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[18 Feb 2030|07:55pm]

It's not you it's them that are wrong
Tell 'em to take out their tongues
Tell 'em to take out their tongues
And bring on the backlash!
Who the Fuck are The Guilty?

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[04 Oct 2008|03:07am]
It went a little something like this:

Elea and I have separated, broken up, whatever you want to call it. It sucked cuz like, she was my best friend and all. But I was chasing after this girl who was an underwear model and she was always busy so we decided to kind of split off for a while. So I am at this party in New York, and I don't really remember being invited or deciding to go, I was just kind of there. So like, I'm at the bar doing my usual James Bond/Bob Dylan thing, which is hiding in the dark not talking to anyone, trying to be real mysterious. Elea walked in and it was like she had some sort of spotlight on her. Maybe it was because she was wearing some sort of sparkly dress, but I felt like I was being slapped across the face. And I sort of thought to myself, "Hey, my woman's here. I'm so in love with her." And that was the first time I'd said that, even to myself, even though I should have realized it a lot earlier. We did the kind of awkward-avoidance thing for a while, but I kind of figured that if I was in love with her it shouldn't be awkward at all. So I sat down next to her and said "You look beautiful", and she said "thank you" and we chatted for a bit and eventually it came to a "hey, you wanna get out of here?" and that turned into a "hey, we should go to vegas" and then on the plane it was "hey, I want to marry you, lets get married in vegas, I love you, I want you to be my wife." Maybe it wasn't particularly romantic because I was a little drunk, but I was sincere. Elea and I have always just sort of done things that felt natural. We don't really discuss things like, back when we first started sleeping together, we never talked about it. It just happened. Maybe that's because we're on the same brainwave-length.

Elea didn't want to get married right that night. She wanted to do the girlie thing and have a normal wedding with bridesmaid and everything. That was fine, because I know thats what makes her happy and I want her to be happy. She wanted that white dress and everything. I liked the white dress but she could have walked down that aisle in sweatpants and a tshirt with her hair all messy and no makeup and she still would have been the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. She's always been that to me, I guess. She's my Edie Sedgewick. And yeah there have been other girls who are attractive to me, but Elea's just got this glow about her, doesn't she? She's like a burning star to me. She's my little star.

We didn't have a lot of proper honeymoon time, because it was sort of on a whim and we both were working on things. Elea was working on her album and 90210 and making movies and I was doing my sideproject and writing and playing gigs as usual. And I was working on a film too, about none other than Edie Sedgewick (don't know why Elea didn't play her). So like, we're splitting our time between LA and The Hamptons, and I still have my place in London if we ever need to go there. I think we're going to try and take a real honeymoon soon. I'd really like that, and I think she would too.

But we're doing really well.
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