outside it's america

aw, hell. i just realized i forgot to buy my stuff at work. crap. i'll get it tomorrow. i don't really need to obsessively watch season 5 of the simpsons. i'll find another way to amuse myself. like maybe obsessively watching old episodes of newsradio. until segev comes home and makes me stop, of course.

i got a lovely card from fastrada yesterday. it was very nice of you to include segev's name on the card.

my ipod played happy music on the way home. "bullet the blue sky", spoon, elastica, and cathy dennis. it made me think about how great bono's voice was back around joshua tree, and how much he's been coasting ever since. i know, i know, boo hiss, everyone loves bono, he's saving the world one jesse helms at a time. but...their last two albums have been just so...polished. no real emotion. even POP had more emotion. heh. i love pop. U2's always been more about the melody than the lyrics for me, but...i dunno, the lyrics are just getting cheesier and cheesier now. vertigo...i didn't know...slip your hand in my glove of love, whatever. and in 1987, he had eyeballs. now, who knows? i've said it before and i'll say it again. take off the sunglasses, bono. no. really. now. take them off. and get a haircut. he still looks like his "fly" character, but now it looks like a fly that got smashed on the windshield of a mack. and just for equal opportunity bashing, i will say that my old boyfriend larry mullen jr has a stupid haircut, too, and is looking pretty tatty. who would have guessed that adam clayton would age the best of all of them? (the edge still looks good. the edge is cool.)

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so karen's doing this audioscrobbler thing. i just set up my account and it doesn't seem to be updating the webpage yet, but i'll give it a little while longer.

anyway, it's like friendster for music nerds. you download a plug-in that keeps track of all the songs you listen to and posts it to this webpage, where you can link to friends and see what they're listening to. it also keeps statistics of your most listened-to artists. looks like fun. come join me so karen isn't my only friend. she listens to an awful lot of dandy warhols, by the way...

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are we really doing the girls-tuck-their-pants-into-their-boots thing now? really? cuz i don't wanna.

i see this constantly all of a sudden among the columbia crowd. it's all the same girls who were wearing teeny tiny miniskirts with wellies in the rain in november. sometimes i even think these girls look nice, in theory. in practice, silly. and i just...you can't do the pants-into-boots thing unless you're skinny. i mean skinny enough to wear very straight cut pants. which i cannot do. so maybe i'm not condemning this choice as a matter of aesthetics, but simply because i feel it is prejudicial to the curvy. i don't like it simply because i cannot pull it off. and i'm ok with that.

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the U2 ipod revolution continues...

answers to the lyric meme

1. she'll break her promise as a matter of course because she thinks it's fun to have no remorse.
curve, "chinese burn". correctly identified by abby.

2. hey hey hey you visionary guy.
liz phair, "uncle alvarez". partially guessed by alice.

3. you said there's nothing to explain, in every life a little rain, etc.
the magnetic fields, "long-forgotten fairytale". guessed by nymsa.

4. you could find the abstract listening to hip hop, my pops used to say it reminded him of be-bop.
no one got this. it's "excursions" by a tribe called quest.

5. he took his sister from his head and then painted her on the sheets and then rolled her up in grass and trees.
the pixies, "the holiday song". this one's really hard -- i never know pixies lyrics.

6. then suddenly, oooh, your lips are touching mine.
"i hear a symphony" by the supremes.

7. i won't let you down, i will not give you up.
as said by alice, it's "freedom '90" by george michael.

8. remarks upon the weather will just retard endeavor.
"all i ask of myself is that i hold together" by ned's atomic dustbin. i love this song.

9. i hope i don't see his name in the paper in the obituaries cuz that would mean he's dead.
trick question. "the cheat is not dead" by strong bad and the brothers strong.

10. i guess you're the king of this forever beauty pageant i'm always in.

abby! alice! i'm disappointed in both of you. it's "on guard" by le tigre.

11. as rose collects the money in a cannister, who comes sliding down the banister?
correct, janet! it's "vicar in a tutu" by the smiths.

12. i stood on that empty stoop alone, i said "i'm ready for my closeup now, mr. demille."
also correctly guessed by janet: "that day" by poe.

13. you need coolin', baby, i'm not foolin'.
mike, nymsa and andrea got it -- "whole lotta love".

14. i've had my fun and now it's time to serve my conscience overseas.
mike wins: "orange crush".

15. and when your mother came to boston, you disappeared.
nymsa almost got it, it's "i am so ordinary" by paula cole. you probably mixed it up with "saturn girl" which is my other favorite song from that album.

16. two more days before the plane arrives and you'll be standing here with your smile on.
"southern belles in london sing" by the faint.

17. and i'm right on time, and the birds keep singing.
andrea almost had it, but nymsa came up with it: "a place called home" by pj harvey.

18. how can i ever change things that i feel? if i could i would give you my world.
i'm somewhat amused by mike getting this right, considering how we know each other. "go your own way" by fleetwood mac.

19. get it out, get it out, get it out, get your fucking voice out of my head.
props to andrea for guessing the next lyric, and big ups to alice: "the kiss" by the cure.

20. i'm drowning in time to a desperate beat.
"home" by depeche mode.