While there are a lot of songs that make me happy, the Pet Shop Boys are guaranteed to do so with their song “I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind Of Thing.” I can’t put a finger on exactly why, to be honest. I mean there are a lot of reasons so it’s hard to give a specific one. It reminds me of the time we used to spend going to Tracks back in the early 90′s. It has a pretty positive message. It’s bouncy. It’s great to dance to. All of that, and I just have a weakness for this kind of pop music.

Regardless of the reason, this song is virtually guaranteed to get me to smile and dance around like a fool.

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So…My friend Heather has been doing this here list for a few weeks now. I have to admit that I’m a lot like her in that this is likely not going to be done in anything remotely resembling 30 days, but it does give me some quick fodder to actually put some content out on the site.

The whole point is that you have this list of 30 different music based topics you’re supposed to write about. Day 1, for example, is your favorite song.

I hate this question. With a passion. I don’t know that I have a favorite song. I have favorite songs of the moment. When you ask me what my favorite song is the answer that comes to mind wouldn’t be the same answer I’d have given you six months ago, and it probably won’t be the same answer six months from now. So telling you what my “favorite” song is becomes kind of a problem.

That said…

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Not as easy as you might think. Remember: one word answers.

1. Where is your mobile phone? Desk
2. Your significant other? Napping
3. Your hair? Gone
4. Your mother? Amazing
5. Your father? Dead
6. Your favorite thing? Fall
7. Your dream last night? Kinky
8. Your favorite drink? Coffee
9. Your dream/goal? Security
10. The room you’re in? Office
11. Your ex? Incomprehensible
12. Your fear? Dementia
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years. Comfortable
14. Where were you last night? Home
15. What you’re not? Skinny
16. Muffins? Hot
17. One of your wish list items? Maid
18. Where you grew up? Florida
19. The last thing you did? E-Mail
20. What are you wearing? Shorts
21. Your TV? Expensive
22. Your pets? Annoying
23. Your computer? Frustrating
24. Your life? Peachy
25. Your mood? Happy
26. Missing someone? Occasionally
27. Your car? Necessity
28. Something you’re not wearing? Shoes
29. Favorite Store? Book
30. Your summer? Humid
31. Like someone? Yup
32. Your favorite color? Blue
33. When is the last time you laughed? Today
34. Last time you cried? Friday

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 tagged me.  Figured it would be something to do in my off time while working today.
The Rules:

Each person tagged blogs 7 random facts about themselves, as well as the rules of the game. You then tag seven others and list their names on your blog.

The Random Facts:

- I spent a semester attending the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.  With a theater major, no less.  I literally selected the school by opening up a college guide and dropping my finger on a random page.  On reading the description, I found out it was voted the #2 party university in the country by Playboy magazine the month before.  I forgot something, though.  I was a fat geek who didn’t really party.  Needless to say I didn’t fit in.  Highlights include finding out the KKK showed up to protest at the homecoming game the year before because an African-American woman was voted the Homecoming queen and sitting on the steps of the building my English class was in and realizing I was having a cigarette where George Wallace staged his protest against government forced integration.  I couldn’t get home fast enough, and skipped out on all my finals (scoring a 0.00 GPA for the term).

- The fact that I write so infrequently here these days has very little to do with my perception of Live Journal or me looking down my nose at it, and has a hell of a lot to do with the fact that as I advance in my career I’m realizing that what I write here could easily come around to bite me in the ass in the long run.  It really makes me kind of sad, in a way.  I started writing here as a way to kind of put myself out there for the world to see, but now I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be wise to go back and remove some of the posts from back before I started working here.  I could, of course, use filters…and I do on occasion.  But even that isn’t foolproof.
 
- Despite the apparent size of my ego, my bravado and my frequent spouting of how much I rock I am probably one of the more insecure people you know. 

- My absolute biggest pet peeve in the entire world, and the thing that is guaranteed to make me go from good mood to pissy in nothing flat, is being made to feel like I’ve been taken for granted.  I’ll move heaven and earth to do something nice for someone if it is within my power to do so, but the minute I’m treated like that kind of thing is expected of me I get very surly indeed.

- I am so self-conscious over my mild (according to my doctors) Roseacea that if there was a surgical procedure that would fix it I would find a way to pay for it and do so.  When it acts up, I oftenthink twice about leaving the house. 

- I should be doing homework right now.

- I wish I was as selfish as some people think I am.  If I was, it wouldn’t hurt when I realized that’s what they thought of me.

Bonus fact!

- Things like this meme apparently make me far too introspective.  I probably should have left this at something like “I’m horny!”  Probably would get more comments, anyway.

Tag-ees:

I don’t tag.  Namely because I frequently do not follow though when folks do so to me.

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Opening Credits: Weezer – Say It Ain’t So
Waking Up: Beck – It’s All In Your Mind
An Ordinary Day: Nine Inch Mails – March Of The Pigs
The First Date: Tenacious D – Dio
Falling In Love: Tori Amos – Hotel
The Rumble: He Got Game – Public Enemy
The Break-up: Pet Shop Boys – Love Comes Quickly
Getting Back Together: Sonny Boy Williamson (Mulholland Drive Soundtrack) – Bring It On Home
Life’s Ok: Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie
The Mental Breakdown: The Ramones – Beat On The Brat
Cruising: Eminem – Rock Bottom
The Flashback: Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper – Wash No Dishes No More
The Party: They Might Be Giants – Hearing Aid
Everybody Dance Now: Tori Amos – China
Sex Scene: Bleu (Spider-Man Soundtrack) – Somebody Else
The Long Night Alone: Angelo Badalmenti – Twin Peaks Theme
A Death: Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Once More With Feeling) – End Credits (Boom Dance/Grr Arrgh)
End Credits: Chris Cornell (Singles Soundtrack) – Seasons

That…erm…didn’t come out so well.

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001. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”

002. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.

003. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.

004. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.

005. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

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In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.

1. Unless I consciously decide to do so otherwise, I read magazines backwards.
2. Once I find something I like in a restuarant, I generally tend to order it over and over again. Trying something new very rarely happens.
3. I get really freaked by my fingernails having any kind of white on them, and frequently trim them down to the quick. Often too far, which makes them hurt for days.
4. About 2 to 3 times a year I go through “purge cycles” where I’ll whirlwind through the house and throw out anything I think it causing excess clutter without serving a function.
5. I totally and completely lose my shit if you mess with the rear view mirror while I’m driving.

much_ado tacked another meme on to this, asking for five simple pleasures in your life.

1. Coffee.
2. Waking up without the alarm and cuddling with netgoth
3. Hugs from my son.
4. The thrill of a first read through on any production I’ve done with Jobsite
5. Sushi

Oh, and as for the tagging? Do this if you’ve got some time. hehehe…I half-tag you all!

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