Thursday, August 31, 2006

Round 2

So, I had another idea for a post, but since my last post sparked such hot debate I decide perhaps i should continue the theme. So.... Round 2 for all you music lovers is....

What's your favorite song to...

Again this game is more fun if we break it into categories.

...sing at the top of your lungs when no one's around?

I think this honor definitely has to go to "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson. Being the Karaoke lover that I am, there are MANY songs that I'll belt out in front of anyone. This song however is reserved for alone time (mostly because it's out of my range and sounds even more wretched than songs that are in my range!)

...listen to while you clean the house?

Anything upbeat. Britney always fits the bill here, especially anything from her self titled album. Madonna's new CD, Confessions on a Dance Floor, is a winner too, especially the song "Super Pop" (though i think that song is only on the British version of the album) It's also good to have some good rock and punk in the mix... Aerosmith, Fall Out Boy, Bowling for Soup, The Killers.... i could go on and on, but you get the idea. Oh... I have a dance remix of Usher's "Yeah" with Britney's "Toxic..." AWESOME!!

...play air guitar?

I don't really have a good answer for this but i felt like it should be in here because i'm hoping one of my loyal readers does. But I do love Joe Perry's guitar riff in Aerosmith's classic "Walk this Way."

...listen to on a loooooong road trip?

Road trips REQUIRE sing along music. Anything from the "house cleaning" category fits here. Also a good time to bust out musicals like Rent (which I am NOT embarrassed to have like some people ~ Quitter) Britney's version of "I Love Rock and Roll" and The Ataris version of "Boys of Summer" are necessary listening for all road trips.

...listen to on a plane?

Usually this is a more mellow set... because i usually just want to fall asleep. Missy Higgins is my first choice, KT Tunstall, Joss Stone, Kelly Clarkson's "Beautiful Disaster" (the live version), "Addicted," and "Breakaway" are all good choices. It's also a good time to break out more obscure things like Linkin Park's "My December," who knew those boys could sing slow songs? Amy Lee from Evanescence does an INCREDIBLE acoustic version of Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box." Oh, and if I'm flying into Cali I of course have to listen to "California" by Phantom Planet ~ also known as the theme song to the show The O.C.

...zone out to?

Again Missy Higgins. Sarah McLachlan is good too... Fumbling Towards Ecstasy... just the title is awesome.

...listen to that most people don't know/don't think you listen to?

The Beatles! "Strawberry Fields," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," and "Michelle." Love it love it love it!!! Also... no laughing.... Bob Marley ~ I only have one CD, but I love it! Who doesn't love a little "No Woman, No Cry?"

Alright, those are my tunes. How 'bout yours? Feel free to submit new categories as well.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

The Age Old Question....

(Well, as long as you consider time since the invention of the iPod to be "Age Old...")

Question: What's the most embarrassing song on your iPod?

Answer: Where do I start? (Don't you love it when people answer a question with a question?)

In order to make this a little more fun... let's have some categories..

Songs/Artists that your friends think you should be embarrassed by... but you totally love and don't care what anyone thinks!!
1. Anything by Britney Spears. I think 90% of people are Britney fans (except for the recent nastiness that she has become) but are too embarrassed to admit it. I on the other hand am proud to say that I'm a Britney fan. (though i do wish she would leave that skeez K-Fed!)
2. Natasha Bedingfield - I'm not really a huge fan of the stuff she has out on the radio, but for some reason i opted to buy the CD. (when i say "buy" I mean pay $2.79 to cover shipping charges from BMG) I really like the CD. She's got a couple of really good ballads as well as really fun dance song.
3. Cheap trick - Just one song.... "I want you to want me" I LOVE this song. Can't help it, just do.

Song I Really am Embarassed by
1. Hilary Duff - Come Clean. Why... WHY do i have to like this song?!?!?!?!

Artists that make me think, "What could i have possibly been thinking when i defiled my poor innocent iPod with this?" (Another name for this category could be... "Things I should delete immediately)
1. Enrique Iglesias - I'm all for Latin men... but talented ones for crying out loud!
2. Sugar Ray - Their self titled album. What happened to them??! They used to rock out! And Now.... UGH!!

