meme we can believe in
This is fun!
Via Cogitamus:1. Take out your iPod (or Zune, I guess...really, who buys a Zune?)
2. Press shuffle songs.
3. Answer the following: a) How many songs before you come to one that would absolutely disqualify you from being President? b) What is that song?
4. Leave your answers.
My first song is "Tomorrow, Wendy" by Concrete Blonde, which I'm told is a song about AIDS, not that I've ever been able to tell. So that one right there probably disqualifies me. Oh, plus the Bible Belters wouldn't like the part that goes:I told the priest, Don't count on any second coming
God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming
He had the balls to come, the gall to die and then forgive us
No, I don't wonder why, I wonder what he thought it would get us
(That's one of my favorite parts of the song, BTW.)
Okay, assuming Concrete Blonde is too obscure, let's see what's next. Ooh, next up is "Underdog" by Audio Adrenaline! Good Christian band, good Christian song. I can still be president with that one on my iPod!
Next!
"So far Away" by Staind. I think that one's probably pretty safe. It was a Top 40-ish song, no obvious problems in the lyrics.
Next we have "London Calling" by The Clash. Hmm. I'm gonna consider that one safe. Feel free to argue with me, but I don't think punk is associated too much with the '60s, and "London Calling" is one of their tamer songs.
Ahh, here we go. "Complicated" by Heavens to Betsy. Riot Grrl music. Still, no one's ever heard of it, so probably would scoot under the radar.
Aaaand, I think we've hit it. "The Last Junkie on Earth" by The Dandy Warhols. Ahem:But I never thought you'd be a junkie
because heroin is so passe
now a-day.
You never thought you'd get addicted,
just be cooler in an obvious way.
I could say, shouldn't you have got
a couple piercings and decided
may-be that you were gay.
So either the 1st song disqualifies me, or, if you don't want to count Concrete Blonde, the 6th song disqualifies me. (And FSM help me when it scrolls up "Fuck You" by the Headstones.) Ah, politics. Gotta love it, right?
Via Cogitamus:1. Take out your iPod (or Zune, I guess...really, who buys a Zune?)
2. Press shuffle songs.
3. Answer the following: a) How many songs before you come to one that would absolutely disqualify you from being President? b) What is that song?
4. Leave your answers.
My first song is "Tomorrow, Wendy" by Concrete Blonde, which I'm told is a song about AIDS, not that I've ever been able to tell. So that one right there probably disqualifies me. Oh, plus the Bible Belters wouldn't like the part that goes:I told the priest, Don't count on any second coming
God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming
He had the balls to come, the gall to die and then forgive us
No, I don't wonder why, I wonder what he thought it would get us
(That's one of my favorite parts of the song, BTW.)
Okay, assuming Concrete Blonde is too obscure, let's see what's next. Ooh, next up is "Underdog" by Audio Adrenaline! Good Christian band, good Christian song. I can still be president with that one on my iPod!
Next!
"So far Away" by Staind. I think that one's probably pretty safe. It was a Top 40-ish song, no obvious problems in the lyrics.
Next we have "London Calling" by The Clash. Hmm. I'm gonna consider that one safe. Feel free to argue with me, but I don't think punk is associated too much with the '60s, and "London Calling" is one of their tamer songs.
Ahh, here we go. "Complicated" by Heavens to Betsy. Riot Grrl music. Still, no one's ever heard of it, so probably would scoot under the radar.
Aaaand, I think we've hit it. "The Last Junkie on Earth" by The Dandy Warhols. Ahem:But I never thought you'd be a junkie
because heroin is so passe
now a-day.
You never thought you'd get addicted,
just be cooler in an obvious way.
I could say, shouldn't you have got
a couple piercings and decided
may-be that you were gay.
So either the 1st song disqualifies me, or, if you don't want to count Concrete Blonde, the 6th song disqualifies me. (And FSM help me when it scrolls up "Fuck You" by the Headstones.) Ah, politics. Gotta love it, right?