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[naydi]

For fullscreen Halloween viewing;

the scariest song and video ever made...









yes - they are what's wrong me starting in 79....

[naydi]

I need to go to bed because I can`t even make a funny post

What are talking? Unceremoniously dumping my trivlin' a** in 'public' was pretty funny, I thought... Or, at least, that's what my therapist told me when the flood subsided just enough for me to be able to see to read the note to her over the phone at the suggestion of the nice fireman who talked me back in from the edge of my balcony... He was so nice in his plastic hat and rubber boots... He says that my hair should grow back all pretty and that I shouldn't worry about the shattered sliding door because they can always put more glass in and it's supposed to be warm tonight anyway... He was a lovely fireman... I want one of them now... But my apartment's too far up from the basement... Building a really good collection is so much easier when you only have on two floors... Haven't you found? I miss my old house... I think I'm supposed to lay down now...

*sigh*

[CvlSrvnt]

HA - I was thinking about that after the fact!! If folks haven't picked up on my fetish for strong and/or communicative visuals just yet, well, then p!ssed off they'd have been! Seriously, though, given that, in the context of the movie, it's a satirization of the whole mindset used to show the depths of insanity that Pink sunk down into, the whole possibility of it being misunderstood as promoting the Nazis didn't even come close to my mind during the mad search!! Having let it go (and having failed to be able to link up Not Now John given the multiple friggin 'your signature's too looooong' rejections), I've moved on to looking for a shot of Home Base from The X's...

Think there'll be any hardcore HAL fans ready to beef if that one goes up!!??!?
EDIT: Yes, I'm aware it's Stephen Root's voice... love how everything ties in nicely, don't you??

Girl, you have some serious issues.

I knew I liked you for a reason.

[CvlSrvnt]

the scariest song and video ever made...

Even scarier when you're tripping.

Ahem.

Or so I've heard.

[CvlSrvnt]

He was so nice in his plastic hat and rubber boots... He says that my hair should grow back all pretty and that I shouldn't worry about the shattered sliding door because they can always put more glass in and it's supposed to be warm tonight anyway... He was a lovely fireman... I want one of them now... But my apartment's too far up from the basement... Building a really good collection is so much easier when you only have on two floors... Haven't you found? I miss my old house... I think I'm supposed to lay down now...

*sigh*

And I scare you?

Don't worry hon, at least I'm not gonna dump you. I will continue to talk to you from between the plastic sheets in my rubber room. Or is that the rubber sheets in my plastic bubble? Which one are you into now?

[naydi]

Girl, you have some serious issues.

I knew I liked you for a reason.

<heh heh>

Seraph'll come crawling back...





.....I baited the trap with Nutella






pleeease?

[naydi]

Even scarier when you're tripping.

Ahem.

Or so I've heard.

Though you didn't ask - it started i 1979, when I was 8.. Maxie, my mother's second cousin's 17 or 18-yr old foster son (i don't know how these things work) had The Wall album... Roger Waters' voice scared the h'ell out of me, but I still loved Another Brick in The Wall anyway; for the music even more than the words - i actually liked school then... The drawings from Gerald Scarfe on the fold out double-album cover? Scared the living bejeezuz out of me beyond the point of words, but I couldn't help but keep staring at them whenever I could - each and every time that I could... It was around the same time that I kept seeing those freaky-a@@ Funkadelic album covers during the holidays at my grandmothers... Um hummm - you know which ones I'm talking about... Then, come 80-whenever when the commercial for The Wall movie was on TV? The baseline, the darkness of all the shots and that part where he's standing in the tunnel and the train went by and everyone had on were wearing those blank "Pink" face masks? Scarred for life, I was...



ba&tard geniuses...





...someone please hold me


EDIT: Oh - if you're wondering just what in the H'ELL I'm doing here in the 9o'clock hour... I'm not used to being home on Tuesdays... Gotten rather comfortable watching LOCI with the ability to scan through the commercials!! I'll be burning CD's til 10...

That's right, Ipods - You go to h'll; you go to h'll and you die!

[CvlSrvnt]

Though you didn't ask - it started i 1979, when I was 8..

Spent 9th grade math writing down all the lyrics from The Wall, Dark Side, and Wish from memory (along with some Tull). Got my uncle to sneak me into a midnite showing of the film at the Senator theater in Baltimore when they first put in THX. Went to the laser show at the planetarium as one my first junior-high dates. Had the 4'x4' glow-in-the-dark banner on the ceiling above my bed. And saw them at the Rosebowl in college.

