When did I lose my sanity?

[daps]

So I'm going clubbing tonight. Likely to be out late. My work called me up to see if I wanted to work the weekend. Weekend shifts start at 6am, meaning I tend to wake up at 4.30am for them. So naturally, since I'll be out until about 3.30, and will need to be up at 4.30, the obvious answer is to tell them thanks for offering me the shift, but

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To Daps the Party Animal

[anonymous]

Reading about your night out and knowing you have another one planned for later this week has made me realize just how much a person ages as they close in on 30. I think, "Hey, I used to be able to do that...maybe I still could do that? Then my eye lids start to get heavy by 11:00 pm and I nod off, only to be woken up at 3:00 am unable to sleep until I've answered my e-mail or made sure the dog has clean water. Really enjoy the hell out of the time between 18-26, before you're old and neurotic ;). Your friend, Misty? Sounds unique and kind of scary. Perhaps parenting will serve as a reality check about things such as, the dangers of setting fire to peoples homes. (*picture mouth dropping open*) Were you living with your family at the time? It is always good to have a friend that is crazier than you however, because if you don't....then guess who gets the title? I liked your Metallica selections as well. They are more inclusive than my own which is carryover from my own stupid unhappiness at them for ever creating something like "Whiskey in the Jar", and turning a deaf ear. I know, some fan huh? That really is the one song I just can't stand and have never understood, I tend to like their older stuff best, but I think that St. Anger is amazing, it really reminded me off why I am a Metallica fan and it is definitely up there on my favorite to least favorite list:

1. Ride the Lightning
2. Master of Puppets
3. Metallica
4. Kill 'Em All
5. St. Anger
6. And Justice For All
7. S & M(Live)--I'm from SF what can I say :)
8. Load
9. Garage Days Re-Revisited
10.Re-Load/Garage Inc. Tie

What does your list look like? I think anyone who ever gets into Metallica will be upset about Cliff Burton--ten or twenty rears later. I think that it is the mark of a true fan to know the history of a band regardless of when you start to listen to them and would only think you odd had you responded Who's Cliff? *g* My favorite bands list can turn into a really chaotic looking list, as I am the most fickle person on the planet. Here is a list of albums and artists, other than Metallica, that have been or still are really important to me:

1. "The Wall"--Pink Floyd
2. "Black Celebration"--Depeche Mode
3. "License To Ill"--The Beastie Boys
4. "Mommy's Little Monster"--Social Distortion
5. "No Control"--Bad Religion
6. "Anarchy in the U.K."--Sex Pistols
7. "Staring At the Sea"--The Cure
8. "Out of Range"--Ani diFranco
9. "Appetite For Destruction"--Guns-n-Roses
10. "Nothings Shocking"--Jane's Addiction
11. "Substance"--New Order
12. "Endangered Species"--UK Subs
13. "The London Years"--Rolling Stones

and I'll quit at lucky number 13. That kind of thing is fun to do. It's like a musical "This Is Your Life". Now it's your Turn! Off to the Beta and then to try sleep again :).

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[daps]

I'm doing the 11pm-3am thing as well at times. That's almost entirely to be blamed on work though, mixed with a little bit of insomnia. I've had 5 hours sleep in the past two days and really wish I could get more, but I don't get a single lie-in until Friday! I was living with my family up until I was 17, when they all moved out of the house (my parents and my 3 brothers) into a pub, and I got to stay on my own at the house. So here I was, 17, living alone in a 4-bedroom house, with no responsibilities whatsoever (parents still did my washing, etc.) - and never truly understood just how lucky I was. It was heaven! A few of my friends moved in, two days a week at least we had gatherings (or maybe shindigs, but only a couple of hootenannys!) Until Misty decided to get even insaner than he usually was at these nights, and set fire, smashed holes in doors, etc. It was hilarious, if frightening, at the time. And the end result was that my parents told me I had to move to the pub with them. Bye bye house to myself! :( Entirely fair of my parents, I can appreciate, but still.. great times! *g* Thanks for all the advice, by the way! You really enjoyed 18-26 I'm guessing? :)

My order of Metallica albums is:
1) The Black Album
2) Master Of Puppets
3) Reload
4) ...And Justice For All
5) Garage Inc.
6) Load
7) Ride The Lightening
8) Kill 'Em All
9) St. Anger

I didn't like St. Anger as much as you did. The riffs were awesome, and I really like the title track, but I felt there needed to be more diversity, a slow song or two - and solos!! I don't understand how a band with Kirk Hammett in it can write an entire album without a single guitar solo.

Wow. I don't have a single album from your Lucky 13! I think I need to branch out my music listening further! My music 'This is my life'... listened to mostly chart stuff up until 1994. That year, and for the 4 months following, I started to get into music properly for the first time - into Indie/Britrock specifically (Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Space, Mansun, Manic Street Preachers, Ash, Stereophonics, etc.) Discovered Metallica in 1999, and have loved them since. Ditto that for REM. My other Top 3 band, Led Zeppelin, I discovered in 2001. Since I started downloading music in 2000, I have found literally hundreds and hundreds of artists and bands that I love, and they reach every music genre I can think of. (I genuinely like Britney Spears, for example... don't hate me *g*).

Do you like any of the Britrock bands I mentioned? Do you have a particular genre of music you like most, (despite fickle-ness, hehe), or does your taste branch out into all sorts of styles?

I'll try and get a hold of some music by those bands you mention, see what I

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[daps]

(accidentally sent my post before finishing)

That was supposed to be... "see what I think".

I love music so much. :)

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[anonymous]

Hey Daps! I'm sorry about the major lag time between posts--I just saw on the Beta you heard about my FIL and Thank you so much for the vibes--they help. I am not sure if I am supposed to keep adding on to this days page or respond to you on the current day, so I am going to stay here and then post there, to tell you about here and you can tell me where to post after that--Whew! Didja get all that?--see this lj stuff is far to complex for me :).

