Warren Zevon is good when your feeling a bit broken.
Well, I went to the doctor
I said, "i'm feeling kind of rough..."
"Let me break it to you son,
you're shit's fucked up!"
I said, "My shit's fucked up?!
Well, I don't see how!"
He said, "The shit that used to work,
won't work now!"

I had a dream; aw shucks, oh well
Now its all fucked up, its shot out to hell
yea-eah, my shit's fucked up
It has to happen to the best of us
The rich folk suffer like the rest of us
It'll happen to you.

That amazing grace
Thought it passed you by
You wake up every day, and you start to cry
You want to die
But you just can't quit

Let me break it on down
It's the fucked up shit
yeah, my shit's fucked up.
Fucked up.

(We had storms last night and now my broken ankle is aching. Fuck, is this going to keep happening for the rest of my life?)

EDIT: here's a copy of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV6E0KYiMmM
( Wanderer, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:49, 96 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

what the fuck?
are you high?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:55, Reply)

I've eaten so many softmints
i can feel my skin buzz
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:57, Reply)

haha
I'm picturing you covered in a fine fuzz of electricity, just bzzzing.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:58, Reply)

that's just about accurate
I reckon I could power my sewing machine off it

EDIT: and now in some synaesthetic fucked up-ness the thing I am sewing is the colour of the flavour of mint...fuck guys, stay off the softmints
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:01, Reply)

go and find one of those glass balls
where you put your hands on it and it makes pretty things happen inside
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:03, Reply)

put my hands on balls, you say?
OK, will work on that
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:04, Reply)

nothing is safe in the hands of the innuendo obsessed b3tans

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:05, Reply)

the colour of the flavour of mint
say what?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:06, Reply)

uh
I'm a bit synaesthetic - some sensory inputs are interpreted by my brain as others, as in music or flavour having colour. Also, I get an odd one where concepts and ideas have shape and colour. Tiredness usually makes it stronger and, it would appear, softmints
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:09, Reply)

awww I want that disease
I only heard of it when Frankspencer (I think) made up a whole story about it. It sounds like the most fun mental illness you can get. Besides Tourettes obviously.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:13, Reply)

I don't think it's an illness
It's more like a superpower
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:15, Reply)

no fair
I want toffee flavoured maths.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:17, Reply)

man, so do I!
I really don't get how people live without music being in colour, though
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:21, Reply)

It's all about the shades of blue, man...
Edit: toffee-flavoured maths? How does that work and how can I apply it to my own life?
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:22, Reply)

*shrugs*
I guess it would be like number having colour/form (which I get) only with flavours

This makes perfect sense to me, I suspect not to everyone else
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:29, Reply)

I read the wikipedia article on it
but that's the extent of my understanding really. I think some people do get it the flavour and sound version of it as well as the colour version. Jammy fucks. Haha I wonder if the word jammy tastes of jam.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:33, Reply)

I saw something on TV
which was a theory that it was linked with the development of language
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:37, Reply)

I'm totally teaching my child to taste the language

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:48, Reply)

i fear it's not teachable
I think I worried my mum when I was a kid and pointed out that the smell of two deodorants were like the same note played on different instruments. That was the first time I found out that not everyone's brain does it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:52, Reply)

that's awesome
if my kid is going to have a brain disorder I hope it's that one.

And not assplurgers.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:54, Reply)

Interesting
I can see what you mean about it applying to music; I've noticed that I associate some pieces of music with a particular colour and I've never been able to explain why. And I'm sure I've asked one of my friends to taste whatever I've been cooking and said, "What does that need? It's quite good, it just needs to be more...um...red..."
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:53, Reply)

sounds like you have it, too
I don't think it's all that uncommon - mostly artists and musicians seem to have it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:54, Reply)

From what you said about the deodorants above
I think you may be right. Having tried vast numbers of beers at various festivals I've usually run out of analogies to 'foody' flavours and starting describing them in terms of "being like that one you had earlier, but brighter."

I'd be interested to test a couple of the songs I get very strong colours from and see if other people get the same colour.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:02, Reply)

Give me examples!

