December 08, 2008
" "
.
The movie quote meme is making rounds in my bloggerhood, and there has been recent debate about films among hellions and terrans as well. Since the Film Freaks seem to be on semi-permanent vacation, and I have so uninteresting a life (as far as putting it to black and white for all of Blogovia to read), here we go.
It's the usual drill - fifteen movie quotes, commentors get credit on a 1stcome1st basis,NO GOOGLING (and answering, anyway). UPDATE: As most of the remaining list is a bit obscure, you may now search, and if you've seen it you can claim it.
I'm taking a tip from Cheezy and putting the more difficult ones toward the end. Ready?
1. I could be just sitting at home with pee stains on my rug. Fez Monkey
2. I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world. Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. Then, I'm comin' back here and go to college and see what they know. Lucy
3.He: I can't dance, I can't dance, I've got two left feet!
She: I thought he was kidding.
He: But I wasn't. I was born with two left feet. Fez Monkey
4. Him 1: This place has become impossible. Nothing to eat, freezing cold and now a madman on the prowl outside with eels.
Him 2: All right, you've made your point. We pack up tomorrow and get out.
Him 1: Where are you going?
Him 2: I'm going for a slash.
Him 1: No you can't, I can't get my boots on when they're hot.
Him 2: That's all right, I'll go alone.
Him 1: No you won't, you're not leaving me in here alone. Those are the kind of windows faces look in at. Joe the Troll
5. Oh, I am afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared to yours. We are but eight-score young blonds and brunettes, all between 16 and 19 1/2, cut off in this castle with no one to protect us. Oooh, it is a lonely life: Bathing, dressing, undressing, making exciting underwear... Fez Monkey
6. Well, sir, I ain't a for-real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud. Fez Monkey
7. But the real excitement, of course, is gonna come at the end of the summer, uh, during Sexual Awareness Week. We import 200 hookers from around the world, and each camper, armed with only a thermos of coffee and $2,000 cash, tries to visit as many "countries" as he can and the winner, of course, is named King of Sexual Awareness Week and is allowed to rape and pillage the neighboring towns until camp ends. Joe the Troll
8. Why don't we all go to Gallo Dam for an orgy? I could pick up some Oleo Margarine - roll around in it for a while. Anita
9. Funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. Anita
10. I hate to be the kinda nigga that do a nigga a favour and then BAM hit the nigga up for a favour in return, but I gots to be that nigga. Fez Monkey
11. And that was only one of the many occasions on which I met my death, an experience which I don't hesitate to strongly recommend. Holly
12. Him 1: They're armed.
Him 2: What do you mean armed? Armed with what?
Him 1: Err, bad breath, colourful language, feather duster... what do you think they're gonna be armed with? GUNS, you tit! Anita
13. Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride. Cheezy
14. Also, you'll find a pair of safety glasses and some earplugs under your seats. Please feel free to use them. Anita
15. Man, it's the same bullshit they tried to pull in my day. If it ain't that piece of paper, there's some other choice they're gonna try and make for you... Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N. Cheezy
.
The movie quote meme is making rounds in my bloggerhood, and there has been recent debate about films among hellions and terrans as well. Since the Film Freaks seem to be on semi-permanent vacation, and I have so uninteresting a life (as far as putting it to black and white for all of Blogovia to read), here we go.
It's the usual drill - fifteen movie quotes, commentors get credit on a 1stcome1st basis,
I'm taking a tip from Cheezy and putting the more difficult ones toward the end. Ready?
She: I thought he was kidding.
He: But I wasn't. I was born with two left feet. Fez Monkey
Him 2: All right, you've made your point. We pack up tomorrow and get out.
Him 1: Where are you going?
Him 2: I'm going for a slash.
Him 1: No you can't, I can't get my boots on when they're hot.
Him 2: That's all right, I'll go alone.
