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Downers and Uppers

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There are things that lift us up..that saners may find miserable.I get annoyed in company when people ask me my favourite band/music/film/book.I reply but they say ...woah..." That's a downer ! "
I just think " Piss off ".

What things LIFT you but may cause others to say that they are downers to them ?


Mine..
Radiohead.....Nineteen Eighty Four ( book)...Paris,Texas (Film).....
Love them all.


etcetera..It could be ANYTHING in the world or elsewhere.

Yours ?
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Paris, Texas is great!

I like a song called Without Air (After)
It's dark and heavy but I think it's such a great song that it lifts me up.
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Thanks...It could be ANYTHING.

For instance, I like the History Of Science and Vesalius' anatomical discoveries.

I
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Confrontation!
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Band-Korn, Book-The Man Who Was Thursday-GK Chesterton, Film-O Brother Where Out Thou, Coen Brothers (or anything by them..espcially The Hud-sucker Proxy n The Big Lebowski)..
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Uppers.... silly little incidental spontaneous happenings that just help you have a little 'chuckle to' throughout the day/night


Downers - smelly breath/smokers blocking the pathway outside a Pub !

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2Fast2KeepUP
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Give me pen and paper and the rest of the world disappears. Although music can blast out the mania, I dance by myself but I don't care it carries me threw the severest points of mania and leaves me exhausted. There are so many genres of music it would hard to just nail one, the music has to touch my soul.
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A good funeral mass recording always comforts me, and I like murder mysteries, film noir, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, van Gogh, arguing and being rude.
TKVanGogh
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"1984" kicks ass ;)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGc2f2282NE


It really could happen
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Carly Simon - letters never sent. Love that album.

Anything Alanis Morrisette.

When Harry Met Sally.

SEX, that's a great upper. Especially the early morning sneak attacks by my hubby.

Being alone on the top of a mountain when I am snow boarding. It's hard to get a mountain top to yourself, but take advantage when you do.

And above all else, a good cry. Usually it's a great upper, until lately. But it will be back.
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Okay, I know sex isn't a downer. But I got carried away.
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Being alone alot is an upper for me.
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Yes, solitude. Slipping under the quilt for an afternoon nap. I love that! Sex as a surprise! A good crime novel by one of my favourite authors. A really good cup of coffee and hot, buttered toast!
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I like that idea Fairlight.Cool
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Downers for others Books, Anything by Stephen King at least it used to before, I don't enjoy reading or much else anymore.

Ron
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