GrafBombLabbit
Not in any particular order. There's about 30 more where this came from. But, those would require a heaping helping of context...

1. The Smiths "The Queen is Dead"
2. Husker Du "Flip Your Wig"
3. Slint "Spiderland"
4. Public Enemy "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
5. Pavement "Slanted and Enchanted"
6. The Pogues "If I Should Fall From Grace of God"
7. The Wedding Present "Bizarro"
8. Dinosaur Jr. "You're Living All Over Me"/"Bug" (I heard these two back-to-back)
9. Tortoise "TNT"
10. The Cure "Standing on a Beach"
11. Everything But the Girl "Idlewild"
12. Polvo "Today's Active Lifestyles"
13. N.W.A. "Straight Outta Compton"
14. Portishead "Dummy"
15. Boards of Canada "Music Has a Right to Children"
16. The Sea and Cake "The Biz"
17. Bob Marley "Legend" (I bought it while I was in high school, I swear!)
18. De La Soul "3 Feet High and Rising"
19. Bjork "Homogenic"
20. The Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollocks..."
21. The Sugarcubes "Life's Too Good"
22. Suicidal Tendencies "Suicidal Tendencies"
23. The Stone Roses "The Stone Roses"
24. The Pixies "Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim"
25. Massive Attack "Mezzanine"
26. The English Beat "I Just Can't Stop It"
27. R.E.M. "Life's Rich Pageant"
28. DJ Shadow "Endtroducing..."
29. The Beatles "Past Masters, vol. 2"
30. Billy Bragg "Talking with the Taxman about Poetry"

Slow with the meme-ery...

  • Mar. 5th, 2009 at 10:54 AM
GrafBombLabbit
Brought over from my Facebook entry:

Ok, so this meme is, like, so a month ago. But, whatever, David tagged me and I felt I should follow through!

1. I was a pretty good student until college. I barely managed to graduate from college. I blame being able to basically coast through high school and still graduate with honors for my lack of preparation for what college would entail.

2. If I could retire today, it would be to play golf for the rest of my life.

3. I have a soft spot in my heart for movie musicals from the 1950s.

4. As much as I'd love to, I can't play survival horror video games for more than 30 minutes at a stretch because I get too freaked out!

5. I have over one year's worth of The New Yorker magazines stockpiled because I can't read them fast enough and I refuse to read them out of chronological order.

6. The basis of my views on racial politics in America were heavily influenced by NWA's "Straight Outta Compton", Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back", and Paris's "The Devil Made Me Do It".

7. I refuse to dance.

8. I have never karaoke'd.

9. My diet in high school consisted primarily of frozen burritos, frozen pizzas, and cornish game hens.

10. I didn't appreciate the awesomeness of Korean food until I was well into college.

11. I had long hair throughout my early- to mid-20s.

12. I didn't get my ear pierced until I was 21 because I didn't want to upset my mom.

13. I've been trying in fits and spurts to learn Korean on my own. My parents were right that I'd regret losing my ability to speak Korean. I have made absolutely zero progress.

14. I am incapable of incorporating the "orange button" into my life. I've completely psyched myself out now.

15. I am a terrible pack-rat.

16. I learned to drive a manual transmission AFTER I leased my VW Jetta (my first car) in 1995.

17. Luck has played a greater role in the trajectory of my career than anything else.

18. I've been getting the odd grey hair here and there since my early twenties.

19. Yes, I do play disc golf.

20. For a good three years or so, I ate Chipotle for lunch at least three times per week. And, always the same burrito made the same way.

21. I go through phases where I get obsessed with certain foods (see #20).

22. My video game collection is a testament to the severity of my video gaming ADD.

23. I used to record "Police Squad" on to cassette tapes to listen to after the shows had aired as a kid.

24. My favorites shows when I was in grade school were Benny Hill, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, and Dukes of Hazzard.

25. I've never made more than 5 pages into Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow".

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GrafBombLabbit
Here's what I posted in mine:

"Gates of the West"
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Here is the iPod Shuffle Game! To answer each question, hit "next" on your iPod. Write the title, then the artist. No cheating!

IF SOMEONE SAYS, "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
"I Don't Mind If You Forget Me" - Morrissey

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
"Mr. Freeze" - Prince Fatty

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
"If You Let Me Stay" - Terence Trend D'Arby (awesome song!)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
"Kitchen Sink" - Amon Tobin

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
"Girder" - Appleblim

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
"I'll Still Be Around" - Richard Wylie and His Band

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
"Find Myself" - Roni Size

WHAT IS 2+2?
"The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records" - Mum

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
"Tommy Gun" - The Clash

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LOVE?
"In Our Bedroom After the War" - Stars

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
"Close2" - Boards of Canada

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
"Lethargica" - Meshuggah

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LOVE?
"Burning Down the House" - Talking Heads

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
"Junco Partner" - The Clash

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
"Cock Up Your Beaver" - Camera Obscura (!!!)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
"Sparkle" - Camp Lo

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
"Elective Surgery" - Dr. Octagon

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
"Tout Doucement" - Feist

WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
"C.R.E.A.M." - The Wu-Tang Clan

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
"Happyfour Twenty" - Christ. (OMG!)

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
"Foley Room" - Amon Tobin

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
"Winter Wonderland" - Ella Fitzgerald

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
"Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back" - Deerhoof

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
"Go Away" - Archer Prewitt (an AWESOME song BTW)

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
"Wamp Wamp What It Do" - Clipse (f/ Slim Thug)

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
"Molec Codices" - Krallice

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
"Near Dark" - Burial

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
"Lifetime Man" - Oma Heard

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
"Gates of the West" - The Clash

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