Him 1: No you won't, you're not leaving me in here alone. Those are the kind of windows faces look in at. Joe the Troll
Him 2: What do you mean armed? Armed with what?
Him 1: Err, bad breath, colourful language, feather duster... what do you think they're gonna be armed with? GUNS, you tit! Anita
.
Labels: fun, memes, movies, pop culture, quotes
March 23, 2008
The blackjack meme
.
Inspired by Miz UV and Sour Grapes:
O' Tim answers twenty-one questions
Lake Tahoe ? And that I won money at blackjack? And that I got to see Carlos Santana?
Inspired by Miz UV and Sour Grapes:
O' Tim answers twenty-one questions
1. What was the last blog you left a comment on?
Miz UV’s
2. Favorite black and white movie?
Dr. Strangelove
3. What’s in your freezer right now?
Oh man: frozen veggies & fruit, veggie burgers, veggie chicken nuggets, waffles, lasagna, spinach & feta ravioli, two beer glasses, Stouffer’s alfredo stir-fry stuff, ice, and two really old popsicles
4. How many pillows do you have on your bed?
Five. The extras work great for blocking out the sun on those days I sleep until
5. Do you regularly share your bed with anyone?
Else? No.
6. Do you sleep in Pajamas, undies, nude, or other?
Undies – I toss a lot so tops are uncomfortable
7. If you won $50,000, what would you do with it?
Upgrade one of our vehicles, get new flooring, carpet, some (baby) furniture, new deck, hot tub and save the $15,000 that’s left. Or forego most of that and look for a new house because it is a buyer’s market right now.
8. Something nice you did for someone today?
I let my wife go back to bed this morning to sleep off a bad headache.
9. Something bad you did to someone today?
Said that MIL’s boyfriend’s Jell-O salad looked like it had worms in it because of the thin slices of orange peel (it was really tasty and I said so later).
10. Hardest class you took in school?
Junior year algebra
11. Ever been in a car accident?
Yes – I was in junior high and mom was taking us to school on a snowy morning. A woman with her kids ran a stop sign and smacked us really hard, and she died at the scene.
12. What is one food you won’t eat?
Liver or kidney (organs in general, I suppose)
13. Why?
Because they filter crap from the blood
14. Would you ever eat dog meat?
Not if I could help it
15. What is something as a child you wanted to grow up to become, but didn’t?
A baseball player
16. Name one place in the
17. Name one place outside the
Any place in the European
18. Favorite smells?
Eucalyptus, patchouli, skunk (just a whiff from a distance), grilled steak, fresh gasoline, orange, the upper palate of a good porter, the loamy earth of a hemlock forest, the air above a mountain stream, campfires and (inspired by Sour Grapes) a baby’s head.
19. If you could pick any game show to compete on, which would it be?
Jeopardy or One vs. 100 because it seems really easy.
20. Where did you go on your last real vacation and who did you go with?
21. Your best birthday was for which age?
I'm passing this meme along to the following four:
1. Whomever
2. Wherever
3. Whenever
4. Forever!
hee-hee
.
Labels: fun facts, life, me, memes
December 09, 2007
I meme, you meme, he/she/it memes
.
Oyvez, he's done it again ! ! ! But I am flattered, and must also confess that he's passed along another good one, this time a "thinker," the true essence of any good meme.
It appears the goal here is to cast this multi-authored tome in a multitude of directions in hopes of getting it to go viral on one or more tracks. I am seventh in line as it comes to me. Mathman appears twice so far as he was the meat in a meme sandwich (a testament to just how ka-raazy this thing could get).
We begin:
I woke up hungry. I pulled my bedroom curtain to the side and looked out on a hazy morning. I dragged myself into the kitchen, in search of something to eat. I reached for a jar of applesauce sitting next to the sink, and found it very cold to the touch. I opened the jar and realized it was frozen. (Splotchy)
"That's strange," I said out loud to no one in particular. My fingers slowly reached towards the jar again. My body experienced a wave of apprehension as weighted blanket covering me as I did so. The jar was completely frozen.
