I'm applying this too emotional pain as well, so go fuck yourselves!
Swearing Makes Pain More Tolerable
That muttered curse word that reflexively comes out when you stub your toe could actually make it easier to bear the throbbing pain, a new study suggests.
Swearing is a common response to pain, but no previous research has connected the uttering of an expletive to the actual physical experience of pain.
"Swearing has been around for centuries and is an almost universal human linguistic phenomenon," said Richard Stephens of Keele University in England and one of the authors of the new study. "It taps into emotional brain centers and appears to arise in the right brain, whereas most language production occurs in the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain."
Since it's Friday, I decided I would do one extra one, just to be nice...
Also, after giving it much thought, I have decided if I ever get to make a movie and I had to trust one band to capture the mood and lyrics of every part, it would be The Weakerthans...they're just consistently awesome and are so good at capturing the average day, the average life...on that note....
1. The Weakerthans - Confessions of a Futon Revolutionist
Held like water in you shaking hands are all the small defeats a day demands. 10-6 or 9-5 trying, dying to survive. Never knowing what survival means. Leave the apartment to buy alcohol. Hang our diplomas on the bathroom wall. Pick at the plaster chipped away, survey some stunning tooth decay, enlist the cat in the impending class-war. Let's lay our bad day down here, dear and make-believe we're strong, or hum some protest song. Like maybe We Shall Overcome Someday. Overcome the stupid things we say. Say I needed more than this, say I needed one more kiss. We left that light on way too long now. Let's plant a bomb at city-hall and kill an MLA. We'll talk the night away. You call in sick, I'll quit the word-games that I play. I swear I way more than half believe it when I say that somewhere love and justice shine. Cynicism falls asleep. Tyranny talks to itself. Sappy slogans all come true. We forget to feed our fear.
2. Tegan and Sara - Call It Off (Letterman 10/7/2008)
New Year's Eve was as boring as heaven I watched flies fuck on channel 11 There was no one to kiss, there was nothing to drink Except some old rotten milk someone left in the sink And there's no ring on the phone anymore There's no reason to call I passed out on the floor Smoked myself stupid and drank my insides raisin dry But at the right place at the right time I'll be dead wrong and you'll be just fine And I won't have to quit doing fucked up shit For anyone but me
2. Alkaline Trio - In My Stomach
Favorite Lines:
In this shadow, I shrink and it knows I can't move, I can't sleep. Terrified by my own bloodshot eyes. So, I'll wait here and pray. I prayed that I was all wrong about prayer. And I do know that this is truly tired.
You gave up on me along time ago I can't say I blame you I rejected the faith in your holy rays Is what it comes down to They said everything would work out just fine I just went crazy But I'm better now having a good time Being selfish, and drunken, and vulgar, and lazy
Favorite Lines: ....eh, fuck it...you get em all for this one!
Emma appeared like an angel Emma fell like rain Into my lap like a heart attack, like lightning from her name I'm running dry of bad excuses Don't want to lie or seem intrusive But time hasn't told me anything, and neither has she
A poinsettia in poison rain Traded true love for insult and injury We washed it down the drain with one silver bullet and two vicodin With two vicodin
Emma woke up in darkness, suitcase already packed Note on the bedstand signed in blood, "Sincerely, never coming back." A nightmare on my street the day she arrived A nightmarish household in which she died, because it made her feel at home Somehow made me feel at home
A poinsettia in poison rain Traded true love for insult and injury We washed it down the drain with one wooden stake through the heart and two vicodin
A poinsettia in poison rain Traded true love for insult and injury We washed it down the drain with one silver bullet and two vicodin We watched the sun fall crown on a city that sleeps in a world upside down A slow ticket straight out of town You went out with a bang when you took with you all my dreams underground With you all my dreams underground
5. Alkaline Trio - My Friend Peter (Live Acoustic)
Favorite Lines:
And I'm tired of sleeping with myself I'm tired, all these drinks and drugs no longer help I'm tired of lying about not thinking of you Maybe my friend Peter can tell me what to do
Take your wings outside, No use for them in here. Bad luck to open inside, work like umbrellas, like a broken mirror. It's getting clearer- The end is closer than ever before and you'll want nothing more Then your head hits the floor, and you're lost in the darkness.
Been SO long since I've heard this song or this album...so damn good...they went all crappy once they got big but this album is so efin raw and fantastic...
Everclear - Heroin Girl (song starts about 25 seconds in...)