See? It's not our fault we're such messed up people.

[L&Owhore]

Is this Tull of whom you speak the same Jethro Tull who STOLE Metallica's grammy?

[naydi]

Spent 9th grade math writing down all the lyrics from The Wall, Dark Side, and Wish from memory .....

Ha! I did the same thing with U2 lyrics back before Bono fell hopelessly and totally deeply in love with himself. Acrobat off of Achtung Baby, last song of their's that I would even categorize as music...

Have to admit that I've never heard even one song from Jethro Tull... You're right though, ADA, it was pretty funny when their Lord of the Rings frontman came out to accept a Heavy Metal award of all things!!! Well, we Vincent fans have already pretty much come to appreciate the true value of entertainment industry-given awards, anywho...






(^didn't win - but that's hardly the point..!)

[naydi]

(though I hate to end it here - oh, it'll come back... don't you fret none..)



And the Winner of best line from today's series of sick and twisted story-telling:

... I just put a drain in my floor for that reason. ....

^ To this, I must pause and bow down...

Hum? I know, where did everybody go? I'm not hearing sirens or anything... Hey, Seraph!! Come. Join us.

You won't feel a thing.



(on a side note: I've still managed not to have anyone come strolling through my railway car of an office space at the wrong time during uncut plays of Thom Yorke's Black Swan or Tool's Aenema... they've already blocked on online radio... now i'd like to see all our CD drives systematically ripped out!)

[naydi]

D'mmmmmmmnnnnnn the "your signature's too long" reject message!!!! Well, for you CvlSrvnt:



one of these days i'm going to cut you into little pieces...

^i'd never seen this one myself (seen? saw? for some reason my mind can't deal with proper verb tense today)

ADA - Is there anything to be done about the signature error messages? My board signature isn't actually all that big, so I'm not sure why I couldn't add the second online page link... Most frustrating part was that it took umpteen tries to swap out the smaller picture below for the much bigger one that I'd had all this time!! Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated....

[L&Owhore]

ADA - Is there anything to be done about the signature error messages? My board signature isn't actually all that big, so I'm not sure why I couldn't add the second online page link... Most frustrating part was that it took umpteen tries to swap out the smaller picture below for the much bigger one that I'd had all this time!! Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated....

Yeah this board has serious issues when it comes to images. Don't even get me started! I've sent inquiries and gotten no reply. Hopefully that means they are busy working on the issue and can't pm me back ... but I wont hold my breath!

And in my mind the Black Album is a Grammy Winner, academy voters be dam-ned!!!

[Seraphina]

Yeah yeah I`m here! But I was busy and more importantly --> you guys completely lost me. Were you trying to prove which one of you is older or something, geez . I`m at that age where I know what you`re talking about, but not quite, and it`s enough to make me feel young. Which is a welcome change to the conversations at work with 19-year olds (yes, that is only 2 years younger than me!) to discover they already don`t know what you and your completely grown-up (also 21-year old) friend are talking about. So thank you .

Edit: uhuh, so that was actually in the REAL off topic thread. But you get my point right .

[naydi]

Yeah this board has serious issues when it comes to images. Don't even get me started! I've sent inquiries and gotten no reply. Hopefully that means they are busy working on the issue and can't pm me back ... but I wont hold my breath!

And in my mind the Black Album is a Grammy Winner, academy voters be dam-ned!!!

Dang... well, I guess I'm going to need to try to sneak up on it one day when it isn't looking - which is basically what I had to do to first get up the Harrowdowne Hill link, then swap that for Terrence with the original photo, then get this photo swap done... I've put more effort into gettings things to work on this board in the last two days in the office than I have what I'm being paid for!!! ..and DAMMIT i'm craving fried clams again!! Started with a passing thought at bedtime last night... I swear to Julia Child my limbic/gastronomic enjoyment system connection functions like I'm continually pregnant.. and it's not like I have a choice to just ignore the cravings, Oh noooo... What happens then is that I start dreaming about the desired food and start slipping slowly toward complete obsessive waking form of misery until I get it... It's pure torture, I tell you!!! just so not right.... Ran out of red wine last night, too... You'd think that tonight I could have a glass of the white that's sitting there just ready to be finished off instead, but noooo, we've got a taste for the RED so, I've got TWO different stops that I have to make before I can go home and relax on a rare night off, lest my mind and body completely turn on me...

