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30th April, 2009. 4:05 pm. My Subconscious Is Way Ahead of Me


This morning, I woke up, hit snooze, and got up and got dressed.

Or so I thought until nine minutes later, when my alarm clock went off again and I realized I'd just fallen back asleep and dreamed that I got up and got dressed.

Current mood: mellow.
Current music: Dorothy and Rose's Miami songs from The Golden Girls.

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4th March, 2009. 10:42 pm. “Ugh, none of the pockets on these vintage jeans are the right size for my BlackBerry.”


My friend Rebekah introduced me to whitewhine.com. It's pretty hilarious, especially since I can hear myself saying some of these things.

At least two of them are about .docx files. People really hate those. Some other gems: 

“A kid with the same name as me died in a car accident this week and it is messing up my Google Alerts.”

“Really New York Magazine, you can put together a Fall Preivew Double issue but can’t manage to include an approval matrix?”

“Um, it’s Tuesday and the This American Life podcast hasn’t updated yet. Hellooooo?”

“Ugh, no “Mad Men” On Demand?  Seriously Time Warner, is this what you call offering me ‘all the best?’”
 

“Where have you been, Billy Joel?  Isn’t it about time you made a new album?”
 

“What am I supposed to do with four Starbucks cards that each have less than $2?”

“I hate Google’s new icon. It’s fugly.”

“‘Mary is can’t wait for the party this weekend!’ Seriously? Newsflash: You can delete the ‘is’ when updating your facebook profile.”

“You used Genius to make me a mix CD for our 1 year anniversary?!”



Current mood: amused.
Current music: Jospeh Arthur, "Honey and the Moon".

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19th January, 2009. 10:49 am. Some hints on the songs that haven't been guessed


I'm going to give some hints on mine now.

1.       I don’t need to fall at your feet Go West, "King of Wishful Thinking" 

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2.       It’s coming on Christmas Joni Mitchell, "River"

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3. 41 Shots and we'll take that ride Bruce Springsteen, "American Skin (41 Shots)" [info]scripted22 
Hint: This is the first full phrase, but "41 shots" repeats for awhile before that.

4. I always go the other way
Hint: I am pretty sure I got this song from one of you guys. Not sure who and not sure when, though.

5.       It’s Sunday night, I am curled up in my room Bree Sharp, "David Duchovny" 

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6. Every day, a shade of blue
Hint: This song is by a male singer who's married to another celebrity.

7. It's not hard to reach back to that day beneath an Iowa sun
Hint: Great song, and it's about a World War II tragedy.

8.       Find yourself a girl and settle down The Raconteurs, "Steady, As She Goes" [info]avipedia 

9. (I debated on this one where the first line ended, so I'm going to add a bit more to it.)
I sit and wait, does an angel contemplate my fate?

10. She don't run from the sun no more Anna Nalick, "Paper Bag [info]bookie85 
Hint: You've probably heard of the singer who sings this, but maybe not this song. She's a 24-year-old singer from California whom I've seen in concert, and her first name begins with A.

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18th January, 2009. 12:34 pm. More First Lines

I'm glad we're doing this meme again. This was one of my favorites.

  • Step 1. Put your playlist on random.
  • Step 2. Post the first line from the first 10 songs that play, no matter how embarrasing.
  • Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. NO GOOGLING.


1.       I don’t need to fall at your feet Go West, "King of Wishful Thinking" 

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2.       It’s coming on Christmas Joni Mitchell, "River"

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3.       41 shots and we’ll take that ride

4.       I always go the other way

5.       It’s Sunday night, I am curled up in my room Bree Sharp, "David Duchovny" 

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6.       Every day, a shade of blue

7.       It’s not hard to reach back to that day beneath an Iowa sun

8.       Find yourself a girl and settle down The Raconteurs, "Steady, As She Goes"

9.       I sit and wait

10.   She don’t run from the sun no more



Current mood: calm.

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6th December, 2008. 10:22 pm. I Tried This Twice


Put iTunes (or its equivalent) on shuffle, take the first line from the first 20 songs and use them to make a poem. Use the first line of the 21st song as the title.

( Number One )



 

( Number Two )

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26th July, 2008. 6:44 pm. Voice Post

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“Hey, I'm gonna kill my friends if they ever get here. I'm out for my birthday and everybody is late. I've been sitting at the table by myself for 45 minutes. Christina is sick, Christina so she's not coming. The rest of the night better go better or you might get another pissed off ___ later on tonight ___ gone better, bye”

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16th July, 2008. 9:29 pm. The Answer

[info]smrou got it: 

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15th July, 2008. 8:43 pm. IMDB That Shit

I am rather impressed with my IMDB search skills, if I do say so myself. 

