I fell into one of the traps all men have fallen into, a common ground where we meet when we have nothing left to say or discuss and we go back there, to the hot chick we thought we'd never be able to get but got, clumsy hands stuck in the strap on the back and we heard ourselves grind our teeth as we slept away the days and hours, went into some other part of us, devouring ourselves from the inside, we were both dead and numb, feeling nothing, connecting to nowhere and we felt it as nihilism standing infront of us watching but it was the abyss and we went at it armed with a bottle of baby oil
She was shiva in a sari saying sorry, out and about on the streets where everyone have no name for they bear that social mark and that is the reason for shiva standing out here with ganesha. We have lost perception of time, time is something everyone else talks about and we are losing our perception of space for this is the world where the shadows never wane, this is the heart of the discontented
It's not minimum wage in the name but it's the same game wrapped inside the illusion of fine dining but every night if you get one of the right tables you hear the sounds coming from the kitchen, you hear the line cooks emptying their souls as they empty their gallons of poison and that is the neverending wail, those overworked and underpaid, trying to create art when they can but all of them wants the filét well done with fries instead of the small french ones and this is where we lose all faith we had in any system, those who believe in a system have not worked in a restaurant, a bar, a library or any place at all where the egos of the small chefs are those most important to please. We work in the tarot card of the tower and we're roommates with the fool and the only thing we want out of life when we've been to work, been to life is a tit to fall asleep on.
The working class voted tory that year. They thought the british communism to win more power but it was the conservatives that won, won the heart and wallet of any self-respecting man, seeing nothing of the poncy shit, seeing nothing that he doesn't see with his own two eyes and he's growing old and frail, too many hours at the steel mill, welding his eyes away and the blindness completes him as he sits in his rocking chair with his pipe, the tragic hero.
Here we were staring at our freedom, here we were building up hope in the dormant minds. We discussed whether or not we were in love, whether we should be in love and we saw these other people discussing why he didn't love her back and they were talking kinda loud, as if they mistook the music for being louder than it was and humanity was unfolding in front of our eyes. This wasn't the life they prepared us for, we were living in what they told us had gone into the history books, open blisters making crackling sounds, children running from the candy store with pockets filled with loot.
ahhh I love you Sepia.
You should really compile your writings into a single document. We can throw some layout on it and kick out a sexy pdf, if you're interested
It's on its way. No idea when it'll be done but I'm gunning for late summer early fall as my new job is keeping me quite occupied. I think it'll be under that CC license, allowing free copy. Haven't done more than glance at the cc page though so I'm not sure about that but seems to be the only reasonable way to do it.
The only think I'm unsure about is the actual creation of the pdfs and stuff. I want people that download it to be able to print it and then have something physical like an old fashioned punk zine. Well, it's going to be all-electronic and for free so if anyone have any ideas, pitch them around.
I wouldn't mind helping out. I've been trying to get more practice with scribus (a free layout program) and book layout in general.
Quote from: brennschluss on May 21, 2009, 05:48:45 PM
It's on its way. No idea when it'll be done but I'm gunning for late summer early fall as my new job is keeping me quite occupied. I think it'll be under that CC license, allowing free copy. Haven't done more than glance at the cc page though so I'm not sure about that but seems to be the only reasonable way to do it.
The only think I'm unsure about is the actual creation of the pdfs and stuff. I want people that download it to be able to print it and then have something physical like an old fashioned punk zine. Well, it's going to be all-electronic and for free so if anyone have any ideas, pitch them around.
Punk zines have come a long way in the last few years, I had like the last year of your post history bound by my college. But I think a pdf would be awesome!
Scribus is pile of complete arse and that's probably being really generous. Try open office writer or impress - both of those save to pdf out the box. They're no MS products but they aint a kick in the arse away and they're free. My main gripe with Scribus, other than the fact that every single operation available is implemented in the stupidest, klunkiest way imaginable, is the fact that it seems to go through memory like a british MP goes through an expenses kitty - by the time you have half a dozen pages together you'll need a kray supercomputer to stand any chance of scrolling down to page 7 in your own lifetime. :argh!:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on May 22, 2009, 09:30:41 AM
Scribus is pile of complete arse and that's probably being really generous. Try open office writer or impress - both of those save to pdf out the box. They're no MS products but they aint a kick in the arse away and they're free. My main gripe with Scribus, other than the fact that every single operation available is implemented in the stupidest, klunkiest way imaginable, is the fact that it seems to go through memory like a british MP goes through an expenses kitty - by the time you have half a dozen pages together you'll need a kray supercomputer to stand any chance of scrolling down to page 7 in your own lifetime. :argh!:
You really think open office writer is better for layout?? Maybe if the pdf you're producing is just one long field of text.... and even then, just no. That'd be like laying out a magazine in MS Word. In 25 minutes the auto formatting procedures would have me tearinging my hair out. I've had so much trouble repositioning text frames in Writer - sometimes they just dissapear if you put them too close to a margin or page break. And that's probably the most common layout element. After getting a taste of even a meh layout program like scribus, I can't imagine laying out anything complex in a straight-up word processor.
I thought you had some kind of cray supercomputer, how is my 512MB of ram able to run scribus with no hiccups and yours isn't?
If you have mac Pages is a good one
Quote from: Sepia on May 21, 2009, 05:48:45 PM
It's on its way. No idea when it'll be done but I'm gunning for late summer early fall as my new job is keeping me quite occupied. I think it'll be under that CC license, allowing free copy. Haven't done more than glance at the cc page though so I'm not sure about that but seems to be the only reasonable way to do it.
The only think I'm unsure about is the actual creation of the pdfs and stuff. I want people that download it to be able to print it and then have something physical like an old fashioned punk zine. Well, it's going to be all-electronic and for free so if anyone have any ideas, pitch them around.
why does this sound familar...
Because everything I do is bake bread and what people don't give bread is time and I'm giving it time. It shouldn't be too far off though as the release date is set and the party is being planned