Let's!

I want a house boat... I'm entrigued (sic?) by the opportunities for creative use of the space, plus I like the idea of investing in a home but not being tied down to one location.

There was this houseboat designed by some modern architect, but I can't remember who.

check this out
http://www.giancarlozema.com/trilobis-page.htm

If I recall, Madonna's art-gallery-owning character in this movie lived on a houseboat. And there was some hoopla with hot pouring wax?

This dude I knew in Paris lived on a boat that he double-docked at Bastille. Friends came over for drinks and bobbed on the deck, you had to walk over another boat (and greet the family that lived there!) to get to his. At night the strings of lights that drape the quay sides lit everything warmly. It was a dream.

Plus (those of you that have actually met me might disagree) a houseboat just seems like a very appropriate thing for Pixelwhore. I'm sure that I've romanticised the whole thing in my head, but it just seems like the best living situation ever. I'd dress like Hemingway just to complete the whole thing too.

Pixel, as long as you hotrod the houseboat:


(Not *quite* the right image, but a hilariously ridiculous one nonetheless)

Actually, I agree, houseboats seem like an incredibly romantic and funky cool living situation. When I lived in Portland that's what I dreamed of: there was a dock a couple miles up from downtown and I thought it would be awesome to commute 10 minutes by (small) boat to a home where you could watch dragonflies in the evenings and go fishing from the deck at dawn.

Plus the whole extreme maximum space utilization required for living in a boat is far more interesting, to me, than the same spatial constraints in a tiny downtown stuido apartment. Not to mention the floating away into the sunset when it was time to move on...yeah. Seems very cool.

Styx-

im sailing away
set a course for the virgin sea
cuz i've got to be free
free to face the life thats ahead of me
on board im the captain
so climb aboard
we'll search for tomorrow on every shore
and we'll try best as we can
to carry on

VS.

Grand Funk Railroad

everybody listen to me
and return me my ship
im your captain im your captain
though im feelin mighty sick
i been lost now days uncounted
and its months since ive seen home
can you hear me can you hear me
or am i all alone?

what? no christopher cross?

'sailing
takes me away
to where i always
wanted to beeeee....'

Louis Kahn did a boat

I knew a girl who did a horse

Hemingway's boat is being restored at the Old Mystic Boat Museum...
when it is complete maybe they will let Pixelwhore take it for a run around the Long Island Sound.

Hemingway's boat is being restored at the Old Mystic Boat Museum...
when it is complete maybe they will let Pixelwhore take it for a run around the Long Island Sound.

Louis Kahn's boat was a giant floating stage for a travelling orchestra. Awesome.

whoa pixel you totally look like hemingway! This could work, this could really work. We need to get you some whores and booze and you'll be all set.

mdler, you got her number?

myriam: my grandfather won some Hemingway look-alike contest in Florida once, I must get it from him.


whores? no
booze? yes

And I'll need lots and lots of cats with extra toes...