Vague Wisdom

Yes, I am a little late getting to this. What can I tell you? It's been quite the year for me.

Answer each category with a SONG TITLE. No repeats and don’t use the internet (it's tempting but try not to). Go with the first song that comes to mind, change my answers to your own (you can steal mine, but what's the fun in that?), and repost.

Something To Wear - Short skirt and a long jacket by Cake
Something To Drink - Brain Shake by AC/DC
A Place - My California by Beth Hart
A Food - Green Eggs by Letters to Cleo
An Animal - Dog Eat Dog from Les Misérables
A Color - Heart of Gold by Neil Young
A Girl’s Name - Sunny Came Home by Shawn Colvin
A Boy’s Name - A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash
Profession - Dentist! from Little Shop of Horrors
Day of the Week - Monday by Wilco
A Vehicle - I'm a Little Rocketship by Cracker

Your turn!

Last Wednesday night I went to see Girlfriend at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre with serene. I like Matthew Sweet's music, so I was pretty sure I would enjoy the show and I was right. It was a wonderful evening. The Berkeley Rep did two musicals based on popular music this season. American Idiot by Green Day and Girlfriend. Although, American Idiot was more successful as a musical, I'm not entirely convinced that current music lends itself to dramatization. My working theory which is very preliminary is that back in my youth there were such things as concept albums. Where the music was actually intended to tell some kind of story. We don't seem to do that much anymore (although American Idiot appeared to be conceived as a musical and Green Day was much more involved in its show then Matthew Sweet was in Girlfriend.) So the musicals have much more of a concert feel to me. This isn't a criticism, I enjoyed both shows very much. it's just that after both shows I didn't feel like I'd gone to the theater. Of the two "musicals" I've seen at the Berkeley Rep, Girlfriend was less successful in my mind as a musical.

serene looked beautiful in her sparkly black dress. After the show we got sushi where I was introduced to butterfish sashimi which was very tasty and I ate usual tonkatsu (I'm almost sure I misspelled that, but I'm too lazy to go look right now.) I really enjoyed myself. Thank you so much loracs for the transportation assistance. The evening was much more enjoyable being dry. You wouldn't know it from what I write here, but I have a really good life. Much better than I ever expected.

Embarrassed to realize, I'm currently rocking out to Taylor Swift's, "Forever & Always". *sheesh* Thank goodness White Stripes is coming up.

Via sturgeonslawyer but seen all over.

You know the drill. Go to www.musicoutfitters.com and do a search on the most popular 100 songs from the year you graduated high school. (You can do this by searching on the year you graduated [Actually easier to go to www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/xxxx.htm and replace the x's with your year. No, they don't have anything more recent then 2001]). Bold the ones you actually like. Pick a favorite. Underline that favorite. And strikethrough the ones you loathe. Italicize the ones you consider to be guilty pleasures.

To this meme I will add an advertisement of my own ignorance by putting those I just plain don't know (at least by title/band, though I might recognize them if they were played on a tinny AM radio) in this font. This will leave very few indeed in normal font, saying, "I know it but don't care."

( From 1977 )