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[brighteyedjill]

Hey ya'll! Long time no see. I am still alive, and still writing. I took another writing class last week (no, not nearly as entertaining as the previous one). What's up with you?

In other news, the Remix Redux 2010 archive is now open! It includes more than 200 stories in a variety of fandoms, including kick-ass Heroes and Star Trek offerings. I can't tell you what story I remixed yet, but rest assured I'll post it here when it's time for the reveal!

And now for some music memery stolen from speccygeekgrrl

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. Skip the instrumental-only pieces (non-English too if you want).
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and title correctly. (If it's a cover, the original artist is okay, and vice-versa.)
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like this game, post your own!


1. "You can do this, Hunter. Stop forcing ideas. That shit is no fun."
2. "I was driving up from Tampa when the radiator burst. I was three sheets to the wind; a civilian saw me first."
3. "Have they all gone? Yes, it's [title of song]! No more writers to whine, now it's my turn to shine." jaune_chat got Neil's Turn from Commentary! The Musical.
4. "One evening for pleasure I ramble on the banks of some cold purling steam. Sit down on a bed of primroses and I gently fell into a dream." maireadinish got Ireland's Green Shore, Tim O'Brien.
5. "Once I had my heroes. Once I had my dream. But all of that is changed now."
6. "Let me run with you tonight. I'll take you on a moonlight ride."
7. "House up in Clear Lake where I used to live. Picked the lock on the front door and felt it give." speccygeekgrrl got Genesis 3:23, The Mountain Goats
8. "Hey little sister what have you done? Hey little sister who's the only one?" speccygeekgrrl got White Wedding by Billy Idol (actually I was listening to the cover by The Harvey Girls)
9. "When you walk through a storm keep your chin up high, and don't be afraid of the dark." takhallus guessed You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel.
10. "I never loved nobody fully; always one foot on the ground." speccygeekgrrl got Fidelity, Regina Spektor.
11. "Well, my friends do me so right. I'm lucky this far or maybe it's karma."
12. "Go away from my window. Leave at your own chosen speed." takhallus guessed It Ain't Me Babe. I was actually listening to the Joaquin Phoenix version where he's pretending to be Johnny Cash.
13. "Does green mean stop or go? Is plastic good to eat? Should I put a hat on my head or on my feet?"
14. "I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends." speccygeekgrrl got Lithium, Nirvana.
15. "Some said the local lake had been enchanted. Others said it must have been the weather." speccygeekgrrl got Genius Next Door, Regina Spektor
16. "I'm [song title]. God, how can this be, playing with my memory?" jaune_chat got Under Your Spell from Once More, With Feeling (the Buffy musical)
17. "Cuz he gets up in the morning, and he goes to work at night, and he comes back home at 5:30. Gets the same train every time."
18. "See these eyes so green? I can stare for a thousand years. Colder than the moon. It's been so long." speccygeekgrrl got Cat People, David Bowie
19. "Broken pieces, break into me. So imperfectly what you should be."
20. "Alors tu vois, comme tout se mele. Et du coeur a tes levres, je deviens un casse
-tête."
21. "I can't breathe. I can't breathe. As I try to make it right, but you won't let me."
22. "I took the Polaroid down in my room. I'm pretty sure you have a new girlfriend."
23. "[song title], but I love him. Breaks a new heart every day." takhallus guessed He's a Tramp by Peggy Lee
24. "Color me your color, baby. Color me your car. Color me your color, darling." takhallus guessed Call Me, Blondie.
25. "Amber called her uncle, said 'We're up here for the holidays. Jane and I were having Solstice. Mow we need a place to stay.'" speccygeekgrrl got The Christians and the Pagans, Dar Williams
26. "She's not a girl who misses much. Do do do do do do. Oh yeah."
27. "One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning, down the track came a hobo hiking, and he said, 'Boys, I'm not turning.'" maireadinish got Big Rock Candy Mountain, which is by many people, but in this instance by Harry McClintock on the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack
28. "Nkosi sikelel'i Afrika. Maluphakanyisw' uphondo lwayo. Yizwa imithandazo yethu. Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho lwayo."
29. "I was lying on the grass of Sunday morning of last week, indulging in my self-defeat." strickens_girl got Steal My Sunshine, Len
30. "I'll wager a hat full of guineas against all the songs you can sing that someday you'll love, and the next day you'll lose, and winter will turn into spring."

Comments

[speccygeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

7. Genesis 3:23, the Mountain Goats
8. White Wedding, Billy Idol
10. Fidelity, Regina Spektor
14. Lithium, Nirvana
15. Genius Next Door, Regina Spektor
18. Cat People, David Bowie
25. Christians and the Pagans, Dar Williams

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Woah, look at you go! Yes, yes, and yes to all. There's one more Mountain Goats on the list I was sure you'd get... Of course, I'm missing one of your Mountain Goats songs too, so I guess we're even?

[strickens-girl.livejournal.com]

8. White Wedding - Billy Idol
29. Steal My Sunshine - Len

That's all I've got. *g*

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Right on! Well done!

[jaune-chat.livejournal.com]

3. Neil's Turn from Commentary the Musical
16. Under Your Spell from Once Again, With Feeling

...

Yeah, that's all I got. You got some strange songs on there, friend of friends.

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Hee! I like that you got all the Joss ones. Strange songs? Is not so strange! Okay, there are a couple obscure musicals, but most of it's pretty mainstream! Also, I thought you liked my musical taste. *pouts*

[jaune-chat.livejournal.com]

Hey now, never said it was bad! Just said it was weird. I like the weird.

And do recall, I haven't listened to the mainstream radio in any kind of meaningful way for over 3 years. So I'm kind of out of the mainstream!

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Yes, embrace the weird. I also have not listened to the radio. I guess my "mainstream" I mean, "CDs other people burn me, so they must be cool." I think I'm going to do a post with artist clues and have people try to match up the remaining songs.

[maireadinish.livejournal.com]

#4 is Tim O'Brien's Ireland's Green Shore.

#27 is Big Rock Candy Mountain, most recently by AKUS

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Well done! I'm glad someone got Tim O'Brien. I love him so.

[takhallus.livejournal.com]

9. Carousel - You'll Never Walk Alone
12. Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell - It Ain't Me Babe
23. Peggy Lee - He's A Tramp
24. Blondie - Call Me

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well done. I'm glad someone got one of the musicals... I was starting to lament my f-lists lack of musical theatre nerds! ;)

[a-cook1.livejournal.com]

Hey you! I'm resurfacing, and I had to respond to this post.

6. You Don't Know How it Feels, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
17. Well Respected Man, The Kinks
26. Happiness is a Warm Gun, The Beatles ("Bang-bang, Shoot-shoot!")

:)