Here are the answers to my mystery songs. I won't be pointing out who won, though. You know who you are. And you all get a gold star for playing. However, on further thought, I'll bold the ones that no one got. Different!
1. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night - Bon Jovi
2. She's Electric - Oasis
3. People's Parties - Joni Mitchell
4. Cellophane - Amanda Ghost
5. Ride Into The Sun - The Velvet Underground
6. We're Gonna Groove - Led Zeppelin
7. My Beautiful Sinking Ship - Devics
8. She's On Fire - Train (Lauren, didn't you have the lyrics for this in your bio once?)
9. All You Wanted - Michelle Branch (Kirk! Seriously!)
10. The Wrath Of Hermione - Harry And The Potters
11. You Keep Me Here - Milla Jovovich (I didn't expect anyone to know this.)
12. More Sweet Soul - Pretty Girls Make Graves (Or this.)
13. Watch Out - crushing velvet (Or this.)
14. We Belong - Pat Benatar
15. A Day In The Life - The Beatles (but it was an alternate take! HA!)
16. Jack The Ripper - Colin Meloy (orig. Morrisey)
17. The Silver Swan - Orlando Gibbons (I'm guessing no one did madrigals in school)
18. The Girl I Love (She Got Long Black Wavy Hair) - Led Zeppelin (Seriously.)
19. Holler - The Spice Girls (... Yep.)
20. Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying - Belle And Sebastian
In an unrelated story, I have a question. If we keep cutting down all the trees, then why does the pollen get worse every year? My face is a mass of swollen soft tissues and mucus and disgustingness and unattractiveness. But the good news is that I look better than I feel. Oy vey.
And furthermore, while I haven't been talking about it that much (to my dear friend Kirk's petulant dismay), I have been watching Veronica Mars. And it has been good. It has been good until recently, when my local UPN affiliate decided that they were going to preempt it for what-the-hell-ever basketball playoff sport ... thingie is going on right now. I don't really care about basketball, people, but my feelings are beginning to move into active dislike. From what I can tell from the internet, since the big CW announcement, WWOR has become affiliated with "My" programming, which is owned by Fox. They've even switched all their logos to say "My9" and all this. Some have posited that since UPN is going to leave them high and dry in a few months that they really don't care about UPN's programming anymore. I guess. Whatever. I wrote their programming department (hi Pat!) a strongly worded email.
The internet also tells me that they should air this week's episode at 7PM on Sunday. Maybe. We'll see. Blaah.
Thursday
Oh alright! I'll do it.
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
AND DON'T CHEAT!!!
1. Hey, man, I'm alive, I'm taking each day and night at a time.
2. She's electric, she's in a family full of eccentrics.
3. All the people at this party, they've got a lot of style.
4. Nobody moves me, I've been through this life with no place that I can call my own.
5. Looking for another place, someone else to be.
6. Hear my baby coming down the track, betcha my baby's coming back.
7. This is it, toe the line, we barely made it back this time.
8. Well this is just between us, but between us, let's get high.
9. I wanted to be like you, I wanted everything.
10. Rita Skeeter better shut her mouth before she gets in trouble.
11. It takes me years to come down to the door.
12. Headaches, handshakes, little blue pills to take.
13. Alone in the dark, I've been blowing off sparks.
14. Many times I tried to tell you, many times I cried alone.
15. I read the news today, oh boy.
16. Oh, you look so tired, mouth slack and wide.
17. The silver swan, who living had no note, when death approached unlocked her silent throat.
18. Oh, the girl I love, she got long black wavy hair.
19. I wanna make you holler.
20. Oh, get me away from here, I'm dying.
900+ songs, and apparently 2 and a half days worth of music, and here we are. I skipped over instrumentals, which came up 2 times. Number 16 is not by the original artist, if that helps (?). At least one of these is so easy I almost skipped it for the sake of complicating things. A few of them, to be honest, I wouldn't even know if I hadn't written this. Only one of these really embarrassed me, but I was so suprised that I had it that it turned into amusement instead.
In other news, I have desperately wanted to change my blog layout for months, but I can't get myself motivated to do anything about it.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
AND DON'T CHEAT!!!
