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[Sandfire]

So yeah, hey folks. I'm new. I don't want to be wallflowery so instead I'm starting a thread about incidents wherein "music has (almost?) gotten you you into car accident due to innattentiveness caused by awesomeness of music." If you don't drive, then maybe "music that has made you walk into a street lamp due to innattentiveness", etc.

I'll start. Today I blanked on a stop sign while listening to Morphine and nearly got side-swiped.

I can't be the only one who has done something like that.

Oh, and Kayo Dot isn't REALLY going to make me drive all the way from Niagara to Columbus (7 bleeding hours) to see them, are they? Canada is nice. Come visit us, we are the Europe of North America. We have excellent health coverage (you are jealous).

 

[xfer]

i never ever listen to my mp3 player while bicycling because i would get SLAUGHTERED if i couldn't hear city traffic coming up behind me.

also, what's up.

 

[lizard]

Dear Sandfire:
you will find that xfer is a keen canadianophile.

also, the US will never have universal healthcare until we wriggle our collective proletariat out from under the jackboots of corporate oppression.

despite my and another guy's entreaties, columbus remains an unresponsive wasteland. I'm convinced there's an audience for KD here, but its leaping past the entrenched cognoscenti that is proving troublesome.

 

[deadair]

sandfire is doing what any new person should do... jumping head-long into the water.


...and it has happened to me while driving as well... although i can't think of when right now

 

[The Dope]

My car is from 1957 and only has an AM radio so I can't say it's ever happened to me, as I never listen to the radio.

And welcome to the board.

 

[minxnim]

i walked face first into a doorjam while listening to bukka white.

nose hurty.

 

[minxnim]

oh and hi new guy

 

[azal]

alex has had "accidents" while listening to the arctopus.

 

[inkybmistro]

So much making fun of Behold The Arctopus...
Do they have an album out? I only have the mp3 that was on their site.

H'lo.

 

[azal]

All they have is that two song promo I believe.

 

[Kitty Star]

I run into things constantly with or without music. Not too graceful.

HELLO!!!! *waves wildly*

 

[Sandfire]

I consider this thread a modest success!

Lizard, I feel likewise about the Niagara region. There are definitely people here who really like Kayo Dot and just don't know it yet. I don't know how much "buzz" (I can't think of a non-industry word to use here) they have in Canada, but I'm sure a well-promoted show in Toronto, maybe Hamilton, would turn a few heads.

Just to let you all know, we, as a nation, are currently in screamo lockdown due to the runaway (at least by Canadian standards) success of a band of local chaps going by the name Alexisonfire.

 

[The Idea Professor]

I consider this thread a modest success!

My dear Chigger,

You let us be the judge of this. No sputtering, no protest. Clear?

You'll thank me now, you'll thank me later...

- The Idea Professor

 

[xfer]

blergh!

also, no one is mocking Arctopus!

 

[Firedwarf]

Everyone loves Arctopus!

Also, welcome!

 

[FalseTodd]

I've told this story before, but when we first mixed the end section of Marathon I was listening to the mix while driving home on the Mass Turnpike and three minutes later looked down and I was doing 30 mph.

 

[chupe666]

most near-accident-causing inattentiveness has been due to changing music, not actually listening.

 

[inkybmistro]

Sandfire, you never post!

 

[Draft Dodging Scarecrow]

I've never had any accidents, but the closest I've come is listening to Verdi's Requiem (Dies irae). I was going 70 in a school zone of 25.

Hi.

 

[NAD]

First time I heard Tool - The Grudge I went blind for about 3 seconds at that massive ending and almost hit a vehicle in an intersection.