(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:03, Reply)

I may have to give you some esoteric examples
As I don't get a strong colour off all songs. However, I have just been testing the following:
Hooverphonic - Eden, I get a strange, empty plateau, a bit like standing on the surface of the moon, except the rock is a sort of purpley-grey.
Emily Loizeau - Sur La Route, I get a very cold white, like being in a blizzard
The Who - Bargain, mostly black, but like being in a cave where you get occasional flashes of the brown, earthy rock around you.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:09, Reply)

Everyone seems to have different
a friend of mine has similar things to me with numbers and colours, but our colours don't match at all
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:03, Reply)

I have exactly that!
Songs are colours to me.

For instance, Smells like teen spirit would be purple, whilst the Foo's Learn to fly would be a greenish/teal and the macarena would be orange.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:00, Reply)

mine is more like
individual notes and sounds having colour or form.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:02, Reply)

Clearly way more intense!
EDIT: Actually, now you mention it, if I'm playing a synth and fucking about with the noises, the texture of the sound would affect the colour I hear. Individual notes don't have the same effect.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:03, Reply)

very difficult to describe, though
I have it with ideas, too, which means I can work through concepts in my head that way (sometimes knowing the end product of an argument because the colours and shape fit) but then have to work backwards to put it into actual language
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:05, Reply)

Ok, in that case, you're just a good old fasioned mental.

(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:06, Reply)

YAY!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:06, Reply)

we should totally have a
b3ta synaesthetes club
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:20, Reply)

It's reasonably common I think:
hence Blue Note records.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:24, Reply)

I've had it.
I once took 4 'red dragons' at a festival in Hampshire and could taste colours. That was an excellent night.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:33, Reply)

I suspect my brain would implode
if I took something like that
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:40, Reply)

Most people's would: it was really very, very intense.
The cleanest and amongst the strongest LSD I've ever ingested. The chap selling them had literally arrived from Holland 2 minutes previously: he cut the epaulette off his army shirt and pulled them out. Marvellous.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:46, Reply)

I think he's just shit

(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:58, Reply)

Nah. my shit's just fucked up.
The good news is that I've gotten off of the painkillers completely, so I no longer feel loopy and my digestion is back to normal. The bad news seems to be that the weather is making my ankle ache.

I think I need more coffee.
( Wanderer, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:59, Reply)

and less lyric posting
this isn't myspace.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:01, Reply)

I found it fitting.
I figured that an obscure song might now and then be appreciated, especially one so apt.
( Wanderer, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:04, Reply)

I think you figured wrong

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:05, Reply)

I don't agree.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:08, Reply)

Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me

(Cave Duck, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:15, Reply)

Christ you lot are humorless this morning.

( Wanderer, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:16, Reply)

it's quarter past 4.
and sorry, I didn't mean to be all Psychochompy, I just hate the lyrics being posted to songs when they don't really mean anything to anyone but the poster. Proper emo.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:18, Reply)

e ho
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:22, Reply)

I thought they applied to lots of things.
A friend played this for me the other night and it made me laugh a lot.

Doctor: [laughs] Right, kick ass. Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded. What I'd do, is just like... like... you know, like, you know what I mean, like...
( Wanderer, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:23, Reply)

STOP POSTING LYRICS
If you want us to hear the song, just post the link to it and state that it amused you. Lyrics can never come across in the same way as the song itself.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:25, Reply)

Yeah, that's right girlfriend!
Get your anger on!
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:27, Reply)

anger strap
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:31, Reply)

haha

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:32, Reply)

Nice to see that
You aren't just turning this down flat out...
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:46, Reply)

it was the urgency with which he said it
I felt I couldn't refuse
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:50, Reply)

How nice of you
To oblige internet strangers' strange desires.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:54, Reply)

I feel a bit bad though
I don't want to be an internet meanie
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:32, Reply)

Never feel bad on the internet.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:33, Reply)

but there are real people at the other end of the internet
and that's what makes me feel bad.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:34, Reply)

