it was a beautiful day for decay

[lapsedmodernist]

amidst the rolling hills


fairy house


green room


its neighbor, another green room


blue room


maps


shells


found slide


a photo one of my companions took of me


and my new favorite photo of me ever. what, you didn't know I could fly?

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[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

my friend and I came across this broom while exploring an abandoned school for mentally retarded children, and lo and behold, it was eager to take flight. Here is my friend taking her turn:

[cyberanya.livejournal.com]

hey, you should really come to india for some urb-(and not so urb)exing of decay... one difference here is that things somehow manage to decay here without ever being finished. check it out - in the region where i am, i almost never see a house without these steel bars (what do you call it? armature?) sticking up on every single roof, in case they need to add more floors. no one really ever does it, but these crazy bars just became a part of the local landscape.
PS. awesome pic with the broom! looks like you're on your way to the local coven.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

there is a beautiful abandoned place I have heard of in Chenai...is that anywhere near where you are? Believe me, I would LOVE to come to India, but it's just not in the cards this summer. However, maybe you could come visit me in my new Dutch splendor while you are in Russia.

[cyberanya.livejournal.com]

Chennai (it's former Madras) is just on the opposite side of the country :) south... what is this place?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I will email you--there is an entry about it on one of the urbex boards I am on, but I can't link it because only "full members" can see it, and you have to go through this whole voting/approval process to be a full member. Community structuring through esoteric knowledge and secrecy--Buddhists and urbexers alike :)

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

(what do you call it? armature?)

Rebar, I think.

An Egyptian guy once told me that you didn't have to pay property taxes there until your house was finished, and that's why all of Cairo is perpetually unfinished. I'm unconvinced, but it's a nice story.

[cyberanya.livejournal.com]

i think it may be true, actually. i now remember hearing something like this about Greece too.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

brilliant! That's so...not quite Kafka, but I just woke up and can't think of the right allusion. Actually, that's so Soviet.

[alexgal.livejournal.com]

Amazing picture!!
And as I recall you're a fan of The Master and Margarita, right? Very fitting!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

it is my favorite book in the world. Did we lj-talk about it before? I think I would make a good Gella...

[alexgal.livejournal.com]

No, we never specifically talked about it, but I remember a couple of years ago you had talked about it in glowing terms (and had maybe linked this ? (still have it bookmarked): http://www.idlewords.com/2005/11/dating_without_kundera.htm), that I went ahead and read it for the first time.

It's now in my all time favorites, so thank you for the implicit recommendation!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

no problem! and ha, I remember that article, the Sexually Transmitted Book. I loved it so very much.

Which translation of M&M did you end up reading, do you remember?

[alexgal.livejournal.com]

The one by Diana Burgin and Katherin Tiernan O'Connor.
It seem to flow really nicely, but of course I don't know how it compares to the original.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Ha. Brilliant !!!
I want to ride a broom !

I love your sneakers. What kind are they ?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

it is a fantastic way to transport oneself on a spring twilight.

not sure about the sneakers--I will check later today when I am going out and get back to you.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

i've been looking to get a new fun pair, so that's why i ask !
:)

[cataptromancer.livejournal.com]

That last photo MUST be your author photo when you publish a book.

[nearly-there.livejournal.com]

omg YES, I agree.

[wax-heart.livejournal.com]

amazing pictures. :]



i've added you as a friend.
because you're amazing.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you! How did you find my journal?

[nearly-there.livejournal.com]

You are a flyer! So fabulous.

Also, the colors in the room-pictures are beautiful. The blues and greens feel so... haunted, maybe? Like magical realism in image-form. Don't quite know how to say what I mean, but they're lovely.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

aw, thanks!

[paracelsus.livejournal.com]

Those photos are like stills from a Hayao Miyazaki film.

I wonder if you can put a hex on my thesis, so that its days (pages) are numbered...

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

that's quite a compliment thanks!

one hexx coming up...numbering pages is more important than you may think...when I was doing my comps I had this new computer that only had "textedit" or some other pre-installed minimalist program for writing, and the worst part of it was that it didn't split material up into pages, so no matter how long you scrolled, it was all one undifferentiated endless first page. It was very demoralizing.

[christophrawr.livejournal.com]

Yes on the last one. Yes yes yes. :)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

:)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

:)

[goddessspiral.livejournal.com]

I can't get over how awesome that last shot is. :D

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

it's my new favorite photo of me.

[goddamnitbabies.livejournal.com]

Those are all beautiful. I'm so glad you added me to your journal.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I love love love your journal, too.

[annabelle.livejournal.com]

wow i love all of those photos and the last one especially so much! :) oh, and happy mother's day!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you, ms. L! how are you settling in in your new apartment?

[annabelle.livejournal.com]

as someone else put it: the walls are slowly absorbing our stuff. :) no really, but we're about knee deep in boxes instead of hip deep and that's progress. i'm starting to get waves of feeling like it's home. (like when i look from our bedroom, across the living room that's taking shape and see bits of the in progress kitchen as well)

what are you up to this thursday night?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

not a whole lot! would you like to come over and visit? or if it's early evening, take the baby for a walk with me?

[annabelle.livejournal.com]

that sounds lovely. yes! i get out of work at 5pm drop me an email with details?

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

Are those my sneakers????? I think I have the same ones - Caterpillars bought in Little Five Points a bunch of years back... I love them to death, I wish I could find them again, I'd buy three more pairs.

Flying - you look like you are taking off!

[mjmj.livejournal.com]

of all the things you find a slide about: the olduvai gorge...

[akozorez.livejournal.com]

ummm... hells, ya! this would have been my dream picture of me too! :))) what's the trick? i wanna know! wanna know! wanna know!!!

[elevenoclock.livejournal.com]

Um, do you have any Lysol? I have this embarrassing problem..

(I'm adding you to my friends list~ hope that's cool.)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

do not be guilty of "one neglect"!

And of course--I added you back.