I picked it up and stared at it, my fingers stung with little knives of chill. "What the..." again I spoke aloud. Then I realized what had happened with a shock. Suddenly the jar flew from my hand. It shattered creating a collage-like mixture of frozen applesauce and glass shards on my kitchen floor, the lid lazily rolling to a stop across the room. (FranIam)
I stood for a moment considering what all this meant. Oh, I knew what it meant, I didn’t need to waste time thinking about it. He was back. And he was mad.
I ran down the hallway and flung open the door at the end. I was immediately hit with a blast of cold. I took a step back as I tried to catch my breath. I bent over, hands on my knees panting. He always had this remarkable effect on me. After so much time, it no longer scared me, but it was a shock nonetheless……
“You know,” I panted, “There’s no need to break things to get my attention.” (Politits)
I woke up in the same position as in my dream, on my knees. I was sweating even though the room was freezing. (Mathman6293)
I was used to the house being quite cold in the mornings, as the night log usually burns out around one a.m. when I am dreaming cozily under my covers, not normally waking to put a new one on until morning. I was surprised because on the rare occasions that it actually had reached sub-freezing temperatures in the house, I had awakened in the night to restart the fire. I would have been worried about the pipes before P-Day, but there hadn’t been running water in two years and that was one of the few advantages to being dependent on rainwater, no pipes. (Freida Bee)
The nightmares began during the following spring. The apple trees came to life in my dreams. At first the trees spoke and I thought they were amusing. That changed when the messages arrived. Lately, their anger was directed at me. (Mathman6293)
There is only one thing to which I can attribute this shift. Since the shock wore off of realizing that Coker's P-Day "festivities" had split me into two identical, morphable beings (what did it take - two, three weeks?), I spend much of my time trying to advance to the simultaneous rather than the sequential. I haven't progressed to an understanding of the chronological differences of the continua, nor am I absolutely sure there are just the two. But from everything he's displayed to this point I know Coker can't be happy that I am making progress, and so it appears that somehow he's broken through and is giving me shit during the only time I can recharge. I've got to find a place where I can focus one hundred percent. This cold weather combined with a slowly increasing Green Time isn't helping.
How many more are there like him? And are all of them as paranoid about their power? Surely there's an individual out there, a collective perhaps, that's hip to newbies and sees spreading the knowledge of the planes as the only way back to sanity, the only way toward the sublime society that Vandreau advocated for so many years before the fucking wheels fell off. (O' Tim)
And so on to the writers:
Miz UV
Jefe
Teacake
Joe (you owe me two now)
Don
.
Oyvez, he's done it again ! ! ! But I am flattered, and must also confess that he's passed along another good one, this time a "thinker," the true essence of any good meme.
It appears the goal here is to cast this multi-authored tome in a multitude of directions in hopes of getting it to go viral on one or more tracks. I am seventh in line as it comes to me. Mathman appears twice so far as he was the meat in a meme sandwich (a testament to just how ka-raazy this thing could get).
We begin:
I woke up hungry. I pulled my bedroom curtain to the side and looked out on a hazy morning. I dragged myself into the kitchen, in search of something to eat. I reached for a jar of applesauce sitting next to the sink, and found it very cold to the touch. I opened the jar and realized it was frozen. (Splotchy)
"That's strange," I said out loud to no one in particular. My fingers slowly reached towards the jar again. My body experienced a wave of apprehension as weighted blanket covering me as I did so. The jar was completely frozen.
I picked it up and stared at it, my fingers stung with little knives of chill. "What the..." again I spoke aloud. Then I realized what had happened with a shock. Suddenly the jar flew from my hand. It shattered creating a collage-like mixture of frozen applesauce and glass shards on my kitchen floor, the lid lazily rolling to a stop across the room. (FranIam)
I stood for a moment considering what all this meant. Oh, I knew what it meant, I didn’t need to waste time thinking about it. He was back. And he was mad.