Things I didn't even know were on my iPod until i scrolled through it to write this post. (I'm fairly sure that most of these can be blamed on Will. Meaning he put them on my iPod without my knowledge.)
1. Clay Aiken - I only have one song, "Invisible" I don't know where it came from and while I have heard it on the radio, I'm not really and Aiken fan... so I don't know why I have it.
2. INXS - Album name: Switch - Haven't listened to a single song. Don't know a thing about it, i feel like i should listen to it though.
3. Levi Kreis - I know for sure that Will is responsible for this one. If I remember right this guy was on the Apprentice and Will thought he was great and bought his album, guess i should give it a shot.
4. Nick Lachey - This would have gone under the "Song I Really am Embarassed by" category... except i didn't know i had it!

Well... that's it for now. I've shared my deep dark music secrets. I know that almost everyone who reads my blog has an iPod or similar device. So... while your blasting my musical choices in the comments section, I expect you to leave your hidden music secrets as well!

Friday, August 11, 2006

The State Fair

For those of you who were never in marching band... you'll never understand. For those of you who were... this may be a little nostalgic for you. Wednesday was State Fair Band day. Now, to be totally honest I haven't been to the State Fair in YEARS!!! But, my baby sister, Pop Tart, is going to be a freshman in the fall and therefore is marching with the Marching Highlanders. As if that's not exciting enough, she's also playing bagpipes!! (fyi ~ yours truly played pipes in high school too)

So Wednesday morning me and the fam made the trek down to the fair to support Pop Tart. We barely made it to the grandstands in time because traffic and parking were horrendous. We watch them perform a somewhat shaky show (it was obvious they were a bit nervous) and promptly ran across the infield to the buses to give hugs and try to pump them up for the night show. (It's possible that on the way to the buses we stopped for funnel cakes and lemon shake-ups.... that might have happened.... maybe....any evidence has been consumed... i mean destroyed... yeah destroyed)

Later that evening we returned for the night show. Traffic and parking were MUCH more manageable this time so we ended up getting there waaaaaaaay early. No worries... to the Swine barn! Seriously they had the world's largest and 2nd largest Boars there. Big Papa ~ 6 years old weighing in at 1089lbs. And Wilbur ~ 5 years old and weighing in at 1086lbs. (is it bad that all I could think was mmmmmmmm BACON mmmmmmmm?) We also visited the "Draft Horse" barn where we saw more donkeys and mules than horses. Did you know that a mule is not the same thing as a donkey? It's apparently a cross breed of a horse and a donkey. And somewhere in that whole cross breeding thing it turns out that most mules are sterile! (and you thought the State Fair was all about eating fried stuff.... it can be educational too!) More Mule trivia..... A male mule is called a John and a female mule is call a Mollie.

My favorite animal of the fair was what I refer to as the Llonkey. According to the (slightly mentally challenged) man that was standing in front of the Llonkey's stall this creature is a cross breed between a Donkey and a Llama ~ thus a Llonkey. Lucky for me I had my science teacher of a dad in tow who later explained to me that it was not a Llonkey, but actually one of the oldest breeds of donkeys around. It's real name is the Poitou and it seems that it came from France. Evidence below demonstrates why it would be easy to believe the Llonkey heritage.


After checking out the animals it was time for the first group of bands to start. Mom wanted to see all 16 bands (FREAK!!!!) so she and dad went to watch while Will and I started trolling toward the most important part of the State Fair...... FOOOOOOOOD!!!!! Will and I have been really good lately. We're both trying to lose weight and we're even working out regularly and everything. The fair comes once a year people!!! All rules were gone! Anything and everything was fair game for dinner. So between the two of us we had an orange Creamcicle, an elephant ear, 2 corn dogs, 2 pineapple whips (pineapple ice cream), 2 giant rootbeers, a lemon shake up and we took some cotton candy home to eat the next day. mmmmm the fair.

