The Breakup Song

[caitri]

Grr, still can't believe American Hi Fi is playing in Athens the night I go home. Figures. In the meantime here's the lyrics to one of my fav songs as it is so apropos.

I can't believe I hung around with you all this time
You drove me crazy with your OCD girl you're out of your mind
I'm counting on UFOs to beam me up I just don't know
How long I can take this shit, I'm over it girl you gotta go

It's over, we're over
Just like in crimson and clover
We're sinking and I'm thinking
How the hell did we get so stupid?
It's the end, ex-girlfriend
I dont care what you think of me
So long, your gone
This is the breakup song!

One more thing before you go would you please give me my records back
My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, Cheap Trick and Back In Black
You can keep the dog we bought but you can't go near the Standard Bar
Don't hang around, don't call my friends, They won't know who you are!

It's over, we're over
Just like in crimson and clover
We're sinking and I'm thinking
How the hell did we get so stupid?
It's the end, ex-girlfriend
I dont care what you think of me
So long, your gone
This is the breakup song!
So long, your gone
This is the breakup song!

It's over, we're over
Just like in crimson and clover
We're sinking and I'm thinking
How the hell did we get so stupid?
It's the end, ex-girlfriend
I dont care what you think of me
So long, your gone
This is the breakup song!
So long, your gone
This is the breakup song!
So long, your gone
This is the breakup song!
So long, your gone
This is the breakup song!

THIS IS THE BREAKUP SONG!!!

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hi. this is a long story...

[steelbeard.livejournal.com]

which is to say I was surprised to find e-harmony matches in my inbox this morning, not having realized that I had signed up for them (long story- I'll tell you more if you want) but you were one of them and I saw that you're on LJ, too, so I figured, what the hell I'll introduce myself.

You seem interesting.

I'm 26. I'm the technical director (dude that makes the scenery happen) at a small theatre in Baltimore. I live in the city; but I work a lot so I haven't been able to meet a lot of people here, which is why I'm on the net. Check out my journal if you want, it'll probably tell you more than the silly e-harmony surveys.
Take it easy.

Re: hi. this is a long story...

[caitri.livejournal.com]

Yeaaaaah, that's a story I want to hear, as I am unsure how one can fill out a 500 question thingie and then be surprised. (That's not me making fun, that's me being genuinely curious.)

Many greetings and welcome to the boring yet shininess of my world. :)

Laters!

Re: hi. this is a long story...

[steelbeard.livejournal.com]

The story goes like this:
Over the summer I went on a trip to backpack the length of the Apalachian Trail through Shenandoah National Park, which is about 105 miles. A friend of mine was working in Charlottesville for the summer so she agreed to put me up for a night and drive me out to the trailhead the next morning, believing me to be completely out of my mind for wanting to spend a week outside with the trees and the bears.

The night I stayed there she mentioned that she had taken the e-harmony quiz, and that it had told her that she was ‘so weird that it wouldn’t match me with anyone’ or something to that effect. So I get to thinking, I’m just as strange as she is, I’ll take the test too and see if I’m a freak, too. Mostly on a lark, just for kicks.

So I did the survey and filled in some of the basic information, set it up to be inactive, and was told that I was matchable, which was dissapointing since the whole goal was to prove to this girl that she wasn’t a freak, or else that she was and that it was a good thing, or something.

Now jump forward a few months, and here I am checking out the internet dating scene, cuz I’ve got nothing goin’ on up here in Charm City, and I remember that I already did the e-harm survey. So I go back to see what the scoop is on the matching service, start to fill in the rest of the info, get bored and go to bed. Next morning there you are in my inbox, and the rest is history.

Oddly enough, now that I have looked at the site more I’m not at all interested in it, because it’s set up for people who are shopping for a spouse and I’m really just a little bored, looking for new people to hang with and possibly a fling. I mean, you never know what’s going to happen, but I’ve ridden the LTR train for a long time and I need a break.

That’s my story- what’s yours?

Re: hi. this is a long story...

[caitri.livejournal.com]

Well for starters I don't like the term "freak", I prefer "normalcy-challenged." Secondly I thought I'd look around for some friends and see what happened, and quite frankly, ya look at Yahoo Personals and Match.Com and what you see is Future Serial-Killers of America.

Now most EH people seem to look at my profile and say "run away, run away." I consider it free entertainment to read the myriad rejection-reasons from my matches. But I did meet my soul-brother Jim on there, so it was worth it.

Re: hi. this is a long story...

[steelbeard.livejournal.com]

How about we say 'uncatergorizably unique' instead of freak or normal-challenged? I think it's good when a system can't fit you into a single slot.

It's a good thing I'm not on yahoo personals or match.com, then. E-H people send rejections? Is that really more polite than just ignoring the whole thing? Are they acting like they can tell you how to improve yourself? That must be entertaining.
Well then, a toast to rejection letters!

Re: hi. this is a long story...

[caitri.livejournal.com]

That does sound better, but then how to explain the fact that everyone at comic conventions are black shirts in the non-fascist sense?

There's a fair bit of ignoring at EH, but also people who say they don't feel chemistry when there's been no communication involved, or people who say they live too far away even though they are metro-accessible, or the even more cheerful "I'll email you!" followed by being closed off. Niice.

Let's not toast rejection. How 'bout the cheery diversity of human relations in all their gory glory? (Two toasts if you can say that three times fast...)

Re: hi. this is a long story...

[steelbeard.livejournal.com]

I suppose the black shirts signify something like 'hey, I belong here with all these other misfits' or 'I unique, too!'-- just like I wanted to be as unique as my friend who took the survey.
But that's human history- the challenge of finding your unique voice within a community.

the cheery diversity of human relations in all their gory glory!
the cheery diversity of human relations in all their gory glory!

and let's make that the cheery diversity of humans, as well.
cheers!

Re: hi. this is a long story...

[caitri.livejournal.com]

Oy, you didn't make it three times!

Yes we are all individuals.

GodDAMN we're philosophical for a Saturday night. But then Brit wit doesn't seem to be on so there's nothing better to do anyway. :(

Re: hi. this is a long story...

[steelbeard.livejournal.com]

shit.
I got the three cheers and the two toasts reversed.
Have I upset the balance of the universe?

I've been in the midst of a long philosophical thread with an LJ friend- but then my career wishlist is 1. professional woodbutcher, 2. musician or 3. philosopher; and I'm glad those are all satisfying vocations because there is no money in any of them.

I'm off to check out a band.