RULES:
- Put your music player on shuffle, and put down the first 40 tracks it plays.
- You can repeat artists.
- You CANNOT repeat songs.

SHUFFLE TOP 40:
1. Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus
2. Travis – Writing to Reach You
3. Nirvana – Rape Me
4. Frank Turner – Love Ire & Song
5. Oomph! – Tausend Neue Lügen
6. Oomph! – Geborn zu Sterben
7. Johnny Cash – Hurt
8. 2raumwonung – Ich und Elaine
9. Frank Turner – Reasons Not to be an Idiot
10. Lady Gaga – Monster
11. The Dead Milkmen – Jellyfish Heaven
12. Smashing Pumpkins – The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
13. Andrew Bird – Imitosis
14. Linkin Park – Numb
15. Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way
16. Jenny Owen Youngs – Fuck Was I
17. The Rolling Stones – Satisfaction
18. Marty Casey – Baby One More Time
19. Sia – The Church of What’s Happening Now
20. Damien Rice – 9 Crimes
21. Lily Allen – Fuck You
22. Blue October – Everlasting Friend
23. David Bowie – Modern Love
24. Jace Everett – Bad Things
25. Panik – Keiner Merkt Es
26. Green Day – !Viva La Gloria!
27. Placebo – Running Up That Hill
28. Ingrid Michaelson – Be OK
29. Michael Stipe – L’Hôtel (L’Hôtel Particulier)
30. Regina Spektor – Blue Lips
31. Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
32. David Bowie – As the World Falls Down
33. Aerosmith – Cry Me a River
34. Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
35. Rachael Yamagata – Be Be Your Love (Live at KCRW)
36. Bellx1 – Eve, The Apple of my Eye
37. Laura Marling – Ghosts
38. Christine Fellows – Saturday Night on Utopia Parkway
39. Bree Sharp – David Duchovny, Why Won’t You Love Me?
40. Butch Walker – Canadian Ten

QUESTIONS:

1. Which song do you prefer, #1 or #40? (Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus or Butch Walker’s Canadian Ten)
#40

2. Have you ever listened to #12 continuously on repeat? (The Beginning is the End is the Beginning – Smashing Pumpkins)
No.

3. What album is #26 from? (Green Day – !Viva la Gloria!)
21st Century Breakdown

4. What do you think about the artist who did #15? (Thelma Houston)
She’s freaking awesome. I only listen to the one song, though, not terribly into disco.

5. Is #19 one of your favorite songs? (Sia – The Church of What’s Happening Now)
No. I haven’t decided whether I like it or not yet.

6. Who does #38 remind you of? (Christine Fellows’ Saturday Night on Utopia Parkway)
Myself, I suppose.

7. Does #20 have better lyrics or music? (Damien Rice’s 9 Crimes)
Both. With Damien it’s nearly always both.

8. Do any of your friends like #3? (Nirvana’s Rape Me)
Probably not.

9. Is #33 from a movie soundtrack? (Aerosmith’s Cry Me a River)
Not that I know of.

10. Is #18 overplayed on the radio? (Marty Casey’s Baby One More Time)
LOL. No.

11. What does #21 remind you of? (Fuck You by Lily Allen)
How much I hate stupid people.

12. Which song do you prefer, #5 or #22? (Oomph! – Tausend Neue Lügen or Everlasting Friend by Blue October)
I’m going to have to go with Oomph! The meaning of the song is pretty deep and surprising. “Alles bleibt in dir bestehn.” “Everything remains in you.”

13. What album is #17 from? (Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones)
Out of Our Heads

14. When did you first hear #39? (Bree Sharp – David Duchovny, Why Won’t You Love Me)
A couple of years ago. It caught my attention because I thought the name was funny. Like funny ha-ha not funny weird. Well, maybe funny weird but in a GOOD way.

15. When did you first hear #7? (Johnny Cash’s Hurt)
Via the amazing video, around the time my Dad died. 02 or 03?

16. What genre is #8? (Ich und Elaine by 2raumwonung)
German Pop. I’m guessing.

17. Do any of your friends like #14? (Numb by Linkin Park)
My kids do.

18. What color does #4 remind you of? (Frank Turner’s Love Ire & Song)
Red.

19. Have you ever blasted #11 on your stereo? (Dead Milkmen’s Jellyfish Heaven)
Hasn’t everybody? Yes. Yes I have. Sang along, too. It reminds me of my dead brother, who is now, presumably, in Jellyfish Heaven, if he’s anywhere at all.

20. What genre is #37? (Laura Marling, Ghosts)
Indie, I’m sure.

21. Can you play #13 on any instrument? (Andrew Bird’s Imitosis)
I’m sure I could handle it on the kazoo. Maybe even the Triangle.

22. What is your favorite lyric from #30? (Blue Lips by Regina Spektor)
“He stumbled into faith and thought, ‘God, this is all there is?’”

23. What is your favorite lyric from #23? (Modern Love by David Bowie)
Not really one that I like specifically for the lyrics, but okay: “Never gonna fall for.”

