Emily over at Strangechord passes along another one of those "meme" dealies, and again it's a good one about music. She writes:
Musical Magic 8 Ball: Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. NO CHEATING.
Now that's too tantalizing to pass up. Here we go:
1. How does the world see me?
"The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati" by Rose & the Arrangement. I kid you not.
2. Will I have a happy life?
"Somewhere in America There's a Street Named After My Dad" by Was (Not Was). A lament about being unfairly deprived. Not good. I'm 0-for-2.
3. What do my friends really think of me?
"Just Across the Street" by the Del Rios. O.k., that's nice enough.
4. Do people secretly lust after me?
Aaron Copland, "Old American Songs: At the River." Hmm, maybe somebody at church:
Yes, we'll gather by the river,
The beautiful, the beautiful river,
Gather with the saints by the river
That flows by the throne of God.
5. How can I make myself happy?
"In the Midnight Hour" by Jackie Wilson. Well, I do get going later than most.
6. What should I do with my life?
"Fearless Heart" by Steve Earle. A tall order, but I love it.
7. Will I ever have children?
"For a Dancer" by Jackson Browne. Sweet.
8. What is some good advice for me?
"The Greatest Love on Earth" by Chicago. Got it.
9. How will I be remembered?
"Move on Up" by Curtis Mayfield. Keep on pushin', baby.
10. What do I think my current theme song is?
"(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go" by Curtis Mayfield.
11. What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
"Putnam County" by Tom Waits.
the radio spittin' out Charlie Rich
sure can sing that sonofabitch
and you weave home, weavin' home
leaving the little joint winking in the
dark warm narcotic American night
beneath a pin cushion sky and it's
home to toast and honey, start up the Ford,
your lunch money's there on the draining board,
toilet's runnin' shake the handle,
telephone's ringin' it's Mrs Randal
where the hell are my goddam sandals
12. What song will play at my funeral?
"Too Busy Thinkin' 'Bout My Baby" by Jimmy Ruffin. That would be a good one. Note to self: Amend will to provide that all music will be up-tempo Motown.
13. What type of men/women do you like?
"Cool, Clear Water" by Bonnie Raitt. Remind me again, what are the water signs?
Great game.
Comments (9)
FWIW, here's mine:
1. How does the world see me?
"Fat," by Joe Henry
2. Will I have a happy life?
"Under Your Charms," by Josh Rouse
3. What do my friends really think of me?
"Glass Onion," the Beatles
4. Do people secretly lust after me?
"A Shot in the Arm," Wilco
5. How can I make myself happy?
"Point Blank," Springsteen
6. What should I do with my life?
"Walt Whitman's Neice," Billy Bragg and Wilco
7. Will I ever have children?
"All Lifestyles," Beastie Boys
8. What is some good advice for me?
"Stay Loose," Belle and Sebastian
9. How will I be remembered?
"Unchained Melody," Peter Sellers
10. What do I think my current theme song is?
"Ghost World," Aimee Mann
11. What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
"Race Car Ya-Yas," by Cake
12. What song will play at my funeral?
"Wish You Were Here," Pink Floyd
13. What type of men/women do you like?
"Rollerskate Skinny," the Old 97s
Here's my run. Its worth noting that I really don't have that heady of a music collection, but for some reason the Mingus and the classical kept coming up.
1. How does the world see me?
Girl of my dreams by Charles Mingus. Hmm, I wouldn't have thought so, but whatever works for the world.
2. Will I have a happy life?
Symphony #6 "Tragic" by Mahler. Great.
3. What do my friends really think of me?
I'll Keep it With Mine by Dylan. "I'm loving you not really for what you are but for what you're not."
4. Do people secretly lust after me?
Miss Judy's Farm by the Faces. I'd have to say that�s pretty much a "no." It is odd that this is a song written by Rod Stewart about working on a farm in Alabama, where I'm from.
5. How can I make myself happy?
Unity by Operation Ivy. Me and everyone else, I guess.
6. What should I do with my life?
Boogie Stop Shuffle by Mingus. Sounds good to me.
7. Will I ever have children?
The Delivery Man by Elvis Costello and the Imposters. I�d say that's a yes, specifically a boy, and what a boy it will be:
"In a certain light he looked like Elvis
In a certain way he feels like Jesus
Everyone dreams of him just as they can
But he's only the humble Delivery Man"
8. What is some good advice for me?
Look Back and Laugh by Minor Threat.
9. How will I be remembered?
Fable of Faubus by Mingus. I should certainly hope not. The "Faubus" in the title refers to "Orval E. Faubus... governor of Arkansas who, in 1957, sent out the National Guard to prevent a few black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School."
10. What do I think my current theme song is?
Natural Mystic by Bob Marley. Man, why couldn't this have been the song for #9.
11. What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Scherzino from Cavatina by Christopher Parkening. I think that this was the "Deer Hunter" theme.
