Wow, kids --- only 45% on that song list?
I feel so eclectic now... and surprised that certain folks missed songs from groups like the Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, STP... I mean... I dunno. Surprised, I guess.

I guess I'll post the ones no one got?

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2. I tried hard to mend my wicked ways, acted like a lunatic for years...
Wicked Ways - Garbage

5. Lately things won't go my way. Lately everthing is grey...
No Way - Korn

6. Cross through the border states to the wrong side, wrong side, and look away, Virginia...
Problems and Bigger Ones - Harvey Danger

8. Pleased to meet you, nice to know me, whats the message, will ya show me?
Down - Stone Temple Pilots

9. Oh well I'm the type of guy who will never settle down, where pretty girls are, well you know that I'm around...
The Wanderer - Dion and the Belmonts

10. Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue, Thought I heard you talking softly
Ordinary World - Duran Duran

11. Ooh - stop. With your feet in the air and your head on the ground, try this trick and spin it...
Where Is My Mind? - The Pixies

14. I'm drinking dust, with eyes of rust - tonight my tears might stain your wings, so flutter home cuz you're better off alone than with me...
Flutter Girl - Chris Cornell

15. Watch out sister, watch out brother watch our children while they kill each other with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart discount stores...
Love Is A Good Thing - Sheryl Crow

19. You used to live in New York City, then you moved to L.A., but you still miss the streets, where you used to play...
Bi-Coastal - Hugh Jackman, The Boy From Oz (Original Cast Recording)

21. This is the sound, the here and the now, you got to talk the talk, the talk, the talk, to get it all out...
The Last Song - Foo Fighters

22. Can't you hear those cavalry drums hijacking your equilibrium, midnight hags in the mausoleum where the pixilated doctors moan...
Sexx Laws - Beck

26. Too low to find my way too high to wonder why, I've touched this place before somewhere in another time...
Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation

27. Just when I thought everything would be okay, just when I started to believe that everything was goin' my way, out came the cloud from under my feet, crashing back down to reality...
Pet Names - Smash Mouth

28. If I had my time again I would do it all the same and not change a single thing even when I was to blame...
Situation No Win - Audio Dynamite

29. You and your museum of lovers, the precious collection you've housed in your covers My simpleness threatened by my own admission...
Bathwater - No Doubt

30. I caught the moon today, pick it up and throw it away, all right, I got the perfect steal A cleaner love, with a dirty feel...
Pretty Noose - Soundgarden

31. I'm not surprised it's come to this, sooner or later there must be another's kiss, behind that kiss a promise of a life of bliss, yeah great...
Upside Down - Barenaked Ladies

33. Let me tell you about a girl I know, had a drink about a hour ago. Sitting in a corner by herself, in a bar in downtown Hell...
Date Rape - Sublime

35. You, doin' that thing you do breakin' my heart into a million pieces like you always do and you don't mean to be cruel you never even knew about the heartache I've been goin' through...
That Thing You Do - The Wonders

38. Train roll on, on down the line,Won't you please take me far away?Now I feel the wind blow outside my door,Means I'm leaving my woman behind.
Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd

40. Cut a tape of my favorite songs, said what I can't face to face, I hoped that you would share all my thoughts...
R3wind - Better Than Ezra

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Also, enjoy one of the best dating metaphors I've ever heard:

"The physical distance you maintain between you and your date conveys a powerful non-verbal message. On the one hand, if you keep away, she'll think you're not interested. On the other, if you get too close, she'll scream. Think of yourself as the Death Star. Only from the right distance will you seem like a gentle moon."

And that ladies and gentlemen is why I'm a complete and total nerd.
And explainably single. :-P

Since I like stealing....

Um... Good Luck?
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Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 40 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own
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1. Sit around and watch the tube but nothin's on I change the channel for an hour or two... (DP) Green Day - Longview

2. I tried hard to mend my wicked ways, acted like a lunatic for years...

3. And it's true we named our children After towns that we've never been to... (DP) Modest Mouse - Black Cadillacs

4. I can dim the lights and sing you songs full of sad things... (DP) Queen - Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

5. Lately things won't go my way. Lately everthing is grey...

6. Cross through the border states to the wrong side, wrong side, and look away, Virginia...

7. I walked across an empty land -I knew the pathway like the back of my hand... (DP) Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

8. Pleased to meet you, nice to know me, whats the message, will ya show me?

9. Oh well I'm the type of guy who will never settle down, where pretty girls are, well you know that I'm around... (Oh, but who *sang* it... c'mon Doug...)

10. Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue, Thought I heard you talking softly

11. Ooh - stop. With your feet in the air and your head on the ground, try this trick and spin it...

12. I was just a paper hanger, no one more obscurer... (VC) The Producers Original Broadway Cast - Springtime for Hitler - Part II

13. There's every good reason for letting you go, she's sneaky and smoked out and it's starting to show... (DP) Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go

14. I'm drinking dust, with eyes of rust - tonight my tears might stain your wings, so flutter home cuz you're better off alone than with me...

15. Watch out sister, watch out brother watch our children while they kill each other with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart discount stores...

16. It doesn't mean much, it doesn't mean anything at all, the life I've left behind me is a cold one... (AE) Sarah McLachlan - Sweet Surrender

17. Hey mama don't you treat me wrong, come and love your daddy all night long, alright now, hey hey... (DP) Ray Charles -What'd I Say

18. Well, Billy rapped all night about his suicide, how he'd kick it in the head when he was twenty-five... (DP) David Bowie - All the Young Dudes (tho I do have the Mott the Hoople version too...)

