08.16.08

More Great Songs

Posted in List tagged , , , at 2:09 pm by listingmylife

In the last month, I’ve added to my library of musical melodies:

  • The Beastie Boys The Mix-Up
  • Katie Herzig Apple Tree
  • Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit
  • Stars In Our Bedroom After the War
  • The Killers Sawdust

My current favourite lyric from each album:

  • oh wait, no words at all on The Mix-Up…but my favourite song is “B For My Name”
  • Have I ever seen such kindness
    Such resigned delight all in one glance
    Right when you pass me
    I watch, you see
    You smile, I breathe
    Air in my chest
    I’m trying my best
    (Katie Herzig, “I Want to Belong to You”)
  • Oh, if I could make sense of it all!
    I wish that I could sing
    I’d stay in a melody
    I would float along in my everlasting song
    What would I do to believe? (Belle & Sebastian, “Acts of the Apostle”)
  • I never got your name, I assume you’re 33
    Your voice it sounded kind
    I hope that you like me
    When you see my face, I hope that you don’t laugh
    I’m not a film-star beauty
    I sent a photograph
    I hope that you don’t laugh…
    (The Stars, “Personal”)
  • Take me to the place where the white boys dance.
    Take me to the place where they run and play.
    My baby is gone, you might have a chance.
    Just take me to the place where the white boys dance.(The Killers, “Where the White Boys Dance”)

08.15.08

A Rare Political Opinion

Posted in List tagged , , , at 12:17 pm by listingmylife

I rarely have a political opinion that I’m willing to share. But today, this flyer was pushed through our mail slot, and I thought, Oh Dear.

Top 3 Reasons Conservatives Don’t Get Elected in BC:

  1. They don’t know their constituents when it comes to pressing issues (I may be wrong, but I think this is really not the most important issue at the moment)
  2. They don’t know their constituents when it comes to selecting language (”junkies” is a far more derogative term than “addict” in my opinion)
  3. They don’t know their constituents when it comes to pretty much anything (a sweeping generalization based on this flyer)

Sucking Me In, Stealing My Life Away…

Posted in List tagged , , , at 12:00 pm by listingmylife

TV shows that could suck me in, if I let them:

Battlestar Galactica

Big Love

Bones

House

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Office

Numbers

So You Think You Can Dance

I think that this fall I will limit myself to The Office, House, and Bones. I hope they are not each on their own night, or that won’t work so well.

08.13.08

Danger, Will Robinson!

Posted in List tagged , , , at 12:03 am by listingmylife

Stats are dangerous because they:

  • tell me that I’m less popular than I’d like to think
  • let me know when I’m more popular than usual
  • enable me to blog for the masses

08.11.08

Ways to Get More Hits

Posted in List tagged , , , , , at 5:30 pm by listingmylife

I was chatting with my paid-to-blog friend Nadine this afternoon, and the topic of SEO came up. Actually, she threw it out there and I had no idea what it meant. It stands for Search Engine Optimization, all my TLA-clueless friends…in other words - how do you get more hits from random people on the internet?

Well. These are the things we’ve discovered get us more traffic:

  • great song lyrics (as simple and generic as it is…people love their lyrics)
  • totally hair barbie (as Nadine said, “nostalgia is in.”)
  • colin firth (he’s a popular man. and rightly so)
  • kimmy gibler (apparently no one but Nadine talks about her anymore)
  • any sort of current movie/music (like my entry on Mamma Mia)

08.10.08

Things I Didn’t Plan

Posted in List tagged , , , , , , , , at 11:20 pm by listingmylife

This weekend, I didn’t plan on (but ended up) doing the following things:

  • watching The Bank Job and hanging out with the almost-new housemate.
  • cleaning the fridge. (next weekend: the freezer)
  • breaking a glass shelf from the fridge into tiny little pieces by dropping it into hot water.
  • holding the hands of many, many people - as I checked their IDs & stamped them to get into the WUGC beer garden.
  • skipping the WUGC party to watch Battlestar Galactica, a show I have previously had no desire to see.
  • watching four back-to-back episodes of Battlestar Galactica.
  • going to Tomato’s for lunch.
  • saying yes to two separate dares during the span of lunch.
  • reading Portugese Irregular Verbs.
  • napping on the couch. Oh, glorious couch.
  • watching four more episodes of Battlestar Galactica, which brings me up to the end of the 3rd season. And now we know 4 of the Final 5!!! (ah ha ha ha - as if I even know/care!)

08.09.08

Wiki What!

Posted in List tagged , , , , , , at 12:44 pm by listingmylife

I love Wikipedia. My recent, and rather enlightening, searches have included:

  • absinthe (to see what all the fuss is about)
  • Savage Garden (in search of their hit song Crash & Burn, whose title I couldn’t remember)
  • Guts (a flying disc game)
  • The Bank Job and subsequently the Baker Street Robbery (to get to the truth…or whatever is available online)
  • Beth (song by KISS, in search of the lyrics…)

08.07.08

Buying More Stuff

Posted in List tagged , , at 11:34 am by listingmylife

Yesterday, I purchased:

  • an antique wicker trunk
  • a comforter & pillow shams ($30!)
  • three gorgeous throw pillows ($24!)
  • a dress ($15!)
  • a watch ($8!)

I’m already wearing the watch, planning on wearing the dress this weekend, the trunk is packed with the new bed-ware, and I’m eagerly awaiting my move upstairs to unpack it all.

08.05.08

Movies & Family & The List I Didn’t Write

Posted in List tagged , , , at 8:33 pm by listingmylife

(I was going to do a top 3 best-looking teams at WUGC, but refrained myself.) I watched Martian Child the other night, and I loved it. Although, I agree with Wendy - when you know a movie is filmed in Vancouver, it is hard to determine where it’s supposed to take place. Anyway. Families in movies. Here are some of my favourites, off the top of my head.

Martian Child

Chronicles of Narnia (both of them)

Swing Kids

Life is Beautiful

The Incredibles


What else am I missing?

08.02.08

Free Swag

Posted in List tagged , , , , at 7:01 pm by listingmylife

Volunteering for World Ultimate Championships is not only going to be fun, but beneficial. I picked up my freebies today, which included:

  • a Gaia jersey
  • a stainless steel water bottle
  • a WFDF2008 Discraft disc
  • an orange Discraft disc
  • a reusable shopping bag

Woot, woot! Sorry for all of you who are having to pay for such useful items.

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