30 Songs in 30 Days - Day 23

Day 23 – A song that you want to play at your wedding


Really?


No, I will be happily unmarried forever.  (That is not true, I can see myself getting married again but the circumstances would have to be...unique.)


So what song would I want to play at an event that is never going to happen?





Yeah, it is depressing, and it is also U2, but...let's face it.  If I were to get remarried...

Questions about friendship...

I have been thinking about friendship and relationships with friends a lot over the past month and I have some...questions and musings about them...

• Do you trust your friends implicitly? If they lose your trust, is it easier to no longer be friends with them than to try to get it to return?
• Can you tell your friends everything and when you do, do you expect mockery as well as concern?
• Do you expect candor from your friends, even when they tell you things that you won't like hearing?
• Is the nature of friendship such that it is forever even when you are no longer in contact with each other?
• Has social media made friendship better or more difficult to maintain?

Yes, but it is still a little awful. No. A lot awful.

If she is looking over your shoulder at a room full of potentially more interesting people, she is ill-mannered. If, however, she is not looking over your shoulder, but into a smartphone in her hand, she is not only well within modern social norms, but is also a wired, well-put-together person.

Add one more achievement to the digital revolution: It has made it fashionable to be rude.

Ahem! Are You Talking to Me? (Or Texting?) - NYTimes.com

Randomness for the 2135 Post on AFM

• It's Liz Phair's Brthday!  Celebrate a dysfunction relationship!
• If I am motivated to work out at five am, any type of distraction, even a butt dial, is going to set me off.  That being said, I did get a great workout it.
• The greatest answer ever for the Contest has been post.  I hooted with laughter.
• My dad is in town, and I surprised him at the airport on Wednesday.  He also came out for happy hour on Friday.  To say that it makes me happy to see him is an understatement.
• A brief, but interesting, conversation about choices has me thinking two days later.

Edit at 10:30 am

• There are several television shows that I never saw the appeal of.  These have come up over the past couple of days.  They include; Oz, The Wire, & Deadliest Catch.  Meh, I would rather read.

30 Songs in 30 Days - Day 22

Day 22 – A song that you listen to when you’re sad

This one is actually difficult.

Because sometimes I choose between wallowing and embracing the reason that I am sad (see the bulk of the music that I listen to, not that I am miserable all the time, or even some of the time, but I do listen to "old sad bastard music") or listening to a song that will get me out of that mood.

For the last eighteen months or so, I have chosen to not wallow, but try to get myself out of the mood/funk/whatever.

This is the song that I have been using.



Yeah, it is in a Diet Coke commercial.

So f***ing what? I like Diet Coke.

And yes, it was also in (500) Days of Summer, which I have had issues with in the past, loved, and now I am in the having issues with again phase. Mostly because JGL's character is too old to believe that love is perfect, et cetera, and because Summer is a bit of a (REDACTED).