It’s a Wonderful Life x 10

I don’t normally play in the memes playground, but I was tagged by an old real life friend, Meleah, who was tagged by Greg (love his list), and she is one of my favorite people, so I’ll bite. Today’s meme is the 10 Things Make You Happy (It’s a Wonderful Life) meme. It seems I have to put aside the politics and punk rock ‘tude for a minute and think Mary Poppins thoughts. It will be tough, but I’ll bite.
In no particular order, here are my ten things that make me happy:

10. Duckies! Especially the Ze kind.

9. LOLCats (the first step is admitting you have a problem…)

8. Hot Topic goths tripping over their platform shoes and falling down at the Mall

7. The fact that someone actually vanity published this children’s book. And they really, really, really meant it.

6. Paris Hilton Goes To Jail

7. People who do stupid things in the vicinity of a camcorder so we can all watch them later on YouTube and pass their moment of weakness around teh interwebs

6. Giving the horrible, slobbering, ranting drunk asshole from the bar a ride home, only to drop he / she off in front of the wrong house and drive off

5. Southern Comfort on the rocks. And a Vitamin G (Guinness)

4. People who are too stupid even for crime

3. All things geeky and computer-y.

2. Sending people who send me stupid chain emails and other email forwards without checking them for accuracy (or bothering to wonder if I am as into <religionthemilitarychildrenglittergraphics
gaspricesdyingkidswhoarenow35yearsoldthemeailissooutdatedetc> as they are) links to Snopes and to this little rant.

1. Spreading the weirdness by tagging other unsuspecting, usualy “cool” people like myself for happy little Pollyanna memes they wouldn’t normally do. So Amy, Pippa and tesco – consider yourself tagged. Gotta spread the forced cheer around.

Now Listening: Never Mind The Bollocks… It’s The Sex Pistols

Tags: Meme, It’s a Wonderful Life, PUnk Duck, Southern Comfort, Guinness, Mentos, diet Coke, Vomit, Humor

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Are you a lurker? Come out of the dark, it’s delurking week!

According to RSM and Paper Napkin and about a gajillion other blogs, it's delurking week.  That means it's time to comment on all those blogs you read everyday but are too shy to say hello on.  What are you waiting for?  Get out there and say hello to your favorite bloggers!

Now Listening: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Abbatoir Blues

Tags: delurking week

…and check out the bad ass Apple iPhone in the last post…

Goodbye 2006

I'm not usually a resolutions person. Creating one momentous day each year to hang all of our hopes on for the next 364 seems a little unbalanced to me.  That said, I am going to make a few this year, and try a new technique.  I'm going to make my resolutions, then consciously re-make them every day.  Or, every day until I wake up too hungover to do it one day and stop the momentum.  Whichever. So, without further ado, my resolutions for 2007:

• Take my writing blog and writing forum into the top 50 writing blogs of 2007.
• Take my freelance career to a new level of financial stability that allows me to be completely debt free by December 2007.
• Attain a size 6 again.
• Live a non-smoking life.  I have been cutting back since before Thanksgiving with limited success.  We'll see if I can continue the trend.
• I helped a few writers get a start on a career this year, I hope to help more on their way this coming year.

That's about it.  I have a few very specific goals this year, and I'm quite focused on attaining them.  I plan to refocus my goal each day by repeating the list out loud when I wake up and visualizing the actual results before bed.  I know! How "new agey" of me!

Now Listening:  The Cure <b>Standing On A Beach</b>

Tags:   New Years Resolution

The Curse of the Stolen Meme

James at Aces Full of Links grabbed it from this blog: Staring at Empty Pages and I grabbed it from James. It has to do with what music you like from the year you turned 18.

Instructions:
Go to popculturemadness.com and select the year you became 18 [from the "Hits" list on the left]. Snip the top 50 songs from the list and paste it in your journal. Bold the ones you like and strike the ones you dislike, italic the ones you know but neither like nor dislike, and the ones you don’t know will stay in normal text.