Here's the story. I was remembering a movie I saw just a tiny bit of a long time ago, thinking that I should probably watch the whole thing, and trying to figure out what the movie was by searching. Here is what I remembered: 

-My parents were watching it, and I was probably about 9 or 10, so from that I knew that

a. It was not rated R, since they let me watch that little bit I saw (my mom was militant about movie ratings)
b. It came out no later than the mid-90s, and probably around then, since my mom tended to rent only from the new-release section. 

-The movie took place in the first half of the 20th century, although I wasn't sure what decade. 

-There were two kids living with their grandmother.

-Their uncle was a gangster.

-At one point, the kids were in a cemetery with a woman who was saying happy birthday to the dead person's grave. 

-The uncle and the kids, at one point, were crawling through a tunnel, and the uncle was talking about how when he was a kid, his mother used to lock him in a closet. 

After some IMDB searching, I was able to find the name of the movie, and this weekend, I rented it and watched it and confirmed that I was right. 

Here's my challenge to my friends list: can any of you tell me what the movie is? I'm going to screen the comments, and let me know whether you know the movie because you've seen it or whether you're guessing based on your own IMDB (or some other Internet) search!

I'll post the answer tomorrow.



Current mood: curious.
Current music: Beth Hart, "Mama".

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23rd June, 2008. 9:57 pm. The Soundtrack to My Life

Random music meme
Here's how:
1.Open your music library.
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question, type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the 'next' button.
6. Don't lie.
 
Opening credits: Yard Sale- Kathleen Wilhoite
Waking up: Your Mistake- Sister Hazel
First day of High School: Too Late to Quit- The Wallflowers
Falling in love: From Me to You- The Beatles
Fight song: We Danced- Brad Paisley
Breaking up: Torn- Natalie Imbruglia
Prom: The Way You Look Tonight- Frank Sinatra
Life: Insensitive- Jann Arden
Mental breakdown: Landslide- Fleetwood Mac
Driving: Celebrity Skin- Hole
Flashback: Inside Your Heaven- Carrie Underwood
Getting back together: Rain, Tax (It’s Inevitable)- Celine Dion
Wedding: Dr. Beat/Conga/Rhythm Is Gonna Get You- Gloria Estefan
Birth of child: Cell Block Tango/He Had It Comin' - Queen Latifah / Lil' Kim / Macy Gray
Final battle: The Mirror (Angel of Music) from Phantom of the Opera
 

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16th June, 2008. 10:39 pm. Another Manic Monday

 
Ugghhh. This was such a struggle-y day. Like, nothing catastrophic happened, just a lot of little annoying things.
First, my power cord isn’t working, so I ordered a new one and am having it shipped overnight. It better actually get here tomorrow, or my laptop won’t last very long.
Also, I stayed up to watch the Celtics last night. I’m not a basketball fan, but I wanted to be watching in case they won. But they lost, so it was a big waste of time.
I think I’ve mentioned that the fire alarm in the stairwell of my house has gone off for no reason a couple of times before. Today, it decided to go off at five o’clock in the morning, and the landlords had to call the fire department again. Chris is in California, and Brian, my new subletter, was here with a friend he had sleeping over. My landlords and my upstairs neighbors were all home.
The alarm woke me up. HOWEVER, it had been going for awhile before it did. You can’t hear the stairwell alarm, which is the one that malfunctions, very well from my apartment. Hopefully, if there really is a fire, the alarm in my apartment will start going off, too. But the point is, it didn’t occur to anyone to wake me up, which pisses me off. The firefighters had been there for awhile when I finally did wake up. What if there really had been a fire?
So I was tired all day, and I knew I wasn’t getting home until late because I had to look at an apartment (I’m probably moving soon) at 8:00 PM. The plan was for me to leave work, go to the gym, get dinner, and look at the apartment. When I was leaving the house, I realized I needed a sweater because it was cold out. So I went back inside, put my backpack down, put on a sweater, and left without my backpack, which had my gym clothes and book in it. Which left me with a bunch of time to kill before seeing the apartment and not very many useful weapons. I got to the T and saw that the doors were closed, but it hadn’t left yet. The T driver looked right at me and left without opening the door for me. I hope she dies. (Not really. But it felt that way at the time.)
Most of the rest of my day was fine. But then, after I went to look at the apartment, it started pouring rain. And you guessed it—I forgot my umbrella. And it’s still freaking cold.
You’d think I’d be over it by now, but you know how everything seems worse when you’re tired? I’m still annoyed. I need to go to bed and hope tomorrow goes more smoothly.


Current mood: cranky.
Current music: Bangles, "Manic Monday".

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