Jul152007

Personality

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So here I am, lying in bed. It’s humid and for the past few months I’ve cringed at the phrase “Sleepless in Seattle” but that is an apt description of me.

iTunes was just flipped open and I’m planning to fall asleep to Aqualung’s self-titled album. He’s a melodic British voice mixed into restrained, gloomy beats and lyrics about less-than-perfect relationships. It’s not quite break-up music; it’s more “thinking about breaking up” music.

I just listened to an eighteen-minute audio blog; the real-life story of two people finding love. Listening to someone talk openly about going from zero-to-engaged drew a lot of reaction from me. It exposed a lot of my feelings today towards my ideas about relationships. It also made me think a lot about Good Will Hunting because they have that really great line, “I have to see about a girl.”

I hate to see new relationships develop. For whatever number of confusing reasons, I have the greatest trouble meeting people and making these sorts of attachments and this has bred resentment and fear in me. I’m jealous and I’m scared of people’s new relationships.

On the other hand, love is something I believe in. I know, it’s a modern thing to hate on the concept of love but to me there’s no question that great love can and does exist between a couple. When I see two people that genuinely adore each other, all that fear melts away and I have nothing but respect for the bond they share.

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Jen

It is soooo splendid to find another person who enjoys Aqualung. Those people are few and far between. Aqualung should be on those personality tests they make you do at highschool. It would have the sheer power to bump you from extrovert to introvert. Because you’ve got to be a certain type of person to enjoy the musical stylings of Aqualung.

Oh, and by “certain” I mean “my”.

Don’t worry about discerning Australian accents. Mine isn’t a very good gauge of what Australians sound like. It is a mix of British and American with a few tiny Aussie words thrown in for good luck.
Jack

I’ve been told my accent sounds “British-y” (I’m from Melbourne).

My accent is something that I’ve struggled with since moving to Seattle. I think I subconsciously tone it down around Americans and I also end up adopting a lot of their words (i.e. soda, parking lot, etc.). I’ve also heard a few American accents that, at a distance, sound vaguely Australian.

Anyway what I’m trying to say is that the “hot Australian guy” stereotype that the American girls love is very hard to apply to me with my Asian appearance and hard-to-place, not-very-obvious accent.
Nicotine

Let’s add “Bell Peppers” to that American word list. WTF, where is the pepper? I’ll take “Capsicum” any day.

I’m not very fond of the American accent (particular the southern one) and much prefer the British one. It’s just a lot more soothing to me. I haven’t been able to find any Australian TV here but listening to a bunch of old British Professors talk stuff (that I don’t even understand) on the History channel soothes the pain. Wutang.
Jack

OMG! Goddamn peppers. I want a capsicum, stop fucking with me.

I drool at British accents. They are the bee’s pajamas.

Umm… the only Australian TV you might catch is Australia’s Next Top Model. If you don’t like watching that train wreck, then there’s not much else. I download The Chaser but these day’s they’ve lost a lot of their political/social commentary and it’s more about being a public nuisance.
Lachlan

There’s like 8 different english accent variants or something – some of them are awesome! My boss (from SF) seriously can’t understand the London guy, to the point where he has to give the phone to someone else when he’s trying to talk to her.

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