here I am

[sun_set_bravely]

Well, it's over. The big event is done. For now. Tomorrow, I'm sure that people will have things to complain and yell about. But for now, it's over.

I came home with "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" in my head, as it was the last number in the show, ready to dance, and with my 1930s dress and shoes on to boot! But CG is at his place, and roommate is asleep, and Mister ain't standing on two legs for anybody, so I'm out of luck. Mostly just shadow dancing for me tonight.

I'm not ready to go to sleep yet; I really should have gone out dancing tonight. I'm still buzzing, but I know I'll hit the ground soon enough. I should go write in my paper journal, so I can say what I really think. Isn't that strange? This is more like a chat room or a message board than a real journal. Or at least I've chosen to make it so. It's too much of a community feeling for me to pour myself out comfortably.

What a day. What a long, long day.

To bed I go, with my trusty Swing Kids soundtrack leading the way...

Comments

[echoboom.livejournal.com]

ahhhh that song takes me back to the high school car rides home....

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

:) That and "Closer".

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[echoboom.livejournal.com]

a classic...

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

also "Come Out and Play" -- heard this in the car the other day and thought of the turquoise chevy. I always thought they were saying "Drink your milk! You gotta keep 'em separated."

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[echoboom.livejournal.com]

drink your milk?...

what?

thats funny....never heard that...

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

You know, the part where they sing "Take him out!", I always thought they were saying "Drink your milk!", which I think is much funnier and more random than "take him out."

But hey, Offspring isn't in the habit of asking me what I think about their lyrics. :)

[freak1c.livejournal.com]

ya shoulda woken me up. i would've dansed with you. i even have some KMFDM i think.

i know what you mean about this being communal thgoughts vs. real ones. although i do try sometimes to share some real things.

it's tough though.

d

"Doin' it riight...shadow dancing..."

[gmoneyjonesiii.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry. The spirit of the late Andy Gibb possessed me for a moment there.

Yeah, it's weird to think of LJ not being a "real" J. Pretty soon, a friend of mine is going to be on here, but I sometimes get the urge to scream about her on this very venue, so I don't want her to see the times that I'm pissed off, so I don't want to put her down as a "friend" even though she is my friend, in the event I have to make a "friends only" post about how angry I am with her, so...

See? I start making all these weird compromises. My original policy on here was "100% honesty", that LJ would be a place for me to say everything I either never get the opportunity or am just slightly too timid to blurt out constantly in the real world. And I'm still 100% honest about whatever I write here. But the longer you spend here, the more you start thinking about backing off a little on the blood-n-guts confessionals and just want to do surveys all the time. Like I said, it's weird.

And at the end of the day, not even LJ beats dancing. So, 'scuse me while I kick it old-school...(knocks over table lamp on his way out)

Re: "Doin' it riight...shadow dancing..."

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

I remember when Roommate first mentioned this LJ place, I shuddered in revulsion. A place to post your journal to the world? How disgustingly exhibitionist and dramatic! But once I started looking at it and how the people I know use it, I saw that it was, like we've said, more of a community discussion place than a Darkest-Deepest-Secrets place. And if I ever want to see some blood-and-guts Oprah-style confessionals, I just click on the Random link and I can usually find some Random Bastards who whine about their life (usually with horrible grammar). This awkwardness about what to post, what not to post, is probably an argument between my shy self (I think I'll keep this to myself) and my Diva self (Everyone look at me! MEEEEE!).

The surveys are a great guilty pleasure on this place. Does anyone know how to make one?