I ran down the hallway and flung open the door at the end. I was immediately hit with a blast of cold. I took a step back as I tried to catch my breath. I bent over, hands on my knees panting. He always had this remarkable effect on me. After so much time, it no longer scared me, but it was a shock nonetheless……
“You know,” I panted, “There’s no need to break things to get my attention.” (Politits)
I woke up in the same position as in my dream, on my knees. I was sweating even though the room was freezing. (Mathman6293)
I was used to the house being quite cold in the mornings, as the night log usually burns out around one a.m. when I am dreaming cozily under my covers, not normally waking to put a new one on until morning. I was surprised because on the rare occasions that it actually had reached sub-freezing temperatures in the house, I had awakened in the night to restart the fire. I would have been worried about the pipes before P-Day, but there hadn’t been running water in two years and that was one of the few advantages to being dependent on rainwater, no pipes. (Freida Bee)
The nightmares began during the following spring. The apple trees came to life in my dreams. At first the trees spoke and I thought they were amusing. That changed when the messages arrived. Lately, their anger was directed at me. (Mathman6293)
There is only one thing to which I can attribute this shift. Since the shock wore off of realizing that Coker's P-Day "festivities" had split me into two identical, morphable beings (what did it take - two, three weeks?), I spend much of my time trying to advance to the simultaneous rather than the sequential. I haven't progressed to an understanding of the chronological differences of the continua, nor am I absolutely sure there are just the two. But from everything he's displayed to this point I know Coker can't be happy that I am making progress, and so it appears that somehow he's broken through and is giving me shit during the only time I can recharge. I've got to find a place where I can focus one hundred percent. This cold weather combined with a slowly increasing Green Time isn't helping.
How many more are there like him? And are all of them as paranoid about their power? Surely there's an individual out there, a collective perhaps, that's hip to newbies and sees spreading the knowledge of the planes as the only way back to sanity, the only way toward the sublime society that Vandreau advocated for so many years before the fucking wheels fell off. (O' Tim)
And so on to the writers:
Miz UV
Jefe
Teacake
Joe (you owe me two now)
Don
.
Labels: memes, random, writing
December 04, 2007
The soundtrack of my life
.
Ye gods! Mathman has turned down meme lane once more, and honks as he throws the paper through my window.
I've not seen this one before, though, and it's pretty cool. The rules:
1. Put your music player on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the Next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER WHAT (this is in capital letters, so it is very serious).
BEGIN
1. IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
2. WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Crosseyed And Painless – Talking Heads
3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
LaGrange - ZZ Top
4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Jammin’ – Bob Marley
5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) - The Doors
6. WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Feelin’ Alright – Traffic
7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Conservative Christian, Right Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males - Todd Snider
8. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
10. WHAT IS 2+2?
Give Back The Key To My Heart - Wilco
11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic
12. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
I Second That Emotion - Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders
13. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Laugh Laugh - The Beau Brummels
14. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Home At Last – Steely Dan
15. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Eyes Of The World - String Cheese Incident
16. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
A Wolf At The Door – Radiohead
17. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Let’s Work Together - Canned Heat
18. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
I Need More Love – Robert Randolph & The Family Band
19. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
That’s How AIDS Began - Todd Snider
20. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
After The Goldrush – Neil Young
21. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Salt Of The Earth – Rolling Stones
22. WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
The Man Who Loved Life – The Jayhawks
I'm thoroughly amazed at how some fit in so perfect, while others might have fit better under a different question. I'm also amazed that no Dead showed up, but I did get the Jerry/Merle Motown cover and the String Cheese version of "Eyes."
I am cross-posting this at Where The Vibe Is and invite my fellow musical authors (nat, Joe, Cheezy and Jefe) to post up their results there and/or on their own blogs. Hmm, I’m thinking I need to see Miz UV’s results as well. And what the hell, because he needs to make up his mind about blogging (and because I want to see 22 songs from his player) Fez Monkey can get on it also.
