all night long....

alice · Post by **alice** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:10 am

i just love it this time of night. it's so quiet; no traffic. and always someone cool to play with

Phydeau · Post by **Phydeau** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:46 am

can't seem to ever get my ass to bed before sunrise ... never have been able to figure out the cause, I'm just alot more at peace during the night.

Niacin · Post by **Niacin** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 12:29 pm

I like to go sit at the beach at about 4AM and sit and think to myself, "Self, everyone with you at the beach, right now, doesn't have enough dignity to bring their dates home."

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 3:20 pm

I just head down to the basement and read a little bit of poetry and load a little bit of ammo.

There's a synergy there that I still don't quite get but it works.

notthat1 · Post by **notthat1** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:55 pm

I like the fact that there no traffic.I can hop on the freeway and pretty much have it all to myself .

rodent · Post by **rodent** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:59 pm

being stuck on the 92/101 interchange onramp at 3:00 in the morning while trying to hitchhike...

...now THAT'S quiet.

I'll tell ya the story sometime.

Kinetic II · Post by **Kinetic II** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:02 pm

Quiet is downtown Kansas City at 2 am. Military satellites detect no nightlife, few cars...the only human signature is a few cleaning crews. You could run naked down the middle of Broadway and nobody would notice.

SED · Post by **SED** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 1:37 am

What's that Simon & Garfunkel tune with the words "seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night"?

The stillness of the night is like a blanket to me. I like to sit on my front steps and watch the animals. Even in the city, wildlife is all around.

One time I was in Juneau AK walking home from a bar at 2 or 3 am. I stopped to pet a cat and it was like a sexual encounter. No, you sickos it wasn't actual sex. But it was pretty damned sensual and then it was over and we both went our own ways. There's someone in these threads who I knew like this, but it doesn't seem to be quite over yet.

Ah, the night.

rodent · Post by **rodent** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 1:52 am

Last call....

anyone else awake?

The fog is gently caressing its way across the Monterey Bay, slowly enveloping Santa Cruz with a velvet touch. Muting the sounds of fewer and fewer passing cars.

Nothing like a purring cat in lap and a warm coffee mug in hand on a night like this.

ramen · Post by **ramen** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 2:13 am

Shit, the bar's closed....

What if the reason you stay up all night is so you won't have to get up in the morning?

alice · Post by **alice** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 2:41 am

the blue-sky bar is always open.

come fly the friendly skies.

Raheer · Post by **Raheer** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 3:14 am

No job, no school, no life, up at three twenty two am.

Welcome to the Federal Democratic Republic of Raheer

Raheer

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 3:50 am

SED · Post by **SED** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:08 pm

Ba-dump-bump.

Magikal · Post by **Magikal** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:40 am

I think I'm part vampire, I always loved the night...

And I do like biting girls, altho not necessarily on the neck.

deseo · Post by **deseo** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:56 am

I'm up right now, after a part-y.

Some dancing, some dfrinking.

I met an Argentinian who went to burningman last year with his mother and her boyfriend.

I danced.

I walked home.

I am having tea, thinking I have to be up relatively early.

Ammo & poetry Badger?

I don't have a gun to shoot but I imagine the connection must be resonation.

Paultergeist · Post by **Paultergeist** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:37 am

I went out til late last night, i went to a bar where they were having a full on trance night for some reason. they usually just play chilled out hip hop but hey, i'm not one to whinge. trouble is,i am now at work, it's too early, i feel dizzy.

I blame the Nitrous

Magikal · Post by **Magikal** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 3:33 am

deseo wrote:Ammo & poetry Badger?

I don't have a gun to shoot but I imagine the connection must be resonation.

Indeed, Badger. I'm a reloader myself, so I know the medatative quality of making up rounds. What calibers do you reload for?

Paultergeist wrote:I went out til late last night, i went to a bar where they were having a full on trance night for some reason. they usually just play chilled out hip hop but hey, i'm not one to whinge. trouble is,i am now at work, it's too early, i feel dizzy.

I blame the Nitrous
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Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits

Had some medicinal grade nitrous some years' back, what a hellavu great New Years' that was!!! Sweet!!!!!!

And re: your tagline:

A few little-known facts about Chuck Norris:
The Big Bang didn't happen; Chuck Norris did.
Chuck Norris doesn't sleep; he waits.
Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he's never cried.
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Chuck Norris donates blood to the Red Cross on a regular basis, just not his own.
Chuck Norris doesn't hunt because hunting implies a possibility of failure. Chuck Norris kills.
Outer space exists because it is afraid to be on the same planet as Chuck Norris.
Chuck doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

Paultergeist · Post by **Paultergeist** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 3:54 am

a few more gems..

* Every time a church bell rings, Mr. T pities a fool.

* Mr. T doesn't pity anyone who likes the Black Eyed Peas. He just kills them.

* Mr. T speaks only when necessary. His main form of communication is folding his arms and slowly shaking his head. And regardless of the situation, he is always understood.

