Top 10 January 7, 2009

favorite songs:
1) 4th of July (Sandy) – Bruce Springsteen
2) Sounds of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel
3) America – Simon and Garfunkel
4) Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen
5) Heart of Gold – Neil Young
6) Wild Horses – Natasha Bedingfield
7) These Days – Bon Jovi
8) Dry County – Bon Jovi
9) Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
10) The River – Bruce Springsteen

favorite movies:
1) Pulp Fiction
2) V for Vendetta
3) Wanted
4) The Story of Us
5) The Sound of Music
6) The Prestige
7) Dan in Real Life
8) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9) What Dreams May Come
10) The Family Stone

favorite books:
1) For the Time Being – Annie Dillard
2) Searching for God Knows What – Donald Miller
3) Prozac Nation – Elizabeth Wurtzel
4) As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
5) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee
6) Othello – William Shakespeare
7) Absalom! Absalom! – William Faulkner
8) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
9) Through Painted Deserts – Donald Miller
10) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

favorite TV shows:
1) Nightly News with Brian Williams
2) Damages
3) Mad Men
4) Grey’s Anatomy
5) Countdown with Keith Olbermann
6) Breaking Bad
7) Two and a Half Men
8) Worst Week
9) Good Eats
10) Chelsea Lately

just because it is fun. August 17, 2008

How does the world see you? Seat Next to You – Bon Jovi

Will I have a happy life? You Know I’m No Good – Amy Winehouse (HAHAHA!)

What do my friends really think of me? Hold Me Now – Jennifer Knapp

How can I make myself happy? These Days – Bon Jovi

Will I ever have children? Walking in Memphis – Marc Cohn

What is some good advice for me? Free Market Jesus – Don Miller (not a song, but very cool nonetheless)

How will I be remembered? Lucky – Bon Jovi

What is My Current Theme Song? Going Home – Sara Groves (I hope that doesn’t mean I’m dying!)

What does everyone else think my current theme song is? I Love This Town – Bon Jovi

What song will play at my funeral? Dirty Little Secret – Bon Jovi

What type of men do I like? Love Is a Losing Game – Amy Winehouse

Who do I love? The End – Bon Jovi

Am I going to get married? Fear – Bon Jovi

Who loves me? Temptation – Bon Jovi

Who will I marry? Milkshake – Kelis

My summer love forecast: America the Beautiful – Neil Young

What will tomorrow bring? I Wanna Be Moved – Ginny Owens

wow–this one is hilarious and freaky and depressing.

answers to the rest of the songs from my previous post August 12, 2008

1. Jungleland – Bruce Springsteen
2. Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan (I’m shocked nobody got this one!)
4. Heart of Gold – Neil Young
6. Follow You Home – Nickelback
8. Do What You Have to Do – Sarah McLachlan
9. Roger and Out – Neil Young
11. Blessed Be Your Name – Matt Redman
15. Dead Man Walking – Springsteen
16. Who Says You Can’t Go Home – Bon Jovi
18. Yes! - Coldplay
19. Angel Standing By – Jewel
20. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) – Springsteen
21. Barcelona – Jewel
22. Painters – Jewel
24. Where the Streets Have No Name – U2

another zune survey August 3, 2008

Step 1: Put iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: If you know one, post a comment with the title and artist.
Step 4: Don’t be a loser and look them up on Lyrics.com, Lyricwiki, etc.
Step 5: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly

(I’ve put a little more than the first line on some…)

1. The Rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night.
2. How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
3. Ride, cowboy, ride through the backdoor to Heaven, to the other side. I wanna know the danger of a kiss at midnight.
4. I wanna live, I wanna give, I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold.
5. Dressed up for a big date like Halloween day, but it was fourth of July now.
6. You can dig me up a grave and try and put me in the ground. You can tie me to the bed and try and beat me half to death, but you can never keep me down.
7. Misery likes company, I like the way that sounds.
8. What ravages of spirit conjured this temptuous rage
9. Trippin’ down that old hippie highway, got to thinkin’ ’bout you again.
10. I have climbed highest mountains. I have run through the fields only to be with you.
11. Blessed be Your Name in a land that is plentiful, where streams of abundance flow
12. Imagine there’s no Heaven, it’s easy if you try
13. I lost all faith in my God, in His religion too. I told the angels they could sing their songs to someone new.
14. Made in America, 1959, born down by the factories, ‘cross the Jersey city line.
15. There’s a pale horse comin’ and I’m gonna ride it.
16. I spent 20 years tryin’ to get outta this place.
17. Shot through the heart and you’re to blame…..
18. When it started we had high hopes, now my back’s on the line; my back’s on the ropes
19. All through the night I’ll be watching over you
20. Spread out now Rosie, doctor come cut loose her mama’s reins
21. Barcelona, where the winds all blew, the churches don’t have windows but the graveyards do.
22. 80 years, an old lady now, sitting on the front porch watching clouds roll by
23. Stacey’s mom has got it goin’ on….
24. I want to run. I want to hide, I want to tear down these walls that hold me inside.
25. It’s been one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said, “I’m angry.”

iTunes survey July 5, 2008

How does the world see you?
Everything Will Be Alright – The Killers

Will I have a happy life?
Line Dancing-Selling Avon – Shirley Q. Liquor

What do my friends really think of me?
Light My Candle – Rent (the musical)

How can I make myself happy?
Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix

Will I ever have children?
Everybody’s Changing – Keane

What is some good advice for me?
Wait – Death Cab for Cutie (WHOA!)

How will I be remembered?
Unemployment – Shirley Q. Liquor (LOL!!!!!!)

What is My Current Theme Song?
Stacy’s Mom – Fountains of Wayne (yep.)

What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
In the Early Morning Rain – Peter, Paul, and Mary

What song will play at my funeral?
Set Me as a Seal – Concordia Choir

What type of men do I like?
Killing Me Softly – Carly Simon
 
Who do I love?
Fire and Rain – James Taylor

Am I going to get married?
No Day but Today – Rent

Who loves me?
Song Beneath the Song – Maria Taylor

Who will I marry?
Blackbird – CSNY

My summer love forecast:
The Boys Are Back in Town – Bon Jovi (Thin Lizzy cover)

What will tomorrow bring?
Crashin’ a Wake – Shirley Q. Liquor

 

I seriously did not cheat on this (other than skipping the opera tracks)

i’m not good with blog fidelity. November 14, 2007

This is my third blog. I have a xanga and a blogspot. So far the xanga has been the most successful–it has lasted a few years (through a big part of high school). My blogspot was a way to keep in touch with people when I was away at college. This blog just looked fun and cool. We’ll see. Maybe I can get my blogspot friends to transfer to here with me.

I’ll save my fun facts for when I figure out how to make a 100 Things About Me page….