Space Cadet

Benadryl is good for falling asleep. The doctor told my mom when I was little and having sleeping problems to give it to me at bedtime- but it turned out that I couldn't sleep because of a milk allergy anyway. Funny how these things work. Nyquil on the other hand is not such a good idea if you aren't sick. There's alot of stuff in it that you shouldn't have very often...

Uh... They all look more like Charlie Chaplin to me.

Trouble. It was played on an episode of Roswell (cheesy but fun teen drama about aliens). I thought it was just a random American solo artist at the time, but it haunted me for weeks. It was a couple of years before I found out it was by this British band called Coldplay.

He looks like Gumby! :stunned:

Quality... I've known too many people who had semi-close friends who had the friends turn on them and (figurativly) stab them in the back. Much better to have people you can rely on.

I know, when the manager said what it was, I was like "haven't people died from pepper spray before?" Scary stuff. I don't have asthma, but I am allergic to pepper, and I was afraid my throat was closing up for a bit there- and I didn't have any Benadryl with me. Very Scary. I hope the cops get whoever the clown was who did it.

Wow :stunned: :cool: I wonder what's reacting in them to do that. Should look it up. The best one I ever came up with was pretty lame but fun. You know those little plastic orange eggs inside Kinder Surprise? You fill one side with baking soda and the other with a bit of vinegar, pop the sides together, give them a shake and then throw them. It made a nice pop and you wouldn't lose any fingers or anything if you held on for too long. Beyond that, I was always a chicken.

For me it's a tie between Bad Dream and Atlantic. I went with Atlantic because it was the first song of Keane's that I ever liked at all. The darkness in it really suits them.

Where are they playing?

:shocked2: Maybe you should change your number?

^:thinking: :laugh3: Too late for not telling... I woke Dad up with a coughing fit when I came in the house at about 2am last night. It's probably going to be in the paper tomorrow anyway, so they would have found out sooner or later. No trouble yet... they seem to be taking a "the whole world's going to hell in a handbasket" approach.

I just saw an amazing concert by a band I like called Pilate. That is, it was amazing up until the last song when some idiot thought it would be funny to spray pepperspray around the room. Everyone thought they were going insane at the sudden need to cough until they noticed the band were hacking too, along with the rest of the room. Needless to say the building was evacuated in a hurry. Not fun. I'm still coughing over an hour later. I'm worried about the lead singer... he has a beautiful falsetto, and he got a nasty dose of the stuff. I hope it didn't mess up his voice- he was a real trooper and went on with the song for as long as he could. But what I'm really worried about is my parents, (I'm stuck at home while I'm in college) who don't approve of my taste in music, and will see this as a sign that I shouldn't go to concerts at all. So my question for those who actually make it out to gigs more often than me is does this sort of thing happen very often? Have you heard of it happening before?

Bush is the new El Nino... :rolleyes:

Is this the right Milk Teeth? http://www.myspace.com/themilkteeth At the Lake are great! :stunned: Thanks for pointing them out.

Texting is too expensive. I just wait to use msn.

My brother went through a stage where he liked big knives and fancy lighters (he never smoked- he just liked having fire handy) and stuff... he just got a kick out of freaking people out. But in a weird way, it was a social thing for him.

I get that sometimes... pinky and ring fingers are the worst for it. For me, it means that my neck is out and I need to see a chiroprator pronto. It can happen when my mucles are really tense too, usually when I'm under alot of stress or I'm not sitting properly at my computer. The more serious stuff is possible too though, if it's never happened before... probably a good idea to see a doctor.

just meant as a friendly word of warning ;)

My history prof's favorite saying was always "things are never as dangerous as when they are changing". Revolutions have a long history of ending badly. And even the good ones weren't too pleasant for the people who went through them.

Well at least when we want to yell at them to get a room we have some idea where to send them now...

It's a little like riding a bicycle... you may be a bit wooden and wobbly when you start out, but it all comes back fast. The only time I ever had trouble was when I started university, I was writing papers all the time and it sapped all my creativity to the point that I got nasty writer's block- but I'd never had that before in my life. But coming out of it, I just randomly stumbled across one of the best ideas I've ever had. I hope to turn that one into a short film if I ever get it down on paper. What I do is I get afew ideas, no matter how mundane, and when I have a couple that might work together in an interesting way, i let them bounce around in my head until I have a rough plot worked out, and then I write a short outline- just a couple of points to use as a roadmap. Then comes characters- I start with things like age, gender, building up a personality, trying to pick traits that add new dimention to the theme or the plot's events. I sort of let those people take up a piece of space in my head for awile until they are actually people with personalities, not just caracatures. I actually don't like that part much... it makes me feel a bit schtizo, especially when some of the villians are rather unpleasant... At that point, I just sit down and start writing as though I was telling the story out loud. I need to because that's the only way to get the people out of my head, and because I want to find out what's going to happen as much as the person who might read it someday. It's just like reading, except that I can make choices. (And it takes longer) Original ideas can come from the strangest places... songs, phrases, unusual contexts for everyday objects in the room with you, like a chair or something... Alot of the time with me, it's just trying to find a way to express a feeling, to give that feeling a reason, because it makes no sense on it's own. The people eating closet idea came from my thinking about how darkness is the absense of light, but when something is black it absorbs light, so what if there was darkness that ate light the way black pigment does? Where would it hide? In a closet. From there came the idea of little kids with a monster in closet, and what if the darkness was the monster?

How about homesickness- for something that never existed.

I'm not sure I ever understood the topic myself, but sometimes I find that more inspiring than if I did... it leaves room for interpretation. Now if you just want to write something random, I could give you a topic...

Which question- mine (I don't have one, just have to do something random) or Bonita's?