music from the void

ok, so i stole this idea from Dan Tobin at Surgical Strikes

he said “So to give a more honest portrayal of what I actually listen to, here are the songs played most on my iTunes. It’s far from scientific, it only goes back to Aug. 24, 2004, it only considers a song “played” if you get all the way to the end, and it ignores iPod listens. But it’s another window into taste, and in some ways a more honest, accurate one.”

i got my ipod in october 2004 and as at today it has 3475 songs on it. for what it’s worth here are the top 20 most “played” (see Dan’s notation re the accuracy of this exercise) from my itunes… i hasten to add these are not necessarily my favourite songs

1. shellac – Copper
2. Cyndi Lauper – She Bop
3. shellac – Prayer To God
4. Herman Dune – The Static Comes From My Broken Heart
5. Amateur Transplants – London Underground
6. Antony & The Johnsons – Fistful Of Love
7. Popchor Berlin – Mongoloid
8. Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time
9. Mule – Piano
10. Pink Floyd – The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
11. PJ Harvey – The Dancer (acoustic)
12. The Yearlings – Trouble Some More
13. The Angels Of Light – Dawn
14. Bikini Kill – I Like Fucking
15. Gazoonga Attack – Down The Alibi
16. Herman Dune – I Want A Woman
17. Black Belt Jones – Missy
18. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
19. Dallas Crane – Sold Me
20. The Devastations – I’ve Walked This Road

yeah, what he said

Eric over at Something’s Gone Wrong Again! wrote this a while back (see below) and it kinda struck a chord. of course i’ve only been doing this bloggin’ thing for about 3 minutes and usually can’t muster more than 5 words in a row etc etc but you get the idea – a kindred spirit perhaps?? and yes the irony that i have used someone else’s writing about essentially being lazy to explain the statement of purpose of their blog to explain the statement of purpose of my blog which i did already back in the first post about this being an outlet for procrastination which is intimately linked with my general laziness is not lost on me and fuck this getting to be a ridiculously long sentence that is not making a lot of sense so just read Eric’s bit below and i’ll shut up for now.

quoting Eric:

“Closing in on two years of this blog (OK, I’m rounding up by a couple of months) and I realize that it is a directionless piece of crap ( a true reflection on the author). I’ve had two years to create a web alter-ego and what have I done? Nothing. I’m just as fat, boring and generally dislikeable here as I am in real life. This blog is the equivalent of me mumbling something pointless whih no one hears and when I repeat it it’s lost all of it’s zing. That said, I’m toying with some ideas to kick this thing up, like changing my web identity from the bland ‘Eric’ to something the kids can identify with – like ‘Easy E’, ‘DJ Eroc’ or ‘Dr Sausage’. Another idea is to change the name of the blog itself to something that really reflects who I am. “Thick As A Pickle Still Getting Laid’ or “The Fun Machine (took a Shit and Died)” or “Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid”. Better yet, I could radically change the whole bent of this thing, turning it into “Daddy&Me” blog where I write about the cute shit my kids do that keeps me entertained complete with pages and pages of pictures. It’s either that or I turn this into one of those pages that asks their readers annoying questions such as “What’s your secret recipe for sausage gravy” and receives 100 comments.

Just some ideas being tossed around at the diocese.

You know what? Fuck that. Creating clever and insightful content takes too much time and talent, both of which are in short supply here. I’m hoping all 5 SGWA readers will continue to read my pointless ramblings and anecdotes, lists of things I need to get done on the weekend, random inexplicable photos, one-liners stolen from TV and movies, and recipes for venison because this crap is what blogging is all about – people with nothing to say saying stuff. It’s a helluva timekiller at work also.

Sincerely,
Professor Fuck You “

german humour

brilliant.

http://www.epica-awards.org/assets/epica/2004/finalists/film/flv/22012-1.htm

even funnier if you know anything about the band…

funhouse buk review

go and read Kami’s review of the Bukowski docco “Born Into This”.

funhouse (click on this link to take you there)

seeing as he has already written one i won’t duplicate here but point you there. (yes i know that’s lazy on my part).