Michi's moat

Nicked off of reynardo and lederhosen.

Below are lyrics from the first 15 songs to show up.

I warn you now - my choices are somewhat eclectic, and this does not in the slightest cover the range I listen to. But see if you can work out the song from the lyrics. I've gone with the first few lines unless they particularly mention the song's title. I have skipped a number of instrumental pieces.

It now is time for the great reveal: all titles/artists have been added below.

( And here there be music. )

From reynardo:

Directions:
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.



1.) Are you a male or female?
Chramer gip die varwe mir (Carmina Burana)

2.) Describe yourself?
Funky Monks (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

3.) How do you feel about yourself?
Sin (NIN)

4.) Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend:
New Math (Tom Lehrer) Actually not that far beyond the mark

5) Describe your current partner.
Major Tom (Peter Schilling)

6.) Describe your current location:
There is an inn, a merry old inn (The Tolkien Ensemble) Well, I wouldn't call it quite that...

7.) Describe what you want to be:
Condemnation (Depeche Mode)

8) Describe your best friend:
View from a bridge (Kim Wilde)

9.) Your favorite color is:
Akcent (Kylie Minogue)

10.) You know that:
Sentinel (Mike Oldfield)

11.) What is the weather like?
Bruces' Philosopher Song (Monty Python)  Now that is some worrisome weather!

12.) If your life was a television show, what would it be called?
No one man is ever going to worry me (Sophie Tucker & Ted Shapiro)

13) What is life to you?
The Carnival is over (The Seekers) Sounds dreary...

14.) What is the best advice you have to give?
Näckaspel (Alf Hambe) Suitably bizarre

15.) Describe your love life:
Tango i Nizza (Evert Taube) Obviously reuniting with old flames, thus....

16.) How are you going to die?
Bright College Days (Tom Lehrer) Just like I always dreamed I would.

7.) If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
All God's Chillun' Got Rhythm (Bunny Berigan)

18) What do your friends think of you?
Brief Intermission (Michael B. Tretow)

19) What is your funeral song going to be?
House of the rising sun (The Animals) Oh mama, tell your children, not to do what I have done!

20) What are you going to repost this as?
Love, in itself (Depeche Mode)

Fear me!

And this is the meme that results

1. One book that changed your life: Boy. I think Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel Escher Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid may qualify. It certainly did change my way of thinking. Other than that, my life hasn't really had these huge changes that weren't in some way foreseeable; but on the other hand books have played rôles in these premonitions - such as the Sigma book series as an early indication I would end up in mathematics...

2. One book that you’ve read more than once: There are quite a few, y'know. But I'll go with the Illuminati! trilogy by the two Roberts for the insanity value.

3. One book you’d want on a desert island: I'm joining in the "Nothing's gonna not be boring after the fifth read through, so a survival guide is a good idea" chorus.

4. One book that made you laugh: Anything from the Discworld series. And Good Omens. I like absurdist humour - there are MANY books to bring under this.

5. One book that made you cry: I think Anne Frank's diary was pretty wrenching. But it was loooong ago, so I don't really remember.

6. One book that you wish had been written: Right now, I'm rooting for Functional programming in Haskell for homological algebraists with a strong computational and computational algebra background - but I think I may be a very significant part of the readership of such a book, so it'll probably never appear.

7. One book that you wish had never been written: Goooood question. I cannot recall really hating a book enough to wish for that; though some of the bile Mats Wahl has been writing certainly made me throw the books away.

8. One book you’re currently reading: Should I be geeky? I probably can outgeek a lot of you. But I guess non-fiction is cheating. So ... On a pale horse by Piers Anthony

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read: The Book of Mormon

10. Now tag eight people: Nope. I don't do taggings. But if you like the meme, please do it.

Two more book for the "finished" list:

CS Lewis: The magician's nephew
CS Lewis: The last battle

Aaaaaand a filkerdave">meme from filkerdave

Put your iPod or iTunes or whatever you use to listen to MP3s on random or shuffle. Use the corresponding songs to answer the following questions. Don't reshuffle your songs just because you don't like them or because you don't want anyone to know you have Styx on your iPod.

1) What do you think of me?
Rammstein: Amour - Wow. Thanks! I .. ummm .. you do know I'm already engaged, right?

2) Will I have a happy life?
Pasadena Roof Orchestra: Paddlin Madelin Home - Well... Won't it get boring after a while? I know that happy-swing is .. well .. happy, but ... my entire life?

3) What do my friends really think of me?
Einstürzende Neubauten: Zum Tier Machen - I'm not one already? o.O

4) Do people secretly lust after me?
Die Fantastischen Vier: Albert und die Philosophen - Oh, they do, do they? Hrm. Well. I don't know how to put this, but...

5) How can I make myself happy?
Bob Rivers: I love your breasts the way they are - Well, I guess I should just stop trying to get back into shape then?

6) What should I do with my life?
Stefan Raab: Maschendrahtzaun - So .. mathematician is out?

7) Why must life be so full of pain?
Simon & Garfunkel: Scarbourough Fair - Ummmmmmm, what?

8) Will I ever have children?
Assemblage 23: Surface.grip - *blink*blink*

9) Will I die happy?
Schandmaul: Tyrann - I dunno what to say about this. I never thought of myself as someone valuing power for power itself, but...

10) Can you give me some advice?
Gigi D'Agostino: Another way - Right. Get right back at it, it is?

11) What do you think happiness is?
Infected Mushroom: Nothing comes easy

12) What is my favorite fetish?
Dahler Mehndi: Bolo ta ra ra - saaaaay what? Dancing indian girls? Or?

13) How will I be remembered?
Bizet: Toreador - How did I end up bullfencing. Really. I wanna know what happened.

Yup. I'm stuck again. An offhand comment, a full night of video-editing and I present to you The Thesis Song in perfect internet-meme format (at the Internet Archive for bandwidth reasons).

For those not having encountered it so far, this is a videofying of the Llama song and Dalek song clone by charliesmum that may be found over at chavvah.

Please, do link this. I'd love to be the originator of a meme.

Is it just me, or did someone at MSF accidentially play WAY too much Katamari Damacy?

Brought to you by the names kyrokitsune, kandra, the month September, the colour blue and the age of 25:

( Namememe )