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trashconverters
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18-02-2019
01:08 AM
Since I see quite a few people on here who are neurodivergent (so auties or ADHDers and the like), and other people who people who might not be but still have intense interests, I thought it would be a good idea to dedicate a thread to being able to infodump, since special interests are a good coping mechanism for ND people who might be mentally ill as well. My special interest is The Pogues! They're a band most prominent in the 80s, who do (or at least, did, they're not active as of 2014) a sort of mix of Irish folk music and punk. My dad loves them, and of course, having grown up them blasting my ear holes every single day, I eventually got into them too. The most famous Pogue is the lead singer, Shane MacGowan, known for his incredibly poetic lyrics, his ridiculously hedonistic lifestyle that ultimately led to him being sacked from the band for a bit, and the fact he probably has (or had, he got surgery in 2015) the most infamous set of teeth in rock and roll history. But my favourite is the late Philip Chevron. He was the guitarist and he wrote my favourite song of theirs, 'Thousands Are Sailing', which is about Irish emigrants to America during the economic turmoil of 80s Ireland, but also just speaks to me as an allegory to experiences of homelessness and homesickness I had last year. The song helped me survive a really tough time. Chevron was also openly gay and wrote the song 'Lorelei' for his boyfriend, who loved the Lorelei myth. It's about this guy singing to his love while he's traveling on the seas, saying that if he dies on the waters, it wasn't a siren who beckoned him, for he's thinking of his love back home. Its a really beautiful song and I'm currently learning to play it. So he of course inspires me as a gay musician myself. Do you have any special interests? What are they?
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17-02-2019
08:12 PM
This might not be helpful, but then again it might be. When I'm feeling rapid mood swings and everything's agitatingly awful, I go for a run. In my case its usually really fast, I try to make myself feel tired and make my legs ache and make it feel like I've really, really run. The whole "urgh, I just ran really fast and now my I'm super puffed and I can feel my hammys getting mad at me" seems to be a welcome distraction from "urgh my brain sucks", even if puffed out is a shitty feeling on its own. And you can push yourself like how you'd push a scream out. Another good distraction is making memes. I made this one when I was in a terrible mood and hadn't slept for days, and even the act of making my sitch a crappy meme made me feel a tad better:
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17-02-2019
07:50 PM
Classic! I like building my own worlds w em. I used to build whole mansions with lego!!!! Favourite type of weather?
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15-02-2019
09:03 PM
There's not a favourite above, so imma make my own: favourite primary colour?
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15-02-2019
08:46 PM
Yeah it sucks cause I can't either, not since I signed up, and I've been wanting to change it to sassy Philip Chevron
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15-02-2019
08:28 PM
2 Kudos
Alright I'm about to get nerdy about music, so brace yourself, but I'm flipping between "Deborah's Theme" by Ennio Morricone from the film Once Upon A Time In America and "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues (aka the greatest band ever). [CW for a homophobic slur in the second vid!] Why? Well, I'm writing an essay for uni on the impact of The Pogues on the Irish diaspora and I've getting really into the technical construction of "Fairytale of New York" - the opening melody is lifted almost directly from Morricone. Once Upon a Time is, as far I understand it (I've never seen it), a quintessentially New York tale about Jewish-American gangsters that was also a favourite of The Pogues, so they plopped the melody in there to make it sound more "identifiably American", according to the accordionist. There's a lot of other stuff they did with the song that's impressive as a music nerd, but I just think this fact is particularly cool. Okay, I've finished nerding out.
