Whatever it or they may be.
Model ships, history, reading, drawing, photography, design, walking, jogging. There is a lot out there on offer. We cant be wallowing in self pity. We need to try and find ways to keep on, keep trying, keep investigating.
You never know whats around the corner. Could be the start of an exciting and prosperous life, or it could be more struggles and bullshit, but we wont know if were not here to see it.
I love music. Im always talking about it, listening to it, embracing it. Theres something out there for us all. That one thing that makes life worth trying for.
Can you think of one?
Someone fucking chat with me, Im bored shitless.
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mick9999 ,
I’ll try to talk to you but I keep getting lock out by wordfence? I’m not savvy enough to fix it. I love music my passion as well I use to imitate Mick Jagger once was pretty good at it, love those guys! unfortunately although I love to entertain it’s a lot of work and I’m tired of it. when I was younger it was a challenge, now I don’t care about it, I play video games and watch documentaries, ww2 mostly, boy what a struggle that was. my passion seems to be watching how rotten people can be ha ha! that way I remember what we really are, however I see your point were here like it or not make the best of it.
If anything, don’t kill yourself before the 5th season of Game of Thrones premieres. April 12th Bitches!!!!
Then on April 18th the sci-fi clone series Orphan Black will be out with its third season.
I recommend both these shows to anyone who likes their television intense, dramatic and suspenseful (but yet with a bit of humor). (You’d have to start from the very beginning with the previous seasons in order to follow along with the complex plotlines.)
If you’re a Marvel fan or simply like action-packed superhero films, then there’s also Avengers: Age of Ultron to eagerly anticipate. It will be released in cinemas on May 1st.
All good.
Im bipolar, so I have nights where I sleep an hour or so, or not at all. Then when Im depressed Ill sleep 16 hours.
Shouldnt focus on the negative, although WW2 produced some heroes, especially Winston Churchill, also a bipolar sufferer. Ive watched band of brothers a few times now. Great mini series, but as for doco’s, West Memphis 3 and Sicko have been the last that I remember watching.
So youre a singer? Jagger’s a good role model. Very bluesy, great lyrics. Shes like a rainbow, paint it black, I dont like the classics, jumping jack flash and all that. I love the Doors, Beatles, Floyd, Nirvana, Meat Puppets, Hendrix, Chisel, heaps. Im a guitarist and as hard as it may be, I try to play at least 5 minutes a day. Seems low, but for someone with depression, thats a stetch.
mick9999,
I maybe bipolar myself because your describing me! Ha ha! yep I did every song they wrote, I also did a few originals, and I sing just about anything, I can’t do stairway to heaven though! out of my range, I still sing at home “karaoke” I just entrain myself now, but I’m just as good as I was maybe better, seasoned with age, love doing black music, like just walk away Renee, or this magic moment, my show tune in contest was Billy idol, rebel yell, I won many a contest with that one! I almost felt guilty doing it. yes I have fond memories, and still look forward to a few thing cooking is one of them I love BBQ RIBS!!! And try to fill my time doing what I enjoy, but on the other hand I’ve live long enough! sounds strange but I preferred to embrace death and not fear it, I’m not saying I’m going to rush it but there’s times I think about it, we can’t discuss methods, but I got everything I need when I’m ready, I like that too, who wants to be running around getting stuff when your ready to go? if I found out I have incurable cancer for example I’m all set!
Very cool. Ill sing at home, but never in public. I wanted to have a few vocal lessons, just to see where my voice fit or what range I had. As a teenager I used to sing death metal, Deicide, Satyricon, Cannibal Corpse, but thats just deep yelling. I had a band that was interested in using me, but I got anxiety and didnt show.
I love making music, learning new songs. Music is so powerful and can have such an affect on people.
” I can’t do stairway to heaven though! out of my range”
Don’t sweat it, rocket… Plant couldn’t even hit those notes live! But man they could still put on a show.
We should be paddling in the things we love indeed. In fact paddling in a kayak or canoe is one of the things I used to love the most. Along with most of the other things mentioned in this thread.
My problem now is that for the last six months of my life, I have not been able to enjoy ANYTHING at all, including music – a life long love of mine.
Stories, songs, food, imagination, love – all of which have comforted me even in the darkest times before – do virtually NOTHING for me now apart from bring me pain. Anhedonia is a living hell. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Anhedonia ha ha! I had to look that one up! yeah I think we all have that at one time or another, can last years! this may sound stupid but I have that but it was worse till I said to myself, well I can’t change it, so I’ll just enjoy it, then all the sudden I started doing things I enjoy again. ironic as hell isn’t it.
Is your anhedonia part of another diagnosis?
Thats how I feel when my depression sets in. Its hard to wake and stay awake, let alone get out of bed. Sometimes a song I havent heard for a while sparks a tiny bit of motivation. Not often though, I usually have to ride the storm out.
Music is everything to me. What bands and songs did you get into before?
Hey mick9999 – is there a way to PM you? I can tell you more about it.