* Mr. T pities fools because even fools deserves their daily dose of vitamin T.
T once bit off more than he could chew. He ate it anyway.

* Mr. T once pitied the sun. An ice age followed.

* The last time Mr. T went to McDonald's, Ronald McDonald greeted him. What occured next proved to be the most violent beating of a clown ever recorded in human history.

* Mr. T puts the laughter in manslaughter.

* Mr. T was fired from the Psychic Friends Network for always predicting pain

Atar · Post by **Atar** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:44 am

SED wrote:What's that Simon & Garfunkel tune with the words "seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night"?

A Poem on the Underground Wall

The last train is nearly due,
The underground is closing soon,
And in the dark deserted station,
Restless in anticipation,
A man waits in the shadows.

His restless eyes leap and snatch,
At all that they can touch or catch,
And hidden deep within his pocket,
Safe within its silent socket,
He holds a coloured crayon.

Now from the tunnel's stony womb,
The carriage rides to meet the groom,
And opens wide the welcome doors,
But he hesitates, then withdraws
Deeper in the shadows.

And the train is gone suddenly.
On wheels clicking silently
Like a gently tapping litany,
And he holds his crayon rosary
Tighter in his hand.

Now from his pocket quick he flashes,
The crayon on the wall he slashes,
Deep upon the advertising,
A single-worded poem comprising
Four letters.

And his heart is laughing, screaming, pounding,
The poem across the tracks resounding,
Shadowed by the exit light
His legs take their ascending flight
To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night.

-- Paul Simon

Blessed be the darkness, for it hides me from those who do not understand.
Blessed be the night, for it is in your arms I fear nothing.
Blessed be the shadows, for they comfort me like inverted flames.
Because in the absence of light, there is only darkness.

Its something I wrote a couple years back. Or rather, my Shadowdancer character in an online DnD game wrote them.

SED · Post by **SED** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:43 pm

Here's an informal rule for this thread: Only post after midnight and before dawn.

Yes, I know. It's not midnight yet, but I'm thinking of it now and can't predict when I'll be up late.

Informal means just that. It's fair if someone works all night and posts in the day, or if it's just way past bedtime at 8:30 pm. But there's a sacred quiet in the darkest hours.

Anyway, last night, and all last night I was up with my sick child, listening to his fever dreams and watching heavy snowflakes drift through the lamplight in the trees.

Magikal · Post by **Magikal** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:36 am

SED wrote:Here's an informal rule for this thread: Only post after midnight and before dawn.

Well, it's after midnight now (12:27 local time), so finally I can post.

SED wrote:But there's a sacred quiet in the darkest hours.

Amen to that. Who needs a church?

SED wrote:Anyway, last night, and all last night I was up with my sick child, listening to his fever dreams and watching heavy snowflakes drift through the lamplight in the trees.

What more existential experience is there than that?

Good on all forumites. While Larry Harvey gets slammed for being too this, that, or the other, when all is said and done, look what he has created. I just hope I can create something like that.

Paultergeist · Post by **Paultergeist** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:25 am

being in the UK means i'm most likely to post during the American night time. I feel like a vampire who is giving back to the community

SED · Post by **SED** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:59 pm

Almost there. Seems like a good place to ask around about sleep aids, like Ambien.

Whattya think about that Ambien?

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:54 pm

Never tried Ambien, but the other day I popped a Vicodin thinking it was one of the big Motrins left over from my carpal tunnel surgery...That, plus a sixer, equaled g'night!

One of my favorite things about the long drive to Burning Man (2 days, if I haul straight through) is the night driving...Eastern Nevada's spooky as hell to drive through at 3 AM, especially to a Midwesterner who's used to light pollution and hyperlit freeways.

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:25 pm

1/3 tablet of Trazodone and 1 otc Benadryl i hour b-4 bedtime and zzzz allnight long... Non-habit forming

Kinetic IV · Post by **Kinetic IV** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:06 pm

SED wrote:Almost there. Seems like a good place to ask around about sleep aids, like Ambien.

Whattya think about that Ambien?

I have scripts for Ambien and Sonata. I like both. Ambien works good if you have 7 hours or more for sleeping....but in some people it causes very strange dreams. Sonata is great if you don't have much time to sleep but need to get some rest. It works best for me if I have about a 4 hour block of time for sleep. It also kicks in pretty quickly too.

Of course if you can get your hands on a script for Provigil you don't need to sleep at all but that's NOT for everyone. And as with all advice, YMMV and a doctor's advice is highly recommended.

JezebelinHell · Post by **JezebelinHell** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:19 pm

I have a scrip for Lunesta, and it's the only sleeping pill that's ever worked for me. Been trying to talk my doc into handing out some provigil to counter-act the sleepy pills I have to take in the mornings, but we'll see...

all night long....

all night long....

yup, that's why I'm a nightowl ...