so here's what ya do - take song lyrics, run 'em thru a translator (i chose greek) and then bring them back. try and guess :-p

um yeah, so who has two thumbs and is about to be an unca?

Movie Meme

Go onto imdb.com. Enter in the titles of ten of your favorite movies. Choose three plot keywords, and list your movies using these. Have your friends guess what movies they are. Fun for all.

1) Business card / Pookah / Hat
2) Poison / Joust / Baby
3) Peasant / Jidai Geki / Tragic Hero
4) Dumb Blonde / Pie in the Face / Tap Dancing
5) Hit in Crotch / Post Apocalyptic / Self Dentistry
6) Shark Infested Waters / Chocolate / Funny Accent
7) Biplane / Macguffin / Mistaken Identity
8) Leonardo Da Vinci / Nun / Double Cross
9) Accidental Shooting / Bagpipe / Ethnic Dancing
10) Cyberpunk / Space Opera / Taxi-cab

and a bonus round:
11) Pie Fight / Paddleball / Farting Scene

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645

hysterical!

is it wrong to email this clip to my old man?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWC7Vrv7uOE

i had a nice, blathering post all planned out in my head for this morning, about nothing in particular. then i woke up and remembered what day it is. suddenly the trivial seems so much more so today.

so instead, some reflection. tell me, true believers, where were you five years ago today?

me, right around this time i was sitting in my office with the entire staff of my company piled in, watching a live news feed off the bbc. we worked in a medical building at the time, so we couldn’t get any television reception, and all the major us news sites were overloaded. bbc was the first thing i found with a live feed that was actually accessible . no one said a word, except for the vp at the time, and all she could manage was an occasional 'oh my god'. its funny, the details you remember; i can still hear her now.

so where were you?

by the way, thanks hell for that pic. its like a beautiful donkey kick in the gut. i love it.

Apparently, when you visit the papal residence, you're not allowed to use the pope's bathroom. a special exception was made for the wish-kid that got sent there, and i do believe that makes her the only american ever to see the pope's can. unfortunately, no photography was allowed in the pope's commode, and no one was allowed to escort her in. so the question before us is, what's so special about the pope's bathroom that they don't want us mere mortals to see?

Poll #794846 The Pope's Bidet
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

So what do YOU think is so special about the Pope's Commode?

Prize will be given to the best answer, when i decide what it is.

http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/star_trek_insp.html

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

In our on-going effort to provide me with a method to keep from productivity, the management is proud to present

List of Things that Rock, Part III - Return of the Son of Things that Rock:
1) Dean Martin
2) French roast coffee
3) Steven Colbert
4) The Order of the Stick
5) girl geeks
6) driving mojo
7) The Word made Spaghetti
8) diet coke
9) getting caught in a funny way
10) monkeys
11) road trips
12) going insane in good company
13) the potential end of the LGH
14) website launches
15) falling asleep
16) full on geek-outs, oldskool style
17) Fight Club
18) text messaging
19) Jim Butcher
20) Steve Carell

and of course, in counterpoint - Things that Suck
1) Surprise government inspections
2) capitalizing on tragedy
3) mets games
4) sales conferences
5) 100+ degree heat
6) money
7) vertigo
8) forgotten passwords
9) drama
10) three laptops and one power cord
11) yonkers steak houses in general
12) illinois nazis
13) queens
14) website launches
15) government
16) bad covers
17) swiss-cheese memory
18) fear
19) ACT
20) aftermaths

That is all.

cryptaknight tagged me for the music meme, so...

