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Heavens! It's Tristan!

afraid of changing, scared that I haven't.

About Me

living in scotland. one day at a time.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey

Name: Tristan O'C.
Birthday: 31/01/1985
Birthplace: Edinburgh
Current Location: Edinburgh
Eye Color: greenishblueishgreenishgreyish-ish
Hair Color: black as soot. I'm a dark one.
Height: 183 mm
Right Handed or Left Handed: both, honestly!
Your Heritage: dark Scottish/dark Irish
The Shoes You Wore Today: plaid Toms.
Your Weaknesses: soy whip, piano
Your Fears: drowning, cramped spaces
Your Perfect Pizza: vegan - spinach, artichoke, fresh tomato
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: a little more peace
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: "heh"
Thoughts First Waking Up: oy, coffee?
Your Best Physical Feature: hmm, dunno.
Your Bedtime: 2 or 3 or 4 in the morning --whenever i can finally get to sleep. not good at that lately.
Your Most Missed Memory: my dad.
Pepsi or Coke: water, actually.
MacDonalds or Burger King: neither.
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: neither. simple earl grey.
Chocolate or Vanilla: vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: coffee with soymilk
Do you Smoke: more lately
Do you Swear: less lately
Do you Sing: sometimes
Do you Shower Daily: usually
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: i'm perpetually in and out of uni
Do you want to get Married: marriage isn't what it used to be.
Do you belive in yourself: from time to time, but not consistently
Do you get Motion Sickness: only in the back of buses
Do you think you are Attractive: ehhh...dunno, maybe once upon a time
Are you a Health Freak: depends on your definition of "freak." i'm a vegan, and i meditate and do yoga every morning
Do you get along with your Parents: yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: love them
Do you play an Instrument: mostly piano now, as i sold my turntables.
In the past month have you Drunk Alcohol: yes
In the past month have you Smoked: yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no
In the past month have you gone on a Date: no
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: no
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: never have, never will
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: veg-sushi only, but yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no -- i miss the hot springs in Reykjavik, though.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: yes... are these surveys for 6 year old children?
Ever been called a Tease: not in a long time
Ever been Beaten up: yes
Ever Shoplifted: yes
How do you want to Die: surrounded by the people i love
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: probably keep being a hack writer and working in a museum or something
What country would you most like to Visit: hmmmm. get back to me on that. the world is pretty big.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: brown or green or blue.
Favourite Hair Color: dark or light or something.. obviously, i'm picky
Short or Long Hair: not too long
Height: doesn't really matter to me
Best Clothing Style: vintage. or not. i don't know, i like boots a lot.
Number of Drugs I have taken: number of types or number of experiences? thats's an odd question for a survey aimed at 6 year olds
Number of CDs I own: less now. more mp3s
Number of Piercings: four. both nipples via Amsterdam, ears as well via Edinburgh
Number of Tattoos: three. my family crest on my left shoulderblade, then two geometric tattos running from my elbow down to my wrists on the underside of both arms - a jagged line ending in an arrowhead
Number of things in my Past I Regret: hmm. i regret not spending more time with my father before he died. i don't think i ever really knew him. i regret being a rude fuck, especially to the people i come to be in a relationship with. i can be terribly insensitive, which i now recognize as a reflection of my own insecurities about expressing emotion. i have trouble doing that, so i have trouble with other peoples' as well.

My Interests

Reading cerebral lit, pretending I've some higher purpose even though I know better, art galleries, museums, shitty pubs, GOOD music (see list below for definition), punk, poetry, theatre, vegan food, international travel, traveling long distances by foot, boof! (waterfalls), dancing, making people dance, cuddling, making people feel special and/or happy, earl grey tea with soymilk and sugar, scarves, Asia, big waves, new york city, skateboards, not owning a car, and my vespa:

I'd like to meet:

Writers.
Musicians.
Train-hoppers.
Good people.
Someone to sing me to sleep.

