11 posts tagged “lists”

1. Renewed my driver's license
2. Went to the bank where I deposited checks that I received for being a writer
3. Was rejected by The Loft's Mentor Series
4. Took a nap
   
5. Bought not one, not two, but three kickass birthday gifts
6. Decided that if your birthday is the first week in June you can't be my friend, because I'm booked up with people I have to buy gifts for during the first week of June
   

1. The song “Carrie Ann” was written about Marianne Faithful.
2. “Do You Believe in Magic” came out in like 1965 and not in about 1985 like I had always assumed, also the band who sings it, The Lovin’ Spoonful toured with The Supremes.
3. Though written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Marianne Faithful originally sang “As Tears Go By”, and it still sounds like a Stones song.
4. David Crosby was in The Byrds
6. “At that point we weren’t writing sons, and if it weren’t for The Beatles we probably wouldn’t have,” Keith Richards.
7. I love Pete Townshend. This is news to me. I love him because when talking about the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Mama Cass, and Janis Joplin he sort of flipped his wig, got all teary eyed and said, “They might be your fucking icons, but they’re my fucking friends and they’re dead.”
8. “Don’t be nice, it’s the kiss of death,” Johnny Rotten

(I mostly stopped paying attention when they got to Woodstock and all that blah blah because really it was like 983 parts and my attention span is not that long)

• Watching TV in the dark
• Those three Spin Doctors' songs
• Dawson's Creek
• Chili Cheese Dogs
• Rock of Love with Bret Michaels
• Diet Coke with Lime
• Amazon.com
• Corndogs
• Billy Joel
• Grease 2
• My iPod
  
• Spending the entire day in my pajamas
• Arguing
• Spending money on books
• Singing out loud

1. Watched 1.5 episodes of Dawson's Creek
2. Tried to get Cade to choose which was better car washes or bowling*
3. Pondered dropping the class
   
4. Read a story from Kevin Brockmeier's Things That Fall From the Sky
5. Wrote a really long essay about memoirs and the bullshit they call creative non-fiction
6. Checked the mail
7. Pondered how doofy I look in my new prescription sunglasses**
8. Played 831 games of Chain Factor
9. Listened to the best Elvis Costello*** record all the way through
10. Made this list
11. Read Boyd Coddington, the king of Hot Rod's obituary
12. Stared at an empty word doc until my eyes bled

* he is totally undecided claiming that bowling and car washes both rule
** very doofy
*** My Aim is True

1. I read Crime and Punishment too, and it's just mean to accuse someone of copping a scene from the book. How is that constructive?
2. I know I'm sitting right next to you and all so I'm easy to dismiss, but come on I said the story did a great job with setting, it's very Minnesota and Lutheran Church basement, so going on about how you don't know if it's the rural-south or the northeast was kind of rude.
3. You should pipe down
4. This is supposed to be a discussion not a soliloquy
   
5. Didn't teach you manners at Columbia did they?
6. I'm sorry to be all teacher's pet and all, but I've known the Vodo for 1000 years and he'd want us to keep discussing while he steps out
7. OH MY GOD SHE'S NEVER GOING TO SHUT UP
8. Way to go Jags! You said it before I could, you're right she did say it was not the author's job to educate the reader in the last story and is now asking for that education in this story
9. I love your accent and the way the class hushes itself to listen to you speak
10. Oh my god I love this class
    

1. You realize that tomorrow is actually the first day of February when you were pretty sure it's been February for awhile
2. You get an e-mail from the Princess, complete with frowny face chastising you for not responding to her e-mail

• Get me a cookie
• Write my online portfolio
• Respond to my e-mail, especially the one from Vanna
• Fix my resume
• Warm up my feet
• Figure out why when I have all day, I only become creatively active at 10:30 p.m.
• Pick out the best case studies, screencap them and upload them to the new site
• Feed the cats
• Do the dishes
• Go get my iPod from the Fortress of Solitude

10. Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley

Of all the hideous synth-driven dance-pop that came out of the late 80s and 90s, Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" remains an enduring favorite. In fact, now as I think about it, it's the only song in that flood of drivel that I still genuinely like.

There's no reason, no excuse, no fond childhood event tied with this song. I got nothing and, yet, still I love. I think a lot of it stems from the fact that, well, Astley has red hair and I had MTV back in 1987-88.

I first fell in love with a red-haired boy in third grade. His name was Matt Wilder and he loved me in that wonderfully antagonistic way that only 3rd graders can love. I would, of course, shun his affections because that's what I was supposed to do. But secretly I was thrilled. Third grade was incidentally also the year that I realized I was freakishly tall (I think I was around 5'7" or so at age 10) and Matt Wilder would always tell me he didn't care how tall I was, he loved me anyway.

Yeah. I have no idea what happened to him, I think he might have moved away by fourth grade. But ever since, I've spent my life unsuccessfully chasing the flame-haired beauties and because of that loving this stupid song.

• Someone to Pull the Trigger, Matthew Sweet
• Untouchable Face, Ani DiFranco
• To Destruction, Dolorean
• Fuck and Run, Liz Phair
• Divorce Song, Liz Phair
• God Give Me Strength, Elvis Costello
• Whatever Makes you Happy, Paul Westerberg
• Nobody, The Replacements
• Lonelily, Damien Rice
• Up to Me, Bob Dylan