okay, this is unlikely

[rm]

or neurotic or silly or SOMETHING, but I really, really need to win this contest:

http://www.idealsweepstakes.com/australiastory/

Click on about the event to see why.

Damn damn damn damn damn.

Comments

[minsock.livejournal.com]

does this have anything to do with the hotness that is Hugh Jackman (in close proximity)?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, no. Hugh Jackman should be a good enough reason for anyone!

It has to do with the fact that Baz Luhrmann's work has this huge crazy place in the narrative of my life, and is pretty much why I went to Sydney to study at NIDA, as well as central to how creative collaboration works in my strange little existence.

It would be a damn funny punchline to get to shake the man's hand on this side of the world instead of that one.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

And you get your story published in the New York Times.:)
200 words or less-go for it, cobber!

[marchek.livejournal.com]

Hey, if anyone's got stories about Australia it's you.

Best of luck.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I know. Now I just need to come up with 200 words and appropriate. Unfortunately the closest thing I have to an appropriate awesome Sydney moment that's not really complicated was getting trashed on absinthe at sushi-e.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

You could elaborate on this: http://rm.livejournal.com/1507933.html

[genders.livejournal.com]

Damn, I can't remember it now but you told a story here on LiveJournal about a day you spent alone in Sydney...I wish I could remember more about it. I remember it touched me profoundly.

I think you could handily win this.

[rm.livejournal.com]

The problem is I spent most of my days in Sydney alone outside of class.

Also introspection doesn't a story make. Narrative! In 200 words! That's a bitch.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Best of luck to you! Speaking of things Ozzie, what is the bridge with the fireworks in the banner for that site? Is that Sydney?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yup. Sydney Harbour Bridge, New Year's fireworks.

[theotoky.livejournal.com]

stranger things have happened. this is the way i won my all expenses paid trip to Hong Kong! do it!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

You can do it! Go for it.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

Yes! You definitely should enter. I hope you get it. Good luck!

[junebugged.livejournal.com]

IfWhen you win this, (I have no doubt you will - you're one of the most descriptive writers I've ever seen, whether it's a sentence or paragraph or page.)

As I was saying... When you win this, you'll be sure to kiss Hugh's cheek and tell me if he still smells like deliciousness, right? *bats lashes*

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

Heh, I KNEW showing you the tango scene was a bad idea. :)

I think you definitely have a good dramatic arc built in here though . . . like, you see Moulin Rouge and the whole dealy with the green fairy, which then leads you to getting trashed on Absinthe in sushi-e (is this when you saw Heath Ledger, also?). Look, certainly the Australians can appreciate a good drinking story. :) The Aussies own more bars out here than the Maccanese!

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

Ach, that all sounded uber-chipper. I've been gondoliering too much, my tone has become all "This is Delta Delta Delta can I helpya helpya helpya?"

But I think the jist is still correct. You don't even need 200 words . . . "One of my heroes pretended to be a whore so I followed Kylie Minogue in a Tinkerbell costume to Sydney and threatened a young man with a knife several times but it was for fakesies so it was okay. And then we all had sandwiches!!"

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, tha'ts the funniest thing I"ve ever read, and definitely the elevator pitch version of "I'm batshit crazy. Look!"

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

"I'm batshit crazy. Look!"

THE MUSICAL!

[rm.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried to track down the guy I did Macbeth with in ages, but I think this entire threa would make him laugh and laugh and laugh. Why aren't twenty-yearold boys in this country that charming?

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Uh, holy crap yeah.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Right?!?!! And I could even swing just buying a ticket to the thing, but that wouldn't be the right path for the story. If I don't win, this isn't the moment.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks these things. Seriously.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, so glad, that while I may be crazy, I don't apparently seem crazy to you on this point.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

No, no. See, one of the brilliant things about human beings is that they're really great at narrative. Oh, any series of things can just happen, but human beings? Human beings can be aware of that series and make it meaningful. They can use it to change things or make things, and...

*blink*

Right. Someone's clearly just replaced me with the Tenth Doctor.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Which is very disturbing considering the things the Tenth Doctor is doing to Ianto over in IHNIIHBT right about now.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Which I can't read yet because I'm at work. Not that I'm working, mind you, but I've been given to understand that IT in my department frowns on teh pr0nz.

FAIL.

[rm.livejournal.com]

This is actually the least dirty of them (don't worry, the next one is waaaay making up for it), but yeah, it's still not appropriate work reading.