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Ok, the playlist I was listening to yesterday is called “80’s Hit Parade.” Because I’m a nerd. And, like… old. I was hoping someone would wanna play again so I kept track of the Party Shuffle tracks and here they are. :)

1. In the dark I’d like to read his mind, but I’m frightened by the things I might find. [Lolly & Jenni!]

2. Once in your life you find her, someone who turns your heart around and next thing you know you’re closing down the town. [Jenni!]

3. Come on baby dry your eyes, wipe your tears.
**2nd line hint: Never like to see you cry, (won’t you please forgive me)

4. Step right up and don’t be shy, ’cause you will not believe your eyes. [Jenni!]

5. Welcome to your life. [Lolly & Jenni!]

6. Under blue moon I saw you.
**2nd line hint: So soon you’ll take me up in your arms too late to beg you or cancel it though I know it must be….

7. Yo pretty ladies around the world got weird thing to show you so tell all the boys and girls.
**2nd line hint: Tell your brother, your sister and your mama too cause they’re about to throw down and you’ll know just what to do

8. To be discontent, chase the rainbow’s end, I might win much more but lose all that is mine.
**2nd line hint: I could be a lot, but I know I’m not, I’m content with just the riches that you bring

9. Well my baby and me went out late Saturday night. [Jenni!]

10. Move yourself, you always live your life never thinking of the future. [Jenni!]

11. We want to multiply. [Jenni!]

12. You can look at the menu but you just can’t eat. [Jenni!]

13. Ooh, give me two strong arms to protect myself.
**2nd line hint: Oooh, givin’ me so much love that I forget myself

14. Baby, don’t understand why we can’t just hold on to each others’ hands. [Jenni!]

15. Jitterbug! Jitterbug! Jitterbug! You put the boom boom into my heart. [Jenni!]

1. That day I first saw you passing by I wanted to know your name but I was much too shy.
*You Beat Me to the Punch (Mary Wells)

2. There’s a mickie in the tastin’ of disaster.
*In Time (Sly & the Family Stone)

3. I looked out this morning and the sun was gone.
*More Than a Feeling (Boston)

4. When I came home last night you wouldn’t make love to me.
*Give it to Me Baby (Rick James)

5. Yeah! Inslumnational, underground, thunder pounds when I stomp the ground like a million elephants and silverback orangutans.
*B.O.B. (OutKast)

6. Hush now child and don’t you cry, your folks might understand ya by and by.
*Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield)

7. You think that I don’t feel love, but what I feel for you is real love.
*Love Child (Diana Ross & the Supremes) – Since no one got this maybe the real first line of this song is the background singers going “Tenement Sluuuum!”

8. Away from the city that hurts and mocks, I’m standing alone by the desolate docks.
*I Cover the Waterfront (Billie Holiday)

9. My life is real, baby – you peepin’ me take a picture.
*Picture Perfect (Chamillionaire)

10. I’m a street walking cheater with a heart full of napalm.
*Search and Destroy (Stooges)

11. Didn’t I make you feel like you were the only man.
*Piece of My Heart (Erma Franklin)

12. We got somethin’- we both know it, we don’t talk too much about it.
*Refugee (Tom Petty)

13. Make em’ clap to this.
*Eric B. is President (Eric B. & Rakim)

14. I come old friend from hell tonight across the rotting sea.
*Turkish Song of the Damned (Pogues)

15. Love is a burning thing.
*Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)

Shall we play again?

While I’m sitting here goofing off, downloading music to my iTunes playlist for The Wire, I’m gonna pick up Linsey’s fun idea. Here are the first lines of the next 15 songs set on shuffle – from the aforementioned playlist. Can anyone (who’s not McNulty, Bunk or Snoop) guess these?

1. That day I first saw you passing by I wanted to know your name but I was much too shy.

2. There’s a micky in the tastin’ of disaster.

3. I looked out this morning and the sun was gone. [Jenni!]

4. When I came home last night you wouldn’t make love to me.

5. Yeah! Inslumnational, underground, thunder pounds when I stomp the ground like a million elephants and silverback orangutans.

6. Hush now child and don’t you cry, your folks might understand ya by and by.

7. You think that I don’t feel love, but what I feel for you is real love.

8. Away from the city that hurts and mocks, I’m standing alone by the desolate docks.

9. My life is real, baby – you peepin’ me take a picture.

10. I’m a street walking cheater with a heart full of napalm.

11. Didn’t I make you feel like you were the only man. [Fairydogmother!]

12. We got somethin’- we both know it, we don’t talk too much about it. [Fairydogmother!]

13. Make em’ clap to this.

14. I come old friend from hell tonight across the rotting sea.

15. Love is a burning thing. [Fairydogmother!]

fuck “Deathproof”

Now that this movie is on cable and I’ve had the opportunity to watch it again (or again), I realize that the only thing, the only reason, that made it so memorable and exhilarating is the precarious and anxiety producing game of ’ship’s mast’ and the masterfully edited skills of Z. Bell. I have to agree with Matt that the dialogue sucks. The rest of the movie is a snore (with gore) and overacted.

Instead, I must replace it with “Stranger Than Fiction” which I’ve happened across and watched again. It’s funny, profound and much more memorable and lasting than “Deathproof.” Two thumbs up – both mine – and I move it over to the faves list. Amen.

I checked over at the NaBloPoMo page and discovered that the new thing is to BloPo with a new theme each Mo. This theme for this Mo is Lists – post a new list each day. I was bummed that I didn’t check in sooner because I sure do love to make me some lists.

Here is a list of things I have been considering writing posts about but haven’t because a) I’ve been busy, and b) maybe they’re kinda boring…

• all the movies in the Criterion Collection that I’ve seen so far and what I thought about some of the lesser known ones
• the relocating of Ashley’s (and Gomey’s) biological family and my decision not to tell her about her mother’s ‘passing’
• the words that are printed on the Girl Scout cookies (“character”, “values”, “partially hydrogenated oil”) that the pushers pass around at work; Just Say No!
• blogging about ideas for the blog
• finally having an encounter with some of the new neighbors
• my obsessive need to create iTunes playlists for television shows I like: Buffy, 6Ft.Under, hex, THEWIRE (And I say to all those who have contributed to these endeavors – miscellaneous online sources, Eelaine, and the Seattle Public Library – thank you.)
• the desire to make a life-sized giant squid out of found objets and papier mache
• a news report on those grody gross gnarly grotty foot pad things that revealed they are total scam

Perhaps I’ll get around to elaborating on some of these during the next NaBloPoMo.