1. Favorite Beatles song: "Mother Nature's Son"
2. Favorite Rolling Stones song: "Sympathy for the Devil"
3. Favorite Doors song: "Roadhouse Blues"
4. Favorite Bob Dylan song: "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
5. Favorite Led Zeppelin song: "All of My Love"
6. TV Theme Song: Where in the World is Carmen Santiago?
7. Favorite Prince Song: "Kiss"
8. Favorite Madonna Song: "Borderline" *agrees with cryptaknight*
9. Favorite Michael Jackson Song: "The Way You Make Me Feel"
10. Favorite Queen Song: "Under Pressure"
11. Favorite Motorhead Song: "Stone Dead Forever"
12. Favorite Ozzy Song: "Crazy Train"
13. Favorite Public Enemy Song: never heard a one
14. Favorite Song from a cartoon: "I'm a Believer" - Shrek soundtrack
15. Favorite Bruce Springsteen song: "I'm on Fire"
16. Favorite Depeche Mode song: "Enjoy the Silence"
17. Favorite Cure song: "Bananafishbones"
18. Favorite song that most of your friends haven't heard: "Breakfast in Vegas" Praga Khan.
19. Favorite Smiths song: "Panic"
20. Favorite Beastie Boys song: "Shambala"
21. Favorite Clash song: "London Calling" *agrees with cryptaknight*
22. Favorite Police song: "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"
23. Favorite Eurythmics song: "Here Comes The Rain Again"
24. Favorite Beach Boys song: "Sloop John B"
25. Favorite Cyndi Lauper song: "Time after Time"
26. Favorite song from a movie: "Leaving on a Jet Plane" from Armageddon
27. Favorite Duran Duran song: "Hungry Like the Wolf"
28. Favorite Peter Tosh song: (Never heard of Peter Tosh)
29. Favorite Johnny Cash song: "I Forgot to Remember to Forget"
30. Favorite song from an 80's one hit wonder: "Africa" - Toto
31. Favorite song from a video game: Mario Bros.
32. Favorite Kinks song: "Lola"
33. Favorite Genesis song: "Land of Confusion"
34. Favorite Thin Lizzy song: "Whiskey in the Jar"
35. Favorite INXS song: "Need You Tonight"
36. Favorite Weird Al song: "Like a Surgeon"
37. Favorite Peter Gabriel song: "Solsbury Hill" *agrees with cryptaknight*
38. Favorite John Lennon song: "Nobody Told Me"
39. Favorite Pink Floyd song: "Welcome to the Machine"
40. Favorite cover song: "Blue Skies" - Ella Fitzgerald
41. Favorite White Stripes: "Seven Nation Army" *agrees with cryptaknight*
42. Favorite dance song: don't dance.
43. Favorite U2 song: "With or Without You"
44. Favorite song from an actor turned musician: Get Out of My Dreams - Eddie Murphy
45. Favorite disco song: "Stayin' Alive" - the Bee Gees
46. Favorite Power Ballad: "Foreplay/Long Time" - Boston
47. Favorite Guns N' Roses song: "Used to Love Her"
48. Favorite The Who song: "Teenage Wasteland"
49. Favorite Elton John song: "Sad Songs (Say So Much)"
50. Favorite song, period:

madlori adds:
51. Favorite Sting song: "The Munificent Seven"
52. Favorite boy band song: dont know a one
53. Favorite Metallica song: "Master of Puppets
titanic_days adds:
54. Favorite Jam song: (don't know the Jam) *ditto*
55. Favorite Kirsty McColl song: (I've never heard of Kirsty McColl) *again, ditto*
56. Favorite Abba song: "Take a Chance on Me"
jlh adds:
57. Favorite Billy Joel song: "Vienna"
58. Favorite funk song: "Pass the Peas" - Maceo Parker
59. Favorite Burt Bacharach song: "God Give Me Strength"
piperki adds:
60. Favorite novelty song: "Bang the Drum" - Todd Rudgren
61. Favorite song that is old, but new to you: ?
63. Favorite song you've only heard on the Interwebs: ??
adjudicated adds:
64. Favorite song by a man/men wearing bad eyeliner: "Karma Chameleon" Culture Club
65. Song that prompted you to buy your very first album with your own money: "Run Around" Blues Traveler
66. First popular song you have a memory of hearing on the radio: "Only the Good Die Young" Billy Joel
cryptaknight adds:
67. Favorite song from a musical: "Everybody's Got The Right" from Assassins
68. Favorite song from the year you graduated high school: "Narcolepsy" Third Eye Blind
69. Favorite current top 40 song: "How Far is Heaven" Los Lonely Boys
timaeusdaspirge adds:
70. Favorite Rat Pack song: "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" - Dean Martin
71. Favorite blues song: "3 O'clock Blues" - BB King
72. Favorite duet: "Cheek to Cheek" - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

spread the WORD, friends! salvation and piracy are at hand!

