September 26, 2011
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Randomly, I adore this unflattering photo. It was on my 30th birthday, with a good friend I am sporadically entirely in love with, in lust with, and just happy to be friends with. In this particular photo, we were both entirely MASHED after partying all night (think photo about 9am) and the most recent pill we had taken was just kicking in. I remember how dishevelled I was and how silly my little black dress and boots were, lurching around some random suburb with a cute boy, looking for a taxi while wholesome people walked their dogs and looked at us curiously. All very hedonistic.
Anyway. The reason I love this photo is that it is so rare really, to get a photo where I am not trying to make it a at least a NICE photo. I think I was doing "Mr Potato Head Angry Eyes" and my thigh was pressing against someone I found so entirely sexy it was pretty much a feeling of "I can Die Happy" knowing that he found me sexy in return.
We remain friends, both of us way more grown up and responsible, but both capable of returning to this moment of mashness in a moment of drunken syncronicity. Recently, in a giddy couple of weeks, I enjoyed being in love with him again, but reality snuck it's way in and I've shoved it back into the more sparkly world of mashedness, which is way more fun that reality anyways.
Comments (2)
I think the photo is fantastic.
I know exactly what you mean about not making a picture "nice." That compulsion has ruined many many pictures for me, since it always does the exact opposite of what I intend. That's why I usually either make some terrible face or try to stay in motion for the duration of the picture-taking episode. This, sadly, also ruins many photos...
x.g.
I do the picture thing, too - when I try to make things "nice," it sort of ruins everything, and so I often make silly faces, which is more amusing but also probably annoying for the people doing the picture-taking.
Also, you are unbelievably fantastic. I just thought you should know. I would be so very thrilled if somehow we were allowed to time-warp and you could be in university with me.
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