and in Agyness's defence I have to point out that I chose the most androgynous picture on offer. She doesn't always dress like a boy.

I like gay women- more fool me- and married one first time round.

[wolfshift.livejournal.com]

I've always thought Ellen Degeneres is beautiful. And fun, and interesting, and intelligent.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

She smokes... that annoys me. *L*

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'd like to think the cigarette is just a prop she was using for that particular photo shoot.

[pecosbill.livejournal.com]

Sounds almost like Agnus Dei, but somehow the angry countenance and the cigarette don't fit well with that name.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Of course! I hadn't spotted that, but no doubt I'd registerered the resonance subconsciously.

[wolfshift.livejournal.com]

Drunks do not seem to feel the cold. That's why you get sports fans in December and January with their shirts off and their torsos painted in their team's colours. It's "liquid courage".