cleverly disguised as a responsible adult

Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title.

I added punctuation and omitted purely instrumental songs.


Take a trip 'round this great big world
Midnight! Not a sound from the pavement,
Mommy told me something a little kid should know:
People! Get ready!
Three black crows were sitting on a fence

Why do we kiss goodbye every time?
I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside.

Well (Kyle's mom's a bitch),
Now, you all heard the story about Bethlehem -
Excuse me, can I be you for a while?
Loving you...

Pale was the wounded knight
(Well, how many times must we go through this?),
Beneath the opera house
(Will I lose my dignity?),
Whistles the wind.

Sunday morning rain is falling
And now I'm all alone again...

A customer!
We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders!
(Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days)

I have no brain today. Therefore I'm going to put my mp3 player on shuffle and post the beginning lines of the first several songs. I need to leave out the songs that are in a language I don't speak and the ones that are Dum-Dum-tek-ka-Tek-Dum-tek-ka-Tek-tek-ka or otherwise instrumental.

Also, when it decided to play three tracks from the same album in a row, that got edited. I swear this thing is possessed.

( guess the songs )

I should remember to write about my coat adventures and the new toy I have. But first, it is time to resurrect my favorite meme of all time:

Friday Poetry Meme - when you see this, post a bit of poetry in your journal

They All Want To Play Hamlet

They all want to play Hamlet.
They have not exactly seen their fathers killed
Nor their mothers in a frame-up to kill,
Nor an Ophelia dying with a dust gagging the heart,
Not exactly the spinning circles of singing golden spiders,
Not exactly this have they got at nor the meaning of flowers - O flowers,
     flowers slung by a dancing girl - in the saddest play the
     inkfish, Shakespeare, ever wrote;
Yet they all want to play Hamlet because it is sad like all actors are sad
     and to stand by an open grave with a joker's skull in the hand and
     then to say over slow and say over slow wise, keen, beautiful words
     masking a heart that's breaking, breaking,
This is something that calls and calls to their blood.
They are acting when they talk about it and they know it is acting to be
     particular about it and yet: They all want to play Hamlet.

Carl Sandburg

I'm still stuck in a basement in Plano, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.  No, I don't think it's a train.  I still like this customer the best and I still want to carpet-bomb Norfolk. 

In lieu of actually posting something orginal, I present the meme that's running around.  Later, when I have a brain, I'll probably do that one with the movie keywords off of IMDB, since it looks spiffy.  But since this one doesn't require that much interaction, here we go:

Comment on this entry and I will:
1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a color, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.
3) Tell you something I like about you.
4) Tell you a memory I have of you that may or may not have happened.
5) Associate you with a character/pairing.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question.)
7) Tell you my favorite userpic of yours.
8) In return, you must spread this disease in your LJ.

Heh. This is kind of funny...

I used Sweetie Pie shower jelly this morning. I passed the ActiveX quiz on my first try!! The Experiment in Trimming the Dog's Nails has now officially been brought to an end. My beautiful little sister, lilith_13 still hasn't keelhauled any of the troublemakers from her classes. Anyone going to be in Denver June 22-25? It's that time again: I need music!! Thus far today has been a very good day. Two weeks ago, Mom threw a fit about not being included in any of the planning. I got paid this morning. Have I mentioned lately that I love weekends? Today is a good day. We are home.

Go to the Random Quotations Page and choose five-ten quotes that describe you in some way. Post them, along with a brief explanation.
( Quotes ahoy! )