walking on water 'cause I'm thinking of you

[aruan]

Birthday salutations to one Lance-sometimes-Lansten Bass. Live long a prosper, baby.

Forgot to mention this - brother and I went to see The Whole Ten Yards on Saturday Night, a bitter disappointment as I'm rather fond of the first one, but in the theater lobby was a stand-up for the Spongebob movie. I don't like the show, but dude. Dude! This thing was an eight-foot-tall, foam-textured replica of Spongebob! And the tagline? Now bigger and more absorbent. Ahahaha! Tell me that's not fantastic.

It's been such fun to watch the whole Faking the Video drama unfold over the course of the day. If theories pan out, the actual show should be great fun.

My mother's godparents brought this treat called KinderTojas from Hungary. It's a hollow chocolate egg with a toy inside that you put together yourself. In the one I ate today was the cutest thing - a little crab whose legs and claws wave as you pull it along on a flat surface. It's like the real thing, only less sharp and more adorable.

I have a fair amount of music - 3,509 songs queued up on WinAmp alone right now, and that's far from everything. And yet, every fourth or so song that comes up is somehow pop fandom related, which, to make this a little less like shooting fish in a barrel, I listed but did not include in the official count. There were a few instrumental and foreign language selections I skipped as well.

Twenty Lyrics Meme

1. baby, maybe you're wrong, but you know it's all right
2. you only build me up to bring me down
3. something in your eyes captured my soul

[Lance singing a bit of You're The One That I Want from Grease]

4. you took for granted all the times I never let you down
5. I said to my reflection, 'Let's get out of this place'

[Britney Spears - Toxic (Felix da Housecat's Club Mix)]

6. and love me like Sunday again
7. we will rise as the buildings crumble (Paul Oakenfold Remix)

[N.E.R.D. ft. Justin Timberlake - Frontin' (Live in London)]

8. maybe get it right / maybe just hold on (one of my favorite songs ever)
9. alone and bored on a 30th century night
10. you're the sin I can't erase

[RENT ft. Joey Fatone - Today For You, Tomorrow For Me (Live on 10.14.2002)]
[Nelly ft. Justin Timberlake - Work It (AC/DC Remix)]

11. build a stairway to heaven with a prince or a vagabond
12. wanted to start a revolution / now you're the institution

[*NSYNC - Thinking Of You (I Drive Myself Crazy - Techno Remix)]

13. she can take what I dish out, and that's not easy
14. I stand alone without beliefs / the only truth I know is you

[JC on KTU New York on 12.11.02 - "The band is going to be together tonight!"]

15. ooh, ooh, but you know I'm yours

[Britney Spears - Boys]

16. sometimes love can be mistaken for a crime

[Shania Twain & the Backstreet Boys - From This Moment]

17. Andy, are you goofin' on Elvis ('Hey, baby')
18. the buildings are changing into coconut trees
19. I won't give y'all Outkast's Bombs Over Baghdad. I figure it doesn't count if I have to look up lyrics.
20. and people come from miles around with an almost religious devotion to get down

Started a project I've been meaning to get to today, and remembered why I've been putting it off. It's bloody tedious work to scan, crop, and retouch upwards of 100 pictures. Only one person on my friendslist knows what I'm talking about, but the rest of you will squee along with us soon enough.

Phrase of the Day:

agreeably pervtastic: adjectival phrase, coined by The Village Voice, see: Schizophrenic

Bwah!

Comments

[tallories.livejournal.com]

That MTV thing is definitely fake. I've never seen a more horrible video in my life. *shudders*

1) Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" song
2) *taps chin* Half as Much?
3) Are you listening to Mariah Carey??
4) Kryptonite!
5) Oh my gosh, is that Rockapella???!
6) I think this is "Crying Like a Church on Monday"
7) Hmm... Dave Matthews Band?
8) I've heard this. Something about... do this over, da da da... eh, I dunno.

Okay, I'm taxed out. ;) Oh, I thought of you yesterday while touring the LA Times... they have a whole wall of TVs in their breaking news department, one of which is tuned to the Al-Jazeera network. It was just cool. ;)

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

I was suspicious at the artist lineup - there are no new charitable causes in the news so no reason why big names from such diverse genres should be thrown together. *shrug* But if it's about punking the staff working on the videos, as someone theorized, I can't wait.

2. Yeppers. Cake, man. Not just for birthdays.
3. Honey, I've been listening to Mariah Carey since first hearing the intro to Lose Myself, which is totally Can't Let Go. But back in the day of my R&B roots, one of the first CDs I ever bought was her debut album. She holds a special, nostalgic place in my heart.
5. Rockapella? Nope, just Squeeze's Tempted. Fantastic track Miranda and I hear every time we go to our downtown Starbucks in Gville.
6. Big points to you for knowing the New Radicals.
7. Yep, from the second Matrix movie.
8. Joydrop's Swan Song, which you simply must hear if you haven't yet.

Touring the LA Times?! ghslsjifdfbsdkfg! *waaants* Schiz and I drove past it almost every day during the Week of Chasez, and I stared longingly every time. Could you tell me a little more about it? What kind of atmosphere was it?

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

Fantastic track Miranda and I hear every time we go to our downtown Starbucks in Gville.

Every time! Eerie, but at least it's something we like.

[tallories.livejournal.com]

It was fab. *g* They have newsrooms for absolutely everything - breaking news, international affairs, features, op-ed, graphic design, sports. If the writers aren't on the floor working from desks decked out with Christmas lights and action figures, they're in offices that are floor-to-ceiling glass. Copies of the paper are everywhere, as is the artwork - framed front pages from the annals of history, Pulitzer Prizes on display, famous photographs by their staff. It had the scent of a well-oiled machine, but this underlying current of energy throughout. Breaking news was definitely my favorite, because besides the TV networks, they had a scrolling wall screen of the latest news stories from around the world, and the ultra-cool Wall of Clocks. :)

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

I suck because I can only get two...

5. "Tempted"--Squeeze
17. "Man on the Moon"--REM

But, also, I believe Modern English did "Melt with You," though, if there's actually a band called Bad English, that uses same, I'd love to hear them. ;)

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

But if you had to know two of the songs on the list, those are two pretty good ones.

It's totally Modern English, thank you, though I do have a song called Time Stood Still by Bad English, about whom you can read here.

[ramblinround.livejournal.com]

We have Kindereier here, too, the same ones with the little toy you put together. They also call them "Überraschungseier," or surprise eggs.

I think they have them in Canada as well! I'm starting to think the US is the only place in the world that doesn't have them. Probably too many small parts for the kiddies to choke on.

Here's a picture of JC with a toy from one (identified in the caption):

[ramblinround.livejournal.com]

Sorry, must have fucked up the formatting:

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

I know they're all over Europe and Mexico, but nowhere here! Not even at the little foreign treats kiosk at Sawgrass Mills! So sad. You're right though, probably is the small parts.

Eee