Tag: memes

Shuffle Poetry–plus one

I yanked this meme from Cari ’cause hers cracked me up. Emo poets, watch out!

Take the first line of the first twenty songs that play on your shuffled music (wherever your shuffled music originates). The first line of the twenty-first song becomes your title. Here’s my poem–apparently I’m having girl trouble.

I’m Free to Do What I Want Any Old Time
by Becky and her iTunes

Green-eyed girl
Give me one more chance
What good is the dawn
Oh, it’s been such a long, long time
At night it hits me cold

You want to give your love away
Walked out, goodbye
I give her all my love
Girls can wear jeans
It’s quarter to three

All I know is the way that I feel
So you think you’re a Romeo
Cain slew Abel
Moon River, wider than a mile
Trudging slowly over wet sand

Know it sounds funny
She’ll let you in her house
Am I real?
Let me in here
When the night has come

And since I’m being poetic, occasionally (okay, twice, whatever, this is my LJ and I’ll say what I want to) Mark G. Harris assigns poetry writing tasks to his friends. He finds a past blog entry we wrote and asks us to rewrite it–in verse. He last did this on November 2, assigning me this old post of mine from May 2008. November 2…which is…uh….three months ago today and…um…er….GREAT WRITING TAKES TIME, PEOPLE!

So without further ado–and note, Internet, that’s ado, not adieu, but let me not interfere with your massacre of the language so that I can commence my own.

That Day You Got Your Nails Did


Lucy and Marilyn watched from the wall
That day you got your nails did
Madonna was hanging out, too,
But was all into herself
And couldn’t be bothered with you

Each twitch from you became sound
In the nail tech’s giggles
She clipped and filed and buffed
Around your nervous cuticles
Good theater, but you didn’t let me pay

I drove your manicure to Starbucks
To wrap itself around a frappuccino and a Camel
We kept an eye out for handsome men
But got dirty dogs and a rainbow
We’re soaking in it, Hardhat Boy

The Proust Questionnaire

Several years ago, my buddy Shawn over at Everything and Nothing introduced me to the self-interview. The idea is to find interview questions asked of others in the media and apply them to yourself, answering them on your blog.

A few days ago, I was reading the blog of TJB reader and Twitter friend, Daniel T., who linked to Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life. The description of the book reads:

The probing set of questions originated as a 19th-century parlor game popularized by contemporaries of Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that an individual’s answers reveal his true nature.

I’m not intending to answer the questions here and now, and probably not all at once. There are so many, and I’ve found myself giving them much more thought than memes usually provoke. Some of them might show up as the subjects of future LJ posts.

You can go to a link on the Vanity Fair Web site and answer them there, seeing how your answers compare to the “Luminaries,” or apparently even compare your answers to your Facebook friends.

Or if you want to use them to interview yourself, or maybe answer one or two of them on your own blogs or journals, the questions are:

1.?What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2.?What is your greatest fear?
3.?What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
4.?What is the trait you most deplore in others?
5.?Which living person do you most admire?
6.?What is your greatest extravagance?
7.?What is your current state of mind?
8.?What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
9.?On what occasion do you lie?
10.?What do you most dislike about your appearance?
11.?Which living person do you most despise?
12.?What is the quality you most like in a man?
13.?What is the quality you most like in a woman?
14.?Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
15.?What or who is the greatest love of your life?
16.?When and where were you happiest?
17.?Which talent would you most like to have?
18.?If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
19.?What do you consider your greatest achievement?
20.?If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
21.?Where would you most like to live?
22.?What is your most treasured possession?
23.?What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
24.?What is your favorite occupation?
25.?What is your most marked characteristic?
26.?What do you most value in your friends?
27.?Who are your favorite writers?
28.?Who is your hero of fiction?
29.?Which historical figure do you most identify with?
30.?Who are your heroes in real life?
31.?What are your favorite names?
32.?What is it that you most dislike?
33.?What is your greatest regret?
34.?How would you like to die?
35.?What is your motto?

Personality Disorder Test

Snagged this test from dawni, and just as I suspected: I’m boring.

Disorder Rating
Paranoid Disorder: Low
Schizoid Disorder: Low
Schizotypal Disorder: Low
Antisocial Disorder: Low
Borderline Disorder: Low
Histrionic Disorder: Low
Narcissistic Disorder: Low
Avoidant Disorder: Low
Dependent Disorder: Low
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Low

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That iTunes Thing again

Cross-posted from Facebook because I can’t do a real post since I’m cleaning frantically in anticipation of Endora Joan’s arrival.

Guidelines
1. Put your iTunes or Windows Player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your next answer.
3. You must write that song name down no matter how outrageous it sounds!
4. I’m not tagging anyone. Do it if you wanna.

answers behind the cut