Can somebody please explain to me how iTunes can skip?
Is there a tiny needle somewhere in my computer? In the iPod?
This may come as a shock to exactly nobody, but when I was in high school I was in a garage band. (Well, technically I was in several but since I almost always had the same drummer it was mostly just that one garage - so garage bands?)
My band was called Culture Clash (Sarah blushes and winces at the same time). We called ourselves that
Amy at Tastes Like Crazy tagged me for the seven things meme. Yes, I’ve done it before. I may even do it again.
1) I don’t know how many of you love “Arrested Development” the way that we do, but you are, you may be the only people that will understand this. I’ve been trying to get the kids to tell Gabe “No, it’s me - Gene Parmesan.”
2) One of my favorite words is stigmata.
3) The other day I watched the movie “Becket” and I Peter O’Toole reminded me of Brad Pitt.
4) We have an unusual rule in our house: No Dancing in the Shower. We have to have this rule otherwise Ian would fall down every time he bathed standing up.
5) I am reading Dune and it makes me thirsty.
6) I seem to be competing for the world record of for the person who does the seven things meme the most times.
7) I love to know what people have on their iPods. I love it so much that I could not resist this iTunes meme:
iTunes Meme
I saw this over on Kate’s blog and I was so curious about what my answers would be I decided to just do the thing myself. (Yes, I know I am a dork.)
Now, keep in mind that I share my iTunes with somebody, so if it is really super lame (and not opera) let’s just assume it is Gabe’s music, okay?
How many total songs?
18869 songs. 47.9 days worth.
Sort by song title - First and Last…
A*s Clown - Ministry and Jello Biafra
? - Outkast (if you don’t like that answer, please accept 9th Wonder (Blackitolism) by Digable Planets)
Sort by Time - Shortest and Longest…
Digustipated - Tool, 1 second
Blue Collar Comedy Tour - Larry the Cable Guy, 1:13:31
(Longest actual song is MX - Deftones)
Sort by Album - First and Last…
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Yo Gabba Gabba - It was an EP that Nick Jr. sent me
Sort by Artist - First and Last…
A-ha
999
Top Five Most Played Songs…*
Roaches in the Sink - Alice Donut, 101 plays
7 Words - Deftones, 97 plays
Killing Zone - Rancid, 97 plays
Carry On - Common Rider, 94 plays
The Air Near My Fingers - The White Stripes, 92 plays
Find the following words. How many songs show up?
Sex: 120, Death: 232 , Love: 800, You: 2057, Home: 170, Boy: 578, Girl: 388
First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle…
Bounce (Let me See Ya Throw It) - Busta Rhymes
Velouria - The Pixies
She’s Leaving Home -The Beatles
What More Can I Do -The Zombies
Shelter From the Storm - Bob Dylan
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I won’t tag anyone, but I know a few Daddy Bloggers who could make an interesting post out of this.
* Gabe wanted me to stick a note on here to tell you something important. Our playcounts are very skewed by the fact that our iTunes was completely wiped out and restarted in August. All of those counts are from August until now.
Do you want to know what rules about being back at the house you grew up in for Thanksgiving?
When your son’s cool new “binoculars”:
Turn out to be your autographed Paul Gilbert (of Mr. Big and Racer X fame) poster, circa Cereal Killer.*
Then your husband makes fun of you a lot for being such a dork.
And you know you deserve it.
- Have a great Thanksgiving.
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* And yeah, it says: “To Sarah, Twist and Shout”. So I am not the only dork, am I Paul Gilbert?
CHARACTERS
ME: A suburban mom
20ISH GUY: a Barnes and Noble Employee
30ISH WOMAN: another Barnes and Noble Employee. Possibly 20ISH GUYS boss.
[A Barnes and Noble in Tampa, Florida. The suburban mom walks into the music section of the store. The 20ISH GUY approaches the new customer.]
20ISH GUY: Can I help you find something ma’am?
ME: Yes. I am looking for the new Dethklok album.
20ISH GUY: [puzzled] Death? Clock? [Trying not to laugh. You he was expecting her to be looking for the Josh Groban Christmas CD
ME: [beginning to feel uncomfortable, sort of] Yes. I think it is called the “Dethalbum“. It is a two discs.
