new_orleans MollyGoLightly its hard to jump a cemetery gate when you haven't crossed the fuzzy line from still-drunk into hung-over. she and i walked the street lined with pink-houses and sidewalks that smelled like beer until we could talk about what had happened the night before. 000704 ... The Schleiffen Man what a boof little recollection 000704 ... bloodletting bird "... down by the river where it's warm and green..." 000704 ... grendel Oh my, someone get me a bottle of Chartreuse. 000704 ... princess lola where the soul finds fulfillment 010408 ... nocturnal love it. just love it. can't wait till jazz fest. and if any of y'all ever go, that's where I live, so you let me know. I'll show ya a good time. 010408 ... nocturnal funny I should mention jazz fest. because ya know what? it's on saturday, and as if that wasn't enough, it's cinco de mayo as well. goddamn I just wanna be home partying my ass off right now, but I still have to pack, sleep (optional), go to my last class of the semester, and drive for 8 hours. but then, oh THEN I will be happy. take me back to new orleans! 010504 ... nocturnal we're flooding. this sucks. I look outside and it's all white from the rain pouring down. how wonderful to be 4 feet below sea level. 010608 ... nocturnal "I wish nothing but pestilence and famine upon the atlanta falcons." damn straight. 011021 ... Aimee it's okay hon... just calm down... it's only a football game 011022 ... nocturnal just a football game? some people just don't get it. 011022 ... niki they are not from here nocturnal...they do not know 011022 ... nocturnal I'm so glad someone feels my pain. much appreciated, niki. 011022 ... gwyllynne I blame it all on the water. 011022 ... niki no prob chere 011023 ... nocturnal FUCKING RIGHT! the rams are no longer undefeated. SAINTS KICK ASS!!! I am filled with such pride for my boys today. 011028 ... niki we beat the rams...again?! sweet ass!!!! did deuce mcallister get any playing time? 011028 ... nocturnal well, I didn't get to see the game cuz I'm not home. I'm at school in Austin, so it wasn't on tv here. but I saw the score on espn2. we scored 25 points in the third quarter and were tied in the fourth until the last, like 2 minutes or so. then we made a field goal to win 34-31. saints kick ass. 011028 ... nocturnal I don't know what fools out there are wasting time watching the emmy's or the world series, but I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they aren't aware that there's a saints game on. the jets will die...hopefully. 011104 ... nocturnal oh god somebody stop this. 011104 ... nocturnal i hate kyle turley. 011104 ... Evil Parallel Commando Bono sorry, love, they were playing us on the news footage of the series, i had to watch it. Besides that, we played one of our best shows ever in Arizona back in '87 just something about all that open desert makes me want to... oh, damn it all! I can't help it, i have to get naked again... ~~~strips off leathers and goes running out into the street yet again~~~ 011105 ... CheapVodka Whelp...being my place of residence...born and raised... I have to say that I'm angry... If anyone could have seen that Saints game yesterday you woulda been all about killing someone from New York. Some guy says I'm not from New Orleans because I spent time on the West Bank. Whatever. I was born in New Orleans East and every night we can (if we're sober enough to drive and it's before 2 am) then we are at the Quarter. I'm more southern than you Nocturnal... neener neener neener *joking* Gutter_punks always 011105 ... nocturnal whatever dude. I have friends who live in the east and on the wank. there's nothing in either area. maybe even if you lived in lakeview or something, I'd be more understanding. sure, both the east and the wank are technically in orleans parish, but they still suck. sorry. I have to agree with you about the homicidal tendencies towards new york right now, though. fuck them all. 011105 ... Evil Parallel Bono ~~puts clothes back on and adjusts Fly shades~~ Now that oughtta stop some traffic. 011105 ... CheapVodka i'm sure it would Bono it'z ok Nocturnal...i understand if you're jealous of my more authentic accent due to my never leaving the area... *joking again* what part did you live in 011105 ... nocturnal uptown. on st. charles between louisiana and napoleon. just outside the garden district. I do wish I had an accent, though. just not a yat one. I think I almost developed one over the summer working downtown. it slips out sometimes when I'm drunk or stoned. how embarrassing. but it's kinda funny. 011105 ... ever dumbening unfortunately, some cliches and schmarmy lyrics just can't be ignored because i know what it means to miss new orleans i lived there for three years and loved it. i love you people for living there and loving it. what a great fucking city. even that god-awful smell, i miss that. what is that anyway? john mooney at madigans, the blacksmith shop, being insanely in the weeds (trees) at commander's, letting out a banshee wail each day i set foot on the infield at jazz fest, uglesich's, pissing off a gator along the boardwalk in jean laffites by thumping an empty water bottle, a gallon of milk punch a gallon of bloody's a bottle of veuve and leaving the remains in pirates alley, waking up in front of tip's on the neutral ground at 5am with everyone gone and no change to call a cab, getting locked out and going to the milan lounge and using some random key from someone at the bar and having it work, strangely pronounced street names, drive thru daquiris, go cups, kermit, a whole mess of people who lived mere footsteps away from my st louis childhood all playing jazz in n.o., that river, uptown, in search of the perfect sazerac, leaving igor's at 11am after far too many irish coffees, the perfect antidote to five years in helL.A., fooooooooood, and on and on and on and on and on and on. go, live, do--what an amazing place 011114 ... nocturnal goddamn I wanna go home now. thanks a lot. 011114 ... niki it is the smell of...................................................................new orleans 011114 ... nocturnal no, it's just stale beer and cigarettes. and the homeless people. can't forget them. mmmm. getting homesick. 011114 ... ClairE Bob went to Mardi Gras and brought me back cheap plastic beads. I used them in a school project. I was fourteen. I've never been there but it seems like a place you can be fond of. Like New_York in the South. 011129 ... jestification i forgot it because it's so close... and i'd rather be in baton rouge, but it's so big and close. i remember it because it's so close... and i've been so much on accident. and all the shows... yeah, that's why i go... the shows. 011205 ... gwyllynne she has been quiet lately the calm before the storm....well some would say finding myself referring to those times as "the good ol days" finding myself resenting that thought no more pirates in Pirate's Alley.......oh sweet John where have you gone? And why did the great lush's of New Orleans dissappear too? no more wench's dancing on the bar....those luscious ladies no more hidden embraces in The Dungeon....those smokey rooms no longer a comfort had to make room for the new breed of dark children.......of shining dancers......of jokers and thieves ah, yes the good ol quarter days are gone..... we have now secluded ourselves.....tucked away......hidden in the Garden District slinging drinks for those who will never understand the heart still thumps to the erratic pace...at times....wondering....tasting the thrill of yesterday's past making our own private decay...shadows ..whispers ..afterthoughts ..halfway forgotten no, we can never go back.....we must slide forward....with narrowed eyes tucked away...reaching out 020119 ... drunkeemonkee the french quarter makes me scream...ohh la la...bring on the magnolia wine and lets eat some jambalya. pralines too please 030602 ... Princess Lola i want to be there now! i will walk all the way from hattiesburg if i have to... well... as soon as i become unlazy. then! oh then i will! i want make my subatomic_underground empire there... and i will hire monkeys and spinky little chipmunks to tie people's shoe laces together really, i want to take pictures all day and sell them at places like dpchallenge... and i want to live there w/ jd_norse and many, many pretty kitty cats. weeeeeeeeeeee! 030711 ... kit it's gutter candy, grime and glitter and prettily filthy. drinking chartreuse and dixie beer in the quarter at 4am and falling asleep in jackson square. smashed sidewalks and dreams and sticky humid afternoons. rescuing stray mardi gras beads from ironwork months after the party is ended. winn-dixie by st. louis #1. sweat stained lace and yesterday's smeared eye-liner. cruising the ninth ward listening to ziggy stardust. 040630 ... witchesrequiem Alright I was born and still live in this fucking city...and most, if not all of u have it wrong.... 1. Some one spoke of cemeteries smelling like beer.......... no! the Quarter does, the cemeteries are a good 4 miles away....it was probably their breath! 2. The river is not green or warm... it is brown from all the "shit" that flows down it from up north to here, the crap eats away at our coast line ........algea won't even grow on it..so it is not green..it may be warm but in my 24 years and mothers 44 years neither of us will risk testing the temperature.... 