Sorry for the light blogging. I volunteered to write an op-ed piece for the DMN's Viewpoints page tomorrow, and just finished it. And I gotta head out in about half an hour to pop a couple of sedatives before I hit the dentist's office. A filling. I am the biggest freaking hysteric you ever saw about the dentist. They give me the Novocain shot, they gas me, they put an iPod on my head, and they tell me to take two Halcions -- and still I'm a nervous wreck. But a completely disoriented one, which is why Mrs. Crunchy has to drive me to and from the dentist on days like this, lest a cop pull me over and I be dragged from the car stumbling and ranting about how the *&%^$# factory farmers control the world. ;-D
UPDATE: Well, somehow I survived. Playing the Talking Heads "Remain in Light" at top volume on the iPod is helpful. But the frickin' Halcions didn't kick in until I was leaving the doctor's office. Must be an off-brand. I was a cartoon can clinging to the ceiling. Those poor people in that dentist's office.
Hey, if you had to listen to your iPod to calm you down while getting a filling, what would you put on it? I need intense, loud music, in part to drown out the whine of the drill.
Light blogging today
Monday July 31, 2006
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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I've had two root canals, two fillings, and one root canal prep, all in the last month and a half, and I still have two more dentist visits to go before I'm done.
The Novocain seems to work less and less each time. My trick is to close my eyes so I don't see all the long sharp tools that are being jammed down my teeth.
And I agree, If I had been given the option to listen to my ipod during the procedures, something loud and fast would be best. It would make me feel tough.>
When I want intense and loud, I reach for Widow's Weeds by Tristania. Sorta think that's not what you have in mind, though.>
Why not "Fear of Music"?!? Come on, the album ends with "Drugs"! And how awesome would "Animals" have been? Plus "I Zimbra" is like the perfect song to start off with, and "Mind" and "Paper" are perfect drifting off songs.
Hopefully you'll get a chance to do a comparison soon.
What would I choose... hmmm... short songs to keep my attention... let's go with London Calling. Or Get Happy!!! by Elvis Costello. Or ... Chocolate and Cheese by Ween. Or maybe Fear of Music.>
Since you asked, and I actually made that choice once: When I was a teenager and had to have four impacted wisdom teeth extracted, and was given a local anesthetic and my choice of tapes on a Walkman, I went for the Police's Synchronicity. Part way through "Miss Gradenko," the oral surgeon managed to break one of the teeth, causing more pain than I've ever experienced since (including childbirth).
I never really was able to listen to Sting and the boys after that.>
I thought "I Zimbra" would work well, too as an opener.
You'd be so relaxed the lyrics would make perfect sense. :-)
AND I SWEAR THIS IS THE FINAL DENTAL STORY I HAVE, AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE:
While I was having my wisdom teeth removed, the surgeon had a Genesis CD playing in the background. (I LOVE Genesis, btw.)
Just as I was going under, the song "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" came on. (that's the one with the keyboard and guitar riffs that sound like hammers and drills.)
After my surgery, for about SIX MONTHS, whenever I'd hear that song, I would get horrible head and jaw pain, and the moment I'd turn the song off, the pain went away.
As God is my witness, this is a true story.
Now, let me tell you about the time I got eyedrops at the optometrists, then went out and got in the wrong car... :-)>
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