#i kinda got sappy at the end but sjdjdjdjdj whatever

[daddy-ul]

9, 10, 29 & 38 for the v-tallica asks :D

Ehya, dude!! Fancy meeting you here, eheh. Hope you are in for a ride bc you chose some questions.

9. You meet Lars in the backstage, he is (as usual) mumbling about the setlist for tonight, he asks you what song would you like to hear, and you say...

FML, said Past!Me, apparently.

First and foremost, IF I WAS IN THE BACKSTAGE, coherence would leave my body, head empty, heart happy. That said, if Lars spoke to me, I’d start calling him “Mr. Ulrich” bc my italian ass would take control and be very formal. But startstruck as I would be, I think I would try to keep the conversation going, so I would be all “oh, Mr. Ulrich, sir, that depends on WHERE on the setlist we are including the song”, and we would chat about that, bc mpft at the beginning of a concert you cant put anything “slow” or too depressing, “deaf and blind them” as Queen used to said. So... where, Mr. Ulrich? Which song are we swapping out? dhjadhajkdhasjdhak my machiavellian mind aside, there are really two possible outcomes that I see myself taking. In an ideal state of things, where time and space and ability don’t count, I think that I would request Fixxxer, swapping it with Fade to Black or something like that. I think Fixxxer would be intresting to talyor for a live reendition and BY GOD LET ROB PLAY THE BASS INTRO AND LET ME FEEL THE NEEDLES  IN MY CHEST BY VIBRATION. *coff*

But.... honestly? Hand to heart? I would ask for Am I Savage?. Why? Because I like to live in the now, now we are talking, now it’s 202x, now there is this album out. Finally I have the opportunity of living metallica at the same pace of metallica, so I’m gonna enjoy it to the fullest. It’s not that that song is my fave of the album or whatever but... but the record was almost called Inheritance bc of it and other songs, so I want that. Yes, gimme a HTSD never played live song DURING HTSD era. I wish we could get to hear the whole album live by the end of this (derailed) tour.

10. Fave Metallica cover in Garage Inc.

AAAAAAAAAAAAA shit. Do not overthink it, do not overthink--

Crash Course in brain surgery (A GOOD BASS); the a national acrobatic bit in Sabbra Cadabra and then my basic ass has to say Mercyful Fate (bc it pumps me up so much) and Astronomy (I’m a BOC fan but DAMN, Metallica covers them so well!!!! and the ending of the song with the ‘astronomyyyyyyy the staaaaaaars’ eases my soul in such a soft way)

29. What’s your favorite story about Cliff?

I’m gonna cheat and you can’t stop meeeeee: one story for every bond

-just Cliff: when at the airport security found his hammer in his luggage and they were like “what is it for?” and Cliff was “You’ll never know when it might come handy” and they were, fair enough AND LET HIM KEEP IT JSADGSGADHGAJ

-Kirk and Cliff: when they were faboying over this metshirt design and decided to call it Abominog. I LOVE ABOMINOG.

-James and Cliff: that time when playing football James accidentally hit Cliff in the balls (am i remembering it correctly? anyway, he hit him very HARD) and Cliff started CALLING HIM NAMES while in pain shajdhajkdha and James was really nervous bc “you don’t call me that, you call OTHERS that, but not me”, oh sweet child, nervous that his first real big bro might not love him the best hsjaddh

-Lars and Cliff: the last paragraph of Back To The Front. If you read it, you know what I’m talking about. 

38. Talk abt something Metallica related that you mentally link to something that happened in your life

uhmmmm, there are many things, not only bc I’ve a very good memory but bc it’s been 9 years since I impulsively bought a random dvd in a bookshop bc the cover looked cool (yes, yes, it was SKOM, it was 2011 and it was only 3.99 euros).

I will pick one, no more, no less important: 2 years ago i fucked up my knee, it’s kinda ok now but i cant do all the stuff I did before and I have to be careful bc if i force it too much it.... comes out of its own (which, for a karateka like me is kinda of a problem). Again, now it’s ok, I learned how much i can ask of it, how prevent injuries etc but at the beginning.... 

Where metallica comes into this? Well, my first met concert was in 02/2018, I fucked up my knee in December and I stayed in bed for a month and a half. So When the date of the concert approached I was already walking but I was still weary and... kinda depressed. Staying put and fixed in bed was not good for my head and karate is one of the most important thing in my life, at that point i didn’t even know if I could do it again + university exams where KILLING ME. Anyway, I was really really down and on the day of the concert I realized I couldn’t even risk to jump, bc what if???

But you know what? The fears, the weariness, the insecurities... just slowly melted. And not only I enjoyed the concert, not only I rocked tf out of it, jumping on my only good knee bc fck everything, but I came out recharged, cleansed and with my shoulders a little lighter. It was not a revelation, an epiphany or a life changing night, on the contrary! It was a simple night. A night that could happen again and again and again, you just have to be there for it.

There is nothing better that simple joys that need no explanations.