I personally love Guster. Wrecking machine. It gives me the drive to Gym on…
Nice. Pretty laid back. Like Marcy Playground or the Fray.
You might like John Butler Trio, Pete Murray and stuff like that.
OH Mick, I just had to say, John Butler Trio are sick! Cool band.
Great words mick9999. Like the king of the depressed French poets Baudelaire said:
“Be always drunken.
Nothing else matters:
that is the only question.
If you would not feel
the horrible burden of Time
weighing on your shoulders
and crushing you to the earth,
be drunken continually.
Drunken with what?
With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will.
But be drunken.”
Music is some great sauce to paddle around be get drunken in. I used to be a musician once upon a midnight dreary.
Never once was, always are. You cant escape music. We are music. Youre still a musician.
Funny how the intellectuals are the ones to suffer the most.
I would say drunk on all. Virtues, words, wine, experience, life.
“Never once was, always are. You cant escape music. We are music. Youre still a musician.”
Thanks man, you have no idea what a smile that put on my face.
Anytime. Youre always a musician. Like riding a bike.
What do you play?
“What do you play?”
I *play* everything. I suck at 99% of everything I play haha. But the one thing I’m decent at is piano. 20 odd years of classical training and nuns beating my hands with yardsticks every time I flubbed my scales ensured that. What’s your weapon, mick? And do you have any links to your stuff??
Hahahaha, sounds like the Blues Brothers.
Guitar, bass, rhythm and a bit of lead.
No links, only been in garage bands. Ive been thinking of writing some stuff and downloading on youtube, ill finish my study first.
Awesome… guitar is the instrument I suck at the most, so I have nothing but the highest admiration for you axe pickers. For real I struggled with the damn thing for years and, at best, eked out a few horrific notes that quite accurately emulated the mating call of a laryngitic hippopotamus.
Hahahaha, my dads cousin was in the little river band, so its kind of in my blood.
mick9999,
I never been diagnosed, I’ve had to do that myself, I had to put things together, I’m not trying to get sympathy and it really is a long story so I’ll make it short, I was shot in the back with radiation very strong radiation! I had a growth in the center of my back as big as a large golf ball! ha ha! is there such a thing? anyways the radiation mutilated my cells, not cancerous, I had it removed, this was more than 20 years ago, after that I started feeling strange and it kept getting worse now I feel like I’m standing on the edge of a tall building looking down afraid to fall off, this sensation never goes away! 24hrs a day it always there, finally I figured out that the rest of my body including my brain has nerve damage, so in order to live with it, I had to say to myself this is what my normal is like it or not, so it bothers me but I know why I feel like that and I had too accept it. here’s something funny part of why I don’t entrain anymore professionally, when you get on stage lets say in front of a crowd of 3500, you get a rush of everything including fear, adrenalin, I use to enjoy that, now I feel it 24hrs with no breaks! kinda wrecks the whole deal. Stones, Aerosmith, J. Geils , Billy Idol, Queen, to name a few. mostly singer front man type music, I like to put on a show.
Fuck. Pure and simple.
I had a mate that was as normal as they come. Awesome golfer, footy fan, drink anyone under the table. Had a stroke at 32, now hes a 6 year old for life.
Love Queen, like Idol, certain stones, not really Aerosmith. Heaps, Doors fan since I was 8, Beatles, Hendrix, I think Ive rattled mine off. I never got to play to 3500, but I have plenty of years left.
There is some kind of soothing feeling to be gotten from healthy exercises like yoga, gyming and taekwando. Apart from the good state of mind that it gives, you could still learn the skill to whoop someone’s a55.
mick9999,
I LIKE YOUR GUYS TOO!, I DO DOORS, BEATLES, I can go from o to 100! Yeah sorry for your friend I know a few like that as well, always go for it because one day you may not be able too, life is unpredictable, really your in charge of it, but mother nature and stupid people can screw it up for you if you don’t.
Too true. The guy from AC/DC has alzheimers and hes in his 50’s.
mick9999,
oh and there many many more! that a real ***** though, to make it to the top! then start flinging shit out of your dippers all over the place.
Bummer hey. Hows Keith Richards? The man death forgot.
mick9999,
something wrong with Keith? he is a walking dead man, but not dead!
Nothing. He was heroin junkie, fell out a coconut tree at age like 68. He signed a contract with the devil.
mick9999,
a lot of that is publicity, all ways play up the bad boy role, if your a stone.
Just wanted to comment, i really relate to what you wrote (in all the thread). If it wasn’t for one family member that i really care about, plus music, i wouldn’t still be here.
Music is a powerful force.
At least you have that one family member. Some dont.
It’s a two sided coin. As much as i love that person it’s not easy to endure things just for the sake of them (and that person has just a few years left, which scares me), but i really wouldn’t like to scar them for life (even if it’s a short one).
Music… yup, for me it’s a love/hate relationship (health issues prevent me from enjoying performing it fully), but it still bring a bit of that “i feel alive” feeling from time to time.
Fair call.
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