1. Hey, man, I'm alive, I'm taking each day and night at a time.
2. She's electric, she's in a family full of eccentrics.
3. All the people at this party, they've got a lot of style.
4. Nobody moves me, I've been through this life with no place that I can call my own.
5. Looking for another place, someone else to be.
6. Hear my baby coming down the track, betcha my baby's coming back.
7. This is it, toe the line, we barely made it back this time.
8. Well this is just between us, but between us, let's get high.
9. I wanted to be like you, I wanted everything.
10. Rita Skeeter better shut her mouth before she gets in trouble.
11. It takes me years to come down to the door.
12. Headaches, handshakes, little blue pills to take.
13. Alone in the dark, I've been blowing off sparks.
14. Many times I tried to tell you, many times I cried alone.
15. I read the news today, oh boy.
16. Oh, you look so tired, mouth slack and wide.
17. The silver swan, who living had no note, when death approached unlocked her silent throat.
18. Oh, the girl I love, she got long black wavy hair.
19. I wanna make you holler.
20. Oh, get me away from here, I'm dying.
900+ songs, and apparently 2 and a half days worth of music, and here we are. I skipped over instrumentals, which came up 2 times. Number 16 is not by the original artist, if that helps (?). At least one of these is so easy I almost skipped it for the sake of complicating things. A few of them, to be honest, I wouldn't even know if I hadn't written this. Only one of these really embarrassed me, but I was so suprised that I had it that it turned into amusement instead.
In other news, I have desperately wanted to change my blog layout for months, but I can't get myself motivated to do anything about it.
Monday
I stole this from my friend Beth.
It is what the internet calls a "meme"? I'm doing this because I like my birthday.
Instructions: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
3 Events
771 - Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
1875 - Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.
1980 - The rock group Led Zeppelin formally announce their breakup.
2 Births
1849 - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (d. 1877)
1892 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)
1 Death
1123 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher
Instructions: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
3 Events
771 - Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
1875 - Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.
1980 - The rock group Led Zeppelin formally announce their breakup.
2 Births
1849 - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (d. 1877)
1892 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)
1 Death
1123 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher
Saturday
Half this entry is about Harry Potter.
There are many shirts that I would like for Christmas. Or, just in general really. For example, there's a shirt I'd like to get that says "You have a friend in cheeses."
I could have gotten it today, too! Because I was near both of the two retail locations of Murray's Cheese Shop, where one can purchase this item. But I was too busy walking the streets of SoHo in the rain! And wind! My shoes were soaked. The squishing was ridiculous. It was kind of enjoyable, though. But this is the sort of thing that Phoebe should do. In my imaginary world. Only she does it uptown.
When I got home, there was hail, which was kind of great. And I had a cream soda, which was also great. However, as in most instances where I walk more than I think I will, I'm now sporting an impressive laceration on my heel.
You don't care about any of this, though! You care about the Potter.
[Begin Spoiler for My Horrible Prediction For Book Seven. — Highlight to view]
One of the twins will die. And only one.
Here is why I think this.
Ms. Rowling has put forth the general knowledge that the final book will contain multiple casualties. Oh no! There are nine Weasleys altogether. This, I think, makes the odd pretty long that all of them are going to make it through unscathed. Plus there's some foreshadowing, like Mrs. Weasley's boggart, etc.
It can't be Ron, because Ron has to marry Hermione and make, like, a thousand red-headed babies. IT'S JUST THE FACTS HERE, PEOPLE.
It can't be Ginny, because Ginny exists in this dramatic circle with Harry and his mother. A red-haired woman who loved Harry gave her life to save him when this started. When this ends, a red-haired woman who loves Harry can't also die to save him. The reason you revisit the past is to provide a different outcome. I mean, I'm seriously talking out of my ass right now, but it wouldn't feel right to have Ginny die.
It won't be Bill, because he's already been ticked for having something terrible happen to him. If he died on top of it, that would be a little much. What did Bill ever do to anyone? Likewise, Mr. Weasley. He's already been attacked and recovered. He's done on tragedy.
It might be Mrs. Weasley, but, damn, that would suck. Harry's the one with the dead parent issues. He likes the Weasleys because they don't have any of that.