Music:

JAZZ - (Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, MILES DAVIS, Ron Carter, Louis Armstrong) Also Radiohead, THOM YORKE (his solo stuff b/c it's nice and bleepy), Godspeed you!! black emperor, DIESELBOY, DEERHOOF, YACHT, DJ Dara, LCD soundsystem, CHROMEO, KLAXONS, SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, aphex twin, the presets, soko, the postal service, the notwist, grizzly bear, efterklang, LADYTRON, figurine, THE STROKES, the vines, the hives, (dunno what it is about me & the aussies) metric, the smiths, the velvet underground, THE POLICE, the pixies, cat power, ray lamontagne, patti smith, yeah yeah yeahs, JOY DIVISION, the yardbirds, the kinks, THE CURE, IGGY POP & the stooges, THE STONE ROSES, the mahavishnu orchestra, JOHN COLTRANE, bauhaus, OMD, THE TALKING HEADS, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANCHEES, and we can't forget him: DAVID BOWIE. Plus (+) beautiful/gentle gorgeous music from my Icelandic friends: Björk and Sigur Rós. God bless you.

Movies:

The Sea Inside, The Life Aquatic, Whale Rider, Masculin/Feminin, Charlotte et son Jules, Il Postino, Dancer in the Dark, Requiem for a Dream, Code 46, Wild Strawberries, Un Chien Andalou, Rushmore, Sideways, Igby Goes Down, Breakfast on Pluto, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Edukators, The Return (the russian film), Goodbye Lenin

Television:

has never done anything good for me.

Books:

most texts from the beat generation folks, 18th century cerebral lit (yes i actually enjoy reading Dryden), henry david thoreau, walt whitman (I <3 leaves of grass) and mary oliver. she's so earthy. also, czeslaw milosz, gabriel garcia marquez, milan kundera, and now haruki murakami. oh and neil gaiman, too. of course.

My Blog

update

I have come home. Back to Alba. Back to the green here. I will stay until I feel my soul as rested as my father's, now that he is gone. I feel older. Tired. I know I have changed. And so, in changin...
Posted by Heavens! It's Tristan! on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:56:00 PST

coming back to London for a little while..

My father is very, very ill. I have been summoned home. No idea when I will be coming back to New York.. it all depends on his recovery. I leave Tuesday morning. Keep me in your thoughts, everyone....
Posted by Heavens! It's Tristan! on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:22:00 PST

stomach

flu. i have it. oh i'm sick sick sick sick.
Posted by Heavens! It's Tristan! on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:36:00 PST

transplant = success

arrived on schedule - no major slip ups aside from forgetting to change over money at the airport to pay a taxi. luggage all here, etc. still waiting for the bigger gear, instruments, turnta...
Posted by Heavens! It's Tristan! on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:43:00 PST

new york, new york

So, unless some emergency takes place, this is what's going to happen on the 4th of October.  departure - 2:00 @ London-Gatwick arrival - 4:55 PM at JFK (weird how time zones work, innit?) ...
Posted by Heavens! It's Tristan! on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:36:00 PST

changes

Got a haircut. Got a new tattoo. Sold my kayak. Left Alex. Started playing the drums again. I'm moving to New York City in just over two months. I'll be there one year, and then god ...
Posted by Heavens! It's Tristan! on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:52:00 PST

fast update

left japan, flew to baltimore.   starscape was a blast. here are a few videos i managed to find on youtube.... DJ Knowledge... DJ Craze... now i'm in the c...
Posted by Heavens! It's Tristan! on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:05:00 PST

london----> tokyo----> london----> new york?

it's morning and right now i'm sitting in tokyo in the meguroko district, sipping gyokuro on the patio with alex at his dad's house. i've been here about a week now. it's so very d...
Posted by Heavens! It's Tristan! on Sun, 20 May 2007 03:45:00 PST

la de da de da de da

OH-SO-LOVERLY. londonvillage has been keeping me swimming in work. another lass in Brighton is trying to get me to gig with her but i'm already booked every weekend c'ept for the ones i schedule for ...
Posted by Heavens! It's Tristan! on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:06:00 PST

january dates

Jan, Luka and I (the homo trio) are off.  We're all meeting in Zagreb.  This is where you can find us for the next few weeks. Let me know if any of you are going to ...
Posted by Heavens! It's Tristan! on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:49:00 PST