Anatomy of a Back Break
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
As I fell backwards — my skates just inches off the ice, the boards a perfectly awful four feet away — I knew I was heading for disaster. I could picture in my head, in that split second you have to think before the inevitable occurs, watching hockey on TV and seeing a player about to incur a career-changing injury. I knew it was me this time, the only difference being that hockey is far from my career.
I hit the boards with my upper back and the ice with my butt simultaneously, and in an unmeasurable amount of time, a pain so vile as to procure no conscious reaction spread across my lower back as my body clam-shelled.
I laid on the ice for a couple seconds without any real thoughts while the pain sunk in. Once thoughts returned, I knew the next hour of my life wouldn’t to be spent playing our championship game. Fifteen minutes went by before I was able to move enough to be helped by my teammates to the dressing room. Contrary to other stories I’ve heard, that fifteen minutes didn’t feel like an hour, bur rather, a couple minutes. It wasn’t until after that I found out I was on the ice for a quarter of an hour.
The car ride to the hospital is what felt like an hour. Every bump in the road sent shards of pain through my spinal column. I grasped the oh shit handle like never before, my eyes closed, trying with futility to take some pressure off my back.
Once the dilaudid kicked in at the hospital, my life got a little better. Unfortunately, moments later, the doctor told me I had a compression fracture in my L1, and I would be out of commission for a month or two.
So here I sit, day two, hospital two. My new back-specialist doctor tells me he can send me home tonight with some pain killers, an appointment in a week, and a guarantee that there will be no permanent damage. Not the end of the world, by any means. And considering what was going through my head between the red line and the end boards, not such bad news after all.
So I’ll be on my couch for the next month… I guess it’s a perfect time to put together another mix, eh! The Hapless Techno Weenie Series has run its course. Coming up next? Maybe a Law & Order remix. Hah!
Thanks a lot to everyone who has been with me here at the hospital, bringing me things like smiles and bad jokes. Time to push the “stop the pain” IV button once more and get on with it.
Matt.
Hello from the hospital. Thumbs up!
El New Layout
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Not only am I about to start Spanish classes, but my good pal David Levin has graciously given up an evening of his time — which he surely would have spent fraternizing with beautiful women and getting rich — to make me this wonderful layout for harvitronix.com.
Thanks, Dave.
M.
Hapless Techno Weenie Volume 3 – Track List
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
1. The Crystal Method – It’s Time
2. Digitalism – Anything New
3. The Black Ghosts – Any Way You Choose to Give it (Fake Blood Remix)
4. Bloody Beetroots – Escape (Remix)
5. The Faint – The Geeks Were Right (Does it Offend You, Yeah? Remix)
6. John Legend + Andre 3000 – Green Light (MSTRKRFT Remix)
7. Bad Boy Bill, Steve Smooth & JJ Flores – Someday
8. Does it Offend You, Yeah? – We Are Rockstars
9. Justice – Waters of Nazareth
10. Kavinsky – Testarossa (Sebastian Remix)
11. Boys Noize – Don’t Believe the Hype
Mixed – August 20, 2008
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Hapless Techno Weenie Volume 2 – Track List
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
1. Daft Punk – Overteur
2. Boys Noize – Oh!
3. Digitalism – Magnets
4. The Crystal Method – Trip Like I Do (Tom Real vs The Rogue Element Remix)
5. Junkie XL – 1967 Poem
6. Daft Punk – Human After All
7. The Presets – Down Down Down (Digitalism Remix)
8. Junkie XL – You Make Me Feel so Good
9. Digitalism – Idealistic
10. Deadmau5 vs. Jelo – The Reward is Cheese
11. Modeselektor – Kill Bill Volume 4
12. Boys Noize – & Down
13. The Crystal Method – Keep Hope Alive
Mixed – July 15, 2008
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Hapless Techno Weenie Volume 1 – Track List
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
1. Junkie XL – More
2. Boys Noize – & Down
3. Justice – DVNO
4. Justice vs Simian – We Are Your Friends
5. Kalvin Harris – Vegas
6. Kalvin Harris – Acceptable in the 80′s
7. The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy, Girl
8. The Presets – This Boy’s in Love (LifeLike Remix)
9. Boys Noize – Arcade Robot
10. Paul Oakenfold – Faster Kill Pussycat
11. MSTRKRFT – Bounce (feate N.O.R.E.)
12. The Presets – Down Down Down (Digitalism Remix)
13. Feist – My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix)
14. Moby – 257.zero
Mixed – June 1, 2008
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