1-Put your music player on shuffle.
2-Press forward for each question.
3-Use the song title as the answer to the question.
How am I feeling today?
Cold Milk Bottle - The Mountain Goats
Will I get far in life?
Graceland - The New Pornographers
How do my friends see me?
Black Cat- Broadcast
When will I get Married?
Hey Boy - The Blow
What is my best friend's theme song?
Feelgood by Numbers - The Go! Team
What is the story of my life?
The Party's Crashing Us - Of Montreal
What was highschool like?
Fourth Time Around - Bob Dylan
How am I going to get ahead in life?
Muddy Hymnal - Iron and Wine
What is the best thing about me?
Love is No Big Truth - Kings of Convenience
How is today going to be?
Amen - Jolie Holland
What is in store for this weekend?
WIshful Thinking - Wilco
What song describes my parents?
Church on White - Stephen Malkmus
What song describes your grandparents?
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
How is my life going?
My Mathematical Mind -- Spoon
What song will they play at my funeral?
Speak Easy - Maria Taylor
How does the world see me?
Bouge de la- MC Solaar
Will I have a happy life?
I'll Be Yr Bird - M Ward
What do my friends really think of me?
Handshake Drugs - Wilco
Do people secretly lust after me?
Chewing Gum - Annie
How can I make myself happy?
Public Service Announcement - The Bravery
What should I do with my life?
DUI- Har Mar Superstar
Will I ever have children?
Bring on the Ending - Matt Pond PA
What is some good advice for me?
Thirteen - Big Star
What is my signature dancing song?
Punker Plus - Le tigre
What do I think my current theme song is?
Feel Good Inc - Gorrilaz
What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Still We Felt Bulletproof - Clue to Kalo
What type of men/women do you like?
Casual Sex- The Faint
What kind of kisser are you?
Walk on the Wildside - Lou Reed
What's your style?
Orange Blossom Special - Johnny Cash
What kind of lover are you?
Tymps... Fiona Apple
What would be playing on a first date?
Always See Your Face - Love
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Mr. Too Damn Good - Dump
What's your favorite vacation destination?
My favorite place to spend free time would have to be southern france. The pace of life, the hot sun and cool mediterranean...the great food, the wonderful wine...sigh...without question I wish I could be there right now.
What's your motto?
i thought long and hard about my motto...there's a japanese proverb about cherry blossoms that i love...(i love the fleeting beauty of cherry blossoms...the idea that its like this bright burst of an entrance for spring...so girly I know.) Anyway- one thing that my bizarro schedule these past two weeks has afforded me is lots of opportunity to sit and think (and knit) and I've thought a lot about the past year, and how much things around me have changed, how much I have changed (for the better, get your minds out of the Lifetime TV for women gutter).
Working with one of my favorite reporters at work, I noticed the following on her desk...and it was something I really took to, that I've thought of it many times since. I have it written in my molskine, and I have it in my gmail to refer to whenever I want. It makes me happy, in the same way that I felt when I first read the last lines of Whitman's "Song of Myself"...I think the cadence is similar, and I feel like there's a sort of proximity that you feel with the writer- like you're being told a wonderful secret, or you're party to one of those french new wave moments that will forever exist freeze framed in your head.
Okay maybe I'm being a little too melodramatic...here goes....
"The moon did not become the sun.
It just fell on the desert
in great sheets, reams
of silver handmade by you.
The night is your cottage industry now,
the day is your brisk emporium,
The world is full of paper.
Write to me."
-Agha Shahid Ali
(and for those of you who are curious, here's whitman's last lines)
I depart as air- I shake my white locks at the runaway sun;
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
I bequeath myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love;
If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am, or what I mean;
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged;
Missing me one place, search anotherm
I stop somewhere, waiting for you.
hello everyone...hello great vox world.
this truly marks my foray into the blogosphere...
Now what do I say? I'm really excited about VOX I've heard and seen only good things. And I'm excited to have a place to write things down...you know, about being vague, about stuff...
alright. lamest first post ever.
