I got nasty habits/ I take tea at three.

[preposterone]

I'm going to state the obvious here: When swimming in a relationship's perilous churny wake, one of the most maddening, saddening, unfair-feeling parts is having to navigate which songs and artists can be your lifeline, and which are just going to weigh you down in the water further

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[indrigirl]

Trying to remember who said, "don't do that looking at the moon together shit--when you break up, you'll never be able to look at the moon again." I so hear you. Not lately, but in the immediate post-Slice past, too music I couldn't listen to, too many books I couldn't read, all those restaurants to avoid, couldn't eat beets without crying.

Well, not that many books, actually, since he didn't read much himself.

Anyway. Anyway. Someday it will all be yours again, and new things too.

welcome to my dollhouse, baby.

[preposterone]

Happy to see you've crossed over to the dark LJ side.

[santaprudencia]

It's a good thing in my case that most of the American Music Club stuff is out of print and hard to find, and that I only have the case, and not the casette, of the tape the last guy who hurt the hell out of me made me of his version of their greatest hits. Because even eight years and a marriage to a much better guy later, that shit still makes me cry.

You definitely need some cowboy boots.

hey hey my my

[raygonne]

i was gonna quote you here, but that's silly, since it's right there above there. sharp stuff, and good to hear you with (re)sharpened teeth. (incidentally, it's my opinion that you did what you did (the waiting, the pining, the feeling; and in a different way, what a document you're creating: the whole thing in words) for yourself, not someone else.) the two comments above slay me: i read the first and was all, true (it will all be yours again)! then read the second and was all, true (that shit still makes me cry). and they are both true. i mean, of course you'll get over most of it, but every love does something permanent to you as well. would you rather have it all pass away? what else might you lose? (o man you can't say stuff like that with a straight face after internal chunklite of the shitless ming, but i mean it.)

anyway, at least you have enough music on the brains to have plenty of places to go when you don't want to feel toothless.

love,
henry
_@"

"you can get it if you really want"

[rogue_reporter]

remember jimmy cliff's swagger in *the harder they come.* when yours comes back it's gonna be even tighter than that. white hot. i think you know that that's all you need to know.

Re: "you can get it if you really want"

[preposterone]

Hi. It's six months later and you fucking rule. Just thought I'd tell you that,

so hard, the music

[elkanikkole]

It really is. When d. and I broke up the first time I couldn't listen to any music with lyrics at all because I immediately assimilated said lyrics into my pathetic situation. And would end up crying at inopportune moments. Tra la! I got pretty cozy with the classical guitar records again at that point.

I think Jolie would so rather hang with you than sleep with SIO. Straight up.