Lies
They aren't real people you're mocking.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:36, Reply)

It's good to see
that you still care
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:37, Reply)

I am really, really keen on this mouseover business.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:47, Reply)

Shame it doesn't work on titles really
Isn't it?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:50, Reply)

I'm not playing
I've only just mastered strikethrough ffs
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:50, Reply)

Spoilsport

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:54, Reply)

fine!
I'll play.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:57, Reply)

Fnar
I disagree.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:59, Reply)

hehe

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:01, Reply)

You get used to it
I seem to have started turning into one of late. I'm accepting it.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:34, Reply)

Do you think QOTW is just a grooming station
for /talk? Like the Spartan kids being sent out into the wild before they can join the army?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:38, Reply)

Not necessarily
It is sometimes, however, necessary to gently and lovingly guide people when they have been going wrong.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:40, Reply)

also known as grooming

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:43, Reply)

If you're going to put it like that
Yes.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:44, Reply)

It's okay.
I'm not terribly thin-skinned.
( Wanderer, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:45, Reply)

are you a rhino?

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:48, Reply)

I'm not a rhino, but I've certainly got the horn for you
/channelling Blind Date.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:49, Reply)

You're after all the gals today, ain't you?

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:50, Reply)

what the hell do you mean?
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:53, Reply)

haha
I acknowledge your mouseover and find it amusing.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:55, Reply)

I think you know, my boy.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:55, Reply)

Worse.
My immobility makes me closer to being an oyster, or maybe a barnacle.
( Wanderer, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:56, Reply)

oysters disagree with me
"no we don't!"

/Men Behaving Badly quote
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:58, Reply)

Not really
It's a Warren Zevron song that can make you laugh at yourself when things seem a bit bleak. It seemed appropriate.
(Cave Duck, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:23, Reply)

Wrong

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:23, Reply)

Really, why?

(Cave Duck, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:32, Reply)

In no way did those lyrics
a) speak to me
b) make me want to laugh

They mostly just seemed like overly expletive-filled crap.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:36, Reply)

better than overly crap-filled explosives

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:38, Reply)

This
Is very true.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:40, Reply)

There seems to be a misunderstanding here.
Wanderer posted that everyone was lacking humour in response to me posting Poor Poor Pitiful Me. My comment above was explaining my posting of that phrase i.e. Poor Poor Pitiful Me is another Warren Zevon song which amongst other things, details a bloke deciding to end it all by laying on a rail track only to find that it's no longer in use. It's done in a sardonic manner with bleak humour. If you remember the film The Full Monty, it's not unlike the scene where one character contemplates suicide but comes out with lines like "I'd throw myself in the river but I'm afraid of water" and so being too inept to end it all he has little choice but to laugh at himself and move on.
(Cave Duck, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:59, Reply)

Actually I looked that one up.
I don't know a lot of Zevon, so I didn't immediately recognize it. Gotta say, though, it's pretty funny.
( Wanderer, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:04, Reply)

I prefer this one:
'No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there's no limit'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:27, Reply)

That song taught me a lot in difficult times
Mainly just about the lack of any particular limit, thinking about it...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:28, Reply)

It's one of the best limit-based lyrics going,
if not THE best.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:31, Reply)

It touched me deeply as the lack of limits is very important to my people.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:33, Reply)

What, fake geordies?

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:35, Reply)

Oooh, I don't know..
it may just be my innate conservatism but I think people that need boundaries , therefore I'm nominating Take It To The Limit.
(Cave Duck, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:39, Reply)

what do you do once you've arrived at the limit?
I hope the answer involves tea and scones.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:42, Reply)

Most things I do involve tea and scones
All the ones worth talking about anyway.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:43, Reply)

nothing that doesn't involve tea and scones
is worth talking about.

I had to check that twice to make sure I had the right amount of negatives.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:49, Reply)

Probably true
You counted right in the end though. Well done, kid.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:52, Reply)

*makes crap joke about working in a photo lab/darkroom*

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:53, Reply)

*pity laughs*

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:55, Reply)

needs moar lyrics

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:31, Reply)