And whilst cleaning house...

[fictional]

GIP!

What is it about looking at pictures of yourself? Why do they always get uglier the longer you look...much like text loses all meaning if you stare at it long enough? Why are we just composed of chaos and imperfection?

I think I sound like an existentially challenged angsterrific lunatic who has just discovered Keirkegaard at the age of fifteen. Woe!

Comments

[calloocallay.livejournal.com]

That is what you sound like. However, that is not what you look like. What you look like is a fucking porn star. Damn.

See you tomorrow for yummy food and pottery glee!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Porn star, eh?
I am endlessly, endlessly amused.

But thanks!

And also, hear my Potterific SQUEEEE!!!!
(It's like a barbaric yalp, only more gleeful.)

[calloocallay.livejournal.com]

Miss! Tried to call you last night re: this weekend plans and also re: hp6. But the phone did something odd. You around?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Stupid phone. I am around, in fact. Give me a call whenever, so we can plot and squee.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

P.S. Or tell me a good time to call you, and I shall.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Okay, I think LJ did something weird. Stupid communication t00ls.
Anyway, I am in fact around. Give me a call whenever, or let me know a good time to call you, and there will be plotting and squeeing.

[haplily.livejournal.com]

what's funny is I was thinking, "Wow, Kali is so pretty." Which doesn't all jibe with your post, but hey :)

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Hee. Thanks! I was (mainly) referring to the phenomenon of looking at pictures that look good and then as you stare at them longer, the pretty goes away and all you can see are the messed-up bits - sorta like looking at the night sky, and seeing more and more stars...but in reverse. Kinda. Never mind. It made sense in my head. But thank you for the compliment. :-)

[haplily.livejournal.com]

No, no, I feel the same thing... I'll look too long at a picture and it just seems jumbled.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oooo pouty lips.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Lipstick. Perhaps I should wear more often?

[guinness-duck.livejournal.com]

Imperfection is what makes us beautiful.

*hugs*

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Very true. But isn't it funny how things alter the longer you look?

*hugs*

[prosicated.livejournal.com]

Pretty pretty Kali. Pretty Kali who inspired lust in every female she met when she visited me at college... =)

[soulhaus.livejournal.com]

...yeh, after my first time meeting kali, i was smitten almost immediately. didnt even take till the end of lunch. *le sigh* :)

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Awww. You make me want to purr. So thank you.

But what's this about lust? You never shared that one with me...

[soulhaus.livejournal.com]

...you're gorgeous, so huh? :)

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Hee. I was just remarking about how pictures get less and less pretty the longer you look at them, till all you can see is ick, no matter how pretty they seem at first, second, or third look. But thank you, luv - that's awfully sweet of you to say.

And let's just say the smiting went both ways that day. ;-)

[soulhaus.livejournal.com]

yeh, but.. did you have to spend 6 hours driving home, giggling like an idiot while your friends made fun of you? noooooooooooooo i dont think youdid. ;p

[patashoqua.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, am I familiar with that phenomenon (right this moment, in fact). But that is a fantastic picture.

[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you. I'm only as good as my subject, but I am teh proud anyway ;-)

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I think you have it both easier and harder than I ever would with a photograph because of the professional aspect, to look at yourself and try think of it as art or business or what have you, instead of the intensely personal self-portraits we are all used to. I suppose in this scenario, you would be the Renaissance sonnet, and I would be a Maya Angelou poem. (I like you better, actually...)

However, I have discovered it is HARD letting people take pictures of you, can't imagine what it would be like with someone you didn't know. And the Edie was gentle ;-)

In any event, I think you bring light to the cesspool (of course, the question is whether we really want that other stuff illuminated...but there's always the amusement value. I'm certainly entertained. You should write a book)