12. What song will play at my funeral?
Suzanne by Harlan Allen-Mike Lilly Band. Well, I can imagine bluegrass, but I wouldn't have picked this song necessarily, unless, you know, I ever meet anyone named Suzanne, or maybe my name becomes Suzanne. It is a pretty song though.
13. What type of women do you like?
"Chapter 3, Track 13 - Assassination Vacation" by Sarah Vowell. Okay, this doesn't count because its a book on tape, but cute bookish types is definitely apropos.
Weird Beard by Fu Manchu. Pretty much speaks for itself.
If that's the "Suzanne" written by Leonard Cohen, it would be a profound funeral song. "He said, 'All men will be sailors, then, until the sea can free them' / But He Himself was broken long before the sky could open / Forsaken, almost human, He sang beneath your wisdom like a stone."
2. Will I have a happy life? "Sway" by Michael Buble
6. What should I do with my life? "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" by the Beatles. So, it's off to the circus for me!
8. What is some good advice for me? "Take It Easy" by the Eagles
12. What song will play at my funeral? "Do You Hear What I Hear?", a Christmas carol. My preference would be "We're Off to See the Wizard."
Cancer (July), Scorpio (Nov.), and Pisces (March) are water signs, each of a different quality of water.
Cancer is water cardinal, meaning initiating and changing, the first, the active. So: running water, streams and rivers.
Scorpio is water fixed, meaning still, or self-set, confined, constant. So lakes, ponds, ice, also fetid and putrid water, and in a salt water sense is sometimes interpreted as the ocean.
Pisces is water mutable, meaning changeable, variable, from extreme to extreme oscillation. So, most often is ocean, seas, but in a trilogy of running waters (Cancer) going to ocean water body (Scorpio) evaporating as clouds and precipitation (Pisces) to feed mountain trickles back to running water, there is a cycle around the circle.
The earth signs are the water signs' supplements. Earth, air, and fire signs, (three each), have a similar cardinal-fixed-mutable 'circle story,' each begetting the next.
Cancer 'says' "I feel"
Scorpio says "I want"
Pisces says "I need"
Shows distinctions of emotions within the generalization 'feelings.'
---
My own two cent construct, for those of the playing card persuasion:
Aries -- Queen Spades
Taurus -- King Diamonds
Gemini -- Jack Clubs
Cancer -- Queen Hearts
Leo -- King Spades
Virgo -- Jack Diamonds
Libra -- Queen Clubs
Scorpio -- King Hearts
Sagittarius -- Jack Spades
Capricorn -- Queen Diamonds
Aquarius -- King Clubs
Pisces -- Jack Hearts
The cards 'speak' to some. Like what's his name, Jackson Brown ? "Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds boys, she'll beat you if she's able, the Queen of Hearts is always your best friend ..."
Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
The Occasional Book
Hope Larson - A Wrinkle in Time, the Graphic Novel
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Peter Ames Carlin - Bruce
Fran Cannon Slayton - When the Whistle Blows
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Road Work
Miles run year to date: 29
At this date last year: 66
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (9)
FWIW, here's mine:
1. How does the world see me?
"Fat," by Joe Henry
2. Will I have a happy life?
"Under Your Charms," by Josh Rouse
3. What do my friends really think of me?
"Glass Onion," the Beatles
4. Do people secretly lust after me?
"A Shot in the Arm," Wilco
5. How can I make myself happy?
"Point Blank," Springsteen
6. What should I do with my life?
"Walt Whitman's Neice," Billy Bragg and Wilco
7. Will I ever have children?
"All Lifestyles," Beastie Boys
8. What is some good advice for me?
"Stay Loose," Belle and Sebastian
9. How will I be remembered?
"Unchained Melody," Peter Sellers
10. What do I think my current theme song is?
"Ghost World," Aimee Mann
11. What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
"Race Car Ya-Yas," by Cake
12. What song will play at my funeral?
"Wish You Were Here," Pink Floyd
13. What type of men/women do you like?
"Rollerskate Skinny," the Old 97s
Interesting.
Posted by Dave J. | March 14, 2006 6:18 PM
Here's my run. Its worth noting that I really don't have that heady of a music collection, but for some reason the Mingus and the classical kept coming up.
1. How does the world see me?
Girl of my dreams by Charles Mingus. Hmm, I wouldn't have thought so, but whatever works for the world.
2. Will I have a happy life?
Symphony #6 "Tragic" by Mahler. Great.
3. What do my friends really think of me?
I'll Keep it With Mine by Dylan. "I'm loving you not really for what you are but for what you're not."
4. Do people secretly lust after me?
Miss Judy's Farm by the Faces. I'd have to say that�s pretty much a "no." It is odd that this is a song written by Rod Stewart about working on a farm in Alabama, where I'm from.
5. How can I make myself happy?
Unity by Operation Ivy. Me and everyone else, I guess.
6. What should I do with my life?
Boogie Stop Shuffle by Mingus. Sounds good to me.