.
Ye gods! Mathman has turned down meme lane once more, and honks as he throws the paper through my window.
I've not seen this one before, though, and it's pretty cool. The rules:
1. Put your music player on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the Next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER WHAT (this is in capital letters, so it is very serious).
BEGIN
1. IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
2. WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Crosseyed And Painless – Talking Heads
3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
LaGrange - ZZ Top
4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Jammin’ – Bob Marley
5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) - The Doors
6. WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Feelin’ Alright – Traffic
7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Conservative Christian, Right Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males - Todd Snider
8. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
10. WHAT IS 2+2?
Give Back The Key To My Heart - Wilco
11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic
12. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
I Second That Emotion - Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders
13. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Laugh Laugh - The Beau Brummels
14. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Home At Last – Steely Dan
15. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Eyes Of The World - String Cheese Incident
16. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
A Wolf At The Door – Radiohead
17. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Let’s Work Together - Canned Heat
18. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
I Need More Love – Robert Randolph & The Family Band
19. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
That’s How AIDS Began - Todd Snider
20. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
After The Goldrush – Neil Young
21. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Salt Of The Earth – Rolling Stones
22. WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
The Man Who Loved Life – The Jayhawks
I'm thoroughly amazed at how some fit in so perfect, while others might have fit better under a different question. I'm also amazed that no Dead showed up, but I did get the Jerry/Merle Motown cover and the String Cheese version of "Eyes."
I am cross-posting this at Where The Vibe Is and invite my fellow musical authors (nat, Joe, Cheezy and Jefe) to post up their results there and/or on their own blogs. Hmm, I’m thinking I need to see Miz UV’s results as well. And what the hell, because he needs to make up his mind about blogging (and because I want to see 22 songs from his player) Fez Monkey can get on it also.
.
Labels: "I Likes", memes, music
November 09, 2007
10 Random Things
.
Mathman has tag-ed me.
1.0 Random Things About Me:
0.1 - I am fascinated by the "celebrities die in threes" thing.
0.2 - I restrung my guitar but broke the #6 E, so I salvaged the very dull old one and it sounded funny with the crispy new ones. All is well now except for having a pack of five strings.
0.3 - I dreamed about strangling W last night.
0.4 - Max giggled a lot today and it made me very happy.
0.5 - I wonder about what to do with all my cassette tapes.
0.6 - I don't worry about financial security but sometimes I feel that I should.
0.7 - I can't remember the last time I rode my mountain bike, or where I rode. That bums me out.
0.8 - I saw an old friend today and we're going to go mountain biking on Sunday. That makes me happy.
0.9 - I hate that W is a mountain biker.
1.0 - I am addicted to cheese
Normally I'm not a tag-er but I'm in the mood to find out things about: Cheezy , JennyJinx , Joe the Troll and my Bunches
.
Mathman has tag-ed me.
1.0 Random Things About Me:
0.1 - I am fascinated by the "celebrities die in threes" thing.
0.2 - I restrung my guitar but broke the #6 E, so I salvaged the very dull old one and it sounded funny with the crispy new ones. All is well now except for having a pack of five strings.
0.3 - I dreamed about strangling W last night.
0.4 - Max giggled a lot today and it made me very happy.
0.5 - I wonder about what to do with all my cassette tapes.
0.6 - I don't worry about financial security but sometimes I feel that I should.
0.7 - I can't remember the last time I rode my mountain bike, or where I rode. That bums me out.
0.8 - I saw an old friend today and we're going to go mountain biking on Sunday. That makes me happy.
0.9 - I hate that W is a mountain biker.
1.0 - I am addicted to cheese
Normally I'm not a tag-er but I'm in the mood to find out things about: Cheezy , JennyJinx , Joe the Troll and my Bunches
.
Labels: facts, fun, fun facts, guitar, me, memes, random
