what are you listengjng to all day,, and does it help with the job? because . y'know .,
hey hindle. i gotta say, nothing really HELPS with the job but i can tell you what i listen to. i'd say i have some pretty good music taste, though i don't know if you'd like much of it, but i hope you at least listen to it
heresy - nine inch nails
just - radiohead
holland, 1945 - neutral milk hotel
true love waits - radiohead
zero - smashing pumpkins
those are some of my favorites, so i hope you like them? if you do, i could always share my mp3 player at work during break time.
David - what do you think are the greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses of humans as a race?
You ask me to see the human species as the gods they think created them see them. Which is in the end to see them as they, at their most lucid, see themselves: inexhausted and inexhaustible, bearing from the depths of the unknown. Creation made flesh, from the cauldron of being, after laws of eternal justice, to fight their struggle, and in this struggle to win or die trying. Rather beautiful, really.
I dread to think what god, feared and detested by the god who made the world, would have created me.
2. Have you been to any of his concerts? If so, how was it?
I have not! Closest I’ve gotten is walking by the outside of The Cutting Room but not on concert night 😂
3. Have you ever met David? If so, when?
I wish! On my bucket list though. Need to be more proactive about making that happen.
15. Imagine you win the chance to spend the day with David in the city of your choice. Where do you go and what do you do?
City of choice: London! Since David seems to like it so much 😂 I would let him play tour guide. Back up choice would be Vancouver and we could go visit a bunch of XF filming locations and he could talk about his memories there 👽
"I'm sorry for blaming you" - Caroline and one of her Uncles
the au one with a grown-up caroline
send me asks or prompts
“Here,” Caroline sighed as she handed the ice pack to her uncle. She sat downbeside him on her couch, turning slightly to face him. It had been months sinceshe had last seen David, but he looked almost exactly the same… except for thebruises and cuts covering half his face. Caroline wasn’t surprised when heturned up at her door wounded and battered, though. It seemed like that was theonly time he came to her willingly these days.
“Thanks, Care,” David said. He winced faintly when he pressed the pack tothe side of his face. His niece nodded in response and raked her fingersthrough her unkempt hair. She had been sound asleep when he started banging onher door at 3 in the morning. But for reasons unknown to her, she still openedthe door.
Caroline let out a soft sigh as she watched him relax into the couch,seemingly dropping his guard. She pursed her lips for a moment before clearingher throat. “Can we skip the formalities and fast forward to the part where youtell me why you’re here?”
David slid a glance in her direction, raising an eyebrow. He couldn’tstop himself from chuckling when he saw how serious her expression was. “God,you haven’t changed a bit, Caroline.”
“Neither have you,” she said as she gestured to his face. “One day you’regoing to get yourself into serious trouble and I won’t be able to nurse youback to health, David.”
“Well, if there’s anything you should’ve learned after all these yearsit’s that DeMarco’s are hard to kill,” he responded. Caroline didn’t botherholding back the scoff that built in her throat.
“Apparently, not that hard,” Caroline retorted.
The blonde huffed a sigh, regretting the words as soon as they left hermouth. She didn’t mean for the statement to sound so accusatory, but it washard to keep her emotions out of a conversation about her family. She pressedher lips into a taught line. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that.”
“Don’t apologize,” David told her, lowering the ice pack from his face.Caroline glanced down at his hands that were now resting in his lap. Shenoticed how he anxiously picked at the corners of the plastic bag. “You wereright to blame me for what happened that night. I shouldn’t have… I shouldstopped it.”
“No, David,” Caroline started as she sat up a little straighter. Sheleaned towards him hesitantly and put a hand over his. She was already lookingat him when his gaze met hers. “That night was not your fault. And I—I nevershould said it was. I was angry and sad and I needed to somewhere to put theblame, but I’m sorry for blaming you. It was wrong of me.”
“It’s okay,” David said and gave a faint shrug of his shoulders. “Iblamed me too. I still do.”
“Why?”
“Because you were a kid, Caroline. It was up to me and my brothers to doright by you, to keep you safe, and we failed. Someone has to take the blamefor what happened and I’m the only one who deserves to carry that weight.”
“That’s not true,” Caroline paused as her hand went absentmindedly to thescars on her stomach. “You weren’t the only one that made a mistake that night.It was on all of us. David, I can see the pain you live with so just let mecarry some of that weight for you, please.”
David sighed quietly as he held her gaze. His voice was barely a whisperwhen he spoke again. “You grew up.”
Caroline quirked her head to the side, smiling softly. “Had to happensometime.”
“They would have been proud of who you turned into, Caroline,” David saidand his niece didn’t have to be told to know who he was talking about. “I hopeyou know that.”
I always feel so bad sending you asks cause i feel like im bothering you BUT!! yesterday i went to the junkie mall of my area, and went to the used cd/vinyl store and i got what i think is an original Cryptic Writings. This same place is where i got my original And Justice For All
Not a bother. I assume you’re from the west—correct me if I’m wrong—so in that case this does look like one of the original pressings, yes. Nice catch. As for And Justice For All, it’s kind of hard to tell if it’s an original original pressing, or a later copy. Still, nice catch.