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tagged twice and then some...
Aug. 29th, 2007 04:07 pmA. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."
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javasaurus , I'll answer, but I'm not the type to pass these things on...
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."
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javasaurus , I'll answer, but I'm not the type to pass these things on...- I don't read fiction. Period. H2G2 and LotR and Harry Potter have been my only fiction reading for over a decade. I gave the Myth series a try but lost it within the fourth or fifth chapter.
- I've performed Monty Python on stage in a revue directed by dwenius and Tee. I was in the Bruce sketch, the Flying Sheep sketch, and the "Matress" sketch. The review also featured Crunchy Frog, News for Parrots, and Four Yorkshiremen.
- I've known Cami of the O'Danny Girls as one of my closest friends for 23 years as of yesterday.
- I have forgotten more about X-Windows/Motif programming than many self-proscribed "experts" ever knew, and still remember more than most still doing that kind of work today.
- I can't stop my hands from moving to music ("air" playing). It's a part of how I remember it.
- I know the musical innards of complex works like Rite of Spring and Close to the Edge with incredible detail and depth, but have a severe handicap with remembering lyrics. Whatever I'm doing, the 3rd line of some verse will simply "vanish" and nothing I can do aside from the paper in front of me will allow me to recall it. Hence, as much as I want to add songs, Cat & Fiddle has remained a strictly instrumental act.
- My brain is, yes, filled with insane amounts of "Trivia". I blame American Top 40. In spite of this, I have difficulty finding my keys at least twice a month, and never ask me where I put something of faireraven 's as I *will* have forgotten.
On the twelfth day of Christmas, 
acroyear70 sent to me...
you gotta admit that day one rocks.acroyear70 sent to me...Twelve eacs drumming
eacs drummingEleven firebows piping
firebows pipingTen saxbabes a-leaping
saxbabes a-leapingNine mdrf_praxs dancing
mdrf_praxs dancingEight tomomallies a-milking
tomomallies a-milkingSeven gargoylezs a-swimming
gargoylezs a-swimmingSix thatliardiegos a-laying
thatliardiegos a-layingFive mshelbys
Four rss
Three political cartoons
Two renaissance festivals
...and a beer in a british comedy.
however, day six i'm a bit worried about...
randomizing this...
Apr. 26th, 2006 07:01 pma quick little meme, variation on an old one. It suits me better than the "pick a letter" one going around.
Randomize your current (or a particular) playlist, list the first 10 songs, and discuss something about each.
Well, my 80s playlist is still going, so keep that in mind...
Randomize your current (or a particular) playlist, list the first 10 songs, and discuss something about each.
Well, my 80s playlist is still going, so keep that in mind...
- U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
I didn't quite "get" this one until well into college, years after it was released. I learned to appreciate old U2 a lot more as I continued to dislike each new release. - Genesis - Throwing it All Away
What is it about the Brits and their ability to work up an audience? Like Freddie, Phil had a knack for getting the audience to sing damn near anything. Live, this song changed from a tiny pop break-up ditty to a full-out audience participation number that fires everybody up. When done with 100,000+ at Wembley, it sounds astounding... - Planet P - Why Me?