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12-02-2019
02:16 PM
5 Kudos
Would you rather explore a new planet or the deepest parts of the ocean? Why? Uhhhhh, neither, because The Void terrifies me. But if I had to choose between the two, probably a new planet. Deep sea creatures are terrifying! If you had to teach a subject, what would it be? Well we just got given the ability to write about any musician we wanted to for tertiary studies and I made my essay question "How did The Pogues impact the Irish sense of identity and how was this impact controversial?", so, uh, I guess a 'Pogues 101' class. I know a lot about The Pogues. What motivates you to succeed Spite! Ohohohoho! How would you survive a zombie apocalypse? With difficulty. But if I got my hands on a flamethrower, boy howdy would armageddon be fun! If you were an animal, what would you be and why? Well, I'm already a human, am I not? What kind of magical power would you like to have? The power to shape shift, so I could be Freddie Mercury for a day!
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12-02-2019
01:41 PM
Not to be the 80s music fiend that I am every minute of every day, but I absolutely LOVE Oingo Boingo!
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04-02-2018
02:45 PM
1 Kudo
@safari93 is that Buzzfeed Unsolved one? That was funny as.
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03-02-2018
02:02 PM
1 Kudo
Listening to one of the vocal pieces my teacher has assigned me this trimester. We've had to transpose it because my voice is too low!
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28-01-2018
12:50 PM
Still on a Gogol Bordello binge. (cw for extremely inappropriate language and a (reclaimed) g slur)
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23-01-2018
09:39 PM
5 Kudos
I paid off the first deposit on my new piano accordion! I've named her Kitty (after the song by The Pogues, which I've decided is the first I'm going to learn). I played her today, and put her on layby and I'm a third of the way to paying it in full, and then she'll be mine! So now I'm twirling wistfully around my room, thinking about all the fun I'm going to have - I've been wanting an accordion for a very long time, but now it's not a pipe dream so I'm very giddy, and also very impatient to get paid next week!.
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22-01-2018
09:07 PM
Listen to Gogol Bordello and eating ice cream. I'm preparing to head down to Melbourne to escape the heat. Tomorrow I'm going to a music shop to enquire about a cheap but good looking accordion that I might put on layby.
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22-01-2018
07:17 PM
1 Kudo
1. I'm saving up for a piano accordion 2. I'm trying to learn Irish, but I'm not very good 3. My favourite band is The Pogues 4. I have accidentally cut my hand open every single time I've tried to play the banjo, so I've given up on that, despite really wanting to learn it 5. I want my first tattoo to be a bear w chainsaws for hands, because my best friend drew it for me when we were in Year 7
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22-01-2018
07:04 PM
I live in a country town and our chemist's close at five. With my parents out of the house I'm all alone rn. Luckily I got the first burst of energy in days and managed to head to the chemist without a panic attack, but now I'm feeling antsy again. I'm thinking of asking my aunt to stay w her for a couple of days, bc she's in Melbourne where it's not so bad, but I dunno how she'll take it.
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22-01-2018
03:32 PM
Like there is no time where i can feasibly do things. I havent taken my anti-ds in five days bc ive run out and its been too hot to go to the chemist, bc going outside is gunna trigger a panic attack. I'm not okay but there's absolutely nothing I can do about it and there's no sign its gunna cool down any time soon so I can just feel like a normal human and not want to die.
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22-01-2018
03:14 PM
Getting up int the morning has something I've found really hard of late too. What's been working if I have had enough sleep (not for the past week) is using an app called Alarmy. It gives you things you have to do to turn your alarm off - take a picture, do a maths problem, or shake it a certain number of times. You can choose any of these options and customise them. I also make my alarm a song I like, and I don't endeavour to turn it off until it's ended. I change what song it'll be every evening.
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22-01-2018
03:03 PM
Today's forecast was a max of 32. It exceeded 32 by 10AM, and has reached 39. This is apocalyptic I've never felt so unnerved and hopeless in my life.
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22-01-2018
02:37 PM
From what I can gather, this song is about a tropical paradise that's actually out to kill everyone, and honestly, with summer how it is, this is such a mood.
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21-01-2018
11:18 PM
All this advice ppl have given me abt better sleep would work if I actually could sleep but it hasnt gotten under 20 degrees in three days and I have no aircon in my room and I dunno how to fucntion when I cant sleep at all, and its 25 by the time I get up.
