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Maxx Gillman

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MARCH 28, 2008 @ 02:43 AM

This journal entry is called
HELP MAXX CREATE A BETTER ONOMATOPOEIA

so my mom called me today. i say hello and the first thing she says is "getting a lot a restful sleep?" Oh. My mom is on my street. How do i know she's on my street?
Because this is what it looks like directly below my window.
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The jackhammers start at 8am. I think it's about that time. I usually come home and pass out at 4 or so. i get a few hours of sleep and then the jackhammers and whatever the evil chainsaw car is called show up. I get another hour or 2 of restless shitty sleep. then i give up, wake up and head into work.

Today was different. Today I was gonna come home and be asleep early. i was gonna get a full night's sleep and be ready to leave by the time all the evil noise showed up.



NO! NO! They're not having it!

I'm asleep by 11. and now it's 2:30 and it's been shitty restless sleep constantly being woken up. What is going on now? Oh! The steel plates that they're covering the road with...cars are driving full speed across them. I don't know what the hell is wrong with the placement of the steel plates, but all night is GUGGUG GUGGUG GUGGUG.

now i know that's not the perfect onomatopoeia, so i turn to you. I think i caught some of the deep resonance into the chasm that it's covering but i'm not sure i caught the jarring metallic hit of it all. maybe you've been lucky enough to hear this sound. even if you've heard it in the hustle and bustle of daily life, the best way to analyze it is to hear it away from all other noises. like for it to suddenly strike out at you in the silence of the night right as you're finally falling asleep.

Two Questions:
1. How would you spell this sound?
2. Do you have a couch I can use?
Comments
Hopey

Hopey

Corvallis, OR
January 2004

MAR 28, 2008 08:43 AM

chuuttttkkk..............but say it fast.

Yes. Two of them.

Earplugs.

Stay at the girls house.

Manda

Manda

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

MAR 28, 2008 10:01 AM

1.) Noise
2.) I'll be gone this weekend, so you can come over and cuddle with BraveArt if you want. wink

Also, from my interwebs research, try to find a recording of "Two Cities" by Glenn Bach and John Kannenberg and listen to it when you go to sleep.

aliasTrouble

aliasTrouble

San Francisco, CA
September 2007

MAR 28, 2008 11:27 AM

There's always room in my bed... the commute would be a bitch though. Stay with Justin.

Trevallion

Trevallion

Murfreesboro, TN
February 2004

MAR 28, 2008 03:15 PM

The ones I've heard have been more of a KLINKLUMP or a KAKLUMP sound.

DigDug

DigDug

Portland, OR
OLD SKOOL

MAR 28, 2008 10:38 PM

#1 reason not to live in downtown.

Jujubee

Jujubee

USA
April 2003

MAR 30, 2008 03:26 PM

1) KIH-CHUNK KIH-CHUNK
2) Yes, but it's in *GASP* Sherman Oaks. shocked

Jaxy

Jaxy

HOPEFUL

Las Vegas, NV

APR 15, 2008 12:52 PM

i always have a couch for you

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