19. You used to live in New York City, then you moved to L.A., but you still miss the streets, where you used to play...

20. There's a moment in my mind I scribbled and erased a thousand times, like a letter never written or sent... (DP) Ben Folds - Sentimental Guy

21. This is the sound, the here and the now, you got to talk the talk, the talk, the talk, to get it all out...

22. Can't you hear those cavalry drums hijacking your equilibrium, midnight hags in the mausoleum where the pixilated doctors moan...

23. It's getting near dawn when lights close their tired eyes, I'll soon be with you my love, to give you my dawn surprise... (DP) Cream - Sunshine of Your Love

24. Here we are on earth together, it's you and I, God has made us fall in love, It's true, I've really found someone like you... (DP) Michael Buble - You and I

25. Conversion software version 7.0 looking at life through the eyes of a tired hub eating seeds as a pasttime activity... (DK) System of a Down - Toxicity

26. Too low to find my way too high to wonder why, I've touched this place before somewhere in another time...

27. Just when I thought everything would be okay, just when I started to believe that everything was goin' my way, out came the cloud from under my feet, crashing back down to reality...

28. If I had my time again I would do it all the same and not change a single thing even when I was to blame...

29. You and your museum of lovers, the precious collection you've housed in your covers My simpleness threatened by my own admission...

30. I caught the moon today, pick it up and throw it away, all right, I got the perfect steal A cleaner love, with a dirty feel...

31. I'm not surprised it's come to this, sooner or later there must be another's kiss, behind that kiss a promise of a life of bliss, yeah great...

32. Cold and frosty morning,Theres not a lot to say, About the things caught in my mind,A nd as the day was dawning, My plane flew away... (DK) Oasis - Don't Go Away

33. Let me tell you about a girl I know, had a drink about a hour ago. Sitting in a corner by herself, in a bar in downtown Hell...

34. She waits for me at night she waits for me in silence she gives me all her tenderness and takes away my pain, and so far she hasn't run, but I swear she's had her moments... (VC) Billy Joel - All About Soul

35. You, doin' that thing you do breakin' my heart into a million pieces like you always do and you don't mean to be cruel you never even knew about the heartache I've been goin' through... (The name of the BAND folks!)

36. The fortune queen of New Orleans brushing her cat in her black limousine on the backseat scratches from marks of men her fortunes she had won... (MM) Cher - Dark Lady

37. It won't be easy you'll think it's strange when I try to explain how I feel that I still need your love after all that I've done... (VC) Patti LuPone in Evita - Don't Cry For Me Argentina

38. Train roll on, on down the line,Won't you please take me far away?Now I feel the wind blow outside my door,Means I'm leaving my woman behind.

39. I won't stand in your way let your hatred grow and she'll scream and she'll shout and she'll pray and she had a name yeah she had a name... (DK) Muse - Stockholm Syndrome

40. Cut a tape of my favorite songs, said what I can't face to face, I hoped that you would share all my thoughts...


And #40 seems to be a perfect closer to me...

We'll see how folks do - after looking this over, I'm feeling quite dated. :-)
And I never realized how many instrumental songs I had on my iPod till now! Sheesh!
I only skipped those, and one or two songs that weren't in English, or from no one any normal creature would've heard of...

I heart skiing!

... and fully realize that this picture doesn't actually *show* me skiing... but at least there's snow, and dammit, I look cute.
I was first put on skiis when I was like, four, but a camera is one thing my family never really took to the ski slopes. Disposables weren't so big back then, and the family camera in those days was a commodity you didn't risk breaking while flying down a mountain at high speeds with two boards strapped to your legs.

Needless to say, there aren't really any pictures of me on skis - something I'd love to remedy this year by bringing a disposable up for the next big trip. I'm skilled enough that a disposable would likely survive the trip, and only be at risk from the weather... it'll be a fun challenge, but an event worth capturing I think.

This weekend was excellent. The tiny weekends *always* are. Greg and I braved another "Day Off at the Slopes" on Friday at Jack Frost after nearly sweating ourselves out of the house thursday night and watching copious amounts of Pinky & The Brain while drinking (you know you're jealous.) Nik joined us Friday night for an evening of ridiculously varied conversational pieces and alcohol that ended very late. We skied again (and before anyone starts to question the spelling, it goes - to ski, have skied, go skiing, own skis -thankyouverymuch) Saturday evening at Big Boulder and ended the trip at Denny's with the most forgetful waittress known to man. All of it was lovely, even if my ski boots are definitely in need of a tune up (you do not want to see the bruise on my calf) it's still the most exhilirating sport that doesn't happen at 15,000 feet.

It was perfect having Friday off, so I had today to recover. I definitely need to try another 2 day ski trip to build up my strength - it's exhausting, but well worth it! I'm even well aware of the fact that I have to go to work tomorrow, and I'm not miffed in the least... which really says something, huh?



Oh, and Asian Boy Scouts still do not belong on skis. That is all.

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"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." -- Doug Larson

So upon reviewing the previous post - I've decided I definitely will tell you who/where you are.
Some folks have been way off, and its slightly amusing. Actually - maybe you should ask me.
Assuming you're one, and then being another could make things completely different.
(Though the positive ones outweigh the debbie-downers anyway.)
So, ask away... And if you'd like to buy me a drink to butter me up beforehand, I won't refuse. ;-)

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This year I've decided to dust off a random gift I was given several years ago - a journal book called 'A Year In My Life'. You fill out all sorts of fun information - you glue in photos of yourself, your friends, talk about whats going on in life, politics, fashion, film - whatever. Its got envelopes to stow away keepsakes and lots of blank pages to scrapbook or write in. Its designed to last a long time, and serve as a time capsule of a period in your life.

I'm really looking forward to it.
I've never had such a positive outlook on a year before, perhaps because I never considered it as a new chance. I never really made resolutions, or change - but it doesn't have to stay that way.


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"There's a fine line between fishing, and standing on the shore like an idiot." -- Steven Wright