Talking about myself

I see more and more people writing diaries by hand on precious little notebooks and I don’t know why teenagers decide to write by hand on the 21st century. In the time of computers, cell phones and blogs, writing by hand seems so old fashioned. Yes, that’s the point, it gives importance to what you write; it makes it, when it is not necessary, almost intellectual already at the beginning. I remember in the 80’s when anybody going to Germany would have to bring back five Mont Blanc pens because they were so much cheaper there. We had checkbooks at the time and we would ostensibly take the white stared pen out of our pockets and, whatever would be the amount we would write, it would seem so chic! I have seven at home, five Meisterstück (do you write an E at the end when it is plural, anyway do not forget the “Umlaut”) and two fantastic from the 50’s; I didn’t use them since 1993, my awakening to computer life!
Do I want to keep the “Zwischenablage”??? No, no, no, I have nothing to do with those barbaric things! Delete! And suddenly my whole text about “The worth of things” disappeared; ironically it didn’t have so much worth! I am here, trying to write again my fantastic text and it is not as good as it was before, and I wish I would have written my text by hand. But vintage is only for the young ones who didn’t experience the original; otherwise it looks like desperate nostalgia: “It used to be so much better before!”
The only thing you are missing is the power of your beauty which faded away and that you were not clever enough to compensate by other ways! You should remember how much you suffered, how much time you lost and how many mistake you did because you were so young; but you can’t because the only thing you can remember is how many eyes were following any of your steps whenever you entered a room!
My only notebook has a keyboard, not a pen!
That’s the moment where I could start about the new “absolutism” of the binary society but I wanted to introduce interactivity in my blog (Micky renounced to take part of it but savors any of my entry!) Both are correlated but let’s put things in order, first the interactivity! There is plenty of people who talk about themselves in the street, normally they shout, are drunk and homeless. Nobody understands them and nobody wants; I do not want to look like one of them! Internet created new ways of communication which sometimes could be interpreted like isolation. Some others go at the end of the world and spend hours on Facebook with their 500 “Friends” back home, and are not able to start a conversation with someone in the same hotel lobby! They can be compared; they only express themselves (or cannot) in different times. So, I have so many things to write which are not only about myself, they are also about my world, and I share a part of it with you (yes, I can be extremely social!). I don’t want people to think like me (what for a torture!), but I want to prove people it makes sense to think different than they do and that could be an extension of their own thoughts. It needs to be entertaining and you know better than me what entertains you. So, here is the deal, I will try to put a section on the blog where I could list all the crazy subjects which are coming to my mind and that I don’t have the time to write in the same time. I am producing a huge work (four hours and one liter tea for every computer page), and interesting you give me more pleasure than to bore you. The only feedback I got is from people I totally admire (Deborah Cole, you are a goddess!) and already heard “de visu” all my deliriums, so I need the opinion of the others, what they like and what they don’t like. I feel that my possible readers could not dare to say something because it wouldn’t be on the level. Which level? I can read perfectly French, English, German or Spanish (or at least I have a translation option in my computer), so tell me in your words what could be interesting to you, and I will try to challenge you with my words!
Next blog’s entries:
- The new “Absolutism” of the binary society (thoughts about computers, Joseph Beuys and the digital revolution)
- The “Doppelganger” society (what 20.000 people dancing by Oprah Winfrey the choreography of “I’ve got a feeling”, the Black Eyed Peas smash hit, 150 George Michael parading at the Sydney Mardi-Gras with the real one in the middle and 5200 naked people posing for Spencer Tunick, have in common)
- The directions of the communication (writing or talking, the trace of our expressions and the definition of politeness in a social surrounding)
- The day when the grass got greener (nothing to do with Australia, but how I got rid of a part of my heavy past)
- My dream with Madonna (again nothing to do with Australia but how is based my respect for extraordinary people without admiring their work)
- Architecture in Australia (how, in the same Australian city, you can feel like in New York, Brighton or a little village from a John Wayne movie)
- Australian money (how the size of the Australian coins already define another perception of the currency; or what you pay and what you get for free is very different in every country, it could be cultural)