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I included all 75 songs on the list, just because. I have a strange quirk – if I hear something set to music, I remember it always. I don’t know why that is, and thankfully that seems to be slowing down as I get older, but it means I “know” every song on the list. No, really. Every $^%& word. And I was a punker in high school and did not listen to pop radio! Needless to say none of my most favorite bands from 1989 are on here. This may inspire a list of the 75 songs I listened to all the time as a teenager in another blog entry (The Cramps, anyone? The Cure? Dead Kennedys? No? Just me? Alright then.).

Aanywaaaaay… back to the game. I know and remember all of the songs on the list below. Half of them are now stuck in my head for the day (thankyouverylittlejames). So the ones I did NOT like are in italics and the ones I DID like are in bold. Ready? And awaaaay we go…

1. Love Shack – B-52’s
2. Funky Cold Medina- Tone Loc (Now that I’m older I actually like this song better, don’t ask me why.)
3. Bust A Move – Young MC (same for this one)
4. Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler (Is it odd that I hate this song with a fiery passion usually reserved for door to door salesmen and adulterers?)
5. Like A Prayer – Madonna (yeah. I like Madonna. shhhhh!)
6. Joy and Pain – Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock
7. Put A Little Love In Your Heart – Annie Lennox and Al Green (This did no justice to the original, which is too bad – Annie Lennox is usually pretty cool)
8. All I Want Is You – U2 (I never liked this song, which is odd because I like most older U2 stuff)
9. Patience – Guns N Roses (hell yes, I like GnR. Hair Metal? Of course!)
10. The Best – Tina Turner (I have a soft spot for Tina. I’m 5′2 and I want her legs. That’s not too stalker-esque of me is it?)
11. Paradise City – Guns N Roses (ok, now this booted Wind Beneath My Wings out of my hed, thank goodness)
12. Keep On Movin’ – Soul II Soul
13. Wild Thing – Tone Loc (another one I hated then and like now)
14. Every Little Step – Bobby Brown
15. I’ll Be There For You – Bon Jovi (see notes by GnR)
16. Another Day In Paradise – Phil Collins
17. Love In An Elevator – Aerosmith (my all time favorite rock band)
18. Kiss – Art of Noise featuring Tom Jones (I liked this song for about 5 minutes for the simple reason that is supplanted their terrible Max Headroom song on the radio and my ears loved the brief sweet feeling of relief.)
19. She Drives Me Crazy – Fine Young Cannibals
20. Lay Your Hands On Me – Bon Jovi (not my favorite Bon Jovi song)
21. Don’t Know Much – Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville (love Aaron Neville, hate Linda.)
22. Smooth Criminal – Michael Jackson (one of the few Michael songs I liked at the time – good groove. I like Alien Antfarm’s version even better.)
23. After All - Cher and Peter Cetera
24. Express Yourself – Madonna
25. Eternal Flame – the Bangles
26. Buffalo Stance – Nenah Cherry (This song is so bad I can’t even think of a snappy comment.)
27. Love Song – the Cure (I had his hair at one point – skeery, huh?)
28. Angel of Harlem – U2
29. So Alive – Love and Rockets (I liked them better when they were The Bauhaus, but I’ll take what I can get…)
30. Back To Life – Soul II Soul
31. Listen To Her Heart – Roxette
32. Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) – Enya
33. I Feel The Earth Move – Martika
34. Get On Your Feet – Gloria Estefan (Was this before the bus or after the bus? I can’t remember now.)
35. When I See You Smile – Bad English
36. Heaven Help Me – Deon Estus and George Micahel
37. Baby, Don’t Forget My Number – Milli Vanilli (And then they were busted for lip synching and all was right in the world again.)
38. Dr. Feelgood – Motley Crew
39. Heaven – Warrent (yeah, I know, but who doesn’t like a band whose biggest hit was Chery Pie and still took themselves this seriously?)
40. She Wants To Dance With Me – Rick Astley
41. Walk The Dinosaur – Was (Not Was) (Another in the like it better now than then category)
42. Once Bitten Twice Shy – Great White
43. Me, Myself and I – De la Soul
44. I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty
45. On Our Own – Bobby Brown
46. A Little Respect – Erasure
47. Miss You Like Crazy – Natalie Cole
48. 18 and Life – Skid Row (yummmm, Sebaaaastiaaan. Oh, sorry, what was I doing again?)
49. You Got It (The Right Stuff) – New Kids On The Block (Dammit. “oh oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh. the rrrgihgt stuff. argh! Get out of my head!)
50. Me So Horny – 2 Live Crew (Of *course* I liked this song. I had the CD.)
51. Stand – R.E.M. (Not their best, but they are still my favorite whine rockers out there – the original emos.)
52. Soldier Of Love – Donny Osmond
53. The Look – Roxette
54. Birthday Suit – Johnny Kemp (This song took terrible to new lows.)
55. We Didn’t Start the Fire – Billy Joel (This is my least favorite Billy Joel song, but I have a soft spot for his music, so…)
56. Hey Ladies – Beastie Boys
57. The Living Years – Mike and the Mechanics
58. Trouble Me – 10,000 Maniacs
59. Don’t Wanna To Lose You – Gloria Estefan
60. Closer To Fine – Indigo Girls (I just learned something – I didn’t realize this song had charted.)
61. Forever Your Girl – Paula Abdul
62. My Fantasy – Teddy Riley Featuring Guy
63. Blame It On The Rain – Milli Vanilli
64. End Of The Line – Traveling Wilburys (Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan – what’s not to love?)
65. Two Hearts – Phil Collins
66. Anchorage – Michelle Shocked (I have this one on vinyl. If you have is on CD I would LOVE a copy. Let’s talk.)
67. Right Here Waiting – Richard Marx
68. Mayor Of Simpleton – Midge Ure
69. Straight Up – Paula Abdul
70. Pop Song 89 – R.E.M.
71. I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) – New Kids On The Block
72. Now You’re In Heaven – Julian Lennon (It’s too bad he tried his career so soon after his dad’s death. He’s not bad, but that shadow is hard to overcome.)
73. My Perogative – Bobby Brown
74. Dear God – XTC (another one I have on vinyl)
75. Hangin’ Tough- New Kids On The Block

