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posted by [personal profile] purplerabbits at 12:02pm on 14/02/2005 under ,
4. There's nothing to do so pack up your bags and join the back of the queue this time
5. An emotional charge like an electrical spark, but the fuses are two, you can't tell them apart
7. The question is big, the question is wide, I can't see around it I see only one side
8. Days in silence try my temper, nights spent drinking to remember - Surely Graeme should get this?
9. There were fireworks over London. You weren't among them anymore
10. The truth unwinding, scraping away at my mind, please stop asking me to describe
15. hey did any of you freaks here ever remember lenny? i can't remember his last name, he's turned to dust now, one of the chosen few
16. I'd shed blood for you/ The north star in the firmament/ You shine the most bright/ I've seen you draped in an electric veil/ Shrouded in celestial light
18. We needed something to move and fill up the space. We needed something that always is just the case - The Pixies, Space (I believe in)
19. Abandon faith and then belief
21. Some have teeth and some have hair. Some have soft sweet petals, some look like Cher
23. The moon... beautiful The sun... even more beautiful Yello, Oh Yeah
24. I thought she was the girl for me. I was so taken by her personality
25. Am I a slut? Wow this is even better than a movie - yes, it's Bongwater
26. You're just a oil slick on the drag strip. You're just a skid mark on the speedway - Cop Shoot Cop, Eggs for Rib
28. Things cross your mind, you can't help it. What you said, what I said, what you did, what I did. - think of it in Steve Albini's voice...
29. Back in the days when the battles raged and we thought it was nothing
31. He said the record wouldn't have to be hot and no-one ever seemed to care if it's not
33. Well close your breath and hold your eyes, turn the corner of surprise
34. But to send you to Antarctica to face your certain death was a very, very heartless thing to do - David?
37. When he's had enough of that, maybe you'll take him to bed To teach him he's alive before he wishes he was dead - another for Graeme
39. Girl with a curl with a sweet sweet ribbon in her hair she's calling out a window cos her daddy just don't care
45. 'Cos I got the real love, the kind that you need , you'll come running back to me
46. She said, it's hard, it's just hard, it's kinda hard to say - Laurie Anderson
47. My wife's getting lazy going gadget crazy wants a pallette shaped coffee table and a matching settee - Emily?
50. If you're looking for trouble that's what you will find. Mom and pop, they will fuck you, for sure.
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iTunes meme, from [livejournal.com profile] autopope
How many total songs?
4292 11.3days. That's at work - at home I have a lot more...

Sort by song title - first and last?
...and in every home - Elvis Costello
Zwischen Narziss Und Selbsthass - Ganguis Et Cinis

Sort by time - first and last?
Fingertips - They might be giants - 4 seconds
Autobahn - Kraftwerk - 22 minutes 44 seconds

Sort by Album - first and last?
Sigur Ros ()
Yello - Zebra

Top five played songs?
Angel No - Yello
Sorrow - David Bowie
Sometimes - James
The Ship Song - Nick Cave
Boss of Me - They might be giants

Find "sex", how many songs show up?
13
Find "death", how many songs show up?
15
Find "love", how many songs show up?
114
Mood:: just so you know...
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posted by [personal profile] purplerabbits at 12:45pm on 11/02/2005 under ,
For your delectation. Taken from the top 50 from iTunes party shuffle.Read more... )
Comments will be unscreened and results announced when I get home tonight - Just an hour and a half to go folks!
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posted by [personal profile] purplerabbits at 04:35pm on 30/09/2004 under ,
Bored bored bored bored bored. So here is a music questionnaire courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] duranorak. yay music! )
Music:: Rabbit in your headlights: Unkle
Mood:: 'Can I go home yet?' Can I go home yet?
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Bored on Friday? Wanna help me think of some playlists?

Today I'm looking for:-

Songs with the word Candy in the title
Songs that are covers but which people assume are the original because the original is so obscure. Beaver Patrol is a classic example.
Cover versions of Kick Out The Jams, I know loads of people have covered it, but who?

(For extra points MP3s of tracks I haven't got would be very welcome, but strictly optional. I would do quite a lot for an MP3 of the original Beaver Patrol...)
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Didn't I tell you that Momus is more cheerful? Actually I really need to buy a copy of that album, but it's a bit hard to get hold of. So, yes, I didn't sleep well, mostly due to sleeping all day yesterday, and I was late for work (again) today, which would have been a great Cop Shoot Cop lyric to use, but I'm being strict with myself for no readily apparent reason.

And why did Ananove file this under quirkies? It looks as if it might be important, even (or especially?) if it doesn't work as well as they say..
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That's enough pirates. Meanwhile I have installed Realplayer just to play this track, since I couldn't find it on MP3. Not sure it was worth the effort. Actually I'm sure it wasn't, but I was bored. Also I hate Realplayer 'cos it talks to you and tries to get you to download the new version as you quit.

Today I have mostly been making plans of escape, but I'm getting depressed because they're not very good plans. I figure any plan that involves winning the lottery has a fairly fatal flaw. Where can I learn Dutch in Edinburgh that's not the University? There's a course at the University but it clashes with my Origins of Writing course that I've already booked and paid for...

I wonder whether I will ever get back into doing my job instead of staring into space. If not I may need to find a new one smartish before anyone notices how useless I've become...
Mood:: Piratical
Music:: Coasts of High Barbary
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Am playing Rio in honour of [livejournal.com profile] duranorak's return to LJ. Rar! I've missed you, my dear...

So. Had haircut and dyed today and now I look fucking awesome. I keep having to take breaks from working to admire myself. Photos will happen, although possibly not till tomorrow when I'm dressed up ready for DKY's Olde Goff Nite (also some of the red may have worn off my scalp by then).

Hmm, I like almost every track on this except Rio itself. When it came out I was very unpopular at school for refusing to fancy any member of the band and swooning over the young David Bowie instead.

"But he's far too old for you now and he looks crap", my charming little tormentors would say.

"Yes," I would reply, "but I fancy Ziggy Stardust, and it doesn't matter that he doesn't exist any more because I have as much practical chance of travelling back to 1972 and shagging him as you do of shagging Simon leBon in 1982."

Then they would hit me and steal my copy of Smash Hits. Ah me, it was twenty years ago and I still want to break their stupid fucking heads open - memories, eh? I haven't played this album for ages, for which Paul is no doubt very grateful. I feel a Best of Smash Hits mix coming on for the DIY disco...

I got a barometer today. I didn't go out looking for a barometer, but it was £2.50 in the Sally Army shop and it's a rather nice plain ash wood setting (done by a craft-fair wood turning to judge from the inscription saying "Ash TJH 80" on the back). I don't know if it will help me decide whether to take a brolly, but it's rather elegant. I would go so far as to say that it is a fine barometer, in which case, one could calculate the height of the building with it. I have, however told Paul that he may not drop it out of the window and see how long it takes to hit the ground...

Update: I've changed the link to one that correctly attributes the article and contains the full last paragraph. It's a shame it wasn't Rutherford and Bohr, but there you go. Why do people deliberately remove attributions online I wonder - there seems no satisfactory explanation when thet're not trying to claim authorship themselves...
Mood:: 'productive' productive
Music:: Duran Duran: Hold back the rain
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posted by [personal profile] purplerabbits at 04:15pm on 12/06/2002 under ,
Here is a selection of the perkigoth.com playlist for this afternoon. So, it is Goth, or Not?Poll below )
Mood:: 'tired' tired
Music:: Real Life - Send Me An Angel
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Mood:: Aghast, but amused
Music:: A-Ha - Take On Me - Techno Remix

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