20ISH GUY: [goes to the counter and approaches 30ISH WOMAN and a computer. Then, to the woman:] Death Clock? [he starts typing]
ME: I think it is D-E-T-H-K [She stops spelling because she is feeling really stupid.]
30ISH Woman: What is Death Clock?
ME: It is a band from a cartoon. It could be under Metalocalypse.
20ISH Man: What kind of cartoon?
ME: You know, one on Adult Swim. It is about a Death Metal band that is the third largest economy in the world. [At this point she just feels like a lunatic. Wants to leave the store.]
30ISH WOMAN: Here is an adult swim DVD…
20ISH GUY: OH! Dethklok. It’s one word.
ME: [Looking around furtively, just trying to escape.]
30ISH WOMAN: Huh. Okay “The Dethalbum“. We don’t have any, but I can order it for you.
ME: No thanks. I don’t live here.
[Suburban Mom runs away. Employees mock her once she is gone. Suburban Mom feels like an idiot and goes home so that she can tell the internet all about it.]
THE END
Chris from Rude Cactus called me hip the other day. Clearly that solidified the fact that I would do something insanely dorky that day proving how uncool I really am.
Take for example this conversation that Gabe and I had about the singer from System of a Down and his new solo album.*
Me: You know, Serj. I can never remember his last name. What is it anyway?
Him: I don’t know - Ptolemy?
Me: I was going to say Tarkenton.
The real answer is Tankian.
I think.
Either way it is a good album.
*You could also take for example the fact that I had to e-mail The Kaiser to photoshop a picture of Serj Tankian’s head on Fran Tarkenton’s body.
Thanks Kaiser. This post wouldn’t even be funny without the picture. Although I could easily be the only one who thinks it is funny in the first place.
In The United States today is Election Day.
Obviously (if you are me anyway) I have had that Arcadia song
This is the part of the post where you are going to have to pay attention in order to follow my train of thought. In 1985 Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor from Duran Duran formed a side group. This band was called Arcadia (John Taylor and Andy Taylor formed The Power Station with Robert Palmer and Tony Thompson*). Arcadia wrote the song “Election Day
So I’ve been thinking about Duran Duran and something that has been bothering me for a couple years now.
I used to be a Durany (Duranee?). Yes, before I got into hair metal (and then Death Metal) I openly worshipped Duran Duran. The walls of my bedroom were covered with pictures of John Taylor that I ripped out of Tiger Beat.
Here is my point. I used to think that Duran Duran was super deep. (Cut me some slack, I was in the 6th grade.) Read these lyrics from “Last Chance on the Stairway”.
Funny it’s just like a scene out of Voltaire, twisting out of sight
‘Cause when all the curtains are pulled back
We’ll turn and see the circles we traced?
Ain’t no game… (oooh)
When you’re playing with fire
It doesn’t seem right that we fight
So the party runs on all night
And sometimes I’m caught in a landslide
My beat’s so in time can you look at me
I’m out of reach I’ll talk if it feels right
So nervous to say, tell me can’t you see
If you want I’ll fall out forever
I can’t say no more… babe dance with me
And please don’t say leave till later
I’ve had my last chance on the stairway.
Right. So as an adult that has actually read Voltaire I realize that this is pretty much garbage. And much like seeing that stupid reality show when Tommy Lee went to college this is cheapening my childhood. I want this song to mean something, but now all I get out of it is “babe dance with me”, I detest the word ain’t and crap, I wished I hadn’t wasted my time reading “Candide
Fine. Now I am going to go vote to show my children what a responsible citizen I am all while feeling old and disillusioned. And you can look at this picture of John Taylor in a fedora.
* Is it messed up that I didn’t need to look any of that up?
Claudia just performed a recital for me. It wasn’t a Capella, she had one maraca.
Claudia’s Set List
1 - The Wheels on the Bus
2 - Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
3 - Shout at the Devil*
She has really started mixing up her genres. I hope she doesn’t end up alienating her core audience. I’d hate for her fans to think she sold out.
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This post is entirely true, but the picture was inspired when I was cleaning and found these other set lists that I kept from high school, because I am such a dork so rock n roll. Extra points for anyone who can name the bands who these set lists belong to.
*I don’t know. Maybe that last one was an encore. She got distracted when Dora the Explorer came on tv.
So am I the only one who can’t get that Danzig song out of my head today?
Just Me?
Fine. Be that way.
Danzig 777
