Synchronicity

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Here's another one:

I was at university and was thinking about a party we had at a friend's parent's cabin. There was a sauna in it and one of the stupid things we were doing was blowing on a person's arm or back while in it. The spot of skin that endured the 'blow' became extremely hot. So much that if someone did it to you... you wanted to slap them. Fun to do... pissed you off when done to you. Perfect game to play!

As I walked along with my Sports Walkman cranking the tunes... I was randomly wondering why this was the way it was.

In my Atmospheric Science class (literally 30 minutes later)... the professor was going on and on about life layers (ozone layer) and he claimed that the human body has an energy field surrounding it that served as a mild form of protection in a similar fashion as the ozone layer does for the earth. He then went on to say that if one was to blow on another in a sauna... they would, in effect, be blowing a hole in that life layer and momentarily, the real heat of the sauna could be felt until the layer became intact again the moment the person stopped blowing on you.

Rock my world. That was weird.

chadwick

thirty bills... fantastic stuff, sir. life is one hell of a ride

Thirty Bills Unpaid

chadwick wrote:

thirty bills... fantastic stuff, sir. life is one hell of a ride

Great, eh?

chadwick

Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote:

chadwick wrote:

thirty bills... fantastic stuff, sir. life is one hell of a ride

Great, eh?

very

Byrnzie

Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote:

Not to derail the thread... but it is this type of pain that has not been lost on me and what drives my conviction for the death penalty if it can offer some a measure of comfort in the event some bastard takes the life of someone's child... I'm for it. People are correct when the DP cannot bring back the victim, but I think they are wrong when they claim the law should not exist to service the survivors. Such profound pain. I could only imagine.

Your solution to someone's pain is to create more pain by murdering someone else. Possibly the weirdest logic I've ever encountered.
And you claim that murdering the murderer 'services the survivors'?

Anyway, take it to the DP thread.

backseatLover12

Syncronicity or plain bad luck?

Last week at the grocery store, the clerk told me I wasn't going to like my total: $6.66. Yesterday at Target, the clerk told me the same thing, and my total was $66.66.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

I have never seen another person wearing the Pearl Jam/Winnipeg Jets T shirt from the 2011 Canadian tour. Then I saw two one day in a matter of minutes.

WEIRD.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

yesterday I wrote a song with a line about "feet up on the dash" called "Passenger".

Then last night I watch Death Proof, and the first few minutes of the movie is just a shot of someone's feet up on the dash as the car drives around the city.

chadwick

well done, hugh

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Byrnzie wrote:

Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote:

Not to derail the thread... but it is this type of pain that has not been lost on me and what drives my conviction for the death penalty if it can offer some a measure of comfort in the event some bastard takes the life of someone's child... I'm for it. People are correct when the DP cannot bring back the victim, but I think they are wrong when they claim the law should not exist to service the survivors. Such profound pain. I could only imagine.

Your solution to someone's pain is to create more pain by murdering someone else. Possibly the weirdest logic I've ever encountered.
And you claim that murdering the murderer 'services the survivors'?

Anyway, take it to the DP thread.

I offered it as a bit of background to my belief system. I wasn't intentionally trying to goad anyone. With this said... I'll respond to this and then if you wish to carry on... we can 'loop' our conversation in the DP thread again.

It's not weird logic at all. In fact its the purest and most simple logic one might ever wish to follow: let the punishment fit the crime.

You want to know weird logic? Try this: having a murderer of children serve the same penalty as someone who cheated on their income tax or an impaired driver. This is some backwardsass thinking if I have ever come across backwardsass thinking.

You don't have to carry the emotional burden survivors do. It's easy to preach from your sofa about how we should take the higher road, but it's not so easy living with the fact that your child was raped, murdered, mutilated and the offender is chilling out in a country club (if you can call sentencing a murderer to death as a result of his offences 'murder' for effect... then I think I can call prison a 'country club holiday' for effect).

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

yesterday I wrote a song with a line about "feet up on the dash" called "Passenger".

Then last night I watch Death Proof, and the first few minutes of the movie is just a shot of someone's feet up on the dash as the car drives around the city.

Hugh...

I feel as if I am missing something about you. Are you a musician?

chadwick

love me some thirty bills unpaid

chadwick

i'll think of a song or the lyrics & within seconds or minutes, "wham, on like a big ass mother" which is always great feeling. the radio station is built inside my skull & soul

when i was a truck driver i gave myself heart attacks a lot; "oh no when i leave out on this next trip i am going to crash & die" never happened but something similar about traveling... "i think that today i am interested in having a flat tire, pow/boom shaking car wobbling down the road as i ease over onto the shoulder, blew out a tire"

Hugh Freaking Dillon

Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

yesterday I wrote a song with a line about "feet up on the dash" called "Passenger".

Then last night I watch Death Proof, and the first few minutes of the movie is just a shot of someone's feet up on the dash as the car drives around the city.

Hugh...

I feel as if I am missing something about you. Are you a musician?

yes. more details pm'd.

riotgrl

backseatLover12 wrote:

Syncronicity or plain bad luck?

Last week at the grocery store, the clerk told me I wasn't going to like my total: $6.66. Yesterday at Target, the clerk told me the same thing, and my total was $66.66.

Funny but when we were in Chicago last week for the Wrigley show one of the threads on the Porch recommended eating at Kumas Too and when we walked over the address was 666 Diversey. I thought for a head banging burger joint it was appropriate

Byrnzie

I just watched a BBC documentary on coffee production in Vietnam - the biggest supplier of coffee in the World to the UK - and they mentioned how there are two types of coffee bean: the cheaper bean, called 'robusta' (made me think of the word 'robust'), used in instant coffee, and the more expensive bean called 'Arabica', used in espresso coffee.

I then read an article on Brazilian football on the BBC website, and it features this photo with the accompanying caption...


Mario Zagallo's 1958 Brazilian World Cup winning side, famed for their attacking flair, was built on a very robust defence and did not concede a single goal until the semi-final

Thirty Bills Unpaid

A couple weeks back, in the context of our discussion, a colleague brought up the Amanda Todd case and asked us if there was ever an arrest made. None of us could recall.

Within minutes after the discussion, I proceeded back to my office with one colleague. I pulled up the internet and 'bam'... front page banner headline: Arrest Made in Amanda Todd Case.

hedonist

Jeez! Took awhile to find this thread (and in light of the other one mentioning toxicity, I have to say this one brings some nice energy).

Anyway, yesterday evening I was channel-surfing and came upon an old episode of Huell Howser (an LA institution and all-around genuine and awesome fellow). He was touring local donut shops that had been around for years.

Next channel, the Simpsons...WITH CARTOON HUELL IN A BAKERY SHOP.

True that I may've been buzzed, but still

Then just a bit ago (again buzzed and channel-surfing [don't judge me! It's Saturday morning]), there's Harold & Maude. One of my favorite films and soundtracks. I go into the bedroom to tell my husband, and with his pc on random play, there's Cat singing so prettily.

These things, little and maybe unimportant as they are, make me smile. So much to take us there, if we're open to it.

jmuscatello

I love these.... keep 'em coming.
Was in the car on my way to the store yesterday, flipping through songs on my phone looking for "Hard Sun" - hadn't heard it in ages and just suddenly had to hear it. But light turned green, didn't find it in time, already at the store. Five minutes later I'm in the store and "Hard Sun" comes on their little piped in music system (and I swear I'd never heard it there before).
A very little thing, especially compared to most of these I'm reading, but still made me smile.

BinFrog

Many miles awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay