the greatest waste is self-pity, and the greatest pity is self-waste

[hatebox]

The trouble with Lost, and the writers themselves have admitted to doing this, is the fact that it's all so blatantly made up as it goes along. Now while that adds a certain undeniable volatility to the proceedings, the lack of craft within the storytelling does begin to grate. By this point there can be no doubt (and early reactions suggest this)

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[strat_o_bastard]

Ha! Nimbin! That's like half an hour from where my grandmother lives. And, being a staunch Catholic, she detests it. I found it mildly amusing.

Also, nothing to do with your film list, but a comment purely based on the style of your commentary on Lost; D'you like Phil Collins?

[hatebox]

^ Well spotted. I didn't even realise until I re-read it.

The memorable thing about Nimbin was we had no idea about it, we were merely passing through. Then we walk around and begin to realise ''hmm, there's something 'funny' about this place''. A meeting with a Rasta soon gave us the answer.

I wasn't overly smitten with the East Coast, however. I'm sure there are a few great places, and Sydney's nice, but our experience of it was mostly backpacker/tourist hell. We desperately wanted to go west, but time and money, always time and money in a place that's bigger than America.

[strat_o_bastard]

I saw the East Coast from a resident's point of view, I have various family elements down the coast from Brisbane to Sydney. I love the place, though it seems like an almost wholly suburban, middle class nation. We also did the Northern Territory, down to Alice Springs and Uluru, which was something entirely different. Shame you didn't make it out there, it would have given you a whole other experience to be pretentious about

[hatebox]

^(laughs) hmm, am I to take that as jovial humour or genuine venom..?

If it’s the latter then believe me, I’d never be stupid enough to generalise a whole area as massive as E.Australia. Though I maintain that that was my experience of the places we went, I also know that was mostly down to going to obvious European hot-spots - eg Byron bay, WhitSunday. What did I expect if I wasn’t crazy about beaches?

Sincerely,
Leland the Diplomat.

[loveandlithium]

I've found most of my platonic male crushes to be on, as you say, strong, masculine types rather than pale, willowy prettyboys like myself. That being said, my current purely theoretical (I tried being bi and it just didn't work out) infatuation is with Takeshi Kaneshiro of House of Flying Daggers fame, who in some senses unites the two.