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I don't consider my burden to be any greater than many people face. Mental illness is just a little different than most physical illnesses in the lack of social acceptance and support. That's why I need the other people who have it to stop acting stupid and get the help they need. lol

(Of course, I have great empathy for people who are truly struggling to hold it together. When I'm losing it and don't feel safe, I go to the hospital. There are resources available- some good ones! I hope everyone who has a mental illness has such a safe place to go to when necessary.)
 
LadynStFreknBed said:
I wish I could be within hearing range of people with bipolar disorder when they are acting badly so I could tell them to knock it the fuck off and go to the hospital. You're giving us all a bad reputation. Actually, I'd like to hand them a paintbrush, paints, and a canvas and suggest they paint through the madness.
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MIS is bipolar. Pretty seriously so, and you'd never know it. She's religious about taking her meds and listens when she is told to seek further treatment. Her OCD moments are much more obvious than her BP ones.

Her cousin G? Not so much. He refuses treatment and is basically a major cockass as a result. You don't see the ups and downs as much because he slathers such a thick layer of aggression over it that you notice nothing else.

I have to agree with you. Treatment works wonders, and I have deep problems sympathising with folks that refuse it and then act badly.
 
LadynStFreknBed said:
me?
I don't consider my burden to be any greater than many people face. Mental illness is just a little different than most physical illnesses in the lack of social acceptance and support. That's why I need the other people who have it to stop acting stupid and get the help they need. lol

(Of course, I have great empathy for people who are truly struggling to hold it together. When I'm losing it and don't feel safe, I go to the hospital. There are resources available- some good ones! I hope everyone who has a mental illness has such a safe place to go to when necessary.)
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Actually I didn't mean your illness I meant all the other beaurocratic (sp?) clap trap you have to put up with
 
Sometimes people need help with their demons. Don't think I could have stayed sober for all these years without AA. I think one of the hardest things is to realize one has a problem and then seek a solution. I knew I had a problem long before I tried to overcome it. I felt in a damned if you do, damned if you don't state. I have other problems, but not as notable )or, seemingly, with as severe consequences). I work on what I can.
 
UnderYourSpell said:
I'm in a delicate frame of mind right now so thinking I might bow out for a while
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I understand. *hugs* Your crops withered on Farmville and your farm is in England, which may as well be middle America. No one helps you - rat bastard capatalists ... you must move your farm to France, Ireland, or well, Portugal once Zynga figures out that it exists. :)

PS ... Lauren has been very busy with ark work ... feels very guilty and will respond to you in regards to brilliant poem tomorrow. :kiss:

Night night, gorgeous.
 
CharleyH said:
I understand. *hugs* Your crops withered on Farmville and your farm is in England, which may as well be middle America. No one helps you - rat bastard capatalists ... you must move your farm to France, Ireland, or well, Portugal once Zynga figures out that it exists. :)

PS ... Lauren has been very busy with ark work ... feels very guilty and will respond to you in regards to brilliant poem tomorrow. :kiss:

Night night, gorgeous.
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Went on Farmville this morning and a friend had left one of those post with notes saying "I had a pee behind your farmhouse"!! Now you see what I have to put up with!!!!!!
Please tell the gorgeous Lauren not to feel guilty at all and to feed my hens everyday lol xx
 
can i hide in here
from my salt water goddess
wave after wave of potato chips
with enough cool onion dip to soothe my reason
I am craving salt
taken directly from the source
 
So I randomly watch a Spinnerette video and I'm liking it, but it is making my brain itch. I'm thinking that I know that voice. I really know that voice.

So I'm poking around and searching, and then I figure out that it's Brody Dalle of the Distillers. That causes a spate of watching some freaking great stuff like "Young Crazed Peeling" and "LA Girl".

Respect to Brody for growing as an artist, and she's still hot, but, wow, the Distillers were fantastic.

No, no particular reason that I posted this here. Just figured I'd share my not-punk/punk randomness.
 
Homburg said:
So I randomly watch a Spinnerette video and I'm liking it, but it is making my brain itch. I'm thinking that I know that voice. I really know that voice.

So I'm poking around and searching, and then I figure out that it's Brody Dalle of the Distillers. That causes a spate of watching some freaking great stuff like "Young Crazed Peeling" and "LA Girl".

Respect to Brody for growing as an artist, and she's still hot, but, wow, the Distillers were fantastic.

No, no particular reason that I posted this here. Just figured I'd share my not-punk/punk randomness.
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Her early stuff sounds to me like Courtney Love, especially CL's Live Through This phase (where everyone suspects that Kurt was actually writing her songs for her). Basically good shit, though.

