Sunday, August 29, 2004

Globophobic

So I've been wondering why they have the same name for fear of balloons and fear of globalization. Globophobic. It makes more sense that it is fear of globalization. I also found a different name for fear of ballons - Pallophobia. Phallobobia, on the other hand, is fear of the penis, especially one that is erect.. It's all very confusing.
Whatever the correct name is - my fear is of balloons. Well, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit by calling it a fear. I just can't stand watching people blowing up those latex ballons. I don't mind hot air balloons and mylar balloons is it? And also if you fill the latex ones with water, I'm fine. It's only the filling it with air part I hate. I don't particularly like the balloon once it's filled either, but I can hold it, or even pop it if I have to (I very rarely have to...). But whenever I see someone blowing up a balloon I start to cringe and have to look away, or leave..
Oh, a Kevin Spacey movie - have to see what it is.

Friday, August 20, 2004

I suck at photography!

Can't sleep, so I thought I'd see if my scanner still works. Just got some pictures back that I took at some of the concerts I went to. My god, I need a better camera. One with amazing zoom, that is small enough to smuggle past the security...
I think I was one of very few people that had a camera at the McCartney concert. But the pictures still look like I took them with my cellphone.. If I look closely I can kind of see a little red dot on stage.. That's Paul... Or at least that's what they said.. It could just be a stand in. And they just showed a previous concert on the big screens..
At the Quart festival I got a bit closer to the stage. So you can almost see who the pictures are of. I can see it, but that's probably just because I took them...
At the Grant-Lee Phillips concert I stood really close to the stage. But I didn't want to use the flash and blind the poor guy.. Well, I did a few times.. and of course those are the only ones that came out reasonably ok..
Got a lot of nice pictures of the back of peoples head though...
Hmmm... how do you link pictures.. I'm so extremely dense when it comes to computers.. Let's see..
http://www.geocities.com/hestereke/
Does this work?


Grant-Lee Phillips