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Wednesday, January 07, 2004
Well. This is the beginning. I don’t know if this situation requires a certain level of formality or not…..some degree of solemnity, an appropriate amount of well chosen words - as opposed to a splatter of incoherence and enthusiasm.
Yay!!! This is Me!!! I’m Writing!! About….ME!
(As you can see I picked the splatter)
Anyway, back at the ranch…..I’m Anand (I am having a hard time believing that anyone will ever read this but me, so from now on I will regard all entries as soliloquies, or better still, monologues – directed towards me, i.e., my conscious and subconscious self). Anand is an Indian/Hindu name, but I am neither Indian nor Hindu. I am 91% Caucasian, and 17% Eskimo. I live in Brisbane, Australia – the city of eternal summer (or at least for a quarter of the year). What white Australians lack in culture, they make up for in beer, sport, surf, and annoyingly loud cars. I say “they” for two reasons:
1: I don’t associate myself with the crass elements of Australian culture in anyway
2: I am not actually a white Australian, rather a white New Zealander. Subtle difference I know, but Aussies and Kiwis wouldn’t say so!
This Journal is most likely to be an account of my interior life, my emotions, my moods, my thoughts, ideas, and my evolving personality (hopefully not devolving anyway!), rather than a prosaic log of mere circumstance and the daily ritual of existence. Ideally, it will not only be artistic, alternative, enlightening, and interesting, but, most importantly it will be coherent and readable. Coherence is becoming seriously undervalued as a worthwhile artistic achievement in many alternative circles, creating perceived divisions between the artist and his/her audience, along with a certain level of snobbery and an elitist attitude. Sure, art must not conform to any worthless restrictions or rules that society places on us, but nor should it be nonconforming just for the sake of it – that is actually just another expression of conformity, the very thing we are trying to avoid! And now I will get off my soapbox!
Pertinent details: I am 20, Scorpio, born on Halloween, single, vegetarian, a musician, tanned and healthy, sometimes absent minded, never under the influence of anything (except maybe delusion sometimes), the eldest in a family of three boys, and I clean my teeth twice a day.
Likes: Light reflecting off water, the smell of rain in summer, the sound of gravel underfoot, the morning in my mouth, clean linen off the clothesline, and having a totally clean conscience.
Dislikes: The concrete jungle of modern suburbia, the smell of over-ripe bananas, the sound of polystyrene rubbing against anything, mouldy cheese, the feel of polystyrene on my skin, making someone embarrassed.
And so concludes my first foray in the world of online journals.
Au Revoir!
