Friday Frittering - Weeks 8-10

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Uh, yeah, skipped 8 and 9 due to vacation and being busy, so you get a triple dose of inanity today.

30 DayWeek Music Meme
01 - your favorite song
02 - your least favorite song
03 - a song that makes you happy
04 - a song that makes you sad
05 - a song that reminds you of someone
06 - a song that reminds of you of somewhere
07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
08 - a song that you know all the words to
09 - a song that you can dance to
10 - a song that makes you fall asleep
11 - a song from your favorite band
12 - a song from a band you hate
13 - a song that is a guilty pleasure
14 - a song that no one would expect you to love
15 - a song that describes you
16 - a song that you used to love but now hate
17 - a song that you hear often on the radio
18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
19 - a song from your favorite album
20 - a song that you listen to when you're angry
21 - a song that you listen to when you're happy
22 - a song that you listen to when you're sad
23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
25 - a song that makes you laugh
26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
27 - a song that you wish you could play
28 - a song that makes you feel guilty
29 - a song from your childhood
30 - your favorite song at this time last year



08 - a song that you know all the words to

Pedant moment: "A song to which you know all the words."

Anyone who knows me knows that I can sing along to a terrifying array of songs. Thankfully, almost none of this has been captured on video. The pinnacle (or perhaps nadir) of this was on the first Goth Cruise I went on, when the karaoke book included something unfortunate, and I promptly went on stage and didn't look at the teleprompter once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k

Nobody has ever accused me of having shame. Or taste.

09 - a song that you can dance to

(repeat of linguistic pedantry from above goes [here])

I'm going to go off on a second tangential rant here for a second:

Any song that includes directions for how to dance to it can go fuck off and die in a tire fire. This includes line dancing, club music, and all the shit they play at weddings. The Electric goddamned Slide, that "to the left" thing, whatever. House of Pain's "Jump Around" only escapes this ignominious fate by being so vague as to disqualify itself. Furthermore, any song that involves spelling can go fuck off right along with 'em (yes, Aretha, I'm talking to you, too).

Now that that's out of the way, much like stuff I can sing along to, I can dance to pretty much anything I enjoy, where "dancing" approximates inept martial arts or padded-weapons combat, headbanging, shiny quarter admiration, and Riverdance all mashed together. I can also do a very, very basic Waltz, which I taught a very cute, very drunk friend to do to "Nothing Else Matters" during a semi-formal at college.

10 - a song that makes you fall asleep

Cosmos (yes, the TV program). Between the Vangelis wafting around and Carl Sagan's soothing voice, if I'm remotely horizontal, this is almost guaranteed to induce a nap.