If you haven't heard the music of Andy Craig, i highly recommend you correct that gross deficiency in your music...

http://www.myspace.com/andycraigfriends

if you take demand to mean stunning indifference. take the quiz. you know you want to. all the cool kids are doing it. really, i just head a lyric that made me giggle on my way to work. thought i'd share.

you know the rules: i give you a line, you give me song and artist. one point for each.
( PLACE BETS NOW!! )

so i was just sitting outside, drinking my coffee and smoking my cigarette when i suddenly realized i had been staring at nothing in particular for at least five minutes straight. i then had one of those introspective moments when you try and recall what the hell you had been thinking about just a moment before. here, in no order whatsoever, is what is currently on my mind:
1) trying to remember all the lyrics to She's So Cold, by the Rolling Stones
2) trying to arrange weekend plans with eight different people in two different cities, for a weekend that starts tomorrow
3) trying not to think about a job i just applied for, which is a lower-level position than the one i currently have but pays nearly ten grand more
4) trying to consider how this potential career shift would swing the oft-talked about but little-acted on plans for moving
5) trying not to consider all the implications of leaving the place i've been working at for five years now
6) trying to arrange my finances in such a way that allows me to do everything i want to this weekend, doesn’t leave me destitute and (here's the kicker) actually makes sense.
7) trying to process the over six hundred pages of web comics i've read in the past two days
8) trying to work out a possibly-fatal plot hole in a story i've been vainly trying to write
9) trying to remember the username and password i set up to a website i signed up for over three years ago
10) trying to figure out when i'm ever going to get around to getting a haircut, because seriously: hello 1975
11) trying to remember what it was i dreamed last night that left me with a vaguely unsatisfied feeling all day at the current state of reality

that, in short, is currently what's occupying my mind. had it not been for the sharp stink of burning flesh as my cigarette burned down to my fingers, i'd probably still be sitting there. if my computer could multitask as well as my mind does, it probably would have taken over the world by now.

i love how the weather channel doesnt want to say that westchester was hit by a damned tornado, so they're calling it tornadic activity.

why do they just get to make words up? people look at me funny when i do it

it was spring in the long ago time of 1996; my junior year of high school was drawing to a close and for the last time ever i showed up at gym class and promptly buggered off after attendance to have a cigarette on the roof. on that bright and shining morning, i thought my gym-going days a thing of the past - never again would i step foot in that human-sized hamster wheel, and i was damn proud of that fact. see, any sort of tone or musculature i could ever claim came as no fault of my own; i was blessed with an almost hyperactive metabolism. i could (and did) eat whatever i want, whenever i want, and never have to worry about expanding waistlines or paunches; the things that troubled lesser mortals were but a theory to me. why, my brief stint in construction provided me with more muscles than i rightly deserved, and those stayed with me years after i last hoisted a cinder block. i suppose it was part of the immortality of youth, the carelessness with which i treated my body.

as the poet once said, the times they are a’ changing.

i sit here today next to a bag; within this bag are a pair of sweats, a towel or two and an actual pair of sneakers. think, true believers: have you ever even seen me in sneakers? up until this morning, i wasn't even certain i owned a pair. and yet here i am, with all the accoutrements of war; soon i shall don my armor and go off to do battle against the effects of the evil carvel empire and that whorespawn bitch, mrs entenmann. you heard it here first, folks: in a little under two hours, i go *dramatic pause* TO THE GYM!!

i realize that my current plight will not elicit much pity from the general masses; concerning myself with things most people have been conscious of for decades rarely wins any support. for me, tho, it's the end of an era, an admittance of my own mortality, and the end of a sacred vow: to never again break a sweat unless in the most noble of pursuits. this is a dark day, my good people, and no mistaking it. if i survive, expect a full report on my return. if i fall, try not to hold the sneakers against me.

'What will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com

in other news, welcome back to the real world, people. sucks, don't it? i could get used to three day work weeks, tho.