Open up your music player and set it to shuffle. for each line/question hit the next/forward button. Say what song is playing for each line. Don't cheat either, just put the song that comes up. No cheating. Post the results.

Opening Credits: Zombies Under Stress, "Program Apocalypse" (instrumental)
Waking Up: Lotek Hifi, "Fire" ("Get ready now")
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I think my mom wanted me to be a concert pianist, and she got me an electric organ when I was very young. I can play melodies on a keyboard, but I'm woefully ignorant of chord-shapes. Never had any lessons. (Her instrument is the Chinese bamboo flute, and occasional harmonica, plus she sang pretty much every day in Chinese. Ever tried writing a ( Read more... )

Remind me to turn off "provide feedback with sound" in Word when working at night and listening to music through headphones attached to my computer.

Tom Waits is doing a mini-tour, and he'll be in Chicago on 9 August. Ticketmaster has nothing yet.

"We need to go to Tennessee to pick up some fireworks, and someone owes me money in Kentucky," Waits said in a press release.

Post an antiwar song when you read this (from substitute). This is one of my faves; embedded music plays automatically:

Luang Prabang

When I came back from Luang Prabang
I didn't have a thing where my balls used to hang,
But I got a wood medal and a fine harangue.
Now I'm a fucking hero.

(Direct mp3 link here. Gotta love Firefox page info...)

"We're going to go and kick the fuck out of
The Saxons.
Soft Southron gits that they are.
Scotland Scotland Scotland
Hi ro ho ro thump thump thump."

Amusing post on alt.peeves

I visited France, staying at a B&B. The cats mewed with a different accent, and one of them sang a little song. Then I was given the opportunity to move there, and I was very happy to accept, seeing as how I needed total immersion in order to really learn the language. Plus, France had singing cats ( Read more... )

The tunes I listened to most often this year, according to iTunes:

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Look: dusty mp3 relics from my ill-advised (but blessedly short) foray into Cajun-flavoured music!

Hyperdogs, "Baby Please Don't Go" (Yes, there's fiddle in there-you JUST CAN'T TELL. It's stealth fiddle!)

Hyperdogs, "I Wanna Know" (Damn, that's way too slow. Maybe it was hot that day. I have no idea where these were recorded.)

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So last night I was at a session in a gigantic hotel, and then someone set up video equipment and was about to interview the musicians, so I left and went to the ladies' room, where I met a woman who invited me to stay at her house, and she asked me the year of my birth and offered me the Snake room, and my kitten Mugen was with me, and he attacked ( Read more... )