Another open theoretical letter, or rather just some thoughts.... (another title for this post could be "Dating advices wanted" which would probably be rather accurate)
Recently, I happened to look through the photos of JW Anderson's most recent fashion show, FW17. This show had many looks which incorporated crochet, which I thought was interesting because I learned to crochet a few months ago. In addition to the crochet-wear, another thing that caught my attention (unsurprisingly) was one of the models in this show - he was quite eye catching! Probably the thing that caught my eye was that he was very blonde like another person who was the subject of a recent post. So, naturally, I had to try and find out the name of this model and after a bit of searching around, I did, and I was quite pleased with myself. Apparently he is German. Also apparently he is a rather new model so he hasn't done very much modeling work so far. I hope that he does more modeling work in the future so that there will be more pictures of him that I can look at because more good looking people to look at never killed anybody, and I'm certainly probably not going to find good looking people to look at on the online dating website. In any case, it makes me wistful over that particular good looking person who was the subject of a recent post and who is also very blonde and could be a model because of his appearance. I wonder if he has German ethnicity, or Swedish, or Danish or Norwegian. Perhaps eastern European. I have no idea. His name is not obviously (or subtly) Scandinavian/German like the name "Mikkelsen" (Danish, as in the actor Mads Mikkelsen) or "Müller" (German, as in the Fußballspieler für Bayern München Thomas Müller) or "Skarsgaard" (Swedish, as in the actor Alexander Skarsgaard) or even "Wilberg" (as in... it goes without saying). I would have mentioned Italian names or perhaps French-esque names but stereotypically Scandinavians and Germans are supposed to be blonde so I went with that. In any case, I know barely anything about him, much less which particular European country his ancestors were from. Although there are some other people who I do know the details of their ethnicity, that's not the subject at hand.
To the subject of taking initiative, on one hand it would be a good (or perhaps not terribly horrible) thing to do, but on the other hand, why not just let people live their lives and not go intruding and expecting to be given an answer/attention and so on and so forth. Plus, he could possibly be gay, in which case I'd feel very foolish. So, perhaps the opening line could be "Before I go any father, are you gay?" Getting the important things out of the way first... In one way, that would be a good thing to say because then I would have my answer to that but on the other hand it would also be a weird thing to ask right off the bat and therefore probably I should avoid saying that. Basically, the best solution is to just not say anything because I have no idea where to start in a way that would feel genuine to me and also not be terribly off puttingly WEIRD. I don't know if people starting out conversations like that has ever been successful. I wonder how I would react if someone asked me "Before I go any farther, are you a lesbian?" I would probably say no, I guess. (the uncertainty here is not about being a lesbian, but rather about how best to react to a question like that. Another possible reaction could be "Why (insert optional profanity here) are you asking me that?!" or if it were asked by that horrible thing, merely a "FUCK OFF!!!") In any case, if I ever come up with some normal conversation ideas as well as some initiative, I will let you all know how that goes. Ideally it would go well and I would not make an impression of "she is really weird and I don't think I want to be around someone like that." I'm not sure if maybe I already blew it with the hair touching event. It is very possible that I did. I wonder if he remembers that. I don't think I'd mind too much if he does indeed remember that, but I would mind if it caused his impression of me to be "she is really weird and I don't think I want to be around someone like that." In which case, refer to my previous post where I mentioned an apology about the hair touching event.
I have touched
the hair
that was on
your head
and which
you probably
thought
was WEIRD
Forgive me
It was soft
So blonde
and so dazzling.
(If my former apology isn't good enough, here is another one in a more poetic form. This particular poem structure lends itself perfectly to this purpose. Me writing poems like this actually goes back all the way to the 8th grade when we had an assignment to do such, and the concept caught on and I began to write many, many more. Incidentally, it was also back in middle school when I noticed (although I didn't take particular note of) the very blonde hair and it was eye catching back then too.)
I also have to wonder how much on the scale of weirdness that that poem would be for something to tell him. I feel like it could definitely be pretty far up there. Perhaps somewhat less weird than the previous theoretical open letter, just since it's shorter, but still probably pretty weird. It would be somewhat more relevant though than something like "What do you think about the topic of drug addicts/addiction?" which is something that could possibly lead to an interesting conversation, but on the other hand is also an incredibly odd thing to tell someone who you barely know anything about as a conversation starter. "Hello. I think you are good looking so please talk to me." That one is worse in some ways, one way being that it does come across as rather desperate but on the other hand, is quite blunt about my intentions which is a quality that I value.
As an aside, I think "More good looking people to look at never killed anybody" should be another one of my quotes, along with "Nobody plans on becoming a drug addict" and "You have nice teeth" and "I only like him because of his eyelashes" and "Full Metal Jacket was a strange movie but it did stick with me, apparently." I think these are some quotes that nicely sum up myself. (I put them in chronological order to the best of my memory of when I first came up with them) Also, an honorable mention to a quote that isn't mine but is one that I like: "Maybe in a few years I'll be a more uplifting person." Guess/Remember who said that? (it is the same person who was the subject of the "You have nice teeth" quote. He said that quote probably about 10 years ago because I remember reading it in an interview that was done regarding the album All the Stars and Boulevards, which is from 2005.)
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