memes, video, and election day

[blacklilac17]

01. What's the last DVD you watched?
Angels with Dirty Faces

02. What are you wearing at the moment?
A short dress, because the weather’s nice today ;)

03. Who is/was your favorite cartoon character?
Tinker Bell!! Probably.

04. What is your favorite scent?
Books

05. What is the last book you read?

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

06. What do you drink the most?
Orange juice and caramel mochas

07. Is there a useless thing that you cannot brace yourself to throw out?
Shoeboxes

08. Who was your first big crush?
Besides Johnny Depp and Humphrey Bogart…? The guy I like right now. He’s got dark hair, the same tastes in books and music as me, and gorgeous eyes.

09. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Zoologist. I changed my mind very fast.

10. What is your favorite object on your table?
My HUGE dictionary.

11. Do you have more CDs, DVDs or books?
Books.

12. What color do you like the most?
Green

13. What do you use more often: TV (includes DVD) or mobile phone?
TV, definitely. I watch movies entirely too much, but have no cable.

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
Someone who is possibly ever more in the Pirates of the Caribbean than I am ;)

15. What are you afraid of?
The Jonas Brother and what I see in the mirror when I wake up at 5 AM

16. What's your favorite item of clothing?
How can I decide?? Probably my little black dress with a really low cut in the back. It reminds me of Audrey Hepburn.

17. What are you into right now?
Johnny Depp, PotC, silent film, old movies in general, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, the Beatles, Virginia Woolf, crocheting… a lot of things.

18. What did you do today?
Went to my friend’s and made scones for breakfast, procrastinated, “forgot” to study for my test tomorrow, read a book, went to the library.

19. What do you want?
Kiss the guy I like and get an A+ on my test tomorrow.

20. What should you be doing right now?
Studying and watching the poles.

I tag:
florencia7
 stillsparkling 
djarum99 
lady_di75
beautyofheart 
elysium_22

And here's a meme that I snagged from sophie_lizzie

1. Put your iPod/iTunes on shuffle
2. Press play, and click next for every entry.
3. Post a section of lyrics from that song for your flist to guess.
4. When someone guesses (don't Google the lyrics) correctly, cross out that lyric and put their name and the correct answer next to it so everyone can bow down to them.
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1. “So never mind the darkness/We can still find a way/’Cause nothing lasts forever/Even cold November rain.” (November Rain - Guns 'N Roses) djarum99  , stillsparkling 
2. “I’m laughing at clouds/So dark up above/The sun’s in my heart/And I’m ready for love” (Singin' In the Rain - Gene Kelly) djarum99 , stillsparkling 
3. “Louder, louder/and we’ll run for our lives/I can hardly speak I understand/that you can’t raise your voice to say” (Run - Snow Patrol) crookedxcursiv 
4. “I think you will find/When your death takes its toll/All the money you made/Will never buy back your soul”
5. “How come you’re so wrong/my sweet neo con/where’s all the money gone/in the Pentagon?”
6. “But is there some place for away/Some place where all is clear/Easy to start over/With the ones you hold so dear?”
7. “Like painted kites/those day and night/they went flying by/the world was new/beneath the blue/umbrella sky” (The Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra) stillsparkling 
8. “Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the new-born moon/or asked the grinning bobcat why he grin/can you sing with all the voices of the mountains/can you paint with all the colors of the wind?” (Colors of the Wind - Pocahontas) djarum99 , stillsparkling 
9. “The summer’s gone and all the flowers are dying/’tis you, ‘tis you must go and I must bide/but come ye back when summer’s in the meadow/or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow” (Danny Boy) stillsparkling 
10. “Some people cry and some people die/by the wicked ways of love/but I just keep on rolling along/with the grace from the lord above”
11. “ ‘Equality’ I spoke the word/As if a wedding vow/Ah, but I was so much older then/I’m younger than that now” (Chimes of Freedom - Bob Dylan) stillsparkling 
12. “Low lie the fields of Athenry/Where once we watched the small free birds fly/Our love was on the wing/We have dreams and songs to sing/it’s so lonely ‘round the fields of Athenry”(The Fields of Athenry - Dropkick Murphys)  djarum99 , stillsparkling 
13. “I’m alone here/With emptiness, eagles, and snow/Unfriendliness chilling my body/And whispering pictures of home.”
14. “Living easy, living free/Season ticket on a one-way ride/Asking nothing, leave me be/Taking everything in my stride” (Highway to Hell - AC/DC) stillsparkling 
15. “Golden slumbers fill your eyes/Smiles awake you when you rise/Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry/And I will sing a lullaby.” (Golden Slumbers - the Beatles) djarum99 
16. “I never knew that roses grew/or if skies were blue or gray/I never knew when breezes blew/what a summer breeze could say”
17. “Set out runnin’ but I take my time/A friend of the devil is a friend of mine/If I get home before daylight/I just might get some sleep tonight.”
18. “Wishful, sinful/Our love is beautiful to see/I know where I would like to be/Right back where I came”
19. “We’ve nothing left to lose/But your wings and my frown/Where over the hills the valleys will ring/To the sound of our love singin’ true”
20. “Say, it’s only a paper moon/sailing over a cardboard sea/but it wouldn’t be make-believe/if you believe in me” (It's Only a Paper Moon - Ella Fitzgerald) stillsparkling 
21. “Oh, I’m sleeping under strange, strange skies/Just another mad, mad day on the road/My dreams is fading down the railway line/I’m just about a moonlight mile down the road.” (Moonlight Mile - the Rolling Stones) djarum99 
22.  “Never before has someone been more/unforgettable in every way/and forevermore that’s how you’ll stay” (Unforgettable - Nat King Cole) djarum99 , stillsparkling 
23. “I know I said that I was leaving/but I just didn’t say good-bye/it was only self-deceiving/to walk away from someone who means everything in life to you”
24. “Shot through the heart/And you’re to blame/You give love a bad name/I play my part and you play your game” (You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi) djarum99 , stillsparkling 
25. “A thousand dreams I still believe/I’d make you give them all to me/I hold you in my arms and never let go”
26. “He killed our tribes, he killed our creed/He took our game for his own need/We fought his hard, we fought him well/Out on the plains we gave him hell.”
27. “So what became of rebels/who sang for you and me?/Grappling with their demons/in the search for liberty”
28. “Moonlight and love songs/never out of date/hearts full of passion, jealousy, and hate” (As Time Goes By - Frank Sinatra) djarum99 , stillsparkling 
29. “L is for the way you look at me/O is for only one I see/V is very, very extraordinary/E is even more than anyone that you adore can love” (L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole) stillsparkling 
30. “I asked the captain what his name was/and how come he didn’t drive a truck/he said his name was Columbus/I just said ‘Good luck’” (Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Bob Dylan) djarum99 

Also, I recently discovered the wonderful gangster films of the 1930s with the amazing James Cagney. Here's a video for all the other Cagney admirers out there. I claim no credit for the video.

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Again, this video WAS NOT MADE BY ME. The other Cagney videos made by this person are also hilarious, like "James Cagney's Inappropriate Cell Phone".

And as a final not after this ridiculously long post, GOOD LUCK TO OBAMA!!!