deadheading

8 uninteresting facts 'cause pothole62 tagged me...

1) Only list 8 facts.
2) You must then list 8 TAGS at the end of the post. This means you must name 8 people on Buzznet who now must do the same blog.
3) Go comment on their profile and tell them to come read yours! Mark demands participation.

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1. i talk in my sleep.
2. don't like heights.
3. i'm terrified of anything surgical.
4. prefere to work alone.
5. am uncultured.
6. unambitious.
7. should exercise more.
8. have wasted a lot of opportunities..

short and dull.. but all true.

anyone of my friends who hasn't done one yet, consider yourself tagged :)

In an instant on monday my life was nearly over...

20 yrs working in the construction industry and I've never come close to being a statistic...

on monday at 10:30am that all changed... and it's changed me forever...

no enthralling details here, that's for the workcover investigators, but I can say that I'm physically ok, even after 11,000 volts charged my excavator, surged up both arms and through my body... potentially fatal also to the workers in the general vacinity... a totally avoidable incident... if all the relevant safety procedures had been followed by the developer... if i had been my usual lucky self... if only... if only... too many if's...

it makes me very flockin angry... for many many reasons...

the effect on my young family was the first thing I dwelt on... and then the things I aren't, the things i haven't, the times i didn't, stuff i wouldn't...

i'm still dwelling on all that shit big time... and ive come to realize theres a few things i have to sort out... mainly in my head... but in practice too... i don't feel right about so much just now... so excuse my absence... ill get it back into the swing of things im sure... sometime soon.

until then i REALLY want to wish you all a merry christmas..
i almost took this one for granted.

global best wishes.
michael.

Wow this one is sweeping buzz, thought id give it a go too :)


If your life had a soundtrack, what would the music be?
1. open your library (iTunes, winamp, media player, Zen, iPod)
2. put it on shuffle
3. press play
4. for every question, type the name of whatever song comes up
5. press the next button to get the answer to the next question
6. don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool

SOUNDTRACK FOR MY LIFE …
opening credits:
please remember - leanne rymes

waking up:
love in an elevator - aerosmith

first day at school:
take it to the bridge - crazy town

falling in love:
good day sunshine - the beatles

breaking up:
no more - pete murray

prom:
state of love and trust - pearl jam

life’s okay:
blackout - muse

mental breakdown:
you think i aint worth a dollar but i feel like a millionare - queens of the stone age

driving:
fool like you - ozzy osbourne

flashback:
lollypop porn - crazy town

getting back together:
negative creep - nirvana

wedding:
sick and tired - cardigans

birth of child:
by the way - r.h.c.p.

final battle:
a.d.i.d.a.s. - korn

death scene:
guitar solo in memory of cliff burton (live) - joe satriani

funeral song:
undivided love - thirsty merc

nice one:
youre crazy - guns 'n roses

end credits:
my little man - ozzy osbourne

 

Deadhead (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia
There are numerous unrelated definitions of the term deadhead, including:
▪ a transhumanist and science-fiction term denoting a person who hopes to see the future without having to experience the intervening time by hibernating (deadheading) in cryostasis.
▪ in theater, it is customary to distribute free any unsold tickets to avoid an 'empty house', a practice known as deadheading, the holders of these deadhead tickets are called deadheads.
▪ trucks, trains, buses, and planes, returning home without cargo or passengers is deadheading or, on a deadhead run, and the term also refers to a driver, pilot, or engineer riding free on the company's conveyance, to return home when not needed by the company at the remote location. This person is referred to as a deadhead as well.
▪ deadheading is also a limited form of pruning
▪ Deadheads are also, famously, fans of the band The Grateful Dead
▪ "Dead-head" can refer to the independent comic book character, El Muerto. On some occasions, fans have been referred to "Dead-heads".
▪ "Deadhead" is also the name of one of the main characters from American International Pictures' 1960's "Beach Party" films, played by Jody McCrea.
▪ Dead Head, a fairly obscure 4-part British TV drama made in 1986 and starring Denis Lawson.
▪ "deadhead" or "dead head" is a term in plumbing, which may refer to the situation where the normally flowing fluid comes to a stop...ahem...

yeah they had to have that last one in there...a clogged up shitter was not what i had in mind when i chose this username..but its kinda fitting in a way cause sometimes thats just the way things are...problematic, full-o-shit, things not going to plan..that sorta thing ya know...to keep the balance ya gotta have moments, or days even when stuff just turns out crap....so im glad that i found this diverse extra definition to deadheading..it fits ;-)
Its the transhumanist definition which led me to become deadheading...because thats what really fits...ive been a ghost for many years, appearing where im expected and sometimes where im not...but never really being there.....
And every so often im out there with total sensory overload...participating wholeheartedly !

I thought of Dan then, about his views on the cowardice of deadheading, on the bravery of ending it when you found yourself obsolete.

"I think that if I'm still here in ten thousand years, I'm going to be crazy as hell. Ten thousand years, pal! Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat. You really think you're going to be anything recognizably human in a hundred centuries? Me, I'm not interested in being a postperson. I'm going to wake up one day, and I'm going to say, 'Well, I guess I've seen about enough,' and that'll be my last day."

"But why? Why not just deadhead for a few centuries, see if there's anything that takes your fancy, and if not, back to sleep for a few more? Why do anything so final?"

"I suppose it's because nothing else is. I've always known that someday, I was going to stop
moving, stop seeking, stop kicking, and have done with it. There'll come a
day when I don't have anything left to do, except stop.

He'd tell me that deadheading was a strong indicator that one's personal reservoir of introspection and creativity was dry; and that without struggle, there is no real victory.

- Cory Doctorow - 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom'