So, now that my wife is just about finished with her R.N. degree and has been promised a job by her supervisors at our hospital, she's really starting to mention the idea of having kids. Which I think I'm okay with. But I started to think about when I was a pre-teen and teenager, and it really makes me sick. Not just because of the reckless, psychotic behavior and substance intake and the fighting, but really because of the pretty awful and annoying music I listened to at very high volumes. My poor mother. I spent some time going back in time on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdcDL64KCE
I fancied myself an Anarchist and loftily told people "you cannot plant a beautiful garden without first tearing out the weeds." This was all the excuse I needed to get drunk and go out in my small town in the middle of the night and smash the symbols of capitalistic greed in my neighborhood. Basically me and my friends just vandalized everyone's yard in the middle of the night at 14 years old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkprusF5la0
I loved this band...somehow I did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWLHpuLrpyk
Before Tubthumping, Chumbawamba were anarchists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I&feature=related
DK. Very annoying at high volume.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa1M6Axgjuo&feature=related
The Exploited. This one used to really piss everyone off. Yikes.

And then there was all the metal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTpQOZcNASw
Top volume.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpMuCrbxE8A&feature=related
Slayer still rocks....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-UbViuK4fY
Swedish death metal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFn26ntmSsg
Black Metal... if my kid even looks at this video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YczYC2yHTM
Megadeth....used to be so cool.

I plan on being around a lot more than my mom was as far as raising a kid, but if it does half the stuff I did and listens to anything remotely as annoying as this stuff, I'm gonna lose it.

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