Of the bands you listed, I have listened to and liked Blur and Ash and really liked early Oasis. I have spent many a fickle hour loving REM and I got to see them live on their GREEN tour. Do a top 10 REM songs list for me when you can--here's mine:

1. World Leader Pretend
2. Pale Blue Eyes
3. Superman
4. Fall on Me
5. Losing My Religion
6. Orange Crush
7. Texarkana
8. It's the End of the World As We Know It...
9. Everybody Hurts
10. There She Goes Again

I Should have listed Led Zepplin's Houses of the Holy as a tie with Pink Floyd. I think it's great that you are so open to different music, although Brittney Spears is a little too open-minded for my tastes *g*. When I first started listening to music to really listen to it, the Berlin Wall still stood *g*. I also was pretty non-fickleish in my teens and listened mostly to punk bands and "alternative" music with some "heavy metal" mixed in which is where the Metallica comes from and the G-n-R. (I was also very much enamored with Axel Rose from 13--Well he hasn't looked great lateley but *g*.) My Dad, thank whatever, forced me to a Rolling Stones concert when I was 15 and his influence and my ever growing wisdom*g* have helped me become the fickleness that I am today. That was just the first lucky 13! In your life you must promise to some day make time to explore if you already haven't:

1. Bob Dylan--Anything
2. Neil Young--"Harvest"
3. Janis Joplin w/ Big Brother and the Holding Company--"Ball and Chain"
4. Dire Straits--"Brothers In Arms"
5. The Smiths--"Louder than Bombs"
6. The Subhumans--"The Day the Country Died"
7. The Adolescents--Self Titled
8. The Descendents--"Somery"
9. Minor Threat--"Complete Discography"
10. Rush--"Chronicles
11. Bob Marley--"Live" and "Exodus" and "Uprising"
12. Peter Gabriel--"Shaking the Tree"
13. Primus--"Frizzle Fry"

Do you have a top 10 you'd like to share at least? remember i am open to fickleness. :)

So being the typical "What? America Isn't the Only Country in the World?" kind of American--I'm not sure where you are in school If you have declared a major(Do you that across the pond?), etc. But your course list sounds awesome. I am thinking of going back for either a graduate degree or possibly *gasp* a law degree. Soon before I have lived out my 30th B-day--I am declaring that today--you are my witness! So, "Do you know where going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you?" Answer me please but before you do you should know that I am a firm believer that you shouldn't have a clue at 20 and should at least try everything anywhere once between now and 26. You will never be able to have the freedom and enjoy whatever it is as much again. Which isn't my way of saying life is over at 26, but it is never as forgiving or as flexible. Tag. Your Turn.

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[anonymous]

Hey Daps! I'm sorry about the major lag time between posts--I just saw on the Beta you heard about my FIL and Thank you so much for the vibes--they help. I am not sure if I am supposed to keep adding on to this days page or respond to you on the current day, so I am going to stay here and then post there, to tell you about here and you can tell me where to post after that--Whew! Didja get all that?--see this lj stuff is far to complex for me :).

Of the bands you listed, I have listened to and liked Blur and Ash and really liked early Oasis. I have spent many a fickle hour loving REM and I got to see them live on their GREEN tour. Do a top 10 REM songs list for me when you can--here's mine:

1. World Leader Pretend
2. Pale Blue Eyes
3. Superman
4. Fall on Me
5. Losing My Religion
6. Orange Crush
7. Texarkana
8. It's the End of the World As We Know It...
9. Everybody Hurts
10. There She Goes Again

I Should have listed Led Zepplin's Houses of the Holy as a tie with Pink Floyd. I think it's great that you are so open to different music, although Brittney Spears is a little too open-minded for my tastes *g*. When I first started listening to music to really listen to it, the Berlin Wall still stood *g*. I also was pretty non-fickleish in my teens and listened mostly to punk bands and "alternative" music with some "heavy metal" mixed in which is where the Metallica comes from and the G-n-R. (I was also very much enamored with Axel Rose from 13--Well he hasn't looked great latley but *g*.) My Dad, thank whatever, forced me to a Rolling Stones concert when I was 15 and his influence and my ever growing wisdom*g* have helped me become the fickleness that I am today. That was just the first lucky 13! In your life you must promise to some day make time to explore if you already haven't:

1. Bob Dylan--Anything
2. Neil Young--"Harvest"
3. Janis Joplin w/ Big Brother and the Holding Company--"Ball and Chain"
4. Dire Straits--"Brothers In Arms"
5. The Smiths--"Louder than Bombs"
6. The Subhumans--"The Day the Country Died"
7. The Adolescents--Self Titled
8. The Descendants--"Somery"
9. Minor Threat--"Complete Discography"
10. Rush--"Chronicles
11. Bob Marley--"Live" and "Exodus" and "Uprising"
12. Peter Gabriel--"Shaking the Tree"
13. Primus--"Frizzle Fry"

Do you have a top 10 you'd like to share at least? remember i am open to fickleness. :)

So being the typical "What? America Isn't the Only Country in the World?" kind of American--I'm not sure where you are in school If you have declared a major(Do you that across the pond?), etc. But your course list sounds awesome. I am thinking of going back for either a graduate degree or possibly *gasp* a law degree. Soon before I have lived out my 30th B-day--I am declaring that today--you are my witness! So, "Do you know where going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you?" Answer me please but before you do you should know that I am a firm believer that you shouldn't have a clue at 20 and should at least try everything anywhere once between now and 26. You will never be able to have the freedom and enjoy whatever it is as much again. Which isn't my way of saying life is over at 26, but it is never as forgiving or as flexible. Tag. Your Turn.