The concept is simple: Click shuffle on your iTunes music library and in the order each track comes up, answer the following questions with the song titles. It’s like a Facebook version of Mad Libs! Let’s see how it “shuffles” down today.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Rattlesnake Smile (Kane)
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY?
All [...]
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DVD viewing
My interest in Cadillac Records stemmed from the simple fact that I liked the cast I saw, specifically Adrian Brody, one of my all-time favorites. I knew little about the story and even less about the musicians it chronicled, but these are the kinds of stories I love so I doubted I’d be disappointed. [...]
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February 8-14, 2009
1. Creative inspiration from design publications. I have shelves of decorating magazines and books, scores of jpeg images on my computer, and bookmarks all over the place leading me to inspiration for my home and my personal art. But still I spend hours every week poring over webpages and blogs and random postings [...]
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My taste in music has always been quite eclectic, although it will never been seen as avante-garde or edgy. I like pop music. I like Top 40 radio. It’s just who I am. But that doesn’t mean I like everything, and it certainly doesn’t mean I keep up with the times. In fact, right now, [...]
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The Best and Worst Pop Culture Moments of 2008 for me, at least
movies | television | celebrities | books | music
Favorite New Film
WALL•E — Even all these months later, my affection for the film continues to resonate. It is beautiful, heartbreaking, full of joy and life, comedy and tragedy. That it’s a computer-animated entity still [...]
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DVD rental
Everything good you’ve heard about Once is absolutely true and entirely incomplete. There are so few words to describe the beauty and the nuances of this film. It’s something you really just have to experience. It is, at once, rich and moving and haunting and witty and deeply resonant, not to mention exquisitely presented. [...]
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I have many long-standing passions in my personal pop culture history, and I stopped apologizing for them many years ago. I have no shame in admitting my devotion to 70s top 40, 80s New Wave, and a certain member of a 90s boy band who now appears in tv and movies with great (albeit [...]
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Genre: Biography & MemoirISBN: 0743284038How Acquired: Amazon.com, on the day of its releaseReading Began: December 26, 2005Completed Reading: January 2, 2006Overall Rating: Eight out of ten
Recommendation to others: Thoroughly engaging history of one band’s success and “excess” from the 70s to the end of their original era.
Why I chose to read this book: INXS was [...]
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