October 31, 2004

dichotomy

Strange.

An evening spent with old friends (old in both the worldly-wise and the time) sense.

Chased up with a night with the youth. Also valued people, but a very different perspective. Talk isn't of responsibility and pregnancy and future plans, but lust and fast love and another pace of life. Yes, I'm being harsh.

So depressing.

I don't want to be a part of the pubby clubby worthless dancy culture any more. I'm done with that, I moved on. So tired. So impatient. So unsatisfied. It's not wrong, I'm just worn out on that (and so many other things).

How do I meet my Guinivere?

I'm excruciatingly conscious that my life's love won't be found in a pub or a nightclub (never mind the nagging feeling that I found it and misplaced it). It's tenuous at best to hope it will be a friend of a friend, or someone I happily meet through lucky acquaintance. So I stare out of the window at a familiar scene of the last 12 years of my life, and wonder where I've gone.

And then the cab journey home, and suddenly life and faith is restored with the merry tales of one guy trying to make a living, by ferrying drunk people around late at night. Humanity hits home in a dozen different homilies, and all is almost right with the world once more.

What's up with that?

Posted by savs at October 31, 2004 1:15 AM
Comments

Guinivere? She hangs out at the Dog & Fox in Wimbledon village; my girlfriend has seen her there.

(Did you know, though, that they did some ... uh.. "work" on Keira for those photos? Tanned her a bit, touched up her boobs [with photoshop obviously :) ])

Posted by: Alex Hudson at October 31, 2004 2:08 PM

Not surprised they did some photoshop work ... are any publicity shots untouched these days?

Posted by: Andrew Savory at October 31, 2004 3:33 PM

As far as my limited knowledge extends, no. I was trying to use the phrase "touched up" to invoke a suitable single entendre, though - what they actually did was inflate them somewhat substantially (on the movie poster), whereas in real life she's not quite so well endowed.

It is a bit sad, though, when you look at magazines and you know most of the images are fake in some way. Many people have complexes about how they look, and it's because they compare themselves to images which are strictly unobtainable. It seems somewhat pointless to me, because it's not like Keira Knightley is somehow unattractive in real life, or that whatever imperfections she might have make her less attractive. ISTR they also gave her some big hair digitally too.

Posted by: Alex Hudson at October 31, 2004 4:17 PM