Well, I spoke to Josh a couple times last night, but eventually flaked on meeting him. In my defense, a girl was involved.
However, if this journey ever gets wings to Australia, I might but up for jumping on the bandwagon.
~psychoblast~
p.s. Some thoughts on this journal as a literary exercise:
No disrespect intended, but I think this journaling could benefit from more philosophical angst, you know the "how does this show me the meaning of life?" type ponderings. It appears the current crew has already reached their conclusion on this point (something like, life is short and filled with pain and pleasure, so get drunk or high and have fun as much as possible.)
Whether they are correct or not, a story where the protaganist searches for and perhaps achieves for himself this answer, is much superior IMO to one where the protaganist is merely engaging in actions that are based on his answer arrived at before we even join the story.
But if these adventurers actually come to some significant paradigm shift from this journey -- and can reduce it to words -- then that is the kind of writing that would be reminiscent of On the Road or Fear and Loathing.
I guess my point is that Josh sounds more like "Dean" than "Sal" from On the Road, and I wonder if that would work, from a literary perspective (whereas I imagine that I would probably behave and chronical more like Sal in such situations).
Oh, this story also needs more sex.
[ 15 January 2003: Message edited by: psychoblast ]