Apr. 26th, 2011

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Life Soundtrack Meme
Ganked from [livejournal.com profile] sabotabby who got it from.

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every "scene", type the song that's playing. Comment on its hermetic relationship to whatever the scene is.
5. When you go to a new scene, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...


Opening Credits:
Devo, "Freedom of Choice"

Waking Up:
Skinny Puppy, "Glass Houses"

First Day At School:
Devo, "Mechanical Man"

Falling In Love:
Soundtrack to Godzilla, "Godzilla's Rampage"

Fight Song:
Man or Astro-Man, "U-Uranus"

Breaking Up:
Klaus Nomi, "Return"

Prom:
Devo, "Mr. B's Ballroom"

Life is good:
Thomas Dolby, "Flying North"

Mental Breakdown:
Nina Hagen, "Russische Reggae"

Driving:
Dead Kennedys, "Holiday in Cambodia"

Flashback:
Devo, "Whip It"

Getting Back Together:
Devo, "Please Baby Please"

Wedding:
SPK, "Romanz in Moll"

Final Battle:
Iggy Pop, "Funtime"

Death Scene:
Wire, "It's a Boy"

Funeral Song:
Pixies, "Monkey's Gone To Heaven"

End Credits:
Severed Heads, "Chasing Skirt"

Hm. Interesting, not least for the amount of Devo that shows up in this random selection - five out of 17, on an MP3 player with over 1,000 items on it. Is it possible for a "shuffle" to be broken, or am I just paying too much attention?

OTHERWISE

Well, a pretty good long Easter weekend, even though it rained for two of the four days. I got some cheap fir 2x10s and gave them a double coating of linseed oil, to make 5x3 foot raised beds for my garden this year. If it hadn't rained on Monday I would have gotten it done. Anyway, it's not too late for next weekend. Going to plant spinach, snow peas, radishes, green onions, cucumbers and soybeans this year, among others.

Made some notes for my Cyprus project. Cooked and organized stuff. Did my and Lianne's taxes.
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Yoinked from [livejournal.com profile] jeffreyab who got it from.

Gollancz has listed its fifty best science fiction and fantasy novels, The rules are “bold if you’ve read it, italicise if you own it”:

SF:

A Case of Conscience by James Blish
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Dune by Frank Herbert
Fairyland by Paul McAuley
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Flood by Stephen Baxter
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Separation by Christopher Priest
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts


Fantasy:

Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Book of the New Sun (Vol 1&2) (Vol 3&4) by Gene Wolfe
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Conan Volume One by Robert E. Howard
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Elric by Michael Moorcock
Eric by Terry Pratchett
Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Little, Big by John Crowley
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Runes of the Earth by Stephen Donaldson
Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Viriconium by M. John Harrison
Wolfsangel by M. D. Lachlan

Gollanz are holding a poll in which the winners in each category get republished.
Link to vote: http://www.gollancz50.com/

Plainly, I have been derelict in my reading!

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