So once we were both pretty sure we couldn't walk any more and that any minute we would slip into a diabetic coma... we decided to go watch the band! They were AWESOME! They obviously got the jitters out of their system and totally kick tail in the night show. Unfortunately they still came in 4th (same thing they placed in the morning) but they really were great. They looked fantastic too. They pulled out the doublets and Plaids for the night show. For those of you who aren't up on your Scottish garb check out this pick of the cutest little bagpiper ever!

Monday, August 07, 2006

Still uninspired

So apparently no one felt the need to leave me posting suggestions. Will's doesn't count because it was disgusting. So I decided, what better way to expand my posting creativity than by plagiarizing myself and posting something that I wrote months ago. So here's the set up. I'm talking to Tech Boy at work and he tells me that he has to write a paper for one of his classes. He seems super annoyed by this, especially when he tells me the topic of the paper - Compare and Contrast an Apple and an Orange. I of course being the kind, giving, generous person that I am offer to write it for him. (insert maniacal giggle sound effect here) Minutes (and i literally mean minutes) later I hand him this. Enjoy!

Compare and Contrast an Apple and an Orange

Apples and oranges are both fruits. They both have seeds. They are both supposed to be good for you. They both have an outer skin of some kind.

While apples and oranges do share these many characteristics, there are many differences between the two fruits. The outer skin of an apple is generally smooth and can come in several different shades of red, green and yellow, while an orange is pretty much just orange. The seeds of an orange are white while apple seeds are dark brown or black. Sometimes you find worms in apples. Oranges have fairly consistent tastes while apples vary from sweet to sour depending on the type. Oranges require you to peel off a thick skin before eating it. Conversely, the skin of an apple is edible but many people avoid eating the apple's core. Oranges are considered to be a citrus fruit, apples are just apples. I've never had orange pie, but I've had lots of apple pie. I even had an apple sundae the other day. It was good. I like ice cream. Ice cream isn'’t good for you though. It doesn't have seeds or skin either. But I would rather eat ice cream than and apple or an orange. Oranges sometimes squirt their citrusy juices in your eye. Big mean oranges!!!

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Nothing to write

So, I'm irritated by the fact that I don't really have anything to blog about. Nothing interesting has been happening lately. There are a number of things I could blog about, like the fact that me, Oscar, Zoe and Quitter started dog training a couple weeks ago, or that I'm pretty sure that my brain is trying to escape my cranium because I have ceaseless headache. I could blog about the fact that Will and I finally joined the Boyfriend's gym and are starting to workout, or that the boyfriend's laptop crashed and burned the other day and we (and by we I mean I, until he pays me back) had to shell out $1200 for a new one. None of this is interesting though. I'm bored typing it, you must be bored reading it.

My theory is that I feel like I have to stack up. Take this recent post from the Quitter for instance, the girl totally cracks me up! Or how 'bout the Narrator (This is a new name, someone I'm not sure I've mentioned before, i'm not sure I love the nickname, but it seems appropriate and you'll see why, anyway, I work with her and she's totally awesome) she tells the best stories ever! Literally the girl could be telling you about the kind of toothpaste she uses and i'm pretty sure in about 3.1 seconds you would be cracking up. Don't believe me... here's the evidence. She posts even more infrequently than I do... but come on... that's quality reading!!! So you see... i'm surrounded by funny! But my life isn't that funny.

I'm starting to feel like i'm losing my creativity. Remember when you were a kid and you could make up whole stories in your head? and then you could tell those stories with eerily vivid detail? A year ago I could still do that.... now i'm not sure that I can. So... for a little while at least, this blog is (and by "is" I mean "might") going to become a creative outlet. I won't be offended if I lose a portion of my VAST number of readers (though I will ask you every time I post, "have you read my blog?") I'm open to suggestions for topics. I don't know how long this will last so i'm sorry if you get bored by it, but I feel like I need to re-assure myself that I have some creative juices left. So if you have any topics that you'd like to throw out, I'd love to see what my mildly deranged brain can do with them.