Comments | benchilada: Where aren't you now?

benchilada

Where aren't you now?

Sep 25, 2007 15:21

You could just say, "I'm happy with how everything is now." But there's that other life, isn't there?

So…
TELL ME ABOUT IT.

Tell me where Parallel Universe You is right now.

EDIT: Feel free to be completely "King of the Moon" fictional about this, but I'm most interested in the REAL scenarios. The ones you dwell on some nights...

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toreinne September 25 2007, 21:14:00 UTC

I'm sitting with my dad, learning LotusScript.

benchilada September 25 2007, 21:58:15 UTC

Oh, girl...

toreinne September 26 2007, 06:28:25 UTC

Or just someone without allergies and asthma. That'd be frickin awesome. I'd love to ride a horse.

anonymous September 25 2007, 21:35:27 UTC

I never went to college. In high school I had some sort of awakening, some sort of revelation. I took up music, the guitar, the trumpet, jazz percussion. By 20 I had visited Spain, Monaco, Greece, and North Africa, and by 23 I'd left the US entirely.

Now I'm wandering the former Soviet republics, doing enough work to get by, staying as 'local' as I can to stay out of trouble, and learning every instrument I can find. I spent eight months with a kopuz teacher on the southern shores of the Black Sea, and another five learning cigirtma and contemplating quintive scales in the mountains of Georgia. In Azerbaijan I spent two years playing naqareh and and ghaval in a mugam troupe. Despite my best intentions, I never quite grasped the throat singing, and I always just missed finding religion. In a calm period in Russian Ingushetia, I lived with a man who made zurnas by hand; it became my favorite, and I learned to make them with the care and precision that he did ( ... )

benchilada September 25 2007, 22:01:11 UTC

I want to make this movie.

The soundtrack would be a three-disc set.

subtly_modded September 25 2007, 21:35:38 UTC

I act in horror movies. I am a monster at times, a victim at others. I get to sit in a makeup chair and practice lines, miss out on important events and then return from shooting somewhere remote and catch up on everything over wine and darts and food. I get to yell and scream and get covered in blood. I get to kill and love and protect. I fuck the wrong person and then fuck the right person and then act incredibly stupid and then manage to make it out, broken but *alive*. I pose and snarl and sigh beautifully and die.

benchilada September 25 2007, 22:02:26 UTC

Jesus fuck, that is perfect.
Immaculate.

Your autobiography will be called Pose, Snarl, Sigh Beautifully and Die.

subtly_modded September 25 2007, 22:15:09 UTC

My, you certainly do know how to make a girl smile!

kikibear14 September 25 2007, 21:43:55 UTC

I'm pretty content with my everyday life- and I've worked pretty hard to get there...but sometimes when I'm out walking around with my headphones on- I imagine that I'm Brazilian...tall- I look a lot like Penelope Cruz- COMPLETELY different body type from my own...and I'm a ballet dancer...and really sunny...I would live in a big city like New York and I've had an amazing dance career--and now- at the ripe old age of 24- I'm retired- teaching little kids dance in the village...I have a really cute apartment and I still have my cats and Estabon...we somehow managed to meet and fall madly in love...I came from a pretty poor family in Rio- I have a little brother named Papito and he loves to play soccer...and I'm working on getting my citizenship- and my friends throw me a big party like the 4th of July after I pass my exam...it's all very lovely ( ... )

benchilada September 25 2007, 22:07:24 UTC

Brazilian? FANTASTIC!

Heh...just can't shake him, can you? I wonder, though...would he fall madly in love with the Brazilian dancer who lives in a small village? Or rather, would he be able to stay in love with her?

The 4th of July party is a nice touch.

kikibear14 September 26 2007, 15:59:30 UTC

Of course he would! Ezzy would not be able to resist my dangly G-Fab gold earrings!:) I don't view Brazilian KiKi as a separate entity...more like a personification of a certain part of my personality...she's my inner golden girl who is never afraid to shine...she walks a little taller...therefore making me walk a little taller whenever I think of her-she's the best part of me-I just wish I could be her ALL the time!- and while I would never subject the general public to it- I love wearing short-shorts in the comfort of my own home:)

anonymous September 25 2007, 22:37:19 UTC

1) Men are a smorgasbord, and I'm making a long dinner of it.

2) I'm living with the man I'm having an affair with, and loving it.

3) There was a very special moment, an almost-kiss, back in high school. If that kiss actually happened...

4) If someone I love hadn't been born with a neurological disorder.

zehara September 25 2007, 23:03:22 UTC

Men are a smorgasbord, and I'm making a long dinner of it.

Fantastic.

benchilada September 26 2007, 00:09:18 UTC

That really is a fantastic line...

benchilada September 26 2007, 00:16:03 UTC

1) Zounds. Oh, to have been alive in 1965,
2) That's a new twist,
3) I had one of those, but it was the opposite. What if I'd told her no?
4) If *I* hadn't been born with a neurological disorder...