Importing Entries, and Table-Top Gaming

So, I've imported everything from this year. I've got about a year and a half's worth of stuff, but for the sake of making everything feel like home, I'm moving everything over.

Unless you go looking for the entries, y'all should probably never notice a difference, since I'm using Semagic to import everything, and it automatically backdates stuff. The thing I really like, though? It remembers which icons and tags I used on the original entry, and the music I was listening to (there's a huge streak of posts with the Mr Blue icon, because I hadn't imported all of my icons by that point, so it just defaulted to the... well, the default).


We're supposed to go to a friend's today to play some sort of Werewolf D&D-type game. Well, he's Ryan's friend. I don't particularly want to go, because I can never figure out these sorts of games, and that always results in me getting frustrated and then I just start to cry. I do not like to cry, and I especially do not like it when there are other people around. But, I promised Ryan I'd go, and he never does anything with friends, so it seems important that I go with him.

I'm also really hungry. I've just realised this. And I've just realised that I don't remember the last time I ate. Uhm...

brb Finding some Music

Tonight while I was clearing out some of my stuff to make room for the rest of my stuff, I found something I'd forgotten I even had -- Ralph Records' 10th Anniversary Special. Finding it sparked a small and unexpected twinge of nostalgia, so I decided to put that on while I fiddled around with stuff. I credit this odd little gem for my discovery of a fair number of some of my favourite artists, so there's really not any part of this recording that I don't enjoy.

Listening to Penn Jillette lose his mind made me realise something, though. It's been a very long time since I've just put in an album and done nothing but listen to it all the way through. I'm always doing something else, as I am now, using music as something instead to drown out the noise from the AC or the car park outside. In California, I used to do that a lot; go out to the front room with a stack of old records after Ryan had gone to bed, and do nothing but sit in very dim light whilst just listening to the music. Not just hearing it, as one does when they listen to something while doing something else -- really listening to it.

It's quarter after one, and my sleep schedule is so massively fucked up that I won't be getting to sleep any time soon. I can't listen to my records, because alas, I have no turntable, but I've got loads of stuff on my iTunes. I really want to get one of those nifty USB turntables, because I've got so many records that I'm not able to do anything with, other than look at them (okay, one of them is actually framed and on my wall, but it's a collector's item).

I think that's what I'm going to do tonight, though. I'm not sure what I want to listen to, but I'm sure I'll find something.

(No, they are neither in the KKK, nor are they neo-nazis. They're just really odd.)


ETA: I accidentally deleted this. So, uhm... I suck. This was originally posted last night.

This one looked fun.

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 4: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!


1. I still remember that day in December when you pretended to fall on the stairs.
2. Yo, listen up. Here's the story about a little guy who lives in a blue world. - Eiffel 65, Blue
3.Yesterday, all my troubles seemed far away. - The Beatles, Yesterday
4. When the night is cold and my arms want someone to hold, I think of you.
5. I've been alone with you inside my mind, and in my dreams, I've kissed you a thousand times.
6. Kann man Herzen brechen, konnen Herzen sprechen.
7. I can't quit you, baby, so I'm gonna put you down for a while.
8. In the midnight moonlight, I'll be walking a long and lonely mile.
9. What's a woman going to do but throw away her bread?
10. This is my recital, I think it's very vital. - Tricky, by Run DMC
11. It is seems a little time is needed, decisions to be made.
12. Who guards the truth, oh lord most high, a frightened dove in a starless sky.
13. Me and Mrs Jones, we've got thing going on. - Me and Mrs Jones, Michael Buble
14. Dear Sir or Madam, can you read my book, it took me years to write, can you take a look? - Paperback Writer, the Beatles
15. You look like an angel, and you walk like an angel, and you talk like an angel, but I got wise. - Devil in Disguise, the Residents (originally by Elvis)
16. It's five o'clock in the morning, and I'm just getting in.
17. Jeremy Bender was a man of leisure, taking his pleasure in the evening sun. - Jeremy Bender, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
18. Here come old flattop, he come grooving up slowly, he got juju eyeball, he one holy roller. - Come Together, Joe Cocker (originally the Beatles)
19. Hello, I've waited here for you, everlong. - Everlong, Foo Fighters.
20. Coming down like a hatchet, Rollin' with the masses, Throwin my matches atop of the gasoline package.


Some of these are covers, but I'll take the original artist. Most of the tracks that came up for me were instrumental, or deliberately unintelligible. I skipped those ones for the sake of being fair.