Light blogging today
Monday July 31, 2006
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...
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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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Rod: "lest a cop pull me over and I be dragged from the car stumbling and ranting about how the *&%^$# factory farmers control the world."
Hilarious.
Good luck with the dentistry.>
I had my wisdom teeth removed several years ago (and yes, I told my friends I had no wisdom left in my head, to which they (and others on here probably) readily concur. :-) :-)
Anyway, I'm told I drove home from the surgeon's (an hour's drive, btw.), to which I promptly pulled in my driveway, opened the car door, fell face down in the snow, and had to helped up and in the house by my neighbor. God, Allah, Buddah, The Universal Life Source, you name it, were all watching over me that day. (No way in HELL would I even attempt this now.)
So yes, Rod, I know what you're going through. Good Luck. And thank goodness you've got Mrs. Crunchy on taxi duty.>
Keep your pecker up.>
"Remain in Light," eh? So is "The Listening Wind," written (yikes!) 26 years ago, today's headlines or what? (And yesterday's, and the day before, and...)
One of my all-time "calming" albums is Black Sabbath's "Sabotage.">
Rod, there's NOTHING like some good Talking Heads to get you through the rough times!!! :-)
And, a lot of their lyrics already read like they were written in a post operative state, so sounds like you were good to go!!
(I don't recommend any Pink Floyd, though. The best line about Floyd I ever heard was: "you don't have to be on drugs to get Pink Floyd -- but it doesn't hurt.") :-)
So, glad all's well.>
OOPS!! Missed the second part of your post.
What I would play on a Ipod is probably some early Chicago, circa 69 - 72, for the loudness as you talked about.
I'd hold off on Floyd or The Doors until I got home and could sleep for 18 hours, which is entirely possible.>
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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