3. Chartruse.. good luck finding the real thing.....the closeist u will get is reading a poopy z brite book... 4. No one here's soul has found fullfillment..... if that was true we would have more "famous" bands, artist and writers out of here... 5. No one is really happy here, if we were the mississippi would not flow with alcohol. And tourist would not come here to forget their fucking problems by drowniing them. 6. The Saints..... not a big sports fan but heay, they suck!..... not on purpose it is because the superdome was built on the oldest cemetery in the state. Back in the 50's our genius polititians said "heay, we need to build a sports dome....but where"...some other ass hole said "heay, there is this cemetery right in the heart of shit, lets move the bodies and build our stuff." So they did..and the dome is fucking haunted now, cursing the Saints... 7. Cheapvodka.... you do realize that the west bank is 5 - 10 minutes from down town New Orleans... 8. Something someone said about lakeveiw.... YUPPIES..... if that is what you consider this city.. you have either been sheltered or are a moron. 9. One of you said you wish you had our accent.... Uh,,Why? I was born here ..deal with tourist all day and they think I'm from the east coast.... there is no real nola accent... and the few laffite,grande isle people that have one..... u don't want.. 10. Back to #1 it only smells bad in the french Quarter... because the city was designed before there was such a thing as trash pick up..... so there are no allies..it all goes on the street... Well that's that..... When it's not 6am I will tell u what it is like to live here... it just took me forever to read all the crap everyone else wrote and clear it up.... 040701 ... selkie the river would not have me. 040701 ... uow is sinking man and i don't wanna swim 040914 ... misstree requiem: you *can* find real chartreuse, darling, still the shit made by monks, you're thinking of absinthe, which i won't go into... there is a new_orleans accent, so to speak, but you mostly find it in the old folks and hicks... kinda like a mushymouthed frenchified southern kinda thing... it's odd... and the whole city does stink, it's madame mississippi's fault. thank you, please pull through. (and may the tribelings met and unmet down there fare well through the biblical flooding currently predicted. just head upstream if you need some shoulders to stand on.) 040915 ... innocent insect uglesich's has become another thing that "ain't dere no more", such a sad sad shame 050524 ... ever dumbening yeah, i heard about uglesich's closing, and it really bummed me out. long live the perfect fried oyster poboy. 050524 ... Lemon_Soda I miss the food. 050524 ... Lemon_Soda ...and the flowers. ...and the houses. ...and the Rue. ...but NOT the hookah bar. 050524 ... jane she could smell it on his lips, his past, the way he grew up near bourbon street & hated the tourists. she could hear the calls of the voodoo mamas on a full moon, howling like coyotes at the lunar harvest. she looked into his creole eyes and full lips, his childish giggle and the way he danced around the bedroom, and she could see new orleans in his essence. she longed to eat cajun food with him, to smell blackened catfish and smoky nights, to hear the blues drift up into the darkening sky. 050525 ... megan love song for bobby long 050525 ... ever dumbening driving along sacramento street, after a long day of drawing, after an evening run, sweaty, i glanced briefly down a cross street. the lining trees hung just so, and with the light from the sun just past setting, i was for a fraction of a fraction of a second back at the corner of tchoupitoulas and napoleon. 050525 ... Ivory I just came back from vacationing from there. It was the most beautiful place. I got a vampire to walk me around downtown New Orleans at night, and we got to see some really cool stuff. I learned a lot about the folklore and history and stuff. Good times. Good times. The jazz on every corner was AMAZING. I wish I had brought my saxophone or my bass or my keyboard or a clarinet or something, but there was nowhere to fit it in the car. 050526 ... Katrina 8302005: Crisis Grows As New Orleans Looted, Flooded 050830 ... Baghdad "It's downtown ," 050830 ... " The looting is out of control..." 050830 ... jane he's getting his red cross training to help the disaster recovery in new orleans. how i wish i could go with him, to help him recover his personal disasters. but i know that he needs to gain his own perspective, seeing people without houses. 050831 ... 1 hour ago 912005 050901 ... in Bodies, gunfire and chaos New Orleans' streets 050901 ... Rita 9202005 23 minutes ago Threatens More New Orleans Flooding 050920 ... the tragically hip new orleans is sinking, and i don't want to swim 050921 ... Rita 9222005 6 hours ago: Hurricane brings rain to New Orleans 050922 ... mt the_world_that_led_you_to_blather 050923 ... nightmare 'It's like a all over again' 050924 ... Rita Was Hurricane Katrina or by Intelligent Design? 050924 what's it to you? who go blather from