It might be Charlie. Nothing's really happened to him so far. But of all the Weasleys, he's the one we've seen the least, and hence know the least. His death would lack a certain emotional resonance. Likewise with Percy. I mean, would you miss Percy at this point? It makes more sense for his arc to have some sort of epiphany and do something to redeem himself. But he's not evil, so his redemption doesn't need to include death. In my opinion, anyway.
This leaves the twins. They're done. They're goners. They've already completed the transition from children to adults. They've made a useful contribution (the joke shop) to both the plot and the world of the book. And they notoriously get away with everything. Nothing bad has ever happened to them. You know, aside from that time that they couldn't play Quidditch. But what's that? I think at least one of them is on his last lucky chance. Why do I think just one? Um. No reason, really, except that OMG WOULDN'T THAT BE SO MESSED UP?? I mean, to kill off one twin? Wouldn't that be terrible? What the fuck is the matter with me!
And if you want me to pick which one ... Fred. Because Fred is the more assertive one. And, well, it's Fred and George, isn't it? If you take out Fred, you just have "and George." It would drive home the lack just a little bit more.
Dude. So messed up.
[End Spoiler]
I could have gotten it today, too! Because I was near both of the two retail locations of Murray's Cheese Shop, where one can purchase this item. But I was too busy walking the streets of SoHo in the rain! And wind! My shoes were soaked. The squishing was ridiculous. It was kind of enjoyable, though. But this is the sort of thing that Phoebe should do. In my imaginary world. Only she does it uptown.
When I got home, there was hail, which was kind of great. And I had a cream soda, which was also great. However, as in most instances where I walk more than I think I will, I'm now sporting an impressive laceration on my heel.
You don't care about any of this, though! You care about the Potter.
[Begin Spoiler for My Horrible Prediction For Book Seven. — Highlight to view]
One of the twins will die. And only one.
Here is why I think this.
Ms. Rowling has put forth the general knowledge that the final book will contain multiple casualties. Oh no! There are nine Weasleys altogether. This, I think, makes the odd pretty long that all of them are going to make it through unscathed. Plus there's some foreshadowing, like Mrs. Weasley's boggart, etc.
It can't be Ron, because Ron has to marry Hermione and make, like, a thousand red-headed babies. IT'S JUST THE FACTS HERE, PEOPLE.
It can't be Ginny, because Ginny exists in this dramatic circle with Harry and his mother. A red-haired woman who loved Harry gave her life to save him when this started. When this ends, a red-haired woman who loves Harry can't also die to save him. The reason you revisit the past is to provide a different outcome. I mean, I'm seriously talking out of my ass right now, but it wouldn't feel right to have Ginny die.
It won't be Bill, because he's already been ticked for having something terrible happen to him. If he died on top of it, that would be a little much. What did Bill ever do to anyone? Likewise, Mr. Weasley. He's already been attacked and recovered. He's done on tragedy.
It might be Mrs. Weasley, but, damn, that would suck. Harry's the one with the dead parent issues. He likes the Weasleys because they don't have any of that.
It might be Charlie. Nothing's really happened to him so far. But of all the Weasleys, he's the one we've seen the least, and hence know the least. His death would lack a certain emotional resonance. Likewise with Percy. I mean, would you miss Percy at this point? It makes more sense for his arc to have some sort of epiphany and do something to redeem himself. But he's not evil, so his redemption doesn't need to include death. In my opinion, anyway.
This leaves the twins. They're done. They're goners. They've already completed the transition from children to adults. They've made a useful contribution (the joke shop) to both the plot and the world of the book. And they notoriously get away with everything. Nothing bad has ever happened to them. You know, aside from that time that they couldn't play Quidditch. But what's that? I think at least one of them is on his last lucky chance. Why do I think just one? Um. No reason, really, except that OMG WOULDN'T THAT BE SO MESSED UP?? I mean, to kill off one twin? Wouldn't that be terrible? What the fuck is the matter with me!
And if you want me to pick which one ... Fred. Because Fred is the more assertive one. And, well, it's Fred and George, isn't it? If you take out Fred, you just have "and George." It would drive home the lack just a little bit more.
Dude. So messed up.
