{"id":1131,"date":"2009-02-10T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T07:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2009-02-10T13:17:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T07:17:04","slug":"ipod-shuffle-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2009\/02\/10\/ipod-shuffle-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;iPod Shuffle&#8221; meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/who\/069-green-death.jpg\" alt=\"Is that BOSS rock?  WELL TURN IT UP, MAN!\" class=alignright \/>Everyone keeps tagging me with this particularly silly meme, so I figured, what the heck &#8211; with my abundance of truly weird music sitting on my hard drive, not to mention Doctor Who audio stories, film &#038; TV scores, various and sundry sound FX albums and whatnot, I&#8217;ll be able to elevate this meme to a completely surreal new dimension.  Either that or every answer will be an ELO or Split Enz song.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The instructions are as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Put Your iTunes on Shuffle.<br \/>\n2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.<br \/>\n3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds!<br \/>\n4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.<br \/>\n5. Tag at least 10 friends<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As usual, I&#8217;m not going to do #5, and I&#8217;m using Winamp rather than iTunes on general principle, but other than that&#8230;let&#8217;s do this.  I make no apologies for how twisted this&#8217;ll turn out.<\/p>\n<p>What do your friends think of you?<br \/>\n&#8220;A Monologue By Fozzie Bear&#8221; (The Muppets, from <em>The Muppet Show: Music, Mayhem &#038; More<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>If someone says, &#8220;Is this okay?&#8221; You say?<br \/>\n&#8220;The Stone Table&#8221; (Harry Gregson-Williams, from <em>The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe<\/em> soundtrack<\/p>\n<p>How would you describe yourself?<br \/>\n&#8220;Mother&#8221; (John Lennon, from <em>Lennon Legend<\/em>)  [Okay, that&#8217;s kinda eerie.]<\/p>\n<p>What do you like in a guy\/girl?<br \/>\n&#8220;Xanadu&#8221; (Olivia Newton-John &#038; ELO, from <em>Xanadu<\/em> soundtrack)<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel today?<br \/>\n&#8220;Kill Eye&#8221; (Crowded House, from <em>Recurring Dream Special Edition Live Album<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>What is your life&#8217;s purpose?<br \/>\n&#8220;Daily Planet Mystery Play-On &#8211; Jimmy and the Chief&#8221; (Ron Jones, from <em>Superman: The Animated Series<\/em> soundtrack)<\/p>\n<p>What is your motto?<br \/>\n&#8220;Games Without Frontiers&#8221; (Peter Gabriel, from <em>Peter Gabriel III<\/em>)  [Somehow appropriate&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about very often?<br \/>\n&#8220;Life Choices&#8221; (Guy Gross, from <em>Farscape Classics Vol. II: The Lion&#8217;s Den Part 2 &#8211; Wolf In Sheep&#8217;s Clothing<\/em> soundtrack)  [HA!]<\/p>\n<p>What is 2 + 2?<br \/>\n&#8220;Helicopter: Bell 212 &#8211; Interior &#8211; Hover, Land, Idle, Cargo Door Open 1&#8221; (from <em>Lucasfilm Sound Effects Library CD5 &#8211; Helicopters &#038; Private Jets<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of your best friend?<br \/>\n&#8220;Doctor Who: Brave New Town&#8221; (Big Finish audio drama)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the person you like?<br \/>\n&#8220;Clear My Head&#8221; (Ivy, from <em>In The Clear<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>What is your life story?<br \/>\n&#8220;A Promise to Return&#8221; (Bear McCreary, from <em>Battlestar Galactica Season 2 <\/em>soundtrack)<\/p>\n<p>What do you want to be when you grow up?<br \/>\n&#8220;Lyta&#8217;s Nightmare&#8221; (Christopher Franke, from <em>Babylon 5: Thirdspace<\/em> soundtrack)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of when you see the person you like?<br \/>\n&#8220;To Bed \/ Mount Rushmore \/ Sweet Dreams&#8221; (Ken Thorne, from <em>Superman II<\/em> soundtrack)  [HA HA HA!]<\/p>\n<p>What will you dance to at your wedding?<br \/>\n&#8220;Dohl Dogs&#8221; (Afro Celt Sound System, from <em>Anatomic<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>What will they play at your funeral?<br \/>\n&#8220;Accelerate&#8221; (R.E.M., from <em>Accelerate<\/em>)  [&#8220;Sinking fast, the weight chained to my feet, no time to argue with belief&#8230;&#8221;  Whoa, what&#8217;s the message here?]<\/p>\n<p>What is your hobby\/interest?<br \/>\n&#8220;Cyborg Tools And E.T. Life Forms&#8221; (Isaac Asimov, from <em>Inside Star Trek<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>What is your biggest fear?<br \/>\n&#8220;Men Are Building Sand&#8221; (Left Banke, from <em>There&#8217;s Gonna Be A Storm<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>What is your biggest secret?<br \/>\n&#8220;Through the Binoculars&#8221; (Leonard Rosenman, from <em>Battle For The Planet Of The Apes <\/em>soundtrack)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of your friends?<br \/>\n&#8220;The Assignment \/ Lost Years&#8221; (Jerry Goldsmith, from <em>Logan&#8217;s Run<\/em> soundtrack)<\/p>\n<p>What will you post this as?<br \/>\n&#8220;I Can&#8217;t Stop&#8221; (Buckfunk, from <em>First Class Ticket To Telos<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, upon further reflection, I should&#8217;ve left my soundtrack directory out of the proceedings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(FYI: The playlist I was shuffling through randomly has 28,135 entries, and would take more than two weeks solid to get through.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone keeps tagging me with this particularly silly meme, so I figured, what the heck &#8211; with my abundance of truly weird music sitting on my hard drive, not to mention Doctor Who audio stories, film &#038; TV scores, various and sundry sound FX albums and whatnot, I&#8217;ll be able to elevate this meme to a completely surreal new dimension. 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