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Lonely Glamour

So you drift. I drift.
solo breeze.
and we fantasize.

- Haiku --- floating along the lines of grey --- khoonzi
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:::: Exerpt ::::: - Interview with Douglas Coupland - Nerve.com, "Lonely Planet"

We live in an incredibly transient culture. You go from the intense socialization experience of school, then move to the other side of town — or to Los Angeles — where you're dumped into this culture where it takes an incredible amount of money just to live. You're stuck finding your own way and not quite sure who's good or evil, who's using you, "Is it me or is it the alcohol?" And in the midst of all this, you're feeling totally disconnected from a lot of people. Are you clinically depressed? No! You're just lonely, and no one told you what it was or how to identify it, the shapes or colors or forms of it, so you think you're going mental. And because people tend to hang out with people their own age, everyone around you looks great, like they all just stepped out of a shampoo commercial or something, so you think, "They couldn't possibly be experiencing all this crappy shit that's inside of me." Before you even discuss it with people, you've already shut yourself down. And that's your twenties!

....... I really think it's hanging out in coffee shops. Before Starbucks, there was no place that lonely people could go by themselves without feeling like freaks. Now they glamorize it, like getting a latte while being lonely will make people wonder, "Ooh — who's that mysterious person?" I look at people with laptops in coffee shops and think, "Oh, they're writing their first screenplay — and they're lonely."
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It's a weekday night. Tuesday. 2005. Some time...late January. I cannot remember the date. I read >
- A Hong Kong girl's introspective blog about her sex blogging.
- A hentai manga blog.
- A group blog with new definitions for Oral B.

and wrote a Haiku about urban drifting.

posted by audaciousjoy @ 1:07 AM