Or: Battles was playing in my headset when I avoided a near-death experience.

I once nearly died while listening to Sonic Youth. I was driving along listening to "Making The Nature Scene", and two years later a car skidded on the same piece of road. If I'd been driving along there two years after I did, that car could've hit mine and I could've died in a huge ball of fire.

I have nightmares sometimes.

Just think. It staggers the mind.

Oh God, don't get me started about staggering. I narrowly missed staggering off a cliff once.

I staggered several hundred miles from a cliff once.

If it had been 10,000,000 years earlier there would've been a cliff where I staggered.

I had a similar thing when I nearly got stabbed, shot and raped. If I had've been five minutes earlier to the pub on Friday, and five minutes earlier someone was in there who wanted to stab, shoot and rape someone, and I, five minutes earlier, had've gleefully shouted 'please stab, shoot and rape me' (as I rarely do), I could've been stabbed, shot and raped.

But it turns out the guy who wasn't there didn't have a gun. He also didn't have a knife or a penchant for raping, but if he was there, and liked stabbing, shooting and raping people... by god, I shudder to think.

And all that could've happened in Bristol? Sweet Jesus, I went to Bristol once.

haha.

tonto is the balls.

In any case, ZERO, a story to tell your grandkids some day, for sure.

Yeah, this is how it is for me EVERY DAY. Somedays, I can't leave the house because it's AN ACTUAL DISTANCE from where Hiroshima happened SEVERAL YEARS AGO and then I think, 'Wait! My house is near somewhere where ACTUAL PEOPLE died AT SOME POINT!!!

It's hard, y'know? Hard.

I am actually quite near where that old fella was dead on the couch for ages, as it happens.

My heart goes out to you, man.

Thanks, man.

For no decent reason I find these things hilarious.

Hey, there's blood in the soil across this great land. Revolutionary war, civil war, genocide of the Native American, lynchings, drive-by shootings. There's probably not a square mile of U.S. turf where people have not died some horrible death.

Quit trying to lighten things up, man, this are serious.

I like this one, though if I avoided a near death experience, wouldn't I have died?

sue the bastards.
gmku, sorry to inform you: just because you're an old geezer and you've been around the block 84 times or however old you are DOES not mean you've become witty or clever in the process.

isnt that the bassist from interpol?