I have to say, Mr. H., that I am not getting into this Spinnerette thing. I watched several of those videos and, well, I wish Brody'd just put the clips back in her lip and go back to being Johnny Ramone.

Side note: Why do punk guitarists always sling their guitar down somewhere around their knees? It's really hard to make barre chords in that position (trust me, I tried it). Is it just because it looks good?

And why do we think it looks good?

Sorry. Way off-topic. Carry on. :)
 
Guitars swung low makes a player look all long-torso and I guess the good vibrations can be absorbed through genital/sound box contact...
 
Tzara said:
Her early stuff sounds to me like Courtney Love, especially CL's Live Through This phase (where everyone suspects that Kurt was actually writing her songs for her). Basically good shit, though.
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She looks like Courtney Love, and the voice is similar, but I hear loads of Tim Armstrong in there. Not surprising, as Tim was in her life from like 14 til her twenties, and he was a HUGE influence on her music. Still, I can hear the Courtney Love in there as well. Not disagreeing with you.

I have to say, Mr. H., that I am not getting into this Spinnerette thing. I watched several of those videos and, well, I wish Brody'd just put the clips back in her lip and go back to being Johnny Ramone.
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Agreed. When I said that I was liking it, it was a tepid like. And it is probably because it was a very goth club friendly sound, thus something I'm used to.

Distillers > anything else she's done.

The primary point to that post was to share some punk.

Side note: Why do punk guitarists always sling their guitar down somewhere around their knees? It's really hard to make barre chords in that position (trust me, I tried it). Is it just because it looks good?

And why do we think it looks good?

Sorry. Way off-topic. Carry on. :)
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It looks cool.

I think that it supports a certain stance, and that stance is part of punk.

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UnderYourSpell said:
Lost Generation
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That was cool.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TwqE2X55Wg&feature=channel

Another music video. Florence + The Machine, "Dog Days are Over"

For whatever reason, this song and accompanying video made me think of this thread. It's weirdly evocative, and kind of scary actually. Blindfold, woods, clowns, chase scene, etc.

ETA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvMfbfZKVbY&NR=1

"My Boy Builds Coffins", same act.

It's prefaced by some conversation about her musical background etc. There's a neat bit about a bird that watches you do something bad, so you kill it and eat it, then the next time you sing, all that comes out is the bird's song. Interesting commentary on guilt there. The song itself is good stuff too.

I'm not expressing this well. Me brain's moving in too many directions right now and the angles are all skittering away from what I'm trying to say.

But, hey, at least I'm typing quickly... "P

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Oh, and for goodness' sake, while you're on youtube, look up Mumford And Sons. So very worthy. "Little Lion Man" is gorgeous.
 
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boogers in my hair

sometimes i save your words
because i wont remember them
only how they made me feel

sometimes i save my words
because i wont remember
how they made me feel
 
Upstairs is another shop. There is a Jamaican that works up there and on the weekends he opens up to make his own stuff on the side. One Saturday evening I am cleaning up shop all alone. He busts in through the connected side door with a bloody rag on his hand. With a thick heavy accent: My finger, the band saw. This is not a small band saw up there, I know. I was not a nurse at this time. I grab a few shop rags and pressure them on and tell him: get in my truck. I turn and run towards the shop door. He is yelling: Don’t leave me, where the fuck are you going? I am already half up his shop steps and I yell back: I am getting your fucking finger asshole get in the truck.

I could not find the finger. Looking back, I should have called EMS; it would have given me more time to look for it.

He is still working there. He might be there right now. I always wanted to visit Jamaica. The last time I talked to him, I was at the shop ripping out the old radio for my lover, and installing a new one for him. He waved from the top bay door with his words: eeehy girl, long time. He has a great smile.

The times of him lowering down the swing from upstairs to lift me up into the city will never be forgot in my sentimental brain. Who needs steps to get upstairs when you have a winch and a silly swing attached? Who needs steps when you have a boom boom truck? I would lift myself up to their bay door and say: You wanna ride in my cherry picker? And you bamming the floor so fucking hard dust is getting in my paint job fuckers.

I want a four-poster bed. If I sneak into the shop on a Saturday night, I would stay up all night and build it.

I just don’t want to clean my hands before zero seven hundred hours tomorrow.
 
Four poster bed can be found in the backroom which takes on tardis proportions where all dreams can come true and I was soundly fucked by every former Bistro member
 
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