Nightescape
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rinueSomething I've noticed about artists is their general knack for finding each other. Take a thousand strangers, stick them in a room together, and within two hours the actors and musicians will have formed a clique. One could ascribe this to mere theatricality -- the signals sent off by clothes and mannerism, the flourishes of speech that scream "I am a writer," and the odd sense of humor that comes with creativity. One could argue that it's more like a soul bond -- similar personalities screaming across the ether.
One could say pheremones. One could say arrogance. One could say vocab, gesture, and audience.
One could say sleep schedule, a common level of alertness. People feel uncomfortable when someone's more awake then them, as though they're behind the game; likewise, they're irked when someone's more sleepy -- it's laziness. Artists, for whatever reason, tend to be night owls.
I've never really understood that, although I certainly am whenever given the chance. It could be the intimacy of darkness, or the mystery of the city that no one sees. It could be convenience. It could be that it's cheaper.
It could be that we're all insomiacs haunted by inner demons or muses that won't quit.
Probably not.
In any case, I've been spending most nights hanging out with Chad and Ciro, coming in at three or five in the morning and crashing 'til noon. It's a life of long talks, art museums, Mamet films, and poetry open mics, (at which we are among the best, of course). . . I've missed it. It sounds pretentious as hell, but I've missed it.
Although it's wreaking havoc on my biology, it's good to be back.
One could say pheremones. One could say arrogance. One could say vocab, gesture, and audience.
One could say sleep schedule, a common level of alertness. People feel uncomfortable when someone's more awake then them, as though they're behind the game; likewise, they're irked when someone's more sleepy -- it's laziness. Artists, for whatever reason, tend to be night owls.
I've never really understood that, although I certainly am whenever given the chance. It could be the intimacy of darkness, or the mystery of the city that no one sees. It could be convenience. It could be that it's cheaper.
It could be that we're all insomiacs haunted by inner demons or muses that won't quit.
Probably not.
In any case, I've been spending most nights hanging out with Chad and Ciro, coming in at three or five in the morning and crashing 'til noon. It's a life of long talks, art museums, Mamet films, and poetry open mics, (at which we are among the best, of course). . . I've missed it. It sounds pretentious as hell, but I've missed it.
Although it's wreaking havoc on my biology, it's good to be back.
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Hi ^_^
Date: 2002-06-08 01:43 am (UTC)...
But anyways. ^_^ I read one of your fics, Chasing the Dragon, a few years ago (I think it was a few years ago, I have no sense of time) but it's still one of my absolute favorites and I keep trying to memorize it ^_^;;; I also keep making others read it. I found a livejournal link, and decided to say hello ^.^; So yeah... ff.net only let me comment once, and I used that comment up when I first found your fic, and I'm too lazy to just log out and comment anonymously or something.
I'm babbling, so I think I should sleep now and to hell with my night owl patterns O.o
((Sorry if I scare you, I'm just probably stressed from finals or tired or something... ^_^;;;))
oh! Btw, on ff.net I'm The Shinigumi. ^_^;
Re: Hi ^_^
Date: 2002-06-08 09:05 am (UTC)-Romie