a surreal moment?

Had a moment in my life that I realized how blessed, or call it Karma or lucky if ya wanna be an asshole about it , we are, when I say "we", I mean the ones that can enjoy music.
I work in Austin here at the Fed Building protecting your asses from the axis of evil and the type of job I have is watching code fly by on a PC monitor and I can just sit and jam to all of the greats' latest mixes via my MP3 player. On one of my smoke breaks I was walking to the doors to head on out and I had my head phones on. At a certain point in the mix, Adagio for Strings broke down and I saw some of the cleaning guys signing to each other. I say signing to each other cause all of the guys that do the cleaning in the offices are either deaf or have some sort of disability. I was there standing outside, watching them and I realized that how strange it would be if I too was deaf and could not enjoy music. I mean can you imagine, not being able to hear?? I wondered to myself if they missed it, but then I saw the smiles and laughs in their faces and how I should not feel sorry for them. I don't know I guess it just was odd, due in part that my whole life, music has been a big part of my life and I can not imagine how it feels not to be able to hear.....

^^ Right on. It's moments like that when I realize how ungrateful I am. My sense of hearing is one of the last things I'd choose to live with out, if I was in some hypothetical situation where I had to select one that is. And that, like yourself, is largely due to my addiction and love for music.

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"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

True Story LazFX! +1!!

Have you ever seen the movie, "It's all Gone Pete Tong"?

About a guy who goes through the process of loosing his hearing even though he's a number one DJ.
Highly recommended.

As for myself, I grew up listening to music.
My parents told me that when I was a baby, I'd cry if the record was done lol!

There are many euphoric non-drug-induced highs I've had with music on the dance floor.
I'd be crushed to never be able to do that again...

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The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."

I know a girl that is deaf (also she cant speak properly, dont know how that condition is named in english) and she seems to enjoy music quite a lot. I actualy met her at a party and she seemed to enjoy herself alot. Never really felt like asking her how does she hear music (which is surprising since i can be a total dick to anyone no matter whats wrong with them) it was just nice to see that it didnt bother her too much and that she lead a normal life.

So normal infact that i faild to realise she was deaf for 3 weeks. I met her at a techno party, we enjoyed ourselves, didnt talk much, just exchanged phone numbers at the end of the night. I partied with her again over the next two weekends (alway met her at the club) and then one sunday a friend of mine who is also her friend rang me up (he saw us together) and at one point the conversation went like this:

F(friend): so is it serious between you two?
M(e): nah, we just met a couple of times at a party thats all. You know im much to busy to be with anyone right now
F: Well thats true, must be hard talking to her though
M: Why?
F: Well you know?
M: What?
F: Oh come on you know what im talking about
M: Not really
F: Well shes deaf and (instert the other condition, the one i dont know the name of)
M:
F: There is no way you didnt notice that you idiot
M: Fuck...well we never really talked...or anything like that...just...well we never really said anything to eahother, we just like sent text messages and emails and stuff

Now i know this sounds bad but in my defense i drank so much at each of those three parties that i had to be dragged to the car and i barely remembered anything after them (like for instance that i had actualy gone to the party, as we didnt really plan on going and i was already properly drunk when we got there). As it turned out it was no problem at all. I still remembered enough sign language for us to communicate without much trouble (my neighbour and a classmate for 8 years had the same conditions and i was sort of in charge of helping him with school work so i had to learn it)

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Last edited by Moongoose on Sep-28-2006 at 07:56

I think it's a testimate on her ability to adapt and level of confidence trumping your poor ass...lol

j/k

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The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."

Yeah I saw that movie Its All Gone Pete Tong, really great movie.

I have read that the Hearing Impaired feel the music rather than hear it. Kind of like the girl in the movie when the dude saw her dancing, I am interested in this, but would feel awkward asking a deaf person to explain it to me. I guess I would have to learn sign first.

Last edited by LazFX on Sep-28-2006 at 10:39

these two ass-spelunkers are gonna ruin it for everybody!

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we must eliminate them.

>link<

^^ shit. im fucked

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Sound waves. I had a deaf friend in San Fran whose favourite band was Sublime, and he always went to concerts. He said the sound waves are what make them enjoyable. I couldn't believe he was deaf. You could usually talk to him normally but if I drank too much I couldn't understand what he was saying, so he would whip out his sidekick. Last I heard he got some amazing photography job with a sports company. I watched him almost get hit by a car a couple of times though because he couldn't hear the cars coming. That was scary.

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Originally posted by LazFX Yeah I saw that movie Its All Gone Pete Tong, really great movie. I have read that the Hearing Impaired feel the music rather than hear it. Kind of like the girl in the movie when the dude saw her dancing, I am interested in this, but would feel awkward asking a deaf person to explain it to me. I guess I would have to learn sign first.

Not necessarily, a good portion of deaf people can read lips too.

That's probably why Moongoose didn't realize his new friend was deaf...

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"...End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path...one that we all must take.
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."

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Originally posted by Q5echo these two ass-spelunkers are gonna ruin it for everybody! we must eliminate them. >link<

This is the first time ever I (fully) agree with Q5 on something .

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller