My Writing!Fu is Broken
So I'm subjecting y'all to a meme I stole from afrocurl instead!
Step 1: Put your MP3 player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 35 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly. (Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!)
I skipped the songs in Japanese, any of the instrumentals and decreed that masahide is not allowed to play this game. However, even living with me, he only got three of them right so I rescinded that guideline. (And, hey, it's not nepotism if he's your husband, right?)
I'm also attempting to screen comments until the right song is guessed.
1. Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait shop / You know the place masahide ("Albuquerque" by Weird Al Yankovic)
2. You consider me the young apprentice / Caught between the scylla and charybidis quirkies ("Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police)
3. I'm so sorry, please forgive me / Who do I pray to to straighten out this problem? masahide ("Insanity" by Oingo Boingo. Technically, it was their 'Boingo' incarnation but I love the band so much, Masa-chan could have come out with 'Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo' and I still would have given it to him.)
4. There's a house burning down on the radio / but we're in love, we don't mind
5. Don't bother to call this room / There's nobody here who can pick up innie_darling ("Destination Moon" by They Might be Giants)
6. When I lost him ache / shudder shock of pale
7. I stood there beside myself / thinking hard about the weather
8. Hey / I heard the dandelions roar in Picadilly Circus draickinphoenix ("River of Orchids" by XTC)
9. True Thomas sat on Huntley bank / and he beheld a lady gay arwensouth, mythtaken ("Thomas the Rhymer" by Steeleye Span)
10. *an intro where the title is repeated about ten times - lame, no?* We're enchanted, struck by lightning / What can we do when the feeling's so exciting?
11. If your toast gets stuck in a toaster / Do not put a fork into the toaster while it is hooked up masahide ("There Are Many Dangers" by The Crash Test Dummies)
12. I've had a bad day, yeah / My hometown is falling down
13. So I ran faster / but it caught me here embroiderama, draickinphoenix, mythtaken ("Precious Things" by Tori Amos")
14. I'm so glad that you came / I'm so glad you remembered
15. I am *the title* in the kingdom of rock and roll / I am *the title*, bravery is my vessel
16. Zephyr in the sky at night I wonder / Do my tears of mourning sink beneath the sun? afrocurl ("Ray of Light" by Madonna)
17. Little lights shining / Little lights will guide them to me
18. In the howling wind comes a stinging rain / see it driving nails quirkies ("Bullet the Blue Sky" by U2)
19. Fate took a freeway to my room / said too much while he stayed
20. From the world to the dreaming fields of light / yeah, from the soaking mud
21. She was a shy girl from the lonely street / She had no job to do and no friends to meet draickinphoenix ("Phantom Bride" by Erasure)
22. You act as though / you were a blind man who's crying
23. Now while the beat is slow / here in your arms I sway
24. I'll buy you six gray mares to put in your stable / six golden apples bought with my pay arwensouth, ravenrose ("The Whistler" by Jethro Tull)
25. If somebody up there likes me, somebody up there cares / Deliver me from evil, save me from these wicked snares cjtremlett ("Saint Augustine in Hell" by Sting)
26. Well he never bleeds and he never fucks / And he never leaves 'cause he's got bad luck bjones010590 ("Stain" by Nirvana)
27. Found out this morning / there's a circus coming to town
28. I'm just one of many / gave a love in vain
29. Kiss your lashes, kiss you low / I'm driven to you like the driven snow
An interlude because I broke the rules and skipped the song where the first line was "yoo-hoo" followed by the song title. And then a "friend is foe" gets thrown in a couple of times before the title gets repeated ad nauseum. I love The Pixies but, dude, "There Goes My Gun" is no "Wave of Mutilation."
30. If there's someone you can live without, then do so / And if there's someone you can shove out, do so embroiderama ("Be My Yoko Ono" by Bare Naked Ladies)
31. I'm dancing the seven veils / want you to pick my my scarf bdunn91 ("Mandinka" by Sinead O'Connor)
32. Do you think she's swimming in your lies / Do you think it's all just murky green
33. I've given you every part of me / tried everything I could to make you see
34. *song title*, disturb me with all your cares and worries / *song title* on the days that you feel spent embroiderama ("Trouble Me" by the 10,000 Maniacs)
I cheated here because I skipped the song "Drive By" by Duran Duran. Trust me. You'll thank me. This is the song that makes me want to poke out my eardrums with sharpened pencils just to make the bad words stop. And I say this as the most rabid Duranie you're ever likely to meet. Which makes the next song ironic...
35. Been living on a cloud / Been living up where the thunder claps
Huh, nothing too embarrassing with the exception of the fact that I've now admitted to owning the worst Duran Duran album in the history of the band.
