The Flaming Lips capture the album title's mood on the stunning Pink Floydy Revenge, although elsewhere – especially on Pop's gloriously vamped-up Pain – things sound more playful than haunted.
This formulation of hedonism is rough, since hedonists often allow for the intrinsic goodness and badness of things other than, but containing, pleasure and pain (things such as lives and worlds, for example).
Freud tied the whole yearning-for-pain thing back to the loss of virginity in his book about porn; I forget what it was called.
"There's room to grow, room to improve, growing pains, things like that — the stuff that has to happen with each player.
Guard Brandon Moore, one of the veteran sages in the locker room, praised Sparano for balancing tough coaching with positive reinforcement, saying that "he understands that sometimes you have to build guys up after tough losses, bad press, growing pains, things like that".
For us to enjoy all these and to continue to enjoy them, we have to acknowledge that this same constitution will allow things that pain us, things that kick us in the very heart of our being, to continue.
That's when they're not seeking out pain, the thing that helps them feel alive.
In the case of chronic pain, one thing is clear: Adding assessments to a checklist of vital signs and mandating more physician education aren't enough.