One of my dad's favorites. 1983 saw a number of returns to the Major Tom theme from Bowie's Space Oddity. This was one, a really dark one compared to Peter Schilling's Major Tom Coming Home. - Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Either Halen rocked this one, 'cause its definitely an Eddie showcase, and not for his leads so much as his rhythm and riffing skills. Just damn good guitar. - The Who - You Better You Bet
I never quite really understood why The Who were who they were back in the '80s. They were never on my dad's core collection (back before "classic rock" refreshed everyone's memories), so I only knew them througth their 3 early 80s pop hits after Moon was gone. - The Cars - Drive
A girl was in my math class for all 4 years of high school (pretty impressive for a graduating class of 973). She was beautiful, intelligent, the best student of the school (though through P/F classes others ended up with higher GPAs). Duke. The greatest success of the academic world. And for a while, its greatest failure. She'd become the world's greatest student yet found she wasn't really prepared for being anything else. A Summa Cum Laude graduate of Duke ended up working as a bartender. Eventually she found something worth doing that made a bit more money. This song made me think of her then, and more so now. - Rush - Red Sector A
One wouldn't think a number so based on synths and sequencers could rock out live, but Rush managed it with this one. The laser show helped, of course. One of several of the post-apocolyptic themed ones on P/G. Named for the viewing stands where they saw the space shuttle launch 2 years earlier. - Yes - It Can Happen
For some reason I was more willing to give the Rabin Yes a try than most around me. Not my fav from that era tho. - The Police - Synchronicity 1
Dan Thompson, my psychology teacher from high school, is one of 3 teachers I sincerely want to thank (and apologize for being such a lazy jerk when it came to homework). When he first intruced us to Jung's theories, he played this, and it makes me think of that every time. He was very aware of the power of mnemonics, something we've forgotten in our structured teaching these days. - The Cars - I'm Not The One
Well, they can't be all winners. Not one of my fav Cars tracks, but the Greatest Hits album its on has fond memories. A band competition to Boston my senior year and on the way back from the "winning it all" awards ceremony (well, we usually did...), that album was the only thing one guy remembered to bring for his CD player. So we rocked to the Cars. It was good. I bought the album the next week. :)
Memeage of the personal past...
Apr. 26th, 2006 02:43 pmPost a link to your entries on this day six months ago, nine months ago, a year ago and 2 years ago. (or the closest thereof if you didn't post that day...)
Dude! Joe's Jottings, Mostly Junk - October 26th, 2005:
Dude! Joe's Jottings, Mostly Junk - July 26th, 2005:
Dude! Joe's Jottings, Mostly Junk - April 26th, 2005:
Dude! Joe's Jottings, Mostly Junk - October 26th, 2005:
The Branagh / HP Connection Continues...And in hindsight, I think he did a great job.
Tags: fandom
Every Harry Potter movie so far has had some connection to Kenneth Branagh, starting with Robbie Coltrane (Falstaff in Henry V) in the first, Branagh himself in the second, and his ex-wife Emma Thompson in the third. Well, no co-star of Branagh's is featured in the fourth on screen...
...but Branagh's favorite composer, Patrick Doyle, has taken over the music chores from John Williams. He's kept some key themes like the main theme, but the variations to them are certainly quite original and fascinating.
Dude! Joe's Jottings, Mostly Junk - July 26th, 2005:
It wasn't all cakes and ale...A little dated, though "swiftboating" is still a fav tactic of Rove's followers so expect it a lot at the local level this summer as he advises his party.
Tags: humor , politics
The real story as published by the Rowboat Veterans For Truth!
Dude! Joe's Jottings, Mostly Junk - April 26th, 2005:
funny observation about *my* politics...Dude! Joe's Jottings, Mostly Junk - April 27th, 2004:
Tags: politics , ponder
If you were to prepare a list of the top 10 stories you will never, ever read in a newspaper, one of them would surely include a sentence beginning: "Thousands of angry, screaming moderates took to the streets yesterday demanding . . ." -- Revolt of the Middle
Cool Quote
Current Music: Marillion. Discover a lost art. Play Marbles.
[...] it's that "liberty and freedom" thing, Phil [Phillip Johnson, an Intelligent Design proponent]. And because we are a pluralist society that supports diverse religious beliefs, "God's" moral authority has no standing in American society. None at all. It can be a matter of private conscience, but not public policy. -- PZ Meyers
wiki this...
Apr. 7th, 2006 10:45 amFacts about September 17th... (yeah, i'm listing more than the meme requested...) :
1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1787 - The United States Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (gotcha beat,scaleslea ! :) )
1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show. Morrison sang the lyrics, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" from the song, Light My Fire when asked not to.
1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA
1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.
1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
Births:
879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
1951 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedian
Deaths:
1665 - King Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605) [his grandfather, Phillip II was married to Bloody Mary I, our "Princess Mary" at MDRF; see comment below]
1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1787 - The United States Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (gotcha beat,
scaleslea ! :) )1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show. Morrison sang the lyrics, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" from the song, Light My Fire when asked not to.
1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA
1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.
1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
Births:
879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
1951 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedian
Deaths:
1665 - King Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605) [his grandfather, Phillip II was married to Bloody Mary I, our "Princess Mary" at MDRF; see comment below]
1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
