dee - viscerate.com

GIRL
Diana Evans
called Dee
since May 25th, 1980
terrorising inner-city Melbourne
consuming flat whites
producing words, hers and other people's
contact dee [at] viscerate [dot] com

SITE
viscerate.com
consisting of personal reflections
photography by Amy Q
archives here

Saturday, July 01, 2000

Looks like I told a lie. viscerate.com is perfectly operational!

Brand new and now up and running. Dee (the artist formerly known as x) presents her domain, finally. Please let me know if there are any problems anywhere. Please let me know if you like it. :-)

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Tarsh is back. Go and worship. :-)

And I feel a bit better. Thank you for your sympathy. I don't know what's happening with the domain. It should be up already, but isn't. Time to growl at people, I think...

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Friday, June 30, 2000

I am not well. At all. E-sympathy would be delightful.

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Thursday, June 29, 2000

I am fatigued. A deep, soul-stumbling fatigue. I am too tired to deliver a plethora of amusing lines and linkies. I am too tired, full stop.

Last night the posse and I went gothing. I won a CD by a group named Funker Vogt - wait, hang on, that link won't do you any good unless you speak German. Try the English fan site instead. I won this CD by dancing very well, apparently. Apart from that, the night was still fantastic, and even the rain on the walk home couldn't dampen my spirits.

The early start with hangover the next morning could certainly do it, though. And the seven straight hours of work (cleaner at my college) merely compounded the problem. Legs already worn out by dancing have been stretched to a new level by stairs and corridors. I feel a heavy fatigue I have not felt in a long time (since the old glory days of slumber parties and netball).

In any case, the working state of affairs will likely continue for some time yet, so don't expect heaps of posts from me in the next week.

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Went out last night. Won a CD. Had a blast. Had to get up early to work. Feel awful. Details later.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2000

Dammit. I'm only 56% insane. I'll just have to try harder in future. [Thanks to Zannah]

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As part of my ongoing quest to bring you the best and strangest, I present: The Peculiar Art of Mr. Frahm. A wonderful showcase of one of the most indecipherable artists ever to grace the canvas. View and be flabberghasted. And thoroughly amused.

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I love reading the New Zealander. It's a newspaper for NZ ex-pats living in Australia, and it has the bizarrest news items ever seen. I'm not sure whether this is actually all the newsworthy events happening in NZ, or if they're actally trying to be amusing. They certainly manage it. Today's gem was a page 2 article about how four female students from Massey University are apparently selling their used underwear on the internet to help pay for their education. As a diligent blogger, I have of course been trying to get a visual on the site in question, but haven't had any luck thus far (but have had an eye-opening experience typing "massey university panties" into a search engine).

Official reactions to the actions of these first-year students ranged from the SA president's disgusted and vitriolic attack on the actions as being bad for women's lib and whatnot, to the national Rape Crisis spokeswoman declaring that the girls were entrepeneurs and good on them, considering how long it usually took women to pay off their university debt.

Personally, I agree with the latter opinion. Good on them. Absolutely.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2000

I've done it! (Well, clean it up.) I have forked out the dosh and got my own domain. The registration all went through today and viscerate.com should be up and running very, very shortly (read, two or three days). In the meantime, I shall continue my merry exploits here at visage.cx (hey, I'll be neighbours when I move out!). And I'll give notice when I leave.

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Someone once told me that included somewhere in Kurt Cobain's suicide note was the phrase: "It's better to burn out than to fade away." This vaguely bothered me, nibbling away at the back of consciousness until I suddenly realised where I'd heard it before. Highlander - the movie, NOT the series - when the Kurgan and Campbell are talking in a church, and as the Kurgan leaves the church, he shouts out: "It's better to burn out than to fade away!" Interesting, considering the respective dates. Quotation or merely echoing sentiment without knowledge of plagiarisation? Answers on the back of a postcard.

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Finally, after weeks of waiting, I made it to see Mission: Impossible II as a post-exam treat with Kr. It was a whole heap of fun, I mean serious fun. The kick-ass John Woo factor should not be overestimated - some parts simply reek of his influence (in a good way). There were other parts where Tom Cruise's character is simply too cool for words.

However, fun as it was, I was not a large fan of the storyline. I infinitely prefer the subtler, more involved premise of the first movie. Yet Woo himself said that was something he specifically didn't like. Interesting. It's just that the first storyline was so much more challenging. The second one is straightforward action-wise, but more involved emotion-wise. Yet still not emotionally deep enough to sustain interest in that area.

Still, I liked it. It's fun. I give it a thumbs up.