7. Will I ever have children?
The Delivery Man by Elvis Costello and the Imposters. I�d say that's a yes, specifically a boy, and what a boy it will be:
"In a certain light he looked like Elvis
In a certain way he feels like Jesus
Everyone dreams of him just as they can
But he's only the humble Delivery Man"
8. What is some good advice for me?
Look Back and Laugh by Minor Threat.
9. How will I be remembered?
Fable of Faubus by Mingus. I should certainly hope not. The "Faubus" in the title refers to "Orval E. Faubus... governor of Arkansas who, in 1957, sent out the National Guard to prevent a few black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School."
10. What do I think my current theme song is?
Natural Mystic by Bob Marley. Man, why couldn't this have been the song for #9.
11. What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Scherzino from Cavatina by Christopher Parkening. I think that this was the "Deer Hunter" theme.
12. What song will play at my funeral?
Suzanne by Harlan Allen-Mike Lilly Band. Well, I can imagine bluegrass, but I wouldn't have picked this song necessarily, unless, you know, I ever meet anyone named Suzanne, or maybe my name becomes Suzanne. It is a pretty song though.
13. What type of women do you like?
"Chapter 3, Track 13 - Assassination Vacation" by Sarah Vowell. Okay, this doesn't count because its a book on tape, but cute bookish types is definitely apropos.
Weird Beard by Fu Manchu. Pretty much speaks for itself.
Posted by Luke | March 14, 2006 9:07 PM
If that's the "Suzanne" written by Leonard Cohen, it would be a profound funeral song. "He said, 'All men will be sailors, then, until the sea can free them' / But He Himself was broken long before the sky could open / Forsaken, almost human, He sang beneath your wisdom like a stone."
Posted by Jack Bog | March 14, 2006 9:16 PM
Unfortunately I think this is a more mundane "Suzanne," basically the singer's just pining for an old girlfriend named Suzanne.
First line: "sang a song on a friday night, drank a little beer, wishin suzanne was here..."
It would definitely be a tear-jerker at any Suzanne's funeral, though.
Posted by Luke | March 14, 2006 9:30 PM
We won't bore you with the entire results [you know where to find them if you're really interested]. But there was this shocker:
7. Will I ever have children?
"One" by Marvin Hamlisch [from "A Chorus Line" soundtrack].
Oy, vey!
Posted by Worldwide Pablo | March 14, 2006 11:06 PM
This was fun to do. Here are my highlights:
2. Will I have a happy life? "Sway" by Michael Buble
6. What should I do with my life? "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" by the Beatles. So, it's off to the circus for me!
8. What is some good advice for me? "Take It Easy" by the Eagles
12. What song will play at my funeral? "Do You Hear What I Hear?", a Christmas carol. My preference would be "We're Off to See the Wizard."
Posted by Sadie | March 15, 2006 9:25 AM
mine's up! The only really good one, i mean interesting one, i mean... damn thats funny one, was the last one.
Posted by pril | March 15, 2006 11:54 AM
Cancer (July), Scorpio (Nov.), and Pisces (March) are water signs, each of a different quality of water.
Cancer is water cardinal, meaning initiating and changing, the first, the active. So: running water, streams and rivers.
Scorpio is water fixed, meaning still, or self-set, confined, constant. So lakes, ponds, ice, also fetid and putrid water, and in a salt water sense is sometimes interpreted as the ocean.
Pisces is water mutable, meaning changeable, variable, from extreme to extreme oscillation. So, most often is ocean, seas, but in a trilogy of running waters (Cancer) going to ocean water body (Scorpio) evaporating as clouds and precipitation (Pisces) to feed mountain trickles back to running water, there is a cycle around the circle.
The earth signs are the water signs' supplements. Earth, air, and fire signs, (three each), have a similar cardinal-fixed-mutable 'circle story,' each begetting the next.
Cancer 'says' "I feel"
Scorpio says "I want"
Pisces says "I need"
Shows distinctions of emotions within the generalization 'feelings.'
---
My own two cent construct, for those of the playing card persuasion:
Aries -- Queen Spades
Taurus -- King Diamonds
Gemini -- Jack Clubs
Cancer -- Queen Hearts
Leo -- King Spades
Virgo -- Jack Diamonds
Libra -- Queen Clubs
Scorpio -- King Hearts
Sagittarius -- Jack Spades
Capricorn -- Queen Diamonds
Aquarius -- King Clubs
Pisces -- Jack Hearts
The cards 'speak' to some. Like what's his name, Jackson Brown ? "Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds boys, she'll beat you if she's able, the Queen of Hearts is always your best friend ..."
Posted by Tenskwatawa | March 15, 2006 4:38 PM
Mine are a total hoot, you can find them here.
You know you're in trouble when Pink Floyd's "Young Lust" pops up as an answer to one of those questions...
Posted by Betsy | March 16, 2006 12:03 AM