When you are sad, do you usually listen to sad music to go with your mood, or do you play some upbeat stuff to change it?

I just got back from dropping my wife and son off at the airport. I exploded with tears when I was saying goodbye, and couldn't even speak. I just had to leave. This is going to be a hard 6 weeks without my 2 favorite people around. Damn it, I'm crying again.

usually listen to sad music when I am sad, happy music when I am happy (as upbeat as I can get with my music collection). I like to revel in my emotions I guess.

You need a bottle of wine and an extra strength dose of:

Don't listen to Leaving on A Jetplane. Especially the Fiona Apple version.

Don't listen to anything that reminds you of them.

I've got rehearsal tonight, i'm gigging in IA City tomorrow night, and I'm gigging in Palatine on Saturday, and I've got rehearsal sometime on Sunday, but call me or PM me or e-mail me if you want to hang sometime on sunday.

-Phil

Edit: Go to www.soniadada.com and listen to their live album.

Are you going to the Hidden Shamrock on Wed, with Graham and Darren?

I listen to slow, but not necessarily sad music. I am not usually "sad" per se, timmy, but I have some pretty good hungover mixes (kind of the same thing, you feel like shit and you want SOMETHING to make you feel better) I'd be more than happyto send em to you.

hook a homie up

how you wanna do it?

absolutely... and Pete.

Come early, have some soup. Then we'll double fist guiness and whiskey till we're crosseyed.

timmy, i usually break out the tindersticks.....

get on collinswood and d/l immediately

Phil, sounds like a plan. What time is early?

Damn it, she left a card on my pillow. Now I'm crying again.

Well, it gets rolling around 10, but the kitchen's closed by then.

9:00's good by me, or 8:30...

You don't have to go to work the next day, do you?

cause you'll be there drinking late, having fun

you got 10 discs in there, which one do i want?

AIM? It' easiest for me, if we can make it work.

I do have to work the next day, but I am quitting this job. My last day is April 27th. I called in sick today and yesterday. I was/ am truly sick though.
My sister is coming in tonight because she is probably going to the Art Institute for grad school, and is touring the place.

P.S. I don't do hard liquor anymore, and I am not a Guinness fan, but anything else is game.

Plan on being sick Thursday buddy. So do you want to share what the card said so we can ooh and aww, or do you want to keep that shit away from prying eyes?

And I'm telling you right now, yeah it sucks ass. But this might be your last chance to be a carefree guy, and be messy, and do your thing without diapers and PMS to deal with.

Don't look at it as 6 weeks of bereavement, think of it as 6 weeks of peace and quiet and freedom to do whatever you want, within reason.

In the immortal words of the renowned poet Burton Cummings...

"I love you so much, girl,
that it feels good even missing you."

I know exactly where you're coming from and, seriously, right now you're going through one of life's finer moments. Put on anything that's got some soul and depth to it, pour yourself a drink, settle back in a comfortable chair, and meditate on how amazing it is that you've got two beings in your life that mean that much to you.

I actually threw on some jazz, and it's hitting the spot right.

"Jazz for Kids - The David Leonhardt Jazz Group"

I usually listen to ambient music when I'm in a sad mood. For example, Steve Roach's music usually does the trick during those times.

Well shit, that wasn't snarky at all.

When I want to grieve I will sometimes play sad music. Other times when I am just plain depressed I usually play something by Frank Zappa and that seems to perk me up.

She make-a me happy. Not sad. But that's a hormonal reaction, I'd say.

She's as sultry as an obsessive compulsive germ-phobic standoffish freak can get.

She was good in Quest For Fire.

When I'm sad I usually listen to angry music or ambient music, depending on if I want to turn the sadness into being pissed off or try to diffuse it into semi-serenity.

But I haven't really been sad much since college. Disgruntled. Fed up. Annoyed, yeah. Seething with resentment hotter than seven suns. But not particularly sad.

I think it was Quest For Pride

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