Listen! Do you hear that? It's the sound of another ”Answer in Song” exercise, this time brought to you by The Beatles. I'm going back a little further this time around, choosing a band with one of the strongest catalogs of songs ever.
If you've never read or done one of these, it's pretty simple. Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, the idea is to cleverly answer these questions without repeating a song title. Here's the latest variation of this endeavor I've come across along with my song answers:
Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, the idea is to cleverly answer these questions without repeating a song title. Here's the latest variation of this exercise I've come across along with my song answers:
It's time for another one of those ”Answer in Song” questionnaires in which song titles are the answer to some of the internet's most burning questions, many of which pop up over and over in different combinations and iterations across all corners of the internet. Sometimes I wonder if all of it--blogging, social networking--is all some secret unifying force in which we're all acting as some living supercomputer of individual processors. That thought was better fleshed out in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or the increasingly brilliant and depressingly finite Dollhouse though, and my brain is nowhere near the level of the geniuses behind those explorations of such a theme. In any case, this set is more random than my previous sojourns into this exercise, since I'm not limited to song titles from a single artist. I'm just setting my iTunes on random, and hitting the forward key once every time I get a new song title. Some are fitting answers; others less so. Many surprisingly and accurately make sense, and a few may or may not be prophetic.
Oh, and lest anyone forget, I am a bit of a geek, so if you see a response linked to a television show rather than a song, it probably means a theme song came up, because I've got those in there too. You'll see....
It's been a while since I've done one of these ”Answer in Song” questionnaires, and shockingly I've never used songs from Nirvana.
Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, the idea is to cleverly answer these questions without repeating a song title. Here's the latest variation of this exercise I've come across along with my song answers:
Even though I've done versions of this meme in which questions are answered with song titles from one band's repertoire, which can be found here and here, it's been well over two years, so I'm going to tackle the latest mutation of this exercise that I've found. I've been listening to Metallica practically nonstop lately, and it is with their song titles that I shall answer this batch of questions:
Even though I've done a version of this music meme before, time, slightly different questions, and a different band will yield different answers. It surfaced most recently at Xtine's, and requires participants to answer several questions using only song titles, from any one band. Last time I chose Alice in Chains, but tonight I'm going to go with an old favorite, Pearl Jam:
My dad's had a cold for the last few days, and what started this morning as a tickle at the back of my throat I prayed would turn out to be nothing. By the time I left work I was congested and warm. Being sick sucks, especially since I have to play in a parade tomorrow and Sunday respectively, quite possibly in the rain. Add to the equation a vacation day on Monday when I plan to go on a fun photo expedition, and my luck is running true to form. For now, I'm just drinking a lot of fluids.
Of course, any three-day weekend is always preceded by a late night or two. Tonight wouldn't have been so bad, had the printer at my office not decided to turn my last page into an accordion with a horrible, horrible sound. I rushed over, and saw how bad it was. I left a message for tech support, but surely even Phil the guy who usually works a little later was gone for the evening. I could have sent my job to one of the other printers in the office, but I could imagine the wrath of coworkers discovering the state this one was in, and I wasn't going to be responsible. It took some study, but I managed to disengage the fuser roll within which my paper was stuck, since an attempt to pull it free ripped it leaving quite a bit inaccessible within. For those not too familiar with the intricacies of printers, a fuser roll is the part that gets REALLY hot and fuses the paper to the toner and, when it wears out, fuses the paper to the printer apparently.
The more things I tried, the worse I made it. A moveable gear only served to push the paper further inside. There seemed no way to open the unit, and at one point a wheel broke off. I didn't have tweezers, and the scissors I was using just made the big jammed piece into smaller jammed pieces. The last coworker of the evening wished me luck as she departed, and I wondered if she'd still find me struggling on Monday morning. Fortunately, she ran into Phil on the way out and told him of my plight. I was relieved when he showed up, moreso when he pointed out that the fuser roll needed replacing and I'd only damaged a modular part that was coming off anyway. I still had to pick up some presents for my parents' upcoming anniversary, so on the way home I stopped by the local Target which has been undergoing both renovation and reorganization. Toys on the back wall are now on the right. Automotive moved from the right side of the store to the left side of the store, as did food. Men's clothing is a series of scattered racks interspersed by workers driving machines that are carving up the carpeting. As my cold symptoms worsened, the wagon I was pushing doubled as a device to keep me on my feet.
I feel a little better after dinner, but not well enough to post anything coherent or original tonight. In my feverish state, I'd be surprised tomorrow to find I'd written anything other than a string of nonsense words such as those found in the word verification field in the comments. So, I'll close tonight with a meme I've seen at John Nelson's,Wendy's, and Darrell's. There are fifteen questions, which I can only answer with song titles from one band's repertoire. Despite the title of tonight's post, I'm actually going to go with Alice in Chains:
Click Myclofigia once a day to get our city to #1!
MCF is a mild-mannered
artist from the suburbs.
His knowledge of obscure
comic book characters
is more powerful than Gladiator
of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard on
an ego-trip. Able to leap topics
in a single sentence faster than
a speeder-bike on the moon of
Endor, MCF has never written
about himself in the third person
and now dreads the day he
utters aloud the fateful phrase,
"MCF is gettin' upset!"
