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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
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 Posted - 09/02/2003 : 08:51:10
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that ever happened to you?
However big or small you think they are, what are yours?
Mine are (in no particular order):
Finding Red Hot Chili Peppers music in high school. Until then my music world had been very SMALL and SUBURBAN and hearing them and loving them just changed my mind in a million ways and began my crazy love of music.
Moving cross country when I was 21. It made me realize where I really needed and wanted to be.
Going to summer camp. I went to the same camp from 10 to 17 and I still have dreams about it all the time. It made me myself.
Getting a massive crush on a stupid French man. It's hard to explain the how and why but it was life changing. Stupid French man.
I am saving number five for latah, cause right now I can't decide.
Now, what are yours? |
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This Is It
- FB Fan -
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Posted - 09/02/2003 : 09:58:41
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this question is hard because who knows how things will turn out but here it goes
mines:
1. moving into a vastly overpriced house ($2600 a month) in the cultural Mecca that is Uptown Minneapolis. If it's overpriced than why is it a great thing? Roommate #4 is my current girlfriend. There's no better place to meet chicks then in your own house. They can't get away.
2. reading Experiment in Autobiography by H.G. Wells. (and Wells in general; Social Forces in England and America is my current read) it did a lot for my educational englightenment.
3. reading Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. (And Alan Watts in general) It did (does) a lot for my philosphical enlightenment.
4. recognizing that I'm apart of and inseparable from the world around me. As if a thin epidermal layer would somehow allow me to be divided from the rest.
5. realizing less is more and everything is nothing and that they're not opposites, but the same; only extremes on 1 scale.
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Edited by - This Is It on 09/02/2003 10:00:53 |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2003 : 10:25:25
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this is a good topic .. i'd have to think about it more, but for the sake of doing whatever comes to mind first:
1. gettting my first job on a film
2. traveling in europe when i was 20 (with my best friend)
3. having my nephew come into the world..
4. meeting this amazing Italian girl from Zurich last year, a one-week fling..
5. seeing Black Francis solo at McCabes in 1991 (with Joey joining him)
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Edited by - floop on 09/02/2003 19:01:50 |
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2003 : 10:41:23
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Good topic...this is tough...
1. Meeting my girlfriend, Megan (I love you sweetpea!)
2. Meeting The Bennies, and hanging out with them backstage at 5 shows in which they opened up for FB
I'll have to think of the other 3, LOL.
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glacial906
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 09/02/2003 : 16:57:29
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Mine're pretty cut-and-dry, but they are nonetheless important.
1. Meeting my wife, Sara, in high school because how was I to know that one day we'd be married? I guess my actual wedding day would be included in this, too.
2. Having my daughter. (Of course, not actually HAVING her...you all know what I mean. See my post over in Moving Images.)
3. Discovery of Pixies/FB, and a few other bands in high school helped me through that long, depressing episode of my life. (Were ANY of the hard-core posters on this forum HUGELY popular in high school, I wonder..? I know I wasn't.)
Damn, this is hard. I guess I'll have to think about the other two, even my third one was kinda lame. I mean, music is an important part of my life, but surely there are other things that I can't think of right now... |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
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Posted - 09/02/2003 : 17:06:32
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quote:
Originally posted by ramona
Finding Red Hot Chili Peppers music in high school. Until then my music world had been very SMALL and SUBURBAN and hearing them and loving them just changed my mind in a million ways and began my crazy love of music.
weird, me too. well, they started my ascent into rock, and then i heard the breeders 'happiness is a warm gun' and started down the road to "indie". now can you guys understand why i hold them so dearly to my heart?
and i can't think of anything else right now, i'm too lazy to remember crap.
-Jessie
"deep in ocean blues of absinthe..." |
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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
2291 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2003 : 18:56:07
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Hard to say, and I don;t have much time before my first class of today (yawn).... but
1) Moving to China and meeting my girlfriend and soonish to be wife.
2) Getting good grades at Uni after a horrible final year.
I'll edit this post later and add a few more....
Bacon....... Its not fantastic |
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Dave Noisy
Minister of Chaos
Canada
4496 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2003 : 02:13:37
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| You guys better start adding 'Dave Noisy' to your postings...hit that 'edit'..yeah yeah.. |
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ObfuscateByWill
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1887 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2003 : 05:25:24
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Mine will be faily run-of-the-mill, I think.
1. Meeting my wife. (Literally meeting her. We had known each other online for about 1 1/2 years.)
2. The summer I met my wife. (1999. A blur of sex, driving the vast wasteland that is northwest Ohio, and shoplifting oitems large and small.)
3. My daughter being born in 2000. (Time has really flown since then.)
4. My son being born this year. (He;'s on my lap right now. Sorry for any typos.)
5. Dunno. Lemme think on it.
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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
2291 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2003 : 07:53:31
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continued...
3) Getting paid a random 300 pounds in my placement year.
4) Discovering the joys of PS2 and MD player.
5) Seeing Frank at the Garage in Highbury, London back in August 2001.
3 and 4 are probably not really in my top 5, but I cannot think of anything else at the moment.
Bacon....... Its not fantastic |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2003 : 08:28:18
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I don't know if it's one of the GREATEST THINGS to EVER happen to me, but Frank playing Valentine for me in May and saying "she's with me" was pretty fucking cool. Maybe #5 will be a combo of that and a couple other things like:
- seeing my friends baby be born.
- meeting my best friend
- and being super close with both my parents. They are honest and strong and brave and I am a lucky girl.
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Dave Noisy
Minister of Chaos
Canada
4496 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2003 : 16:49:46
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| Hey...i mean it..i'll start locking you Jones' out if i don't appear as #4 or above. It's not too late to edit your postings. No more of this 'i can't think of anything' doo-wap-ee-doo. |
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Chroneos
- FB Fan -
USA
198 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2003 : 21:53:17
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1. Getting my film camera
2. Getting numerous photos published in the campus newspaper.
3. Getting my digital camera
4. Dave Noisy (Where "Dave Noisy" is "Shooting U of Louisville vs. U of Kentucky in both basketball and football")
5. Discovering a world of modern music that doesn't suck
...You can tell what kind of geek I am from the first four...
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Okay, so until next time, who put the 'ween' in Halloween? I don't know, probably you, you freakin' weirdo. |
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glacial906
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1738 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2003 : 23:42:43
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Hey ObfuscateByWill --
It's pretty odd that there is someone on the forum younger than me with TWO children already. I guess I'll never feel like an adult, hence the strange feeling I have whenever I reflect on the fact that I have a child. It seems VERY odd to think of myself as a dad, and yet not find myself as an "adult." Do you ever feel like that? I guess some people might not have that same emotion, and may consider themselves "grown up" from the time they were teenagers. It's not that I'm irresponsible or go out partying or anything, but it's just strange to me that when my daughter gets older, I will be her "old dad", and Frank Black and all the other things I like that she grew up with will be looked at as old and antiquated, like I look at my parent's "Carpenters" and "BeeGees" records. (Although I do have the nostalgic fondness for both of those bands.) Sorry to go off on a tangent...it just struck me as odd that you are a somewhat young guy to have two kids. |
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glacial906
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1738 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2003 : 23:46:16
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Oh yeah, back to the topic...
4.) This one hasn't happened yet, but WHEN I see (yes, when not if) Frank Black and the Catholics live.
5.) My birth. Because if this hadn't happened, I wouldn't have been able to enjoy any of the other things. Maybe that one should be number one.
Quantum nonlocality does not prove that "signals" travel "faster than light." Rather, it shows that at a deep level of reality the speed of light as a limiting factor is irrelevant because phenomena are instantaneously connected regardless of distance. |
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Dave Noisy
Minister of Chaos
Canada
4496 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2003 : 23:48:18
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
5454 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2003 : 00:12:48
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1) a beautiful overnight camping trip in Alaska where I rode in a Zodiac (an inflatable boat) across a bay and had whales breeching (sp?) around us (and spending 3 summers in Alaska)
2) 3 month trip to Costa Rica where I studied Tropical Biology and had time to sit, watch, and listen in tropical rain forests
3) playing high school soccer (playing soccer anytime)
4) my wife and two kids (5 years and 3 months)
5) when the Red Sox win the World Series
That's tough. Maybe I'll think of some better ones while lying in bed, |
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