PWD PWD 1167: Summer of Ospreay

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I had a cabin booked in the Santa Cruz mountains for the end of July. But we just found out my son has a wrestling camp those exact days with his team. Called to see if we could reschedule and the lady was really nice and we got the same days a couple weeks earlier. Didn't think we'd get it because this place is always booked full for the summer. I was very appreciative and she said, "Anything for Rex the Watcher"

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8-1 Birmingham just took a 1 point lead over 7-2 Michigan with 59 seconds left
Final week of the regular season, this UFL nonsense has delivered the goods this year, no doubt about it


The Rock reading this post after all the L's he's taken lately

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Pliny Pete said:
8-1 Birmingham just took a 1 point lead over 7-2 Michigan with 59 seconds left
Final week of the regular season, this UFL nonsense has delivered the goods this year, no doubt about it


The Rock reading this post after all the L's he's taken lately

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Eat shit, Rock!
 
Pliny Pete said:
I love Al Green and thats a shoot, his greatest hits cassette used to stay in my rotation all the way back in the old days and then I switched over to his greatest hits CD which had 5 extra tracks on it!
Oh boy, I was in Heaven!

This is the last song on his greatest hits CD and I did not care for it when i first heard it cause it was so different from the rest of his songs that i had heard before but now I freaking love it, its so deep and soulful

I later found out the reason it was so different was because this was the first album he made after he found religion and left his original producer and record company and wasnt using their in house band that was responsible for his earlier upbeat melodic pop sound, this was Al Green unfiltered, I dig that

Apologies for the ramble but Im zoomed off coffee, waiting for Roxie's lazy butt to wake up so we can go on a walk lol


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This was a beautiful post btw. I'm listening to Al Green right now for this workout. That's some interesting lore about the song too, thanks for sharing that. That's probably my favorite song of his but l love many of them. But I feel like I'm more in tune with things about pain and coming to terms with them. It's extremely important for people to bring the darkness to light and make the unconscious conscious. Thats what that song feels like to me. And like I said I love the more upbeat songs too but our souls aren't just upbeat and positive all the time they get their asses kicked. Thats real soul to me. There is something beautiful in the pain and someone coming to terms with it while not letting it consume them. We can all transmute the pain to something greater...

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Stargazer Rex said:
There is something beautiful in the pain and someone coming to terms with it
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Thats why so much of the worlds great art comes from pain, not all of it obviously, but there are deep layers of raw emotion that you can only achieve after youve been ripped apart by pain and misery, it takes you inside yourself and allows your soul to speak through your art

Music was my first love and it still has a strong hold on me today and it will forever, simply because of the emotions it can stir inside me as i listen to the subconscious stories being told by the artist

Thats why i love things like the Johnny Cash - American Collection or Amy Winehouse - Back In Black, these albums are more than just a bunch of songs, they are deeply damaged people crying out in pain through their music and as a deeply damaged person myself, I'm attracted to that shit

Pain and trauma in my childhood destroyed me but I also still crave it to this day, what a fucking mess
 
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Hello, Rex! My sister was convinced she wanted a little Nissan Pathfinder then I got her in a 4Runner. She instantly fell in love with the size, height and power. Even in the SUV world it’s an upper body business, brother, and we’re all just a bunch of a marks!
 
@moonwolf I also grabbed a couple fresh hot out the oven bolillos the other day when i was at the store and i just used em to make two giant ham and pepper jack sammies with spring mix, cucumber, tomato, pickle, guacamole, Tabasco and and spicy brown mustard

I'm already full after one but this second bad boy boutta start meeting his maker as soon as i finish typing this last word😛
 
Pliny Pete said:
Thats why so much of the worlds great art comes from pain, not all of it obviously, but there are deep layers of raw emotion that you can only achieve after youve been ripped apart by pain and misery, it takes you inside yourself and allows your soul to speak through your art

Music was my first love and it still has a strong hold on me today and it will forever, simply because of the emotions it can stir inside me as i listen to the subconscious stories being told by the artist

Thats why i love things like the Johnny Cash - American Collection or Amy Winehouse - Back In Black, these albums are more than just a bunch of songs, they are deeply damaged people crying out in pain through their music and as a deeply damaged person myself, I'm attracted to that shit

Pain and trauma in my childhood destroyed me but I also still crave it to this day, what a fucking mess
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Me too. I was getting annihilated by childhood trauma and other things. The real fucked up thing was I didn't even realize it until my early 30s. I was just slowly rotting away until I was a shell of who I was. Like a skinny starving tiger chained up in a small cage. But one day God told me essentially to "leave no stone unturned or I would die" I had to going into my mind and unconscious and relive every singe traumatic thing from 3 years from watching my mom get beaten to my 20s losing my friends in Iraq and everything in between and after. Because I had no clue what was causing me to be so sick so everything needed to purged. I was also a hardocore alcoholic at the time which complicated and made things even worse. It took like 14 months and I almost didn't make it back to this world. I did it by myself, no therapy or no psych meds. I still cant wrap my head around everything I saw and felt. It's been 4 years and still not a week goes by where I don't think about that time. I descended down to some place otherworldly. And I realized I wasn't alone down there. There is a lot of people there and they don't even realize it.

But it was worth it. It's like a video game or something. I leveled up. I got armor and weapons now and a full spirit. I'm grinding now to go back down and bring as many people as I can back. I just gotta keep working and getting stronger. Even though my life is great right now I can't just forget about everything I've seen and learned. I gotta do something.
 
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RollSonnenRoll said:
Hello, Rex! My sister was convinced she wanted a little Nissan Pathfinder then I got her in a 4Runner. She instantly fell in love with the size, height and power. Even in the SUV world it’s an upper body business, brother, and we’re all just a bunch of a marks!
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Size matters! And I don't care what anyone says! Pfff fuel efficiency and safety can kiss my baked bean ass!
 
Pliny Pete said:
Thats why so much of the worlds great art comes from pain, not all of it obviously, but there are deep layers of raw emotion that you can only achieve after youve been ripped apart by pain and misery, it takes you inside yourself and allows your soul to speak through your art

Music was my first love and it still has a strong hold on me today and it will forever, simply because of the emotions it can stir inside me as i listen to the subconscious stories being told by the artist

Thats why i love things like the Johnny Cash - American Collection or Amy Winehouse - Back In Black, these albums are more than just a bunch of songs, they are deeply damaged people crying out in pain through their music and as a deeply damaged person myself, I'm attracted to that shit

Pain and trauma in my childhood destroyed me but I also still crave it to this day, what a fucking mess
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What was that Jellyroll album that you said was spiritual cleansing? I need a listen for the ride back tonight
 
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