That was fun! Thanks James! Anyone else have a massive case of ear worm now?
Now Listening: a cacaphony of bad 80s music running through my head

Tags: pop music meme

The Five Quotes Meme

Completely stolen from And The Pursuit of Happiness.

The idea is to visit this site and find five quotes that represent you. (Simple, no? We like simple.)

Without further ado…

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. ~ Christina Baldwin

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. ~ Hermann Hesse

Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self respect springs. ~ Joan Didion

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~ Brendan Gill

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Thanks for the good meme, Sunshine!

Now Listening: iTunes Shuffle

5 Quotes Meme

My Friend Lynn’s Twisted Meme of Four

Two posts today! I am so chatty all of a sudden…

I liked this meme so much I’m passing it on. Enjoy! Don’t forget to share a link if you answer it also so I can spy on your answers.

4 things you may not have known about me:

A) Four jobs I would rather have than the one I currently do:
1. critically acclaimed author of a fabulous novel. or ok, acclaim-schmaim. just rich is fine.
2. explosives expert
3. person in charge of Paula Abdul’s sippy cup
4. Kept Woman

B) Four Movies You Wouldn’t Catch Me Ever Seeing Again:
1. Logans Run (Sannnnctuaaaryyyyyy)
2. Zoolander (I’m dumber just thinking about it)
3. Dumb and Dumber
4. Any movie where a hunky strong guy gets stuck babysitting/teaching/HAVING kids. >shudder