Archive for July, 2006

It’s Almost Next Month!

Monday, July 31st, 2006

How many of you bloggers out there get excited to post at the beginning of the month? It’s weird, I know, but I can’t wait to post something tomorrow so I get another month listed on my archive list. It’s like having Presents Day every 30 or so days!

However, it’s not enough to just post "Hey! It’s a new month!" just to get an expanded archive list. There has to be a great idea. Something with meaning behind your [Month] 1, 20[xx] post. A post that is thought-provoking, laugh-inducing or just plain well-written. It’s gotta have zing. It’s gotta pop like a Shasta soda.There are several ideas floating around, but none that can be churned out between now and tomorrow with my schedule. In fact, I’m writing this during my lunch break instead of going out to get something to eat to fuel my "imagination tanks" as Patrick said in the "Idiot Box" epsiode of Spongebob Squarepants. Guess what? It’s hard to write about nothing and make it funny. Seinfeld made it look easy. Bastards.

File this post under "Sound And Fury".

Listening to: Flamboyant (Michael Mayer Mix) - Pet Shop Boys

iTunes Meme

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

This is something Spencer did and then the Goldfish reminded me.

How many songs: 12,146

Sort by song title
First Song: "–>" - Andrew Bird
Last Song: "π" – Kate Bush

Sort by time
Shortest Song: "Who’s Knocking On The Wall" - They Might Be Giants; 4 secs
Longest Song: "Oahu" - The 6ths featuring Miss Lily Banquette; 28 min, 10 secs

Sort by artist
First Artist: ‘Til Tuesday
Last Artist: ZZ Top

Sort by album
First Album: …And Justice For All - Metalica
Last Album: Zoom - Electric Light Orchestra

Top Three Most Played Songs:
1. "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi" - Kylie Minogue
2. "Room 712, The Apache" - Michael Penn
3. "Fake Palindromes" - Andrew Bird

Search:
"sex", how many songs come up? 95
"death", how many songs come up? 46
"love", how many songs come up? 993
"blues", how many songs come up? 53

Listening to: Witness - Cyndi Lauper

One Off

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Emo is the new Goth.

…without as much black.

Listening to: Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode

Roundup - Week of July 22

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

The weekly collection of interesting reads from around the blogosphere.

The biggest news of the week? No, not Lance Bass being gay, which was reported here, here and here. No, not that the House passed a bill banning social Internet sites from federally funded libraries. Nor is it that some Southern states actually elected openly gay persons to their governments. The big news is that Scott-O-Rama somehow got his hands on the new SCISSOR SISTERS single! Listen!

(I just got up this moring to KBCO playing "Take Your Mama". It was weird to wake up to the Scissor Sisters much less waking up to having KBCO playing them. I wonder if that’s a good sign for their upcoming album release)

Pam’s House Blend had several great stories this week. An author got tired of his congressperson’s narrow attitude and decided to do something about it in this great story on her site. She also reported about a Kansas B&B owner is receving nothing but crap for displaying the rainbow flag even though he didn’t know what it meant and then refused to take it down saying that gays and lesbians are more than welcome there.

Kristen over at Abbondanza had to improv dress someone at her office this week.

Local Denver blogger, Rosie, stood up to some uppity women at a bus station this week and uses it as a plea for people to use public transportation a little more often. It’s a great read.

Hubs pointed us to a site where you can request an interuption to your work day.

Scott Adams has a solution to the turmoil over in the Middle East.

Rolling Stone does this once every other year or so, but here is their updated list of the "Best 500 Songs Of All Time".

In other music news, Chris Cornell, formerly of Soundgarden and now with Audioslave, is co-writing and singing the new Bond theme. ABC frontman Martin Fry is coaching Hugh Grant to sing in his upcoming film. As a sidenote, I’m a fan of ABC and their first album, The Lexicon Of Love, is one of my favorite albums of all time. One of these days, I’ll start listing those since it’s been requested from time to time.

And finally, Heather over at ClizBiz sent me an email to Charles Phoenix’s site to see the kitschest pictures ever collected. Below is this week’s picture which I love especially the woman in the black dress who is dressed as a 60s Jody Watley. Love it! Be sure to check out last week’s pic of the ultimate in young man/older woman love.


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