Fuck Ted's Wife (676 hits)
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Submitted by SoSomething (View user info) at 2006-04-26 11:48:52 EDT
This is a re-post of something I wrote last week. I figured I should at least submit something.. less worthless.
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I have a constant jumble of notes and rhythms playing over top of one another in my head at all times. It's distracting. Most of the time it resembles white noise with no meaning or purpose at all - the muted buzz of a bee's nest outside the window next to the chair I'm sitting in while trying to read - Not loud enough to be intrusive (unless I concentrate on it) but just a little too present to completely tune out.
It has a constant effect on my life. I feel like I have to keep reading the same paragraph again and again before I comprehend what it's telling me. This causes me to say "Yeah.... what?" a lot to people who are talking to me. I'm going to be honest with you - it's the only reason I write and play music at all. When the buzz slows down and coalesces enough for me to make out what it is, I can usually channel it out into something listenable. If I actually manage to make a whole song out of it, the buzzing shuts up for a little while. Sometimes a week or so, sometimes only an hour or two, but in that time I have some peace. I cherish that peace - I used to think it came from a sense of accomplishment at having written a song, but anymore I have to say it's just because at that moment I finally have my head alone to myself and my thoughts. This is something most people probably take for granted, but for me it's like a phone has finally stopped ringing. It's bliss.
When it doesn't stop, I try to write another song. Sometimes it just keeps going and during that period I am very productive, but I'm also fucking hard to be around. I'm like the dog that sat, stayed, rolled over, and did a handstand, but got no little meat-like treat for my efforts. Nothing is as obnoxious as an unfulfilled sense of entitlement.
Nothing but the frustration of trying to write a song and failing, because then the shit in my head gets LOUDER. It keeps getting louder until I can get it out, and the longer it takes the more unlikeable I get. I'm not trying to take my frustrations out on those around me, but let's not confuse this with something like Ted bringing his work home with him and neglecting Shelly and the brats, missing the soccer match and forgetting the anniversary. In order for fucking Ted to know what it's like for me, his boss would literally have to ride home from work with him in the back seat, flicking his ear every time Ted hit the brake. Ted's boss would be there at dinner, sporadically clanging his fork against his plate and babbling "Ted hey Ted Ted hey hey hey hello there hey Ted" every time anyone else tried to talk. Ted's boss would sit next to Ted's bed at night clap his hands over Ted's head just at the moment he was about to drift off to sleep. Ted's boss would do this until about 4 o'clock in the morning.
Fuck Ted. Fuck Ted's bitch wife too - he's going through a lot and her "what is your PROB LEM!?!"ing at him isn't helping.
It's not ALL bad - I do feel accomplished when I write music - it's fun when it's coming together, and knowing that other people like and relate to it is fulfilling on a level that is equalled by few other things in life. I'm not looking for sympathy - overall I do have things pretty good in my life and I am happy, but I kind of resent the people who can just peacefully roll along without all the racket.
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-04-26 13:13:55 EDT (#)
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...for about 4 more days, until the lack of Uber attention will send you back to MySpace and Craig's List, whence you came.
Submitted by sosomething (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:57:34 EDT (#)
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Not going to quit. Especiall now, since I'm being encouraged to. No, expect a post a day from good old me.
Submitted by hot_pocket (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:55:56 EDT (#)
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just quit
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:47:19 EDT (#)
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Eat another hot shit sandwich.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:35:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:12:17 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sosomething (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:03:40 EDT (#)
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What, bad form to post twice like this?
Apologies, then.
Alterish? What does that mean? Like alter-ego kind of behavior? I think I'd have to have a better understanding of how this site works before I even considered doing something like that. FWIW (which isn't much) I realize that this site has been around for a long, long time, and I am a complete n00b to it. I'm so far from the ground floor here that I'm almost in orbit, which is fine. I'm sure a nice steep learning curve will bludgeon me into getting it figured out.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-04-26 11:57:44 EDT (#)
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Aaaaaaand you're dead to me.
This is alterish and unnecessary. You should know how it works here.
Submitted by crsunlimited (user info) at 2006-04-26 11:57:33 EDT (#)
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Have you been tested for a hearing problem? I have some kind of buzzing too, but it's from my ears.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-04-26 11:57:19 EDT (#)
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Fuck your mom or Gaping Flesh Hole, as I like to call her
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2006-04-26 11:52:36 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-04-26 11:52:31 EDT (#)
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Tut tut...boy are you gonna get it.