Shot through the gums
Back at the dentist this morning for the filling and the fixing of my chipped tooth. Having never had a filling, I was quite freaked out by the whole "needle in your gums" and "drilling into your tooth" thing. That's one of those things, like drawing blood, that doesn't physically hurt very much, but thinking about exactly what is going on completely freaks me out. I had to transport myself to a happy place, and the happiest place I could think of being was on the water taxi in Baltimore after the crab cake competition last year. But now I have a headache and my jaw aches and it is cloudy outside and I am not in any way floating serenely on the water. So that sucks.
I have a new show I'm obsessed with, and you should check it out so we might be obsessed together. It's called "Mind Control with Derren Brown" and holy crap is it freaky. This guy is particularly talented in psychological tricks and mental persuasion, so that what he is able to do appears close to magic. For instance, he walked around with a stack of blank paper and, with little more than general conversation, he managed to convince people they were accepting money from him. He got some fish with the blank paper, but he also "bought" a $4,500 ring. Using subliminal messaging, he was able to "predict" how two advertising executives would shape a campaign. He made an entire mall full of people raise their hands at exactly the same time, without them realizing why they were doing it. It's completely bizarre how calm and normal he comes off, but how definitively he can manipulate minds. Of course, there are always some people who aren't as susceptible to it. The first show ended with him trying the blank paper/money exchange on a hot dog vendor who wasn't having any of it. It makes you wonder how you'd fare in one of his situations. It also makes you glad he's a performer for television and not an evil mastermind (ha) trying to take over the world.
If you're moving to Denver anytime soon (I'm looking at you, Krista and Heather) let me tell you what you have to look forward to: brunch at our neighborhood hipster bar that includes coffee that is most of the time really an Americano, bottomless mimosas or bloody marys, and a "hangover scramble" that combines sweet potato fries, eggs, cheese, and vegetarian green chili. You will swear you've died and gone to brunch heaven.
oh man, you gotta tell the name of your breakfast joint. my gf will go crazy over the bottomless mimosas.
Yes, that brunch at Sputnik's is to die for. And so cheap-- only $6 for that huge bowl of vegetarian goodness! I think we should go every weekend!
Whoa, is this Derren Brown guy legit? It's so obviously not real money. Thank you for sharing this show. Pretty awesome.
Not to bring you back from your happy place, but how'd the novacane shot feel? I hate those things. Especially if you're getting a shot for a root canal or wisdom tooth procedure. Yowch!
I know, it's just white paper! There's one where he gets a woman behind the counter at a dog race to pay out for a losing ticket. She even had to run the ticket through a machine! Very weird.
He seems to be legit. Wikipedia has pretty interesting coverage. The disputes are about whether he employs actors to help in some tricks, or if he exaggerates the danger of a situation, but mostly he seems to really be doing what he says he's doing, with legitimate results.
Oh, the novacaine shot was horrible. It didn't hurt--he numbed the area with some gel--but I had a hard time with the giant needle coming at my MOUTH and knowing the little pricks I was feeling was a giant needle in my GUMS. That was when I closed my eyes and tried to will myself away.
I got a filling on Monday too! My whole mouth was numb all day. I hated it.
:-(
Weird things seem to fascinate you. Were you always that way. Did you know that being weird =being freaky?
Count me in on the brunchy goodness.