Oatmeal Packet Trivia #2
Today's Answers:
Zurich
420
Holly Hunter
Tennis
"Every 4 years"
Strawberries & Cream
my top five favorite cocteau twins songs referenced by alternative titles derived from dubious lyrical approximations
5. Diana Ross
4. All Alone, A Lone Shadow
3. Your Livin' Without A Head
2. Son of Summer Survival
1. Pokin' Doe Meet Camel Gag
Honorable Mentions— "Applebee's," "Heaven or Las Vegas"
Top 10 of 2007
I should be hard at work packing for my imminent move to my new apartment, but instead I decided to create a ~50-minute sound file of ten, back-to-back songs, representative of my top ten favorite releases of 2007. The ten songs play in order, starting with #10 and counting down to #1. I'll get around to posting the tracklist eventually.
Author's Top 10 of 2007
from "10" to "1"added 5/12/08
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FIVE WORDS, FIVE BANDS
Can you spare five words for five of your favorite artists/bands? I'm using the top five from my Most Played Artists list courtesy of last.fm, but I suppose you could come up with a Top 5 of your own.
Post yours as a comment? Or as a link to your list on your own page? Maybe? Yes?
Kate Bush
Nothing quite like The Dreaming
Sigur Rós
My wondrous, private frozen utopia
The Sleepy Jackson
Soundtrack to teenage photo album
R.E.M.
Walkman saved me from somnolence
The Chameleons
Lifelong despair teeters on vindictiveness
NEW LIST OF SONG DIARY WEEKLIES SPANS 10+ YEARS!
No shit. And it resides hereOpens in new tab/window. I am also adding a permalink to the Pages / Sections area of the sidebar for anyone who might be interested in tracking my progress.
It feels good that I am finally devoting time to this aspect of the project. The list started in 1992, but the first eleven years were not entered into or maintained on a computer. In fact: my family never had a computer in the house while I was growing up, and I didn't purchase my first computer until 2002.
The formula is simple enough:
Poring over mounds of lists + Fervid data entry = Progress!!
mixes, there have been several
Additional information is forthcoming, but for now I am posting the names of all known mixes (tapes, CDs) that I've ever made. This list is, of course, quite incomplete and lacking, though my goal is to make it as complete as possible (eventually). Among the difficulties I've encountered so far, is that some mixes have no discernible title about them: I'm still not sure how to deal with this one, as it seems only proper that they be represented and identified somehow. DEAR READERS— perhaps you have been the recipient of a Shawn C mix at some point over the years, and would like to remind me if you see one missing from the list.
Big Stripey Survey
The first time I filled this one out was back in October of 2004.
Those results are here.
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Created by BourdiezFreak and taken 13232 times on bzoink! |
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| Choose a band/or artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band: | Kate Bush |
| Are you female or male: | "Houdini" |
| Describe yourself: | "The Morning Fog" |
| How do some people feel about you: | "In Search of Peter Pan" |
| How do you feel about yourself: | "The Man With the Child in His Eyes" |
| Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend: | "Kashka From Baghdad" |
| Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend: | "You're the One" |
| Describe where you want to be: | "Sat In Your Lap" |
| Describe what you want to be: | "Oh, To Be in Love" |
| Describe how you live: | "Suspended in Gaffa" |
| Describe how you love: | "Reaching Out" |
| Share a few words of wisdom: | "Be Kind to My Mistakes" |
My Top 10 albums of 2004
10. Ratatat self-titled
9. Julian Fane Special Forces
8. Frog Eyes The Folded Palm
7. Interpol Antics
6. The Organ Grab That Gun
5. Lansing-Dreiden The Incomplete Triangle
4. Antony and the Johnsons self-titled
3. Electrelane Power Out
2. Gary Wilson Mary Had Brown Hair
1. Destroyer Your Blues
HNDLS
AIM Screennames: My Tragic, Tangled History
These are the primary screennames I've used over the years, in chronological order, first comes first.
• notvrystr8 (the only name I didn't get to choose myself)
• Star Prince Blue
• Wish Faster
• A Fox in The Snow
• For Kate I Wait
• A Hired Plane
• swarthychins current
There have also been screennames that I've created and used infrequently. They were either made as a novelty or made to replace one of the primary ones above but never caught on. These are in no particular order.
• afoxinthesauce (when the snow gets too cold…)
• negativtime
• mylovelytrench
• indierockspock
• Yeaowzah
• PartyTimExclnt
• guyinshadesohno (during my 80s-obsessed summer of 2002)
• jamesgandolfinii (when I was trying to trick Liz)
• anonsmokingfox (ha!)
• stellailoveu
• makeshift bunker
• CAPSLOCKFOREVER (when I was being a bastard)
• afoxonthephone (when I had AIM on my cell)
• lostchild0099
• ivegotbushpie321 (more Liz harassment)
• hatd4loving (Amy reminded me of this one!)
• afoxinthesnizzow (i think i'll use this one more often)
• OldManHandsOnMe
• Thereisnopilot
• Toleaveitnow
• ForcedHorse
• DjDagr
• GiveEmtheT00t3r
• callboxx123
• amiracleisdue
• missingparachute
• …and probably more that I will remember later.
The only person I know who has more screennames than I do is my friend Ezis. I'm certain his list would dwarf mine.
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