Browse your friends pages for five minutes and look what happens. Okay, I got tagged...


RULES:
1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Put this on your journal and tag five of your friends.


1.If someone says, "Is this okay?" you say what?

"The Good Times Are Killing Me" - Modest Mouse
(If the "this" is this meme, the response is deeply ironic)

2.How would you describe yourself?

"Squalor Victoria" - The National
(Hmmn - "I'm a professional in my beloved white shirt"? More like "I'm going down among the saints")

3.What do you like in a guy?

"All My Friends" - LCD Soundsystem
(Uh, that means I'm generous?)

4.How do you feel today?

"DARE" - The Gorillaz
(Don't quite know what to make of that)

5.What is your life's purpose?

"Chasing Cars" - Snow Patrol
(Not sure what to make of that either)

6.What is your motto?

"Golden Years" - David Bowie
("Never look back, walk tall, act fine" or "Run for the shadows"?)

7.What do your friends think of you?

"London Calling" - The Clash
(Don't know what to do with that one)

8.What do you think of your parents?

"So In Love" - k.d. lang
(That works, I guess)

9.What do you think about very often?

"Cool Waves" - Spiritualized
(Actually, no - I seldom even think of warm waves)

10.What is 2 + 2?

"This Is Not a Test" - Oppenheimer
(Ah ha ha ha ha!)

11.What do you think of your best friend?

"Everything Will Be All Right" - The Killers
(Depends on the best friend)

12.What do you think of the person you like?

"Time and Love" - Laura Nyro
(Yeah, okay)

13.What is your life story?

"Neon Bible" - Arcade Fire
("A vial of hope and a vial of pain, In the light they both looked the same" - sounds more like an Obama campaign slogan)

14.What do you want to be when you grow up?

"Independence Day - David Byrne
("We'll be lovers in the open, We'll be lovers on Independence Day")

15.What do you think of when you see the person you like?

"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" - The Eurythmics
(Okay...)

16.What will you dance to at your wedding?

"Every Breath You Take" - The Police
(Ha! Possessive much?)

17.What will they play at your funeral?

"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" - Hall & Oates
(That pretty much fits)

18.What is your hobby/interest?

"Square One" - Coldplay
(Board games??)

19.What is your biggest fear?

"Your Racist Friend" - They Might Be Giants
(Well, that works)

20.What is your biggest secret?

"American Tune" - Paul Simon
("I don't know a soul who's not been battered, I don't have a friend who feels at ease, I don't know a dream that's not been shattered, or driven to its knees" - not much of a secret)

21.What do you think of your friends?

"Mushaboom" - Feist
("we'll collect the moments one by one I guess that's how the future's done"

22.What will you post this as?

"From Here We Go Sublime" - The Field
(And so I have)


That's it? We couldn't go to 23 or 25 - or stop at 20? 22 is one of the dopiest numbers ever. Sorta like this meme - though some of it kinda fit (if you look beyond the titles). And, no, I'm not tagging anyone. But if you wanna do this thing, I'm not stopping you.

Tags: muzik, teh internets
humour: cranky

This is troubling:


Must. Get. Life.

Tags: teh internets
humour: troubled

DSL comes to central Pennsylvania! About a week ago, we got a notice informing us that DSL is now available through a local phone company. Today it was finally installed. Tomorrow I take a hatchet to the damned satellite dish and turn it into a birdbath.

The dish - or the bread plate as it's affectionately known around these parts - has proved to be a grievous disappointment since it was installed last June. We'd been thrown back to dial-up when we moved back to Pennsylvania and, after three months, thought the satellite service would be a welcome relief. Wrong. After the first four days, our download rate averaged about 15kbs. And every twelve to seventeen minutes, the service connection would cut off and resume from two to five minutes later. We never even bothered with a router and Sean had been using dial-up since we moved. On my machine: no streaming, no large downloads, no live chat - and slow, frequently interrupted page loads.

