The feeling you get afterer a long night or weekend of binge drinking or partying. Usually as a result of getting nothing accomplished the following day. Sinking into an abyss of regret.

Noun: An emotional condition commonly experienced during the recovery period following extreme intoxication. The shame spiral consists of continued, connected thoughts and emotions of lack of self-worth, shame, regret, embarassment and commitments to refuse to intoxicate oneself ever again.

Verb: To be emotionally engaged in the condition of a shame spiral.

the term downward spiral is commonly used to describe depression and/or drug abuse, but can be applied to anything that starts out bad and just gets worse and worse and worse.

a downard spiral is illustrated in the book and movie Requiem For A Dream.

basic plot-

use a drug once
use it again
and again
and again
get an addiction
spend all your money on your addiction
start selling the drug to make money to pay for the addiction
use the drugs for yourself instead of selling them to pay for your own (why you should never sell the drug you do, if you sell at all)
fuck yerself over so badly you die, possibly from overdose, maybe you get shot by a drug dealer, maybe you kill yerself because you realize youve fucked your life over.

A marketing campaign often designed (although not necessarily) as a larger game, challenge, or treasure hunt. Begins life focused at a small, tight core group and spirals its way out in a predictable and controllable fashion into the mainstream consciousness. The eventual goal is to create as much user-generated excitement and subsequent media interest as possible, while only spending marketing dollars on the product itself. First coined by Frank O'Connor of Bungie.

The exact opposite of "going viral." Occurs in a manner akin to Sisyphus attempting to push a boulder up a hill only to have it roll down again and again, endlessly. Use "going spiral" to describe endless striving that yields no results in spite of one's best efforts.

noun. Used to describe an unknown person who is in the process of f'in up. Often refers to miss behaving kids. See also butt pipe tard.

Thinking Man's Metal

Spiral Architect is the extremely talented metal band based in Oslo, Norway. Their first album, "A Sceptic's Universe," is 40-some-odd minutes of mediocrity being thrashed on the musical and lyrical levels; people who like to dance to shitty two-note "basslines" will never comprehend the awesomeness incarnate that is Spiral Architect. If you're into stupid bullshit songs about "love" and "peace," then Spiral Architect's lyrics will make no sense to you, since they cannot be comprehended by the thoroughly mediocre. The album was recorded not far from the grand city of El Paso in Tornillo, TX.