Month: January 2007

The Friday Random Guess 10, the “There’s No Way That Was Only a Four-Day Work Week” Edition. You know the drill:

  1. “With or Without You” by U2, guessed by Betty
    You give it all but I want more
  2. “Camelot” by Monty Python’s Flying Circus, guessed by Betty
    In war we’re tough and able
  3. “Save the Life of My Child” by Simon & Garfunkel guessed by Thud
    “He must be high on something,” someone said
  4. “Lucky Number” by Lene Lovich
    There’s something in the air besides the atmosphere
  5. “Happy Feet” by Kermit the Frog
    I can’t control my dancing heels to save my soul
  6. “Cruel” by Tori Amos, guessed my marissa
    I’m sure she’ll make a few friends
  7. “Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas” by They Might Be Giants, guessed by Betty and Glen
    We need its energy
  8. “Jealous Guy” by John Lennon, guessed by Kim
    I began to lose control
  9. “All Along the Watchtower” by Bob Dylan, guessed by Betty
    The wind began to howl
  10. “Rainbows in the Dark” by Tilly and the Wall
    So my sister went kissing a maple-skinned boy

At least, I assume you do. You’ll work it out. Good luck!

Last week’s answers posted soon enough here.

I’m having some real trouble with that Five Things You Don’t Know About Me meme — more so, maybe, then I had anticipated. My life is not all that interesting, to be honest, and the interesting bits are not exactly state secrets. I’ve already blogged about a lot of them here.

But maybe you don’t know. Maybe you haven’t been paying attention. Maybe you’re only just now joining this regularly scheduled weblog. If that’s the case, maybe a refresher wouldn’t be such a bad idea. So here, then, are Five Things You Probably Already Know About Me, But Maybe You Forgot

  • I was twice interviewed by BBC Radio. This took nobody by surprise as much as me. (Details are available here and here. Transcripts and audio are available here and here.)
  • I have written a number of songs. This is no small achievement, considering that I don’t play an instrument*, can’t sing very well, and can’t read or write music to save my life. This may help explain why all but two of the songs still exist only in my head. And maybe why they’re about such silly things. (The mp3s at that link, incidentally, are not safe for work.)
  • I have been a capper for almost as long as I have been aware of the Internet. In early 1996, I was exposed for the first time to Mystery Science Theater 3000. (Hey, it was college; people were experimenting with all sorts of things.) It wasn’t long after that that I discovered Caption That! on the Sci-Fi Channel website, where you could make fun of the pictures on the screen. CT has since fallen by the wayside (as has MST3K, sadly), but there’s still a lot of us out there. And I still cap regularly at Gerson’s Inventing Situations and my own Capper Blog.
  • I live with my parents. I have since I moved back to New York in the summer of 2004. Before that, I was living in Pennsylvania for five years (nine if you include college), so moving back home has been, understandably, a little trying at times. Don’t get me wrong, I love my parents very much, but still. Unfortunately, it costs a ridiculous amount to live in New York (especially on Long Island), and I’m not entirely convinced this is where I want to stay.
  • I have worn eyeglasses nearly all my life. I have a slight astigmatism in my right eye, diagnosed when I was two years old. I can function reasonably well without them, but after so many years, they really do feel like a part of me. I have never seriously considered wearing contacts.

I’ll keep mulling over those things that nobody knows, to try and meet Heather‘s challenge.

* I took piano lessons as a kid and hated to practice. I don’t know exactly how long I stuck with it — a year? I suspect it couldn’t have been even half that long — but I quit on the day I finished the first beginner’s book. My teacher was unhappy, and I’ve always sort of regretted it — I like the piano — but I don’t think I had the discipline to practice.

So Heather tagged me in one of those “Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me” memes. But this begs the question: what do you people know about me? There are things that long-time readers and friends will probably know — maybe even from the last time I did one of these memes — but plenty of those things would be new to everybody else. Where to start?