Melbourne Living!

[Last Throw]

Hi!

I'm a 24 year old guy living in Melbourne, Australia, I've just found this forum, and I suppose you could call me a long time listener, first time caller...

I'm looking for someone to have a chat with, maybe over email, then perhaps to meet in real life.

But who am I? Well, I've never been one for retail, and as such have always had issues selling myself but...
I'm a fun-liking student who is doing his honours in biochemistry, with a passion for Jazz and books. My super-relaxed happy place is sitting in a warm room, the lights dimmed, Tom Waits in the background, and a glass of cool scotch in my hand.

But over the last couple of years I've also learned to enjoy Night Clubs. In fact, I've learned a great wise old secret, "You don't need to drink at clubs". Now that may seem like I'm just the nerdy doof piking out, but I seem to have more fun being quite sobre. Realising how idiotic I look, dancing away to some hidden beat, the lights flashing around me, people moving and grooving until it all becomes a blur.

Anyway, I've probably talked enough, I'd better shuffle off,

-Daniel.

 

[Last Throw]

Bump.

 

[bg23]

I've never enjoyed night clubs, myself - too many people, in too small a space...lots of opportunity for random groping...

...

Ah.

 

[Last Throw]

Yeah, I was like that for a long time: too smokey, too loud, too many jerks displaying their dominant trait to full effect, watered down expensive alcohol, I can't dance, I might look like *THAT* guy!, anxiety over sexual rites (Is she dancing with me? Does she have a boyfriend? What the fuck?$#%?).

But then I went with a couple of friends of mine who just went from club to club, went straight to the centre of the room and started to just move, no thought, no ego, no goals. They then just petred on the wave of the rhythm, allowing it to wash over them, washing them on or out of the club as it beat, beat, beat.

It was a fantastic experience, you start to lose all thoughts of self, just jumping to the music, rising to the fever, just acting from instinct. And I noticed that in that moment, I became popular among strangers, something I never am. All the girls wanted to dance with me for they senced that I was without motive, and I was without ego. In that moment, we could live in fantasy and be nothing but a bouncing body to the beat.

-Daniel.

 

[bg23]

poetic.

do you write?

 

[mr happy]

Hi you Melbourne people,

Just north a bit in the countryside myself

 

[Last Throw]

Hehehe.... Ummm... Wow, thanks, I didn't really mean that to be so poetic, actually looking back on it all that I see are spelling mistakes and grammar errors. hehehe

But yes, I do write, main short stories and poetry. I've never really writen erotica before, to tell you the truth I'm always been a bit intimidated by it. Every now and then I see something that comes across as more funny or ridiculous than sexy, and I'd hate for my "name" to be at the top of one of those... lol (There's my super-ego speaking) hehehe

But maybe, one day.

What about yourself, ever written anything?

-Daniel.

 

[bg23]

*smiles*
i write, yes.

hi mr happy.

last throw, do you go to college in melbourne too?

 

[Unafraid]

*smiles*
i write, yes.

BG, I didn't see your name listed on the authors list on the front page of lit, do you have any of your writings published or posted?

sorry to intrude on the conversation...

 

[Last Throw]

Yeah, at the moment I'm doing some post-graduate studies in biochemistry... fun fun fun... at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology... hehehe... it's pretty ace, scientific research and all that...

I get to turn up in daggy pants and a t-shirt with my hair all dissarray and look generally standard as the crazed protein lad from F-wing. BWHAHAHA!

Do you study?

I'd love to read something you've written, so to extend unafriad's question, are you on literotica?

-Danie.

 

[bg23]

no problem unafraid
i have stories listed under another name

last throw, you're five minutes away from where i study. =)
isn't that rather quaint?

 

[Last Throw]

Hehehe... really?

Actually, I've moved out to the Bundoora campus as they now have a huge biochemistry building out there.

Are you an RMIT girl? HEhehe... What do you study?

-Daniel.

 

[bg23]

Not an RMIT girl
People who've read my posts will know what and where I study
But I'd prefer not to say directly here, on the board.

The travel time is a bitch, is it not?
And the train system has all gone to hell.

 

[wigamus_prime]

Melbourne guy here

Hey dudes thought id say hi im Patrick and im from Melbourne too i am a student studying chemistry at Melbourne uni and its awesome to meet you other Melbournites in here!
Hooray for us!

