Brian’s Neighborhood

It's really for the last couple days.

Where are you?
And I'm so sorry.
I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight.
I need somebody and always
This sick strange darkness
Comes creeping on,
So haunting every time.
And as I stared
I counted
The webs from all the spiders
Catching things and eating their insides.
Like indecision to call you
And hear your voice of treason.
Will you come home and stop this pain tonight?
Stop this pain tonight.

Don't waste your time on me
You're already
The voice inside my head.
- Blink 182, "I Miss You"

Show us the person you'd most like to switch bodies and lives with for one freaky Friday.

I was with Sarah on this one when she said that this smacks of an earlier "would you want to be someone else" entry.  But after reading her idea that it's just one day, I began to think about it in a different way.  What would I want to experience for one day, who would I want to learn from for one day.
There's a couple:

Sarah McLachlan Tampa May 2005

I'd want her amazing voice, her beauty, the ability to write shivery lyric and music.  I'd love to be able to play the guitar and piano like she does.  I'd want her humour and her gregariousness. 

Jodie Foster

Show us your mother.

Mom, Meme and Lynne

Yeah.  I'm smitten.  And I really don't care who knows.  There's a reason there's no lyric for yesterday, but I'm not sharing ;).  (And I wrote these out the way Prince did; the way he always does in his liner notes. Except I added punctuation.)

From the first moment I saw u
Ooh, I knew u were the 1.
That night I had 2 call u -
I was rappin till the sun came up.
Tellin u just how fine u look.
In a word, u were sex.
All of my cool attitude u took -
My body was next.

U made love 2 me
Like u where afraid
Was u afraid of me?
Was I the first?
Was I your every fantasy?
- Prince, "Adore"

Show us the person you'd most like to switch bodies and lives with for one freaky Friday.

Neil

I've often said that I'd just like to BE Neil Gaiman.  To have all those ideas in my head, and to have the life he lives - writing, traveling, zillions of weirdo fans...!  LOL

What is one thing you MUST do before you go to bed at night?

Brush my teeth.  I literally have a hard time sleeping if I haven't brushed my teeth. 

How many pair of shoes do you have? Out of those pairs, how many do you wear more than a few times a year?
Submitted by fightinggale.

*sigh*  Honestly?  I have 53 pairs of shoes.  I wear about 90% of them more than a few times a year.  The ones I rarely wear are things like my hiking boots and rafting sandals.  Also, my tennis shoes.  Mostly because I no longer live in a  city with a lot of readily available outdoor sports.  So I wear fun shoes more :)

(And, thank you very much Neil Gaiman for turning me on to yet another obsession... really, thanks a lot.)

Played it several times yesterday to center myself in the middle of a REALLY BAD day.

You take me in
No questions asked.
You strip away the ugliness
That surrounds me.

Are you an angel?
Am I already that gone?
I only hope
That I won't disappoint you
When I'm down here
On my knees.

And sweet
Sweet
Sweet surrender
Is all that I have to give.

Sweet
Sweet
Sweet surrender
Is all that I have to give.

And I don't understand
By the touch of your hand
I would be the one to fall.
- Sarah McLachlan, "Sweet Surrender"

2 for you today:

me

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