bapu
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What would you do?
If there were no more music in your life?
I would suffer but I would take solice in the creative energy I expend and get from my day job (software developer).
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/12 15:10:57
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Go back to drawing I suppose. Got to get 'it' out somehow.
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/12 17:26:00
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/12 20:00:39
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ORIGINAL: bapu
If there were no more music in your life?
Hi, bapu, If you mean literally *no* music, as in I couldn't play it, record it or even listen to it, it would mean the end of my life, since music *is* my life. I can't imagine a life without *any* music whatsoever. However, if you mean that I just couldn't *play* music any longer, I'd get my creative urges out through my woodworking hobby. Actually, there was a period of several years not so long ago that I physically couldn't play music anymore and, while it was devastating, I survived it by spending a *lot* of time in my woodworking shop. Still, the idea of not being able to play at all is pretty painful to contemplate.... Best regards, Bill
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/14 00:10:55
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I'm with him....life with NO music? Unimaginable!!
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/14 19:25:03
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Wow...life without music.... kinda hard to deal with..... or even consider.....but if I was in that situation..... wait..waddaya mean....?
I can't play it...or I can't hear it...or by some freak cosmic event ...music ceases to exist?
I'd ride my motorcycle more, and find a place to shoot my guns more.
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/14 20:13:50
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I'd probably have to take up (full time) elevator maintenance-manual editing, fruit fly mating or helicopter physics training, none of which would be as rewarding...viva la musica
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/14 20:17:53
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Ya mean like back to the cave man days?.....two sticks and a hollow tree trunk - and it begins all over. LOL
hmmmmm......thank god we don't have to really think about that.
However, I'm with Guitarhacker on this one:
"I can't play it...or I can't hear it...or by some freak cosmic event ...music ceases to exist?
I'd ride my motorcycle more....."
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/14 21:08:52
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shush! Don't even say things like that!!!! 
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/14 21:44:22
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There is always "music" in your life. The motion of the planets, the sounds of nature, we continually make music of discordance and the natural excitation that creatres sound. If there were no more music I'd wonder what to do with all this stuff. ORIGINAL: bapu
If there were no more music in your life?
I would suffer but I would take solice in the creative energy I expend and get from my day job (software developer).
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 08:26:21
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ORIGINAL: bapu
If there were no more music in your life?
the only + side to that is no *****'s car alarm going off at 3am in the morning.. 
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 08:49:32
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How can they take the music away?
Most of the time my body is jiggling to at least one tune... usually I have two songs going on in there.
The only time it stops is when I'm playing an instrument. :-)
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 08:57:39
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Write cheesy sci fi short stories or serials. Or get a PhD in quantum physics. Or both.
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 13:43:01
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If string theory is to be believed then if there was no more music then that would be then end of everything.
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 14:00:22
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 14:02:58
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Well that would mean no more air wouldn't it?
Easy to answer that then..
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 14:18:24
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What would you do? I'd have to go back to the day job (also sw dev) that I so often neglect because of my musical hobby. There's a certain degree of creative expression and satisfaction in writing software. But I'd probably have to bag databases and business apps and go back to writing video games.
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 16:42:42
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Do you mean if I no longer felt a want or need to do music? I would feel great relief.
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 16:52:12
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ORIGINAL: Marah
I would feel great relief.
A very unusual answer....but one I definitely identify with. I would add "and sadness" to your sentence to complete my answer. Great relief and deep sadness...what a wierd answer, Eh?
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 18:14:51
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Every three or four years when I have a cold my ears get blocked and I have to put drops in for a couple of days or get them syringed. When they are blocked it reminds me how lucky we are to retain our hearing and our love of music. I can honestly say it drives me mad not to be able to hear properly. The joy when I feel when I come out of the doctors surgery and can hear properly again is immense. So to answer your question, I guess I would have to adjust mentally, but what creative endeavor could possibly replace music? I would try drawing and painting I guess.......... A hard question to answer, but it got me thinking
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 20:32:40
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Anybody have a remedy for excessive earwax? Seriously, it's a problem I often suffer and it usually manifests itself as a difference in frequency response from one ear to the other.
Last week I went swimming and foolishly used a Q-tip to help get water out of my ear, which pushed the wax in and resulted in near-total deafness in one ear for several days. It's still not right but I don't want to make a trip to the doctor if I can self-treat it somehow.
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 21:34:16
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It's the voices Mike, they never go awaay. You have to shout them down. We need more watts damnit! More watts! ORIGINAL: mike_mccue
How can they take the music away?
Most of the time my body is jiggling to at least one tune... usually I have two songs going on in there.
The only time it stops is when I'm playing an instrument. :-)
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Crg
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 21:42:37
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I use a Q-tip and wet it with rubing alcohol<-- (disolves the wax somewhat), while I don't want to argue with the AMA about using Q-tips in your ear, try, very carefully, inserting the Qtip at the top side of your ear and spinning it downward and outward. Use a new Qtip each time and put some moisturizer on the last one. Or just go get an ear wash kit, I don't know I"m not a doctor, I just played one with a girl once.
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/16 21:46:14
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Well said Spacey, very well said. ORIGINAL: spacey
Well that would mean no more air wouldn't it?
Easy to answer that then..
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/17 03:18:26
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ORIGINAL: bitflipper
Anybody have a remedy for excessive earwax? Seriously, it's a problem I often suffer and it usually manifests itself as a difference in frequency response from one ear to the other.
Last week I went swimming and foolishly used a Q-tip to help get water out of my ear, which pushed the wax in and resulted in near-total deafness in one ear for several days. It's still not right but I don't want to make a trip to the doctor if I can self-treat it somehow.
Hi Bit, you can buy ear flush kits (self syringing kit basically) for use in the shower. Saw one on the internet once, but can't remember where. Next time it happens to me, I'm gonna get one. Garry Kiosk
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/17 07:18:02
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ORIGINAL: bitflipper
Anybody have a remedy for excessive earwax? Seriously, it's a problem I often suffer and it usually manifests itself as a difference in frequency response from one ear to the other.
Last week I went swimming and foolishly used a Q-tip to help get water out of my ear, which pushed the wax in and resulted in near-total deafness in one ear for several days. It's still not right but I don't want to make a trip to the doctor if I can self-treat it somehow.
1 - Olive oil. Heat it GENTLY and pour into your ear, with your head on it's side. Leave for five minutes then sloosh out. 2 - Eardrops - the bicarboante of soda kind, available form all good chemists (they are in the UK anyway) 3 - Go and get them done by a doctor. Despite all the horror stories about having your ears syringed, I found it to be a lovely experience, warm & gentle, not at all painful or distressing.
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/17 09:29:30
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Believe it or not - I NEVER use Q-Tips for water. Only Toothpicks, or a paper clip. The water will follow the line of the toothpick (or paper clip) right on out of your ear. With a toothpick, just break off the very tip first.
They're also excellent for getting any wax out. The Toothpick, especially, will just lance the wax and pull it right out. Or you can scrape and break it up to get it out in tiny "chunks".
Of course, just be VERY careful with toothpicks and paper clips....especially toothpicks.
After all is accomplished, then go in with a Q-Tip to clean.
Nice discussion BTW........LOL
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/17 12:11:09
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Dave, what Colin ( Bristol) said is probably best.. the olive oil thing.. but I use a product otex from the chemist, which basically breaks down the wax.. it should get big enough to fall out of your ear... and you can make nice candles like shrek does DO NOT use the technique called candling.. where people put like a wick in your ear and light it.. that will damage with the hearing hairs in your ear that we all lose with age .. less hair = less frequency range http://www.otexear.com/ dunno if they sell it in the states there is a saying about putting things in your ears like q-tips.. you should only put one thing in your ear , your elbow (which is impossible to do) or if you go to the doc's you may have to get the syringed. as I get older, I notice my ears are more sensitive, e.g.. more ear infections etc..
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/17 15:25:21
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ORIGINAL: bitflipper
Anybody have a remedy for excessive earwax? Seriously, it's a problem I often suffer and it usually manifests itself as a difference in frequency response from one ear to the other.
Last week I went swimming and foolishly used a Q-tip to help get water out of my ear, which pushed the wax in and resulted in near-total deafness in one ear for several days. It's still not right but I don't want to make a trip to the doctor if I can self-treat it somehow.
I did that just last week. My doc used a big syringe and warm water to flush it out.
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RE: What would you do?
2009/02/17 15:27:29
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Regarding the original post: I simply cannot conceive of the notion of no music. I have a terrific imagination, but not good enough for that
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