[End Spoiler]
Friday
Sunday
I guess this is what I get for wanting to be a vampire.
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I am cold. I am cold all the time . It's really rather aggravating. It has also taken a lot of getting used to.
It all started when I was radioactive and my thyroid died. It is my understanding that having no thyroid function and being very cold are related to each other. Of course, this came off the heels of my hyperthyroid function, during which time I was sweating and uncomfortable all the time. During a very hot summer in which I had no air-conditioning. So, it's nice not to be that hot anymore. But aside from that, I've always preferred the cold my entire life. I would always prefer to be a little too cold than a little too warm.
But being cold, I have discovered, sucks. A lot. I have spent the winter wandering around my house in layers of shirts and fleeces and sweatpants and socks, and even then, having ice cold hands and asking if we couldn't turn the heat up. When I'm someplace like, say, work, where I don't have the luxury of dressing like an eskimo without attracting comments and stares, I shiver my way through the day.
Right now, it's 66 degrees. Spring has sprung! (Also daylight savings - the most hateful weekend of the year.) My mother has had all the windows open which, among other things, means it's going to be time to renew my Allegra prescription. And what am I wearing right now? Sweatpants. A yellow t-shirt that says "Yes you can." And a thick fleecey pullover. ... It was chilly. I'm not wearing socks, though, which is the only sign that things are a bit different. Last night while I was lying in my flannel nightgown under flannel sheets and blankets, I began to feel "a little too warm" and I was actually thankful. I actually preferred it to feeling chilly.
All this detail is to inform you that I often feel cold. I guess you could have skipped the above paragraphs. Anyway, when I'm not busy freaking people out by laying my icy hands of death upon them (only if I know them well, I'm not odd and touchy-feely with strange persons), I've been wondering if this is how vampires would feel. Maybe? Or maybe not. Because if you're a vampire, you wouldn't produce any body heat at all, so there would be nothing to offset the coldness of your extremities. Which, I think, it why it feels so uncomfortable, because the room-temperature nature of my skin is right up against the interior of my body which, one hopes, is still around 97 degrees.
In other news, here are some things I learned this weekend. I hate Apple and iTunes. But I'm in love with Neutral Milk Hotel. Yay!
It all started when I was radioactive and my thyroid died. It is my understanding that having no thyroid function and being very cold are related to each other. Of course, this came off the heels of my hyperthyroid function, during which time I was sweating and uncomfortable all the time. During a very hot summer in which I had no air-conditioning. So, it's nice not to be that hot anymore. But aside from that, I've always preferred the cold my entire life. I would always prefer to be a little too cold than a little too warm.
But being cold, I have discovered, sucks. A lot. I have spent the winter wandering around my house in layers of shirts and fleeces and sweatpants and socks, and even then, having ice cold hands and asking if we couldn't turn the heat up. When I'm someplace like, say, work, where I don't have the luxury of dressing like an eskimo without attracting comments and stares, I shiver my way through the day.
Right now, it's 66 degrees. Spring has sprung! (Also daylight savings - the most hateful weekend of the year.) My mother has had all the windows open which, among other things, means it's going to be time to renew my Allegra prescription. And what am I wearing right now? Sweatpants. A yellow t-shirt that says "Yes you can." And a thick fleecey pullover. ... It was chilly. I'm not wearing socks, though, which is the only sign that things are a bit different. Last night while I was lying in my flannel nightgown under flannel sheets and blankets, I began to feel "a little too warm" and I was actually thankful. I actually preferred it to feeling chilly.
All this detail is to inform you that I often feel cold. I guess you could have skipped the above paragraphs. Anyway, when I'm not busy freaking people out by laying my icy hands of death upon them (only if I know them well, I'm not odd and touchy-feely with strange persons), I've been wondering if this is how vampires would feel. Maybe? Or maybe not. Because if you're a vampire, you wouldn't produce any body heat at all, so there would be nothing to offset the coldness of your extremities. Which, I think, it why it feels so uncomfortable, because the room-temperature nature of my skin is right up against the interior of my body which, one hopes, is still around 97 degrees.
In other news, here are some things I learned this weekend. I hate Apple and iTunes. But I'm in love with Neutral Milk Hotel. Yay!
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