Step 1: Put your MP3 player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 35 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly. (Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!)
I skipped the songs in Japanese, any of the instrumentals and decreed that masahide is not allowed to play this game. However, even living with me, he only got three of them right so I rescinded that guideline. (And, hey, it's not nepotism if he's your husband, right?)
I'm also attempting to screen comments until the right song is guessed.
1. Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait shop / You know the place masahide ("Albuquerque" by Weird Al Yankovic)
2. You consider me the young apprentice / Caught between the scylla and charybidis quirkies ("Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police)
3. I'm so sorry, please forgive me / Who do I pray to to straighten out this problem? masahide ("Insanity" by Oingo Boingo. Technically, it was their 'Boingo' incarnation but I love the band so much, Masa-chan could have come out with 'Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo' and I still would have given it to him.)
4. There's a house burning down on the radio / but we're in love, we don't mind
5. Don't bother to call this room / There's nobody here who can pick up innie_darling ("Destination Moon" by They Might be Giants)
6. When I lost him ache / shudder shock of pale
7. I stood there beside myself / thinking hard about the weather
8. Hey / I heard the dandelions roar in Picadilly Circus draickinphoenix ("River of Orchids" by XTC)
9. True Thomas sat on Huntley bank / and he beheld a lady gay arwensouth, mythtaken ("Thomas the Rhymer" by Steeleye Span)
10. *an intro where the title is repeated about ten times - lame, no?* We're enchanted, struck by lightning / What can we do when the feeling's so exciting?
11. If your toast gets stuck in a toaster / Do not put a fork into the toaster while it is hooked up masahide ("There Are Many Dangers" by The Crash Test Dummies)
12. I've had a bad day, yeah / My hometown is falling down
13. So I ran faster / but it caught me here embroiderama, draickinphoenix, mythtaken ("Precious Things" by Tori Amos")
14. I'm so glad that you came / I'm so glad you remembered
15. I am *the title* in the kingdom of rock and roll / I am *the title*, bravery is my vessel
16. Zephyr in the sky at night I wonder / Do my tears of mourning sink beneath the sun? afrocurl ("Ray of Light" by Madonna)
17. Little lights shining / Little lights will guide them to me
18. In the howling wind comes a stinging rain / see it driving nails quirkies ("Bullet the Blue Sky" by U2)
19. Fate took a freeway to my room / said too much while he stayed
20. From the world to the dreaming fields of light / yeah, from the soaking mud
21. She was a shy girl from the lonely street / She had no job to do and no friends to meet draickinphoenix ("Phantom Bride" by Erasure)
22. You act as though / you were a blind man who's crying
23. Now while the beat is slow / here in your arms I sway
24. I'll buy you six gray mares to put in your stable / six golden apples bought with my pay arwensouth, ravenrose ("The Whistler" by Jethro Tull)
25. If somebody up there likes me, somebody up there cares / Deliver me from evil, save me from these wicked snares cjtremlett ("Saint Augustine in Hell" by Sting)
26. Well he never bleeds and he never fucks / And he never leaves 'cause he's got bad luck bjones010590 ("Stain" by Nirvana)
27. Found out this morning / there's a circus coming to town
28. I'm just one of many / gave a love in vain
29. Kiss your lashes, kiss you low / I'm driven to you like the driven snow
An interlude because I broke the rules and skipped the song where the first line was "yoo-hoo" followed by the song title. And then a "friend is foe" gets thrown in a couple of times before the title gets repeated ad nauseum. I love The Pixies but, dude, "There Goes My Gun" is no "Wave of Mutilation."
30. If there's someone you can live without, then do so / And if there's someone you can shove out, do so embroiderama ("Be My Yoko Ono" by Bare Naked Ladies)
31. I'm dancing the seven veils / want you to pick my my scarf bdunn91 ("Mandinka" by Sinead O'Connor)
32. Do you think she's swimming in your lies / Do you think it's all just murky green
33. I've given you every part of me / tried everything I could to make you see
34. *song title*, disturb me with all your cares and worries / *song title* on the days that you feel spent embroiderama ("Trouble Me" by the 10,000 Maniacs)
I cheated here because I skipped the song "Drive By" by Duran Duran. Trust me. You'll thank me. This is the song that makes me want to poke out my eardrums with sharpened pencils just to make the bad words stop. And I say this as the most rabid Duranie you're ever likely to meet. Which makes the next song ironic...
35. Been living on a cloud / Been living up where the thunder claps
Huh, nothing too embarrassing with the exception of the fact that I've now admitted to owning the worst Duran Duran album in the history of the band.