24. Would you recommend #24 to your friends? (Jace Everett’s Bad Things)
Well, I don’t recommend a lot of music to my friends because I think musical tastes are so personal, but sure. It’s a fun, sexy song.

25. Is #2 a good song to dance to? (Writing to Reach You – Travis)
Yeah, not so much.

26. Do you ever hear #16 on the radio? (Fuck Was I – Jenny Owen Youngs)
Yeah, no. But then, I don’t really listen to the radio.

27. Is #32 more of a “nighttime” or “daytime” song? (As the World Falls Down – David Bowie)
Nighttime. Like one of those nights where you’re dressed as a princess and there are goblins waltzing all around you and – oh. Never mind.

28. Does #36 have any special meaning to you? (Bellx1 Eve, the Apple of my Eye)
Not really, though I did go through a phase of listening to it obsessively. I still can’t really say what it was that drew me, it just struck the right emotion at the time.

29. Do any of your friends like #31? (Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead)
Why so obsessed with my friends? No, I don’t think they would really get it. I don’t know anyone but me who enjoys being that sad.

30. Is #25 a fast or slow song? (Keiner Merkt Es, Panik)
Slow, but like a power ballad.

31. Is #35 a happy or sad song? (Be Be Your Love by Rachael Yamagata)
It’s a song of longing, so I’d say sad.

32. What is one of your favorite lyrics from #9? (Reasons Not to be an Idiot – Frank Turner)
“I bet she’s scared her life won’t leave any traces.” I think Frank Turner is a thoughtful and amazing lyricist, definitely one of the things that drew me to his music.

33. Is #34 better to listen to alone or with friends? (Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain – Willie Nelson)
Alone.

34. When did you first hear #27? (Running Up That Hill by Placebo)
When I went through a Placebo phase about 6 or 7 years ago, and gobbled up anything I could get my hands on.

35. Name 3 other songs by the artist who did #29. (Michael Stipe)
In the Sun with Chris Martin, Broken Promise with Placebo, Losing My Religion with R.E.M.

36. Do you know all the words to #6? (Oomph! Geborn Zu Sterben)
Are you kidding? I couldn’t even pronounce all of the words to #6. I’m working on that, though. I’ve started learning German, and in that spirit I’ve collected a lot of German language music. Oomph! has been one of my favorite finds, and I hope to be able to sing along someday.

37. Does #28 have better lyrics or music? (Be OK by Ingrid Michaelson)
I think they both compliment each other pretty nicely, but I suppose the fact that I related to the lyrics is probably what caught my attention first.
“Open me up and you will see
I’m a gallery of broken hearts
I’m beyond repair, let me be
And give me back my broken parts.”

38. What album is #10 from? (Monster by Lady Gaga)
The Fame Monster

Music Tag Map

from Last.fm and here.

and furthermore, autumndragyn’s eclectic score is

97/100

If your score is small (lower than 70) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80), then you have an eclectic musical preference.

How super-eclectic is the musical preference of autumndragyn?

autumndragyn’s super-eclectic score is

736/1000

As this number is larger, you have a more eclectic musical preference. People with scores over 700 have bragging rights. People whose score is below 400 should consider more musical styles!

(I knew I was cool, this just confirms it.)

Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test…

Modern, Cool Nerd

65% Nerd, 61% Geek, 43% Dork

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A simple meme picked up from ciboulette. She has a beautiful new baby at home, which makes her November almost as busy and important as mine. (Ha ha?)

Choose the sixth picture from the sixth picture folder on your computer and post it.

This was taken in October from the passenger side of our now dearly departed minivan, as we passed through Portland on our way to drop Storm off in Washington. It was my first chance to play with my new camera, which meant a lot of pictures of my long suffering daughter in the backseat and the scenery blurring by through the dirty window that stopped rolling down about a month before the whole van went kaput. (Obviously a cry for help, I see that now.)

This is a really lame meme if we’re judging it by the quality of insight it gives you into my soul, but frankly I needed an easy one today. And, apparently, to reveal to the world what a slave I am to the television.

Rules:
- Bold all of the following TV shows which you’ve ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
- Italicize a show if you’re positive you’ve seen every episode of it.
- * particular favorites

24*
7th Heaven
ALF
Alias*
American Gothic
America’s Next Top Model
Angel*
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Batman: The Animated Series
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)*
Baywatch
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Bonanza
Bones*
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Brothers And Sisters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer*
Californication
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Chicago Hope
Chuck
Clarissa Explains it All
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
DaVinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood*
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dexter*
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who (original series)
Doctor Who 2005*
Dragnet
Due South
ER
Even Stevens
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Fantasy Island
Farscape
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly*
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
Friends
Fringe
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls
Glee
Gossip Girl
Grey’s Anatomy
Grange Hill
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House*
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell’s Kitchen*
JAG
Jackass
Joey
Kim Possible
Knight Rider
Knight Rider: 2008
Kung Fu
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
La Femme Nikita
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Law and Order: SVU
Leverage
Life on Mars (UK)
Life on Mars (US)
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost*
Lost in Space
MASH
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married… With Children
McLeods Daughters
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Mod Squad
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
Mystery Science Theater 3000
My Life As A Dog
My So Called Life*
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Mythbusters
NCIS
Ned Bigby’s Declassified School Survival Guide
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure*
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Power Rangers
Press Gang
Prison Break
Private Practice
Privileged
Profiler*
Project Runway
Psych
Pushing Daisies
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)*
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Sanctuary
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seaquest DSV
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South of Nowhere
South Park
Spongebob Squarepants
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation*
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Superman
Supernatural*
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70′s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Amazing Race
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show’
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd*
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Magnificent Seven
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Office (US)
The Office (UK)
The Powerpuff Girls
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three’s Company
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Torchwood
True Blood*
Unfabulous
Ugly Betty
Veronica Mars*
Weeds
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Xena: Warrior Princess