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I love anything that tells me my "new magickal name" is Frolicking Beach Ball. Yeah baby! [Thanks to Firda]

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Chris @ BoyLOG asks, well, repeats someone else's question of: "Why do you keep a weblog?" I think it is a pertinent question, and I suspect that a lot of the time the truthful answer would be: "Because a lot of cool people do it." (We've talked about my cynicism before.)

For me, if I'm being entirely honest, that is at least partly the answer. I started doing it because I saw a lot of cool blogs, and I wanted to have a go. But once I started... it felt right. (That sounds so cheezy!) It's an excellent way for me to express myself. I can slot everything in here. I can be as flippant or as meaningful as I like. It's an eclectic medium for an eclectic person.

So I guess I keep my blog because it's the best way I've found of expressing myself online. And it's fun, fun, FUN! :-)

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Monday, June 26, 2000

Blogging waaaaay too much today. I'm going to shut up and do something more productive. Like writing. See you all (all? peers into the auditorium) tomorrow.

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My new, fantastic find. Someone I once met who was brilliant then, and is brilliant now. Australians! We rule! Visit Lizz at gallia.org.

Meanwhile, someone at rainy.net is having a whinge about "isfuckingbrilliant". Personally, I think petty whinging is something that really fucking sucks. But I'm prepared to be flexible on this one.

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Always good for a laugh are the Letters From The Disgruntled at the Canadian World Domination webpage. A magnificent showcase of staggering stupidity.

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Get ready for the colour of the future! It's Squant!

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I am fighting a losing battle against the internal pressure to get my own domain. Why am I fighting? It's not that I can't afford it. It's that I don't want to get a domain just to have nothing (or very little) on it. But I don't want to scrounge 'content' out of nothing just to have it there. So I've been surfing other domains, both of the blogging and teengirl persuasion, waiting for inspiration to strike. It hasn't. I have come across domains with little content but webrings. I have seen writing sections aplenty, but that is what eXx is for, and I state once and forever that I will not put my writing on the internet (it counts as publishing, editors can't buy first serial rights, and I mainly write for publishing). So what am I to do?

PS: I found a domain I used to love but haven't heard from in ages: swansongs.net.

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I spent this afternoon wrestling with random Americans on AOL IM. I wanted to be writing, but instead I end up explaining to someone why opening a conversation with, "You suck" is not the nice thing to do. I get warned up to 35% by someone else. And people wonder why I never turn the blasted contraption on. I only had it on this afternoon because I was hoping A might have a minute to talk to me. Honestly, what is wrong with people? Why is politeness so disregarded? How much do I sound like my mother??

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Insanity is merely a sane response to an insane situation. (paraphrased from David Mack's Kabuki.)

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Read this and laugh. I did. (Probably helps if you're a Star Wars junkie like me.)

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Another one bites the dust? I'm very sad to see Tarsh go. He was one of the first blogs that inspired me. I know he was the first one that I looked at and went... "Hey wow. I want to be a part of this."

So, I wish him all the best for the future. I hope he gets his house. I hope he flourishes.

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Sunday, June 25, 2000

I am not in the habit of blogging porn. This site seems slightly more innocent than the average. And what can I say? It made me laugh like nothing has today. So if you want a laugh too, go to see the ladies in leg casts.

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I just watched the first episode of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the BBC series. Tempted as I was to watch the entire thing, I simply feel wrong about donating a solid six-hour block of my life to watching TV. Six hours spread out is, of course, fine. I am not a hypocrite, just irrational.

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Sorry the previous entry had no comments attached, but I had just typed that sentence when a friend came in, screaming, "Gossip! Gossip!" and dragged me away, leaving me only enough time to hit "Post and publish" with my big toe. Now I find that my sentiments when exposed to that link are precisely summed up by the three incredulous question marks following my statement. Some things can only be expressed in punctuation.

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This is a school???

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Send me a monkey and I'll send you one.

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Why do I have such a tendency to like blogs by guys so much more than blogs by girls?

Asking the tough, incisive questions this morning, aren't I? I think I need a shower. Maybe I was a mermaid in a past life. Water always makes me feel better.

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So it's starting again, the event that is Wimbledon. Actually, that's a dull link. How about this one instead.

In any case, there will shortly be tennis. We were going through the draw at breakfast this morning, and bitching about the female players. No one seems to like Mary Pierce. The overall opinion was that she's "arrogant". On the other hand, we all liked Lindsay Davenport. I have to say she's my favourite. I have a lot of respect for her. It seems to me that she's the only one who's out there to play tennis, not to look pretty. Anna Kournikova can bite me.

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