I am 22 and I am a musician in my spare time and ive got to say i do like clubs but only when i really am in the mood.

 

[Last Throw]

Hey Wigmas!

BG: Actually, I don't really mind the trains, sure they're late and often overcrowded. But that's okay, I'll stand there watch people in the early morning adjusting to being awake. Every now and then I'll see someone doing the same thing as I, watching faces, we'll smile to each other and motion towards the obsese buisness woman slumped over the DeVinci Code as if to point out some kind of interesting attraction... hehehe... it's like a zoo moving at 80 km per hour where the animals randomly swap places with the visitors.

-Daniel.

 

[hypatia]

............and that same business woman could just be day dreaming about what (and who) she did last night - although I don't use a book as camouflage.

 

[Gave Up]

my beef jerky fell on the floor

 

[bg23]

BG: Actually, I don't really mind the trains, sure they're late and often overcrowded. But that's okay, I'll stand there watch people in the early morning adjusting to being awake. Every now and then I'll see someone doing the same thing as I, watching faces, we'll smile to each other and motion towards the obsese buisness woman slumped over the DeVinci Code as if to point out some kind of interesting attraction... hehehe... it's like a zoo moving at 80 km per hour where the animals randomly swap places with the visitors.

you have not been catching the same trains that i catch
the ones that i catch do not fit the definition of overcrowded
put it this way - the only people that i can watch, are the ones pressed directly up against my face

really does something to my whole "personal space" thing.

 

[Last Throw]

Yeah, that kind of sucks... although it does give the close up look.

Hey, did you see that guy with the huge Orwellian sign out the front of RMIT HJ's today? I nearly ran into like five people trying to catch what he was saying...

-Daniel.

 

[bg23]

The one with the crazy "psychology" stuff on it?

i saw him at melbourne central on my way home.

 

[Last Throw]

Hehehe.. yeah, that was him.... what a job, hey....

I've always kind of admired these anarchist, and communist clubs at uni. They are two very misunderstood, very disliked theories and yet here are these people willling to stand up and talk intelligently about them. And whatsmore they seem to do it in a way that advoids them general critism that marks the subject!

Good show...

-Daniel

 

[bg23]

*s*

yes, that is quite admirable
i enjoy seeing them campaign
nonetheless, i tend to raise my eyebrows at certain myths which they do like to propogate
there is nothing that annoys me quite so much as ignorance of one's own cause.

 

[Last Throw]

Heh, yeah, although I musdt admit that I don't really know much about them.

Theres a level of anarchism and communism (especially when it comes to Marx) that I just don't understand. I really haven't spent enough time trying to decifer through all the crap to get to Marx's idea of a global communistic enonomy, and exactly what that means... hehehe.

And as for anarchism, it's only though a passing ominous comment of a post graduate politics friend of mine that I seem to take it seriously...

Hahha, its seems like I'm ignorant enough that I don't even really notice thier's. lol.

-Daniel.

 

[bg23]

deciphering marx's ramblings is not on my list of favorite things to do, though he is infinitely preferable to some other political commentators, if only for sheer entertainment value.
i do not believe that apart from academic value, there is much need today to understand marx's theories on too deep a level.

as to anarchism, i've never been too interested in it except when other's attempt to promote it, since that has always resulted in lively debate.

what are you aspirations, career wise?

 

[Last Throw]

I've always believed that a good knowledge of anything is advantageous. A good understanding of Marx will provide perhaps an understanding of the Lenin variations, and a good knowledge of the soviet model and then perhaps the Mao model. This will not only bring you past the "doesn't accept human greed" excuse that most people place on the "failure" of these political systems, but will also give you a good basis to understand the capitilist system and the failing of the welfare state.
And I'd like to know all about that... but I don't really. hehehehe...

What do I do?

Well, I'm currently doing honours in biochemistry, doing a project in immunology/protein science. So I'd love to do my doctorate next year, then maybe find a few jobs overseas so that I can travel while I do my post-doctorate works.
I've got this really lovely image of being a 40 year old lecturer, with classes full of students, and my favourate post-grads who help me with my research while I help them with their career. A calm, quiet, slow man who always has an open door and a knowledge that there is no such thing as failure.
I'm working on him.

-Daniel