Catching up on some really belated blog business (brown bear, blue bull, beautiful baboon, blowing bubbles biking backward and you don’t even want to know what happened to baby bird’s balloon, but I digress) today. An ice age or three ago I was tagged by both the lovely Alex of Holy Cow is PolyKow! and the shining Laura from Wistful Wanderlust to share 6 things that make me happy. Laura’s even came with an award. Along with a discourse about her boobs, actually, which is always a bonus.

So in no particular order (if anyone is still reading here, instead of jumping ship to Laura’s blog to find out what she has to say about her boobs. It’s okay, I get it. I’d go over there, too), 6 things that make me happy are:

1. Burt’s Bees Peppermint lip balm.

2. Overhearing when one of my kids tells another, “I love you.”

3. The drive home from mother’s house every week. (Good music, beautiful country, and why hit yourself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when you stop.)

4. Eating ice cream while watching America’s Next Top Model.

5. The shape of a tree.

6. The perfect summer evening.

I’m exercising my right to accept this award without tagging anyone at this time, since I’ll be back soon with a post in which I plan to tag absolutely everybody. Yes, everybody.

Another Facebook meme recycle. (I am a lazy, lazy woman.) (What do you want, it’s February.) (You’re lucky I’m here at all is what I’m saying.)

1. Where is your cell phone? nearby
2. Your significant other? working
3. Your hair? short
4. Your mother? disinterested
5. Your father? dead
6. Your favorite thing? connection
7. Your dream last night? bizarre
8. Your favorite drink? mocha
9. Your dream/goal? happiness
10. What room you are in? dining

11. Your hobby? blogging
12. Your fear? forgotten
13. Regrets? rare
14. Where were you last night? sleeping
16. Muffins? yes
17. Wish list item? scanner
18. Where you grew up? Oklahoma
19. Last thing you did? email
20. What are you wearing? jeans
21. Your TV? new
22. Your pets? hibernating
23. Friends? amazing
24. Your life? fulfilling
25. Your mood? upbeat
26. Missing someone? always
27. Car? white
28. Something you’re not wearing? shoes
29. Your favorite store? books
30. Your favorite color? purple
33. When is the last time you laughed? minutes
34. Last time you cried? Monday
35. Who will resend this? unnecessary
36. One place that I go to over and over? library
37. One person who emails me regularly? Valda
38. My favorite place to eat? Lobster
39. Why you participated in this survey? Heather
40. What are you doing tonight? usual

I originally did this meme on Facebook, reprinted here with permission from myself:

1. I prefer to go barefoot. Because of this, I think, my children automatically shed their shoes upon entering other people’s houses.
2. I hate snow.
3. I find chinchillas unspeakably creepy.
4. I’m not a dog person or a cat person – I’m a reptile person and possibly a rodent person. (Though it does depend on the rodent.)
5. I like to iron – I find it very Zen.
6. I would probably believe anything that Anderson Cooper said.
7. I would like to believe that there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy, but I’m getting old and cynical.
8. I just added Rick Springfield to my iPod.
9. I usually get depressed on Sundays. It’s the day that everything I haven’t done and think I should have catches up with me.
10. Every thing I’ve ever learned that was both useful and worth knowing came after my school years. Except multiplication tables – those have been handy.
11. My favorite color is purple.
12. My three closest friends (aside from my family) live 152 miles away, 1990 miles away, and 2849 miles away. Maybe I should have a complex about that.
13. I love thunderstorms. And fireflies. Where I live we don’t have either.
14. My ringtone is “Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!” Ahem – I mean, Wagner.
15. I love horror movies of any persuasion, though there’s a special place in my heart for zombies.
16. I have a very good memory for events and conversations.
17. I tend to pick up on nuances.
18. I’m over the drama.
19. I like spaghetti.
20. I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
21. My favorite author is Neil Gaiman, though my daughter discovered him first. We scoured the library looking for books that she would enjoy reading when she was about 7 or 8, and she was bored by everything targeted at her age and gender. Then she stumbled upon Coraline.
22. My musical taste is eclectic, but not discerning. I just like what I like.
23. I think Dr. Phil is evil, and because of him I don’t trust Oprah.
24. I don’t own high heels.
25. Napping is one of my favorite hobbies.

 

Everyone’s doing it.