Random 20

I finally got around to playing the random 20 game...probably because I am procrastinating from writing my take-home Midterm. The following lines are the first lines from the first 20 songs that came up when I randomly played all the mp3s on my computer.

1. Where it began I can’t begin to knowin, but then I know it is growin’ strong

2. Play somethin’ for me Alicia…there you go Chris

3. In the years before central heating, Dutch children would leave their shoes by the fireplace

4. Gimme, As a shortie playin in the front yard of the crib I feel down and bumped my head

5. Hey your glass is empty, it’s a hell of a long way home

6. Que bonita su postenes?

7. Will I wake up some dream I made up

8. Got a black magic woman

9. There’s something there, patrolling the pachinko

10. She set your goldfish free and now she’s sighing

11. I don’t want a lot for Christmas, there’s just one thing I need

12. Move up side and let the man go through, let the man go through

13. The look of love, is in your eyes, a look your smile can’t disguise

14. You cannot quit me so quickly, there’s no hope in you for me.

15. All right, Come on, some folks say that smokin’ herb is a crime

16. There’s a nail in the door and there’s glass on the lawn

17. Everybody’s doin’ the fish yeah yeah yeah (you better)

18. Here’s to you you lords and lady preachers

19. In the end we shall achieve in time the thing they call divine and the stars will smile for me

20. Twenty-five years and my life is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope for a destination.

I Heart Hippies

Such a lovely Saturday and I am stuck in the library. But I am obviously not uber-committed to my studies, as I am posting here in an effort to procrastinate from my process notes and my take home midterm.
Thursday night my race car driver friend took me to a concert as he had purchased an extra ticket. It was a band called the String Cheese Incident and they were, as he put it, "a jam band." It was oh so very interesting. Apparently jam bands aren't concerned so much with playing their songs the same way every time. Of course they were extraordinary musicians and seemed, to my unmusical ear, quite skilled. I likened their music to what I have heard of Phish, so out came the hippies. They were everywhere! It was charming. I had so much fun watching them. I was trying to think of a way to describe the evening and feel that numerically is the best way.
One free concert ticket (also the number of songs I recognized --> the cover of Magic Carpet Ride they did).
Two guys in the alley next to the theater selling balloons of nitrous (aka. hippie crack, as that is what Race Car Driver called it).
Three weirdos wearing capes at the show. Someone should tell those boys that is not the way to get girls to sleep with them.
Four people who had taken off their shoes and started twirling in the aisles of the theater. Freakin' hippies.
Five white folks with dread locks so massive their hair probably has a name and identity of its own.
Six dollars for Miller Lite! Uber-gross.
Seven unsharing people I saw sparkin' up around us during the show. Apparently it is a fallacy that hippies like to share because none of them offered me anything.
Eight very rhythm-less boys doing some hippie dance that looked like a cross between Elaine's dance on Seinfeld and a seizure. (There were many more inadequate dancers, but I saw eight VERY bad ones.)
Nine neuvo-hippies with their T-Mobile Sidekicks out during the show texting their friends. How is that leading the hippie lifestyle I'd like to know.
And Ten songs were played throughout the course of the show, but as they were each twenty minutes long and were very fluid it felt like a lot.

Seven Things I Learned This Weekend Past

So here's just a few things that I added to my vast stores of knowledge over the past weekend:
1. It is easy to watch movies where poor, urban youth learn things and rise above their circumstances....especially when they do it through dance.
2. Listening to artists talk about their art is dull. DULL. Unless they made some some super good or super freaky art of course, but these hadn't. Boo.
3. Attempting to recall an hour long conversation from Friday verbatim on a Saturday afternoon is hard. :-(
4. Flip Cup is a fun game that I do not suck at.
5. I make excellent stuffing and Canadian Thanksgiving is nice.
6. It is funny when drunk boys call and only slightly less funny when they call three times.
7. Tivo knows me so well. It taped me The Breakfast Club and The Cutting Edge to watch. *sigh* Perfection.

