it happened a while ago, but oh how it remains in the back of my mind.
i hit a tree snowboarding probably six or seven weeks ago. t'was not insignificant. a lighter colored tree trunk - trunk, not branch - blindsided me while i was boarding in the trees at copper with joe. it blindsided me hard enough to put a good sized dent in my helmet, in the area of my left temple. hard enough to leave a slight scar running under my left eye (i'm assuming from a connecting branch). hard enough to numb my face and hands for an hour. hard enough to think back upon that experience with a great deal of fortune that i had a helmet to wear, to think back and feel grateful i didn't die. hard enough for me to block all blackalicious songs from all my playlists, for that was the band playing on my ipod when i hit the tree. specifically i was listening to "paragraph president" on the blazing arrow album - an awesome album, and awesome song as well. *let me quickly state that although i do listen to music while boarding, i listen at a very low volume, and can hear everything/everyone around me.*
i cannot for the life of me listen to blackalicious. and it sucks, because i love those guys.
i tried to listen to them again the other day, but it didn't even last half a song. i immediately felt uncomfortable to the point i was nauseous, and had to change the song.
it's like a piece of me is missing. i just want to listen to "aural pleasure" and smile. but i can't.
bummer.
current music: the mountain goats - "the house that dripped blood"
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man thats messed up, but i can sympathize. sometimes the mind amazes me with the associations that it can forge.
too bad you weren't listening to something mediocre at the time! it would be so much easier to abstain from, say, system of a down, as opposed to blackalicious.
i complete agree. too bad i wasn't listening to bette midler..
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