I signed a year's contract with the useless bread plate people which lasts another four months, but that direct deposit has been canceled. If they want additional payments, too bad. They can take their freakin' birdbath back and sell it on eBay.

In any event, my presence around here had been severely curtailed, my posts infrequent and capricious, and, while I occasionally glanced through my friends' posts, I seldom, if ever, commented. Hence, I have, no doubt, missed huge chunks of many of your lives. If I've missed anything serious (or particularly entertaining), let me know. Also, hey - if there are livejournalists you'd recommend, please do.

The DSL connection isn't brilliant, but I'm hoping to start catching up over the coming weeks...


I spent some of my offline time playing with images and have sporadically introduced a number new icons. I'd been using a single graphic for all things arts-related, so I diversified there a bit (theatre, music, film, books, and photography):

                   
and tee-vee:


I also created a couple for our political friends:

    
There've been a few others, but that's enough for now.

Tags: 'puter stuff, photo/graphic, social and personal, teh internets
humour: relieved

From roina_arwen, who gave me a J (so to speak):

Comment and I'll give you a letter: name five songs that start with that letter. I went to my playlist, which I thought might've been a bit of a cheat - then I thought maybe restricting reponses to one's playlist might be more interesting/embarrassing. Well, relatively...

1. "Jealous Guy" - John Lennon
2. "Jacqueline" - Franz Ferdinand
3. "Junkieee... Julieee..." - Blood on the Wall
4. "John and Jimmy" - Modern Life Is War
5. "Just Lose It" - Eminem

Tags: muzik, teh internets
humour: um, yeah...

You Are an Espresso

At your best, you are: straight shooting, ambitious, and energetic At your worst, you are: anxious and high strung You drink coffee when: anytime you're not sleeping Your caffeine addiction level: high

Well, actually, I'm a café colada, but close enough. And, by this, I mean I'm a family-sized cafecito (or café Cubano), not some hideous Starbucks concoction with piña colada mix or some shit. A cafecito is very similar to an espresso, but a bit stronger - and as sweet as it's strong. Also, it has a little froth of espumita (a foam whipped from the first drips of espresso and sugar) on top and no stupid twist of lemon. Mmnnn. The café colada is supposed to come with several little espresso cups so that shots can be shared by a group of people. Uh-uh. This café colada is mine. If my fingertips aren't tingling when I finish, it ain't coffee.

Tags: social and personal, teh internets
humour: energetic

"We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking 'in reality'.
And reality has a well-known liberal bias."
Stephem Colbert, 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner

Stephen Colbert's address to the White House press corps last Saturday has finally been getting a wee bit of coverage in the mainstream media. At least, the online mainstream media (though AOL is about as "mainstream" as the web gets). Saturday night isn't exactly the same as the Friday Document Dump, but it still allowed the administration's media to characterize Colbert's performance as flat and transgressive and somehow manage to make the president's relatively lame double-act with Steve Bridges the lead in the event's coverage.

Anyway, four days after the fact, AOL's Daily Pulse finally ran an item on Colbert's routine (their coverage of the Bush/Bridges act was posted as a news item the following morning). Among other things, they include a Rate His Jokes poll. Referring to the president's approval rating (using the CNN poll at 32% - President Bush's routine used the Rasmussen poll at 36%), Colbert used the glass half-empty/half-full metaphor for one of his jokes. It was one of five items that browsers were asked to rate as either a Hit or a Miss:


Need one comment?

Tags: media, photo/graphic, teh internets
humour: amused

Yeah, well...

The Ultimate LiveJournal Obsession Test
Category	Your Score	Average LJer
Community Attachment	40.86% There's something special about you. Every once in a while, one of your topics gets everyone chatting.	22.5%
MemeSheepage	24.56% Only trendy when it's sufficiently entertaining	27.91%
Original Content	72.58% Newsweek, People, and your journal	37.71%
Psychodrama Quotient	21.69% Your dark side's safe with us	16.74%
Attention Whoring	29.55% You do a little dance whenever someone friends you	20.57%
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Tags: teh internets
humour: bored