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What do you do or where do you go to escape?

Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:28pm

I'm wondering what you guys do.

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Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:31pm

i go outside in the back yard and sit under the tree and read and listen to my headphones.

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Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:31pm

I go to my room cause I made it into my perfect little sanctuary and I listen to music or play a movie on my computer..that is if my computer is having a good day. And I drink tea..LOADS of it, and read if I dont want to watch a movie or listen to music....

sometimes I come here when I'm upset, that should spell out my dorkiness for you.

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Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:43pm

What music do yall listen to? I'm asking these things because I havnt exactly found what helps the best. I really need something right now.

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Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:44pm

my new favorite song is "incomplete" by the back street boys
i also listen to alot of bob dylan and greenday.
i like the red hot chili peppers too, and dave matthews band.

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Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:47pm

tick tick BOOM just always cheers me up, even though it's theme is rather sad. The music is just really good. Lots of times I listen to YAGMCB because it's the fondest memories of my life so it's nice to reflect on the good stuff. USually up beat stuff to try to get me happier...but if I'm in depressed mode I usually go towards West Side Story....finale songs and such

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Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:50pm

I'm trying to stay away from the "love" stuff. Thats the main part of the problem.

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Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:51pm

go for greenday's "american idiot" and dave matthew's band's "i did it" and the RHCP's "soul to squeeze" those songs cheer me up

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Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:52pm

hmmm that would be a problem concering Broadway music since there is usually always a love story behind it...

errrrrrm YAGMCB doesn't..lol

Maybe something to make you laugh? Spamalot or The Producers or Spelling Bee or Avenue Q?

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:03am

mmmmm I go on stage...
isn't that dorky? straight out of a teen movie...bad day in school? Run to the auditorium, sit center stage and read.

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:04am

To bad I cant do that Elphie! If I could go on stage and dance my ass off, I'd probably feel better! I cant in my room, doesnt work well.

#12

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:10am

Catie I would do that too only I need a car to get to a stage...

#13

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:11am

oh indeed..Alot of times I can't cuz it's locked...and then I get sad

.and call me Catie.

...elphie just seems so....generic these days (oh...to have thought out my user name...what a happier place this would be)

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#14

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:12am

Same here Sally!

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:17am

i get in my car and drive around while belting out my broadway mix on my ipod. seriously.

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:24am

That always made me feel AWSOME! But the friend I used o do that with is...well, we're forbidden to speak.

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:27am

I usually drown out my mind with music. It's the best way to get my mind off things. The only thing is, I don't have Spelling Bee or ttB!

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#18

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:33am

Either to my bed or outside for a walk.

And when I'm in NYC, truthfully, to the theatre. Did it tonight.

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:34am

I hop in the tub, light a few candles, turn out the lights and turn on the classical music. Sometimes my emotions can just flow better when there's music with no words. If I'm feeling antsy, however, I cook or bake. I'll make a huge batch of chicken burritos and wrap them and freeze them so that I have easy lunches for the next week or two, or I'll bake a big batch of cookies or cookie-dough brownies.

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:37am

I can't wait until I can escape to my OWN room.

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:44am

I usually go bang on the piano a bit (the second page of Rhapsody in Blue does WONDERS) or I take it out on my violin.

Or, yes, even zone out to music OTHER than showtunes. I listen to Story of the Year for that stuff...and Linkin Park. And a lot of others...those are just recent listens. PM me if you want any music to sort of "escape" to.

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:58am

CM- I am so glad I'm not the only person who does that. If I et stressed or nervous or something like that I bake. I made 3 batches of peanut butter cookies last time I was stressing. I packaged them up and sent them to my brother in law who is about to go to Iraq so he and his friends in the barracks could eat them. (And of course so I wouldn't eat them all)

If I am mad I will get in my car and go back to my home town in the country and drive the back roads really fast while listening to some really loud music and sing at the top of my lungs. On the backroads there are no cops so I don't have to worry about making my day worse by getting a speeding ticket.

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:10pm

I drive around listening to Broadway showtunes, with my windows down belting out several Wicked songs as sung by Stephanie J. Block and driving 70 down a back road. There is just something so... free about it.

I also sit in my recliner and read a Harry Potter book... because it makes me happy and gives me a few minutes to think that Harry Potter may be real. :)

#24

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:32pm

Getting lost in some other world - a book or a movie. If my thoughts are bringing me down, then I need not to be alone with them, and that's when getting outside with people or animals is the best.

Another thing that is awesome for me is photography - not that I do it much anymore. I'm no photographer with fancy equipment or anything like that, but just an ordinary camera with a lense I can adjust. What's great about that is it focuses me out of myself. I totally forget me while I'm focussing on the best shot. Once I break the connection with "me" - even briefly - I'm okay. Once when I was focussing on some wildflowers, a tiny cabbage butterfly fluttered out from among some leaves, for a split second I didn't know if I was me or the butterfly - sounds like a Zen haiku, I know, but it really happened. It was wild.

I need to go back to that again. I think that's what art's all about.

If I need to get my nerve back, then I listen to "Blaze of Glory" or "Bad Company" by "Bad Company." You're probably a lot younger than me, though, so the songs won't do the same thing.

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 12:43pm

FB - maybe you should do like the song says "When this old world starts getting me down and people are just too much...On the roof is peaceful as can be, and there the world below can't bother me"....always works.

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