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Thursday, April 08, 2004

The Heisenberg Principle Contest

In a response to the limited outcry, here's the quizzzz! I waited until Heidi's movie quizzz was closed, because we don't want to be all tired out, now do we?

Here’s the rules -- this list is current as of the morning of 8 April. This list contains all songs that have gotten more than 10 plays on my iTunes list, some due to my propensity to listen, others due to the fact that iTunes really likes them and brings them up all the time on the random setting. Artists may be represented multiple times, but I did eliminate songs from one album that got more than 10 plays -- there was one song that got more hits than the others, so that’s the one that’s going on the list. Scoring is one point for artist, and one point for title. Maximum possible points are 50, and there’s a bonus tiebreaker at the bottom of the contest. There is at least one gimme, but I think it's fun to feel like you actually know something when you see one of these quizzes. For this quiz, I expect the Betster to have the advantage. Let’s stick it to the man and let someone other than Mike win for a change! Woo hoo!

Good luck, and answers are due on Sunday night. You may e-mail me the answers. I really do think this quizz is doable! Tell your friends and neighbors!

1. Plenty people like open space, give me a perfumed alleyway.
2. Tell me I'm not in the blue, that I'm not wasting my feelings on you.
3. You were in the sea on a decline breaking the waves.
4. With me everything is turning out to be a kind of slapstick tragedy. Do you know what I mean?
5. Like any hotblooded woman I have simply wanted an object to crave.
6. Now her parents are divorced and her friend's committing suicide.
7. We were lonely like socks that were lost in the dryer.
8. I said: Are you all right? I said I must be fine 'cause my heart's still beating.
9. Will I find a believer? Another one who believes? Another one to deceive?
10. He says his girlfriend lives too far away. Always at a friend's house or on holiday.
11. Loves the soul in every soldier
12. I've seen her at the club expanding with the funk. She looks so brilliant.
13. The insurgency began, and we missed it.
14. He kept his world all to himself and locked it tied inside his belt, but she preferred his belt undone.
15. I nooded her again, and feel butterflies.
16. The manager looks on ignoring the problem, but sees no solution -- so what's in it for him?
17. I want a doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
18. In case there’s a problem bring identification.
19. Hey you with the pretty face -- welcome to the human race!
20. This is a song about the everyday occurrences that make you feel like letting go.
21. My name is might have been. My name is never was....
22. Wanna be a gunslinger -- don’t be a pop singer!
23. Science is susceptible, logic’s so inflexible
24. Well honey I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair -- and if it all fell out well I'd love you anyway
25. In Moscow it's 3:15. In New York let's see a show.

Bonus tiebreaker: A coherent explanation of the Heisenberg principle’s relevance to the list.

.: posted by Lily Thursday, April 08, 2004

Sunday, April 04, 2004

So, instead of getting a condo, on Friday I decided I needed a new handbag (or purse, or pocketbook, wherever you may be an however old you are). I had been jonesing for one of those jelly ones, for some inexplicable reason, so I decided to head out and treat myself. I have, afterall, been a very inexpensive date for the last three months, as all I ever do is go look at condos. However, the jelly ones were all icky, but on the way out the door I saw this handbag. It's the pink one, and I decided that I needed this one instead. It's really cute, and we're really happy together. It's amazing how shallow a girl can be. (Safari users take note, this page causes Safari to hang -- so use Internet Exploder instead)

This is why I need closet space. However, you should all also be proud, as I got rid of an old one that I never used to make room for the new one.

Something else I noticed this weekend -- American radio sucks a weenie. I was listening to Radio 2 this morning (which is the old farts network in the UK). Well, even with the inexplicable Jonathon Woss hosting the show, (and how he EVER got a radio gig with that speech impediment, I'll never know), cracking jokes about British geezers like Jimmy Hill and Wogan, in his three hour show he played eclectic, interesting music. Ska hits. Tom Jones, Glenn Tilbrook's new single. Faux-house. I can't get anything but the top ten faux indie-hits on a US station. There is nowhere to go to hear anything off the beaten track. In the old days, the major markets had stations that brought you all kinds of odd music, even if it was just in the wee hours of the morning. Now it's all Clear Channel. Ugh.

I also have an idea for my own lyric quiz, once Bet's has wrapped hers up. Lily's Top 25 iTunes! Some minor fudging will be done, as the top 25 contains one entire new album that I have, that y'all will probably never had heard of, so I'll pick the single and move others up the list accordingly.

Could be fun! Tell your friends and neighbors....or don't

.: posted by Lily Sunday, April 04, 2004

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