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21-01-2018
10:36 PM
I think its just how long its been that making it as bad as it is. If there were even one or two cool days, I wouldn't feel suicidal, but alas. I can't change the weather, but I just need a reprieve this is actually torture, this doesn't feel like living at all.
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21-01-2018
07:47 PM
I suppose I shld maybe talk to a GP, but idk what they can do. I try to keep hydrated, and even though Ive tried getting up earlier, I never get enough sleep and I always sleep through my alarm. I already have bad sleep as is bc adhd is great fun, so Ive tried meditation for that as well. Ive started on meds for it, but theyre not working either.
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21-01-2018
02:29 PM
I do have a fan, but unfortunately it doesn't do much, and day by day can be very tedious when the next seven days are 30 degrees and over. We don't have enough money for another aircon, we're still trying to a get proper one set up in the living room (we current have an evaporation cooler) and the tradespeople keep pushing back the date. I've got an adhd psych, but i cant really afford anything else. I tried KHL once for other matters but they were insensitive to certain matters, so. And again, our house is really small, so if i wanted to make a call w someone and have my own space to do so w/o people listening, I'd have to go into the sweltering heat of my room.
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20-01-2018
04:14 PM
I guess a big part of it is that our air conditioner only cools the main part of the house, and not the room where I practice music or anything. There's 4 of us in the house, and it's not v big, so I can't fill the whole house w it, and it gets really hard to practice in the heat. That's part of why I feel trapped, I have nowhere of my own to be. Music is the only thing that makes me feel sane sometimes. And then I can't sleep, so I'm always tired, and when it is sort of cool, I spend the whole time being stressed because I know it's gonna hot up again. Like I've just spent all summer telling myself "just two more months, just one more month..." and it's doing nothing. I just want to not exist, just like, until it cools down again. Like I just literally do not see the point of like, being, in this heat. I've got TAFE and work this week as well, and I can barely function. I just want it to stop, so I can be free to do and be where I want, when I want, in my home. And my whole life is being dictated to me by the weather and I hate it.
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20-01-2018
12:26 AM
3 Kudos
1. Do you normally wear socks to bed? Nope. Not even in winter. I like to wriggle my toes. 2. What's your favourite way to cool off in summer? Wait for the occasional cool change, when I finally go walks and stuff. And dance in the rain. Or go to my aunt's house, where she's got nice air conditioning and we can sit the backroom, me and her and my uncle and my two brothers, and listen to music and talk crap. Last time we played The Wolfe Tones. 3. What's the last thing you cooked? Mac and cheese! 4. Do you know the scientific name for any plant/animal without looking it up? I am not that smart. Unless you count Kieranus Doofanus as a scientific name. 5. What's one thing you'd like to accomplish this month? Start practicing my mando more, and maybe learn a new song on it.
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20-01-2018
12:05 AM
I've been counting the days since November til when Autumn's gunna come, bc this weather makes me so anxious, and so restless and so hopeless, and with the forecast for my hometown being no days under 25 for the next week, im actually feeling like drastic. This is the worst ive felt since before I took antidepressants and started T. I cant sleep, i cant excercise, everything is a task bc its so hot. And it sounds like dumb reason to be depressed and anxious but like, it is. I just feel so hopeless and i dunno what to do. This forecast for the next week almost makes me feel a bit suicidal. Like, not actively, but like, I dont know how much longer i can take this heat before i break down. The aircon doesnt help, i feel so claustrophobic, stuck at home, in my tiny house w our crappy aircon. I feel so trapped, and restless and stuck, and smothered, and its just like, im gunna have to deal w this once a year for the rest of my life, that's actually terrifying. What do i do to not breakdown and lose my mind in this heat.
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09-12-2017
11:49 PM
I'll be completely honest here, I've been doing the can-can alone in my room to this song for like an hour like a loser. It's such a bop. Also when the mandolin comes in...what an eargasm.
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