Stealing a Blog

I stole this blog from Puddles!
Q: 4TH PERSON ON YOUR MISSED CALLS:
A: Matt, a gentleman friend of mine who enjoys telephonic communication.
Q: DO YOU CHEW ON YOUR STRAWS?
A: Only if I am nervous.
Q: WHAT IS THE NEXT CONCERT YOU'RE GOING TO?
A: I have decided to take concert to mean "accord or harmony"...and I plan to go to a concert never! Screw harmony!
Q: WHAT WORD DO YOU SAY A LOT?
A: Apparently. Apparently I say apparently quite frequently these days.
Q: WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU ATE:
A: A sundae - vanilla with whip cream, however, the chocolate sauce was lacking.
Q: WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU SAID TO SOMEONE AND WHO WAS IT?
A: "Oh shut up!" to Cam the Stalker aka my friend & neighbor. He called my cell phone and used his creepy voice to tell me he was watching me, as he stood outside the window.
Q: DO YOU WATCH TV?
A: Constantly. As the previous post indicates Tivo and I have a true love bond.
Q: EVER BEEN HUNTING?
A: Not yet. I will only hunt the real game....man. And since this is not yet an option, no hunting.
Q: IS MARRIAGE IN YOUR FUTURE?
A: What do I look like, a psychic? Stop pressuring me!
Q: WHAT SHOULD YOU BE DOING RIGHT NOW?
A: Sleeping...but I Tivo'd The Office so I am watching that instead.
Q: DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT?
A: Just lust at first sight.
Q: WHO'S THE YOUNGEST ONE IN THE FAMILY?
A: Emilie...my fake French sister.
Q: IS DRUG FREE THE WAY TO BE?
A: Of course not...better living through chemistry my friend, better living.
Q: ARE YOU A HEAVY SLEEPER?
A: Apparently, since I have three alarm clocks.
Q: LAST TIME YOU USED A SKATEBOARD?
A: Um...when I was ten years old I think. Probably. I was on a snowboard more recently.
Q: WHERE WAS THE LAST PLACE YOU SLEPT BESIDES YOUR HOUSE?
A: Oh who knows, I sleep around so much it is hard to keep track. Let me go check my collection of motel soaps. Seriously, I think maybe my mom's house.
Q: EVER RUN OUT OF GAS ON THE ROAD?
A: God no, what a horrible thought.
Q: BEST MOVIE YOU'VE SEEN IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS?
A: Hmm...does the two hour long Hugh Hefner biography I Tivo'd count as a movie? I liked that cute little Ella Enchanted, but my options for the past two weeks are limited.
Q: DO YOU THINK PEOPLE WHO COME UP WITH BRAIN DEAD QUIZZES ARE CRYING FOR HELP IN SOME TWISTED WAY?
A: Probably more bored than twisted...and I'm a professional. ;-)
THE LAST PERSON LIST
1. You saw: The Cosi waitress
2. Talked to on the phone: Cam the Stalker
3. Hugged: Hmm...I dunno. Mumma I think!
4. Text: Kirsten who loves her phone but doesn't like to talk on it. :-)
5. Messaged over myspace: Yeah no...I don't think so.
FAVORITES
1. Number: 12...nothin' like an even dozen
2. Song: I don't have a favorite song...but I recall once when my brother was ten he disclosed that "The Wind Beneath My Wings" was his favorite song (and he isn't gay...probably).
3. Color: Plum, like the color of the bruise my brother is gonna give me
4. Season: Fall...because I am pretty in fall colors
TRUE/FALSE
I am a morning person: I enjoy the morning quite a bit, but my family would say unequivocally false. At one point they used to vote who had to wake me up.
I am a perfectionist: Nope! I don't have the energy.
I am an only child: I am the only good one (my parents told me that, shhh...don't tell the others)
I am currently in my pajamas: Should be, but am not.
I am currently single: Indeed!
I can be paranoid at times: Who told you that? Who? Tell me!
I currently regret something that I have done: Not particularly. I try not to regret, but the things I do regret are the ones left undone.
I enjoy texting on the phone: Enjoy? It isn't ice cream or sex people.

Love Trumps Absence

I know, I know....I have neglected this blog and left you all bereft of my precious thoughts and wisdom. Y'all know I'm deep, that's just how I roll. I can go ahead and blame my negligence on school starting up again and being all busy, but that is just a reason- not an excuse.
I had to break my streak of silence for a very important proclamation! I am in love - a deep and true love. A love of Tivo. It is real and it is deep. Tivo does everything I ask it to do, sometimes doing two things at once! If I forget to tell Tivo to do something before I leave home all I have to do is log on to the internet and send Tivo a message. Then Tivo does it! But Tivo isn't just a happy yes-man, always doing what it is told. Tivo loves me back. Tivo thinks of things I may enjoy and records them for me, as long as there is free space. It never puts its own ideas ahead of mine. And Tivo always asks me how I feel about shows so it can guess better what I'd like. Ah, Tivo...the perfect relationship.
I promised Robyn that I would disclose which TV shows I set it to always record - no matter how embarrassing, so here we go no particular order! (Don't you judge me people!)
1. Dead Like Me - on the SciFi channel and Mumma got me into it
2. Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip - West Wing meets SNL, love it!
3. Nip/Tuck - oh so trashy and fun! plus those cute boys keep gettin' nekkid
4. Lost - i missed the end of Season 2 so I have to Tivo until i get caught up
5. My Name is Earl - hilarious whiskey tango folk
6. The Office - hilarious banality
7. Gray's Anatomy - the new medical soap opera, often quite silly
8. Desperate Housewives - seems on the decline, but I may watch
9. Family Guy - gotta love them cartoons
10. CSI Las Vegas - i heart gore & science
11. Help Me Help You - never seen it, heard it may be okay - but Danson is weird
12. 30 Rock - also never seen, but heard it could be okay
13. Heroes - i enjoy the premise and look forward to seeing an episode
14. The Class - kinda funny, very silly
15. Ugly Betty - Mumma says it was good, so it goes on the Tivo! plus I liked the Devil Prada movie
16. The Girls Next Door - take off your judgment hats people, if i wanna watch at 80 year old man cavorting with his three fake-looking girlfriend that is my business!