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Saturday, September 04, 2010

Excuse Me, My Face Seems To Be On Fire


An inspirational but dark nonfiction emo style music video about staying up all night in a homeless veterans shelter with a killer toothache and no pain killers. The message of the video is that no matter what pain comes your way, you can handle it. The video is also useful as a scared straight instructional film to get kids to brush their teeth.

The terrorist tooth in my lower jaw has got the whole right side
of my face on fire and I have pain, man, pain. Pain like I've never experienced before. Delicious, delirious, maddening, screaming, SCREECHING, excruciating jihad in my jaw.

Can I be excused a few more days? I'm really having trouble
concentrating while my face is on fire, while the bone in my lower right jaw. . . . the BONE . . . cracks and creaks and pokes me in the brain like a sharp, splintered stick.
I can do this. I can do this. I can weather the pain. YEEEE HAAAAW! Ride 'em cowboy! Ride that bucking, bronc-ing, face-on-fire blowtorching devil into the depths of another hellish night like only a twisted soul like me would want to do!

I can do this.


The pain : it . . . is . . . . magnificent. It is a magnificent
beast! It is the biggest roller coaster, the worst car crash, the hardest I have ever been punched in the face.

I can do this. I know I can. I have taken a steel scalpel to other
teeth. I have yanked other, not-so-important teeth out roots and all with my bare hands, blood and pus and gore spurting out onto long forgotten crack motel bathroom floors. I can do this. I've got the stuff.

This tooth is an anchor tooth to my last grinding bridge. If I
lose this grinding bridge, I'll have to eat like a rabbit, to chew all my food with my two front teeth, for a long, long time. Oh, god of male vanity, don't let me eat like a rabbit just yet. Let this rabid wolf tooth die where it stands to anchor my bridge forever, til death turns us both to dust.

I can do this.

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