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Oh, that's so lovely. Jarvis reads Icelandic folk tales. Just think, if you had a baby, you could leave it listening to Jarvis reading it Icelandic folk tales on its iPod as it drifted off to sleep, and it would grow up to be the most amazing child ever.
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Has anyone been to Iceland? Me and my mate Joe Speck, every year we say we'll pop over to Reykjavic. Joe's mate's cousin has a big house there. Every year we say we're gonna go. Ah well, maybe next year eh?
Forward planning yeah. I should start befriending Icelandics on Myspace.
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hahaha! you have TOO much time on your hands London. Good photo-shop (I presume) skillz though. Shouldn't EMOtalk have a link to myspace and a section on where to buy the best ruck-sacks and black, thick framed glasses from? Posts: 44
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Oh I didn't do that! That was one of our resident 'shop geniuses, ...not (xequalszero on last.fm). When I was downhearted in January I accidentally turned the entire board into total emo land, so he made this.
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Oh. not is xequalszero on last.fm. I thought it was Mikee. Otherwise I wouldn't have been so quick to accept his pathetic be my friend invitation.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Why jealous and/or hateful?
Because she's gorgeous and talented, and lives in a beautiful place, and has two lovely children, and they have adventures together, and they seem really cool and not too grow-your-own-quinoa and has it all sorted and is younger than me. Mainly.
quote:Originally posted by herbs: Because she's gorgeous and talented, and lives in a beautiful place, and has two lovely children, and they have adventures together, and they seem really cool and not too grow-your-own-quinoa and has it all sorted and is younger than me.
See, I just can't muster up those feelings (towards her; I get it for other people, all the time). It all seemed a bit... self-absorbed to me, a bit like there's a barrier between her photos and real-life. Like that one of her kid, on the first page. I dunno. It reminded me so much of those huge books you get when you work in media, that have all the gazillions of photos in them that you can use to demonstrate anything you want. All these pretty pictures, so well composed but devoid of meaning to the point where ten magazines use them to illustrate ten different things. I dunno. I always think pictures of kids are - you know - blurry stupid shots of children eating sand. Not "look enigmatic for mummy"! Obviously real life doesn't look anything like that, so it seems absurd to get jealous about those pics, in the same way as you wouldn't expect to get jealous whilst thumbing through posters in Athena.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Obviously real life doesn't look anything like that, so it seems absurd to get jealous about those pics, in the same way as you wouldn't expect to get jealous whilst thumbing through posters in Athena.
I don't know... I still get pangs when I see that knickerless tennis player.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: "look enigmatic for mummy"
lol.
I see what you mean. One can but hope that she goes to such lengths to airbrush her life because she's in fact really unhappy and empty inside because her husband is in fact a gay. Or something.
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And you just know that Iceland is one of those places that are fantastic to visit but bleak as all fuck if you live there.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: And you just know that Iceland is one of those places that are fantastic to visit but bleak as all fuck if you live there.
This is true apparently! The Icelandic girl who John went out with after me who he has now dumped says that it's really boring. I mean, I look at her Flickr from the Iceland days and it looks gorgeous also, all bathing in hot springs and the like, with gorgeous friends who all have arty jobs and beautiful kids, but she's just moved to London despite the end of her relationship because she was desperate to get here. I WANT TO LIVE IN ICELAND. Get me away from here I'm dying, &c.
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Iceland is tiny. 400,000 people I think. Incredible landscapes and I hear Reykjavic is a fun city and the country is rich and cultured and nice and bliss.
Damon Albairn ran away to Iceland to sort his head out. Apparently a stock joke on the stand-up comedy circuit there is about all the Little Damons running around (probably factually incorrect but whatever).
Yeah, last time I went down this road with Poppy I ended up running away to Asia for ten months. This time I just need a weekend away from my stupid life. Thinking Berlin actually. Or somewhere rural with a lake.
I reckon Iceland is really nice and would be alright to live. they have pixies and stuff
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That Icelandic lady's 'artsy' shots are great: it's like watching a frame by frame breakdown of an advert for financial products that hasn't quite made the flipchart ==> coherent advert transition, and yet which has cost so much fucking money that everyone on the project board waves it through because it seems like the kind of image that they want for their brand (ie. as far removed as possible from the grim reality of outsourced call handling, bleak office units in Chessington, Sorry, etc).
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