One Year Ago: Because it’s always fun to see how the media overreacts.

I dreamt my mother last night. We were talking in a room, and a black snake curled up between the two of us. Being the wuss I am, I jumped, and it kept following me and trying to slither up my leg. Suddenly it disappeared, and my mom said, “Are you sure it didn’t get into your pants?” In a panic, I ran to the bathroom and threw my pants off. There was blood everywhere, and when I looked up again, I was at a bus stop with my pants …

Link: My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-6)

Michael Jackson (59) 

The Cure (10) 

The Smiths (8) 

Sonic Youth (6) 

Echo & The Bunnymen (6) 

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

It makes me sad to know that former drug addicts have to spend the remainder of their life making sure that they don’t relapse because if they do, they’re only disappointing everyone who loves them. God forbid something traumatizing happens in their life that leaves their sobriety teetering on the edge. Imagine being sober so many years and it falling apart because of something beyond your control.
Now imagine the people who “love” you the most blaming you for your disease, getting angry when you relapse, throw it in your face …

It’s like looking into a mirror.

Link: Are You Stuck On Your First Love?
According to Dr. Malcolm Brynin, principal research officer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, first serious relationships are often “so idealized, they set up unrealistic benchmarks for subsequent relationships.” Dr. David Nias, a clinical psychologist at the University of London, echoes this sentiment, explaining that this kind of attachment is related to “imprinting,” the “psychological theory that we attach ourselves strongly to the first people we have certain relationships with.”