Ooo, shiny!

[caffienekitty]

So, a funny thing happened on the way home.

I was walking to my car in the 80kph wind and slushy rain, minding my own business and trying not to slip and fall when I glanced over at a bank of snow left from when the plough did the road and see something shiny. All togeher now - "Oooo, shiny!" So of course, I take a closer look at the snow bank.

This is of course not pristine snow, this is plough-leavings, building up and melting away since the 17th; road salt, mud, gravel, oil and grease and random crap. Lo and behold, there's part of a CD sticking out of the snow bank. I figure it's a piece that fell out of someone's trash or maybe one someone hung on a fence to scare the deer away, it wound up in the road and got ploughed off into the back. But, being the magpie good ex-Girl Guide that I am I had to go get the shiny thing, (er, I mean garbage) and make sure it got properly disposed of. So, pick my way into the snow bank carefully, reach over and pluck it out.

Hey! It's a whole CD! Cool!

*turns it over*

Holy Crap! It's Metallica!!! O.O

So, after a gentle washing with mild dish soap to get rid of the mud and salt and crap and god knows what all, I now have "The Black Album" by Metallica (according to Wikipedia). It's beat to hell, but so far only skips on track 3 and 4, one of which I already had. Gonna try uploading it to my iTunes, although I suspect it's too beat up for the drive to accept. Buuuut I think I know someone who can re-surface it cheap. Yay!

Comments

[ravenrants.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh, shiny, indeed! Good find.

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very shiny.

Have I mentioned that every time I see the book Metallica and Philosophy in my local bookshop I have a "must buy that for Sam-and-Dean" moment?

Then I remember that Sam and Dean are fictional, and so probably don't want a book on Metallica and philosophy.

Which makes me sad.

[cosmicviolet.livejournal.com]

\O/
Don't get blown away. We haven't lost power...yet.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

It was kind of a cosmic find, wasn't it? Dean would approve! And Sam would scorn. ;)

Funny, reading your description, since we spell it 'plow' here in the states I keep mentally hearing "pluffed" instead of "plowed." Which sounds more like a sound-effect than a verb!

[teithiwr.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, that's a brilliant find! Anyway, the Black Album is good. *nods* (And I don't even usually like Metallica. :D)

[sadelyrate.livejournal.com]

\o/

I'd call that a good sign for the next year. Here's hoping 2009 will be filled with lots of sparkly, shiny stuff.

*HUGS*

[brigid-tanner.livejournal.com]

Cool! I think that's my favorite album of theirs.

[smalltwndreamer.livejournal.com]

Dean would be very proud of you - since I'm sure he's a magpie too. :)

[caffienekitty]

It certainly made my day! :-)

[caffienekitty]

They sneak up on you like that don't they, with the being fictional. Sign of some very good acting there. :-)

[caffienekitty]

I didn't lose power at all, which was a cause for much yay as I had an appointment at stupid o'clock this morning and it would have been a serious pain to miss it. :-P

[caffienekitty]

Hee! I hadn't thought that was a Canadian spelling! Now I know! :-)

[caffienekitty]

I listened to all of it (except the two tracks that kept skipping, and it was really cool. It's getting resurfaced today, so hopefully it'll be readable so I can put the songs into my playlists! :-)

*check watch*
*thinks about time zones*
*breaks brain*

Happy New Year! In case that's what's happening over there when you get this :-D

[caffienekitty]

And for you as well! :-)

[caffienekitty]

It's got the main Metallica songs I recognize on it, and the rest will need more listening but they may wear a groove in my brain too. :-)

[caffienekitty]

Oh totally. He has that manic glee sometimes. :-)

[sandrinnad.livejournal.com]

DUDE!!

if that isn't cosmic I don't know what is!

[caffienekitty]

I know! It made a relatively crappy day much better! :-)

[teithiwr.livejournal.com]

Ha, time zones break anyone's brain. And it is certainly 2009 now! :D Happy New Year to you too, hon. <3

Karma

[(Anonymous)]

So little things are helping you out--esp SHINY little things. I think I really have to send you the Blue Stahli song called...."Shiny" lol But really, noticing little details like that--go, you!

Hmm the words I had to type to post were "breath escapes" lol Considering I think today was one of those "Trick is to Keep Breathing" by Garbage days..it works..lol Sorry, no sleep, babbling here.

Hugs
Sharon

Re: Karma

[caffienekitty]

Hope things are going better today?

Re: Karma

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm would be nice, but no, not so much:P I love that "you are a completely incompetent idiot" look from my boss. Yes, of course everything I do, and occasionally mess up makes me..anyway. Bleh, probably going to go have a bath here and hide in room and pretend I don't exist for a while reading:P Apathy not working today *smacks apathy button*. Hope yours was better than mine?

Hugs
Sharon

Re: Karma

[caffienekitty]

My apathy was in fine shape, yeah. :-P