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How Are You Feeling Right Now?
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I do get a kick out of the time and age bit especially with how many older songs get used in movie or TV set in present times and you tell folks how old the recordings are. The final song on Breaking Bad was Badfinger's Baby Blue they they are surprised to hear it is from the early 70s, or the Linda Ronstadt song Long, Long Time being used in a TV show. The people know I am in my 60s and me telling that the song came out when I was in first grade or so. The fun part is when they look up a lot of the old music and performers and get more into the stuff I grew up with and really like it.
Fellow fan of the Cure here. I had no idea the kids today still listened to them. They put out an album last year (2024) that sounds more like their earlier stuff, but ofc not exactly. Very brooding and atmospheric. I think I've mentioned this before but I did a stint as a goth boy in High School during my clique hopping phase. Still like the music, lol. The Cure was kind of controversial in goth during the late 1990s. They definitely were one of the bands pioneering that sound, but IIRC even Robert Smith disclaimed that categorization.
I recently bought a CD copy of their first singles compliation, Staring at the Sea. They took the song, "Killing an Arab" off all the streaming sites, and sometimes it's not even findable on YT. Reason being that some idiots were using it to project anti-muslim prejudice, despite it being about the book, The Stranger by Albert Camus. I guess racists are as poor at nuance as they are at reading. I still think it's an important piece of musical history in general. IMHO it really captures the overall sense of the book. Add to that the bassline, and I think it's really unfortunate that it got controversial well after its release.
FWIW I still know every word to Hot, Hot, Hot!!! Also a majority of the words on every single song from Wish. Saw them live at Red Rocks which was awesome, except it was early 2000s IIRC and Mr. Smith was starting to look a lot different than he used to by then. Not judging - I also look much different than I did in my prime, lol.
The way we all went nuts when they started A Forest is a highlight of my entire concert-going times. No talking to introduce the song, no commentary at all, just straight into the unmistakable opening bars with the sustained wah-ing synth lines and people started screaming, lol.
Speaking of kids today, my favorite thing I've heard about Gen Z's musical tastes is that almost none of them know that NIN wrote the original to Hurt - they think it started with Johnny Cash and NIN covered it, lol. Granted, even Trent Reznor said "the song is his now," or something like that. Coincidentally I was listening to The Downward Spiral just yesterday.
I recently bought a CD copy of their first singles compliation, Staring at the Sea. They took the song, "Killing an Arab" off all the streaming sites, and sometimes it's not even findable on YT. Reason being that some idiots were using it to project anti-muslim prejudice, despite it being about the book, The Stranger by Albert Camus. I guess racists are as poor at nuance as they are at reading. I still think it's an important piece of musical history in general. IMHO it really captures the overall sense of the book. Add to that the bassline, and I think it's really unfortunate that it got controversial well after its release.
FWIW I still know every word to Hot, Hot, Hot!!! Also a majority of the words on every single song from Wish. Saw them live at Red Rocks which was awesome, except it was early 2000s IIRC and Mr. Smith was starting to look a lot different than he used to by then. Not judging - I also look much different than I did in my prime, lol.
The way we all went nuts when they started A Forest is a highlight of my entire concert-going times. No talking to introduce the song, no commentary at all, just straight into the unmistakable opening bars with the sustained wah-ing synth lines and people started screaming, lol.
Speaking of kids today, my favorite thing I've heard about Gen Z's musical tastes is that almost none of them know that NIN wrote the original to Hurt - they think it started with Johnny Cash and NIN covered it, lol. Granted, even Trent Reznor said "the song is his now," or something like that. Coincidentally I was listening to The Downward Spiral just yesterday.
I like NIN too. That figures they'd remove Killing an Arab. Smith was brilliant at taking literary gems and turning them into musical gems. The other one that sticks out for me right now is "How Beautiful You Are" which is based on Baudelaire's "The Eyes of the Poor" and encapsulates the sentiments wonderfully. As I recall Jim Morrison (another favourite) saying once on some live track or interview, Baudelaire, man, Baudelaire.
