Eenieders fotowedstrijd
Dus, yay! :D
*Moet meer rare foto's maken...*
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[...] It never occurred to me that anybody was going to be worried about whether I had a girlfriend or a boyfriend. I mean, everybody had long hair, and with clothes on, you couldn't even always tell which sex was which. Dennie looked kind of feminine anyway. Everyone was so stoned in those days I figured they wouldn't even notice the difference.Interessant.
But strangely enough, people I'd known for years stopped talking to me. Even the ones who would still talk didn't like to do it in in public places. Nobody would tell me what it was I'd done, well no one until finally this one guy who'd never liked me too much anyway blurted out, "So, we hear you're gay now."
That was news to me. I didn't think I even knew any gay people and now I was one? I didn't feel any different. I wasn't wearing makeup or dresses. I didn't talk funny or hang around in bars. As far as I could tell, I was the same dope-smoking, acid-dropping, rabble-housing, hairy, ragged and lazy hippie I'd been for years. Except now I had a boyfriend instead of a girlfriend.
Larry Livermore: "Why all hippies and queers should go fuck themselves", HOMOCORE #1, pp. 10--13
[...] Well, I didn't want anything to do with being middle class, so I tended to indulge whatever whims came along. In December of 1969, in the process of a 10 day-or-so LSD marathon, I'd decided not only to quit my shit job as a janitor, but to permanently retire from working for a living. After all, I was 22 years old, and I figured I'd given enough of my life to the system.Ik ben te laat geboren... *zucht*
Things were rough for a while -- even a dutiful hippie gets sick of brown rice and soy sauce -- but I began to gain some insight into the art of the scam. A year later I was living rent-free in a big house across the street from the UC-Berkeley campus, collecting three sets of food stamps which I then exchanged for money, since I got most of my food free, too, and picking up another hundred bucks a month (about three hundred in 1988 dollars) selling mescaline caps to the sailors on Treasure Island who were waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam.
[...] I celebrated New Year's Eve by drinking a bunch of beer and smoking some killer pot just in from Vietnam, and wound up dancing around with the Hare Krishnas in the middle of Broadway in San Francisco. It was a happy, very sloshed crowd, taking up the whole street and lit up like Las Vegas by the neon lights of all the strip joints. Hippies and businessmen and drag queens stumbles around in the warm night, and my head was spinning faster than the Hare Krishna circle. I looked up into the soft gray sky thinking with a big smile on my face what a great year this was going to be.
Larry Livermore: "Nickel and diming it through junkie summer", HOMOCORE #2, pp. 12, 18--21


After viewing the photos from our trip to the Winter Efteling yesterday (which was really fun, and I finally dared to ride the scary ship-thing after some pushing by Lotte and Sjoerd, so wheee! me), faithfully taken by our resident photomeister Christian, I decided to finally take the time to put the photos I took at my trip to Rome—a journey I made together with others from the last year of my secondary school in 2001 (yes, that’s a looong, long time ago)—online.
Looking back at these pictures after such a long time sure makes me wonder what has happened to these old friends after all those years… Too bad I didn’t keep in touch with any of them, they were cool people.
Since I’m putting some photos online now anyway, I guess I’ll upload the photos from my holiday in Berlin in 2004 soonish. These are the only two sets of photos I have ever taken, so I guess that means I’ll have to take some more some day…
Anyway, for any curious folks or nostialgia freaks out there, here they are.
Dit stukje is geïmporteerd uit mijn oude journal; beide linkjes waren kapot, dus deze zijn aangepast aan actuele locaties.
Anyway, if you’re up for listening to something different, or just want to experience a great story, I can heartily recommend listening to this one.
Dit stukje is geïmporteerd uit mijn oude journal.