You think it's over -you know, when you finally quit smoking (3/16/04, for the second and last time) - but noooo, it isn't... The addictive behavior is just supplanted by something else... I'm thinking of conducting a study one fine day as to whether those with addictive tendencies can ever really, truly be free of them... I'd privately posed this question to the addictions counsellor who came to give us a lecture on the subject as part of the psych portion of this semester (lovely man about 10yrs(?) into recovery, bipolar to boot - quite a shining beacon of hard fought for health). His response was basically that he had absolutely no idea. He went into how people can, do and should replace addictions with healthier addictive behaviors and all that, but there was no real answer to the ultimate question of being totally and completely free of the compulsion. Given how many people across the country he's worked with (mainly in the entertainment industry), I'm going to take that as a big hint that he's not, nor has he ever seen anyone actually do it.

Any former anything's here who know of which I speak??


EDIT: It's about 20 yrs... He's a former comedian, too... Funny as h'll... Lecture isn't really the right word for his presentation, but it was just as (if not more) informative nonetheless...

[naydi]

Yeah yeah I`m here! But I was busy and more importantly --> you guys completely lost me. Were you trying to prove which one of you is older or something, geez ......

OOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWUUUUU!!!!

-and might I add-


DAAAAMN!!!!


OKAY - so you hate chiuhuahuas - don't gotta go for the jugular like that!!! Now, on top of being craving riddled and signature harried, I've gotta go get that torn out chunk of my neck sown back in. Thaaaat's just great... Juuust PERFECT, even!!! Can this daaaay get any better??!?

Could I just have that bit that's still stuck under your fingernail? No, on the other hand... The middle finger.... Yeah, 'preciate it... Thanks.... Still quite the sweetheart, you aaaare... my lovely, Seraph... she's come back to us




xoxoxoxox

[CvlSrvnt]

Is this Tull of whom you speak the same Jethro Tull who STOLE Metallica's grammy?

Stole my @ss! You two should check out some of his music. He once did "Thick as a Brick" as an encore at a concert- it's only one song, but it fills an entire album (some 44 minutes long). The lyrics are brilliant, and the music is great, too. And check out the liner notes to Aqualung, and the lyrics to the last song, "Wind-Up".

Muuuuch better than 3-chord adolescent angst metal.

And reference your other topic, naydi: I quit drinking almost two years ago (still smoking). I have had a compulsive sweet tooth since then, although I had rarely touched sweets before (even as a kid). Now everyday is Halloween at my house. Always chocolate in the fridge and cookies on the counter. I can't stop at a convenience store or grocery store without picking up some junk (figure my body misses the sugars in the ETOH). I also tend to get addicted to certain tv shows - I get violently angry if I miss one of my current 'fixes'. Knowing myself as I do, I refuse to even enter a casino - or buy a lotto ticket for that matter. I just know what'll happen if I start gambling. Sound familiar?

[naydi]

Well, you did it... Being slow and all, it's all dried out and your buddy here is telling me that their gonna have to do a graft using my a** as the donor site...

Well....I hope you're HAPPY now! I'm deformed and I get to look forward to my a*** hurting. Thanks... Thanks a lot!! Who knew there'd be much h'll to pay for having a heartfelt, youthful appreciation for an iconic art rock band... *throws remote through Gerard Way's face on Fuse TV immediately cursing self cuz it's not like it found it's own way into the house for free...grabs bottle of cabernet and favorite fillet knife dragging suddenly and violently unconscious bad-news baring toy to the basement in search of peace and relaxation*

[CvlSrvnt]

^i'd never seen this one myself (seen? saw? for some reason my mind can't deal with proper verb tense today)

Cool video. Have you done it yoursef yet? I mean listened to the album while watching the Wizard of Oz? Trippy.

And it's "I had never seen" or "I never saw", but not "I'd never saw".
(Sorry. BA Linguistics, USC '96.)

[CvlSrvnt]

Were you trying to prove which one of you is older or something, geez . Edit: uhuh, so that was actually in the REAL off topic thread. But you get my point right .

Continuing in the off-topic vein, and straying further off-topic...

I teach at a local college on Thursdays. Today one of my students found an old filmstrip reel on the AV cart. He didn't know what it was.

I'm too young to be this old!


quote of the day: "It's not the years, it's the mileage."