simmo wrote:Yes, that particular moment was absolutely brutal, really one of the most harrowing things I've ever seen. So, so difficult to comprehend.

Wow, I had planned to watch this but I fell asleep an hour or so before.

So glad I didn't stay up to watch it now. Don't think I could have coped with that memory today!

tommydski wrote:

simmo wrote:Yes, that particular moment was absolutely brutal, really one of the most harrowing things I've ever seen. So, so difficult to comprehend.

Wow, I had planned to watch this but I fell asleep an hour or so before.

So glad I didn't stay up to watch it now. Don't think I could have coped with that memory today!

As I get older, I am realizing that there are things that I cannot "unsee." I have not watched 2 girls, one cup. I have not watched anyone get their head sawn off by militants. I may not watch this documentary.

There was a time when I thought it was my responsibility to understand what happens to people and how they go wrong.

Now I just figure it's my responsibility not to go wrong myself. That's all I have time for, really.

I am with you on this. I don't know if it's linked to the denial I have perfected to protect me from all manner of past trauma but I can no longer stomach things that are especially upsetting or depressing. I feel like productivity is a massive part of my life now and if I become upset by a reoccurring memory, I may lose a day I will never get back.

This might well be the adult version of putting your head under the sheets but I'm surprisingly okay with it.

tommydski wrote:I am with you on this. I don't know if it's linked to the denial I have perfected to protect me from all manner of past trauma but I can no longer stomach things that are especially upsetting or depressing. I feel like productivity is a massive part of my life now and if I become upset by a reoccurring memory, I may lose a day I will never get back.

This might well be the adult version of putting your head under the sheets but I'm surprisingly okay with it.

People need space and time to deal with distress or pain and there's nothing amiss with that. Constantly going over past trauma isn't actually helpful; it is often just retraumatizing and, yup, you lose time.

There is not dealing with issues at all and the avoidance I think Tommydski is really describing above: protecting yourself by staying away from triggers/stuff that you know will upset you. Post-trauma has a life of its own; it's good to keep an even keel. There's more to it, of course, but what the hell.

Maurice wrote:A friend called from the Knitting Factory in NYC. "There's this guy here, doing electronic stuff, and he looks kind of like you. And he's terrible. He's been doing the same two chords for forty minutes. He's harmonically retarded. You need to hop a plane right now and come and kick him off the stage." After we hung up, I looked it up--it's Sonic Boom's Spectrum project.

hahahahaha!

Please, please, PLEASE stop giving me free cocaine. Or at least, buy some of a better quality.

Eating Sunday brunch at a pal's house, we found some annoying stickers from slick trustafundian lifestyle anarchists "CrimethInc". The content of these stickers is so poorly conceived that it is guaranteed to suck all desire for social change from anyone who reads them. I briefly wanted to go hug cops and kick squatters square in the nuts.

However, we discovered that these stickers work great when you read them aloud and replace all references to the police with references to the Mars Volta:

"The Mars Volta can only intensify as long as our so-called protectors enforce the social imbalances that give rise to them."

"Whenever you see the Mars Volta, approach them and vitriolically demand to know why they have chosen to make a career out of repressing their fellow citizens... Forcefully criticize their life choices and inform them that they are not welcome in your neighborhood until they seek new employment."

Hours of mirth. Try it at home!

DNA Concept wrote:Eating Sunday brunch at a pal's house, we found some annoying stickers from slick trustafundian lifestyle anarchists "CrimethInc". The content of these stickers is so poorly conceived that it is guaranteed to suck all desire for social change from anyone who reads them. I briefly wanted to go hug cops and kick squatters square in the nuts.

I feel the same way about Adbusters Magazine.

Okay, Adbusters, I'll start consuming less right now, by not buying your rag.

DNA Concept wrote:Eating Sunday brunch at a pal's house, we found some annoying stickers from slick trustafundian lifestyle anarchists "CrimethInc". The content of these stickers is so poorly conceived that it is guaranteed to suck all desire for social change from anyone who reads them. I briefly wanted to go hug cops and kick squatters square in the nuts.

However, we discovered that these stickers work great when you read them aloud and replace all references to the police with references to the Mars Volta:

"The Mars Volta can only intensify as long as our so-called protectors enforce the social imbalances that give rise to them."

"Whenever you see the Mars Volta, approach them and vitriolically demand to know why they have chosen to make a career out of repressing their fellow citizens... Forcefully criticize their life choices and inform them that they are not welcome in your neighborhood until they seek new employment."

Hours of mirth. Try it at home!

Here's the original in all it's glory:


This one is a better piece:

I bought a MIJ reissue Mustang bass off Ebay.

I'm really stoked about this bass, though a short scale is going to look ridiculous on me.