Gorilla Suit Update, plus Guess My Songs
Follow up to yesterday's birthday post, I have more information about National Gorilla Suit Day. Be informed.
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And ganked from
yahtzee63 , an iPod meme: Put your iPod on shuffle, and list lyrics from the first twenty songs that come up. Then let your flist guess what songs they're from. Some are easy, some I don't expect to hear back on, one's almost a trick but somehow I expect
e_ticket to guess it. :)
yahtzee63 , in her list, skipped repeat artists and, of course, instrumentals. I added two more skipped categories: songs by bands my friends are in that you'd never ever know, and songs *I* had actually never listened to, just downloaded long ago and ignored. I figured if *I* couldn't even guess it, it didn't much represent me.
And now the list!
1. She'll give you every penny's worth
But it will cost you a dollar first
The Tubes, "She's A Beauty", guessed by ropo
2. Scratch the scandals in the twilight.
Trying to shock, but instead
Idle hands all orient to her.
Pass a magic pillow under head.
3. The glove compartment
Is inaccurately named
And everybody knows it
So I'm proposing
A swift orderly change
4. Nowhere for me to run
Not that I feel like running anywhere anyway
Some things are clear at night
Then become confusing in the light of day
5. So why do you stare that way so long
Stare holes into the walls
We're all honey
Dripping through the honey chain
6. I been drifting along in the same stale shoes
Loose ends tying the noose in the back of my mind
7. I used to think my daddy was a black man
With script enough to buy the company store
Now he goes downtown with empty pockets
And Lord his face is white as the February snow
"The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore"- By, as reddish68 guessed, Johnny Cash, who is the songwriter so I'm calling him right, even though it's Michelle Shocked's version that I have.
8. Since then it's been a book you read in reverse
So you understand less as the pages turn
9. I was either standing in your shadow
Or blocking your light
Thought I kept on trying I could not get it right.
10. Number 54
The house with the bamboo door
It’s got bamboo walls and a bamboo roof
It’s even got a bamboo floor
11. I wake up feeling fragile
It's nothing the TV couldn't cure
Or lying here for my whole
life
12. And I can't dial the phone just now
Even though I know your number
Can't bring my broken heart to be untrue
13. Way down upon the swan...
(Oh! 'Scuse me.)
Now I ask you very confidentially...
Way down upon the swan.
14. Oswald and his sister are doing it again
They've got the finest home movies that you have ever seen
They've got a thousand variations, every service with a smile
They're gonna take a little break and they'll be back after a while
15. She's leaving your house.
She had to get out.
She's mad,
And she'll take her mattress with her.
16. And what are you, some policeman
Come to take me away
Your handcuffs and rough stuff, talking nightstick
Please occifer...
Give me a break
17. Ten fingers counting we have each nine planets
Around the sun repeat
Eight ball the last if you triumphant be seven oceans pummel
The shores of the sea
18. You're running up and down that hill.
You turn it on and off at will.
There's nothing here to thrill
or bring you down.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - "Wicked Little Town," guessed by
simonbear
19. your back curves like a creeping vine
with the answers in the fluid in the stem of the spine
in the black-coffee bowl of your eye
why do you overestimate the size of the lie?
20. And I kept standing six-feet-one
Instead of five-feet-two
And I loved my life
And I hated you
Write, comment, guess!
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And ganked from
yahtzee63 , an iPod meme: Put your iPod on shuffle, and list lyrics from the first twenty songs that come up. Then let your flist guess what songs they're from. Some are easy, some I don't expect to hear back on, one's almost a trick but somehow I expect
e_ticket to guess it. :)
yahtzee63 , in her list, skipped repeat artists and, of course, instrumentals. I added two more skipped categories: songs by bands my friends are in that you'd never ever know, and songs *I* had actually never listened to, just downloaded long ago and ignored. I figured if *I* couldn't even guess it, it didn't much represent me.
And now the list!
1. She'll give you every penny's worth
But it will cost you a dollar first
The Tubes, "She's A Beauty", guessed by ropo
2. Scratch the scandals in the twilight.
Trying to shock, but instead
Idle hands all orient to her.
Pass a magic pillow under head.
3. The glove compartment
Is inaccurately named
And everybody knows it
So I'm proposing
A swift orderly change
4. Nowhere for me to run
Not that I feel like running anywhere anyway
Some things are clear at night
Then become confusing in the light of day
5. So why do you stare that way so long
Stare holes into the walls
We're all honey
Dripping through the honey chain
6. I been drifting along in the same stale shoes
Loose ends tying the noose in the back of my mind
7. I used to think my daddy was a black man
With script enough to buy the company store
Now he goes downtown with empty pockets
And Lord his face is white as the February snow
"The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore"- By, as reddish68 guessed, Johnny Cash, who is the songwriter so I'm calling him right, even though it's Michelle Shocked's version that I have.
8. Since then it's been a book you read in reverse
So you understand less as the pages turn
9. I was either standing in your shadow
Or blocking your light
Thought I kept on trying I could not get it right.
10. Number 54
The house with the bamboo door
It’s got bamboo walls and a bamboo roof
It’s even got a bamboo floor
11. I wake up feeling fragile
It's nothing the TV couldn't cure
Or lying here for my whole
life
12. And I can't dial the phone just now
Even though I know your number
Can't bring my broken heart to be untrue
13. Way down upon the swan...
(Oh! 'Scuse me.)
Now I ask you very confidentially...
Way down upon the swan.
14. Oswald and his sister are doing it again
They've got the finest home movies that you have ever seen
They've got a thousand variations, every service with a smile
They're gonna take a little break and they'll be back after a while
15. She's leaving your house.
She had to get out.
She's mad,
And she'll take her mattress with her.
16. And what are you, some policeman
Come to take me away
Your handcuffs and rough stuff, talking nightstick
Please occifer...
Give me a break
17. Ten fingers counting we have each nine planets
Around the sun repeat
Eight ball the last if you triumphant be seven oceans pummel
The shores of the sea
18. You're running up and down that hill.
You turn it on and off at will.
There's nothing here to thrill
or bring you down.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - "Wicked Little Town," guessed by
simonbear
19. your back curves like a creeping vine
with the answers in the fluid in the stem of the spine
in the black-coffee bowl of your eye
why do you overestimate the size of the lie?
20. And I kept standing six-feet-one
Instead of five-feet-two
And I loved my life
And I hated you
Write, comment, guess!