Speaking of the 1990s, "Open" was pretty much my soundtrack for a couple of years when I was doing postgraduate study punctuated by heavy drinking and going out doing batshit crazy stuff I only have very small fragments of memory of....
Speaking of the 1990s, "Open" was pretty much my soundtrack for a couple of years when I was doing postgraduate study punctuated by heavy drinking and going out doing batshit crazy stuff I only have very small fragments of memory of....
I don't know where this post should go... so I've been drained lately and getting weak. I've been off balance and make sure there's something to fall onto or stop if I feel dizzy. I called an ambualnce, I couldn't take a persistent cough, and it happens as soon as I'm laying down trying to sleep, It just starts as I fall asleep and I'm tired of it. So he says I have asthma, narrowed air ways, and he said to get that cortisone not sure excatly, corticosteroid? shot. I just didn't tell him that my doctor said I'd only get relief for a week out of it so I didn't hink it was worth it. Every other doctor I see seems to know more than my doc and actually seems to care. I do know my doc must care but how can I ever be sure. He dismissed me Friday afternoon because I spent my time, after him asking how things are going, explaining stuff. Anyways, tomorrow I can get an inhaler and hopefully stop this itching scratching sudden couphs while i'm trying to sleep. He said predisone will help calm the inflamattion and no advil. I can't take it I took a robaxacet. And i didn't realize I was logged on all the time sheesh.
I feel okay this morning, but yesterday was almost entirely obsessive thoughts and ruminations.
So far I’ve not quite woken up all the way, but the intrusive thoughts are more about suicide, wishing I was dead, and irrational thoughts about being worthless and unwanted. I know these are not true, but in reality the reasons don’t matter. I just want to die. From natural causes of course, or if not then a sudden death by accident or pulmonary embolism. The sooner the better!
So far I’ve not quite woken up all the way, but the intrusive thoughts are more about suicide, wishing I was dead, and irrational thoughts about being worthless and unwanted. I know these are not true, but in reality the reasons don’t matter. I just want to die. From natural causes of course, or if not then a sudden death by accident or pulmonary embolism. The sooner the better!
There's a specific medical term for not being able to describe how you are feeling. I think it may also include not even really being aware of what you are feeling, but I'm not sure. I can't think of the term though. I think it might be something like alexithymia?
I'm sorry you feel that bad, and that you can't describe how you feel in a direct way.
Sending hugs
I'm sorry you feel that bad, and that you can't describe how you feel in a direct way.
Sending hugs
I'm just sick with myself and yet it's not me. That doesn't make sense but i cant explain. A bit. The doctor I saw at the er is making me wonder if he knows much. He didn't listen to my chest, he didn't use a stethoscope, he lightly touched my back. I should have said something. And I look up meds they prescribe and it's going to weaken my immune system when I'm already sick. Sorry for venting and not helping. I cant feel good and I can't say why.
i sometimes wonder why god allows so much suffering in the world, then i remember that god gave people free will, some people use that free will for evil. that is man causing suffering not god. i completely lost my faith once when i lost my 8 year old nephew. i turned away from god for a few years but i came back. i hope when i die i can understand.
as far as being bitchy i totally understand. i can tolerate pain but once i hit 8 on the 10 scale i get very touchy, when i hit 9 or 10 i get unpleasant to be around lol, i'm not abusive but very testy. my wife understands and i always apologize even though i don't need to. i'm sorry your doctor won't increase your pain meds. all the opioid crises did was cause more od deaths and made legitamate pain patients suffer.
mike....
as far as being bitchy i totally understand. i can tolerate pain but once i hit 8 on the 10 scale i get very touchy, when i hit 9 or 10 i get unpleasant to be around lol, i'm not abusive but very testy. my wife understands and i always apologize even though i don't need to. i'm sorry your doctor won't increase your pain meds. all the opioid crises did was cause more od deaths and made legitamate pain patients suffer.
mike....