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Just saving the link off...

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Checking In With Robyn Hitchcock from Bonnaroo on Vimeo.

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[elle_icit]

Wow...his grandfather in laws 100th birthday!!! My friends great aunt had her 99th birthday three months ago and she is in great health...really spry and with it. An inspiration.

[me_pirateship]

99! Wow

[elle_icit]

Yes....how wonderful he describes himself as a flamingo. :-)

What a good life eh. How lucky is he?....how can it get any better than this? To do what you love, have fun, meet and work with loads of interesting people and travel in the sun.......fab.

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BA...? Bloggers Anonymous? *LOL* Answer to your comment below

[elle_icit]

Yep....cheese beats acid anytime...*LOL*

Wow..you have a good memory as I can only vaguely remember that conversation....I remember the golf courses and talking about saving water....I remember being pleased when we decided to go to the mountains when the road to the country park was closed. :-) That was a great day! (Well they all were.)

Whaaat? *LOL* You've only just finished it? *LOL* And how could you bother to continue reading knowing the end and that Ramsey dies? I didn't actually blame Lawrence for having an affair as Irena wasn't really in the relationship was she? She was always kind of....absent. Only with him because she couldn't think of anything else to do with herself. (same with Ramsey)I never quite saw what was attractive about Ramsey and I think she only chose him because she identified with him so much. I'm afraid I found her most annoying as a character....not very likeable at all...... except towards the end perhaps, when she showed a little independence personality and backbone.

[me_pirateship]

Looking forward to seeing you in 2 weeks! *hugs

[elle_icit]

Nooo...*LOL* How can you do that with detective stories?

Lawrence was bored but was willing to be seduced by his colleague. Yep...change....the enemy of most.:-)) I couldn't identify with her at all and found I wanted to shake her. No...it def wasn't a sexy book....but I did think it was very honest and perceptive about relationships. I also got the impression that there was a fair amount of auto biographical stuff....if not factual then feelings wise.

Erm....it takes a lot more than 'abdominal muscles' He had the intellect, empathy and sensitivity of a guppy I'd say. *LOL*

Erm...what? Help him die? I thought the book was about relationships, choices and self awareness....Irena not having much....mainly because she didn't allow herself any. It WAS pretty negative...and could have ended positively.....but didn't. Because she was so stupid and couldn't see beyond either/or. She couldn't see any possibilities and just went with what life gave her or sent her way. She was SO annoying.

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Yes, autobiographical, I also got that feeling. But in an identifying way... the author was not shedding light on things, but agrees with Irena. *LOL* The book would have been so good if it was de-masking people's behaviour. Most readers don't see Irena's problems, I guess, and the author doesn't point them out as she doesn't see them either. There is an afterword by the author in my copy... which shows that Irena's self-awareness is not the topic. Shriver fully identifies with Irena. She defends the book as being about a modern type of anti-feminist woman who is feminist nevertheless as she sticks to her opoinions and thus is very strong. *LOL* Moreover, she doesn't make any use of the concept she's developed and which could be so interesting. She doesn't explore the posibilities of "parallel universes" depending on choices at all... Irena didn't make use of her choices, the two stories were the same, esentially, because Irina was the same... and what does splitting Irena's world into two parallel-realities imply? What does it say

[elle_icit]

Strong? Feminist? Is she for real?

The parallel universe angle could have been really interesting. Irena didn't have any choice! She didn't give herself any. How strong and feminist was that?

Hmmmm...reality seems to take place in Irena's subjective mind. A very small world....which is negative and self punishing with....NO choice. *LOL*

Yes...I think I received all your mails sweety...just been incredibly busy. Can't go to The Rose...no time. Btw...I was confused between the Rose and the Globe when I asked you if you'd been.

Yes...I'm thinking Jewish....but non practicing...perhaps never has done. *shrug* Is that significant for you?

[me_pirateship]

I fear she is

[elle_icit]

*LOL* Of course you will never be marked 'spam' *hopping on one leg* Hugs.

The Jewish quarter of Prague was fab....I could have lived there. But then I'm sure I've been Jewish in another life....or a few other lives. Looking forward to visiting Furth....looks nice.

[me_pirateship]

Have been listening to "A Star for Bram" all day while packing the flat into boxes

[elle_icit]

He sounds as mad as you sweety.:-)

Looking forward to being with you in a couple of weeks. Have you booked other stuff or might you like to go see that link I sent you? Or just follow the energy? You and S. seem to be quite good at that...but more practice could be good.

I'm so pleased for you about your new flat.

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Probably the reason why I "digest" his songs as "me-music"... *LOL*

In a couple of weeks?! *LOL* Friday NEXT week! :-)))) Errrrmmmm.... will you be there? Sure? *LOL*

Not booking anything more because of grandma - but we can go and follow the energy. Or'll just fall in trance in the presence of Robyn... and only wake up when it's time to board the plane... buzzzzzz... I might fly back with my own green wings, I'm a fly, after all.

Thanks... somehow the old flat takes revenge, though. We keep getting injured moving out there... the last thing was that Stefan has cut off the tip of his right thumb (he'll be fine).

[elle_icit]

Sorry...just came back from the fringe.....my timing is all out and I'm forgetting what day of the week it is never mind what week. Yes of course I'll be here.

Ok....we always end up with great possibilities if we follow the energy. Hope grandma is going to recover sweety.

Oh no *sharp intake of breath and cringe* Poor S. Kiss it better for him. Did he loose the tip or were you able to have it sewed back on?

[me_pirateship]

See you on Friday!!!! :-)

Grandma isn't better but she's not worse, either. Somewhere between life and death. She won't decide for a while where she wants to go...

It's only a flesh wound, the bone isn't injured. He wanted to unscrew some brass parts from an old glass lamp for recycling, the lamp cracked and cut off the very tip of his thumb. At the hospital he was told to hold up his thumb... so he's been doing an "OK" sign for a week now... with a bloddy thumb... *LOL* (The wound is closing quickly, but he has sucessfully removed his fingerprint... when might this come in usefull? *LOL*)