in relative calm

the wire quote of the day

nobody@vox.com(m) — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:16:25 -0700

what kind of a fool would give a duck whiskey anyhow?

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QotD: This Week's Top 25

nobody@vox.com(m) — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:16:32 -0700

What are your top 25 most played songs?
Submitted by Cooxie.

1. I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay
2. Sea and the Rhythm - Iron and Wine
3. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized
4. Pitter Patter Goes My Heart - Broken Social Scene
5. Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine
6. Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
7. Song for a Blue Guitar - Red House Painters
8. Autumn Sweater - Yo La Tengo
9. Pollen - Mirah
10. Those to Come - The Shins
11. Rebel Rebel - Seu Jorge
12. To Be Alone With You - Sufjan Stevens
13. Wigwam - Bob Dylan
14. Ikebana - Kevin Shields
15. Staralfur - Sigur Ros
16. Good Friday - Cocorosie
17. I Melt With You - Nouvelle Vague
18. Life on Mars? - David Bowie
19. Sovay - Andrew Bird
20. Each Coming Night - Iron and Wine
21. Sodom South Georgia - Iron and Wine
22. No Moon- Iron and Wine
23. Cruiser - Red House Painters
24. Masterfade - Andrew Bird
25. MX Missiles - Andrew Bird

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musica!

nobody@vox.com(m) — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:50:23 -0700

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

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QotD: Let's Go There

nobody@vox.com(m) — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:56:38 -0700

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.

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QotD: Words To Live By

nobody@vox.com(m) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:38:30 -0700

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.

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my first vox post

nobody@vox.com(m) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:59:44 -0700

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.

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