What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Inspired by Stephanie.
1. A GreenDay with the Eagles - mashup by team9
2. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyd (not ashamed to admit it)
3. Angel - Massive Attack
4. Rock Lobster - B-52s
5. Robbie over Jacko Under Pressure - mashup by Go Home Productions
6. Greenday Massacre - mashup by Dean Gray
7. Careless Whisper - Ben Folds feat. Rufus Wainwright (from the Wolf Trap show I attended with Tom)
8. The Distance - Cake
9. Saturday Night - Ozomatli
10. Hard to Explain - The Strokes
]]>What song or lyrics are stuck in your head at the moment? What album is it from?
Submitted by Lox Ly.
You can't knock 'em out
You can't walk away
Try desperately to think of the politest way to say
Just get out my face
Just leave me alone
And no you can't have my number
'Cause I lost my phone.
- Lily Allen, "Knock 'em Out," from Alright, Still
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I just picked up a copy of Hugh Laurie's novel The Gun Seller. I've been a fan of Laurie's acting since I started watching Blackadder in reruns on PBS as a teenager, then moved on to Jeeves & Wooster, and now I'm a big House junkie. But I thought it might be interesting to see if he's still funny when he doesn't have a team of writers putting words in his mouth.
He is. I'm only two chapters in, so apply grains of salt at will, but so far, the best way I can think of to describe Laurie's style is that it's very Douglas Adams-esque: very specific and off-the-wall imagery, weird little tangents here and there, etc. It's too early in his literary career to say whether Laurie can be as consistently funny in the way Adams could, but he's got a new book coming out next year, so I suppose time will tell. In the meantime, I'm really digging The Gun Seller.
]]>]]>Tell us a little something about your first car. Do you have any photos you can share?
Submitted by tamara.
My first car, which was the car I owned before the Beetle I have now, was a black 2000 Kia Sephia LS. It was a total piece of shit. At 18,000 miles, the seams started splitting in the exhaust system pipes. At 47,000 miles, the brakes failed while I was driving home from work. I sold it about a week later.
These are apple blossoms from the trees at the FDR Memorial. When I was a kid, my grandfather used to take me out into the woods every summer to the apple tree, and he'd shake the branches until the petals fell like snow. We'd take whole blossoms and attach them to kite string and make thick wreaths for my mom and grandmother. Mom would put hers in a bowl of water and it scented the kitchen for days afterwards. So when I found these, I spent several minutes standing under the trees to enjoy the fragrance.
]]>So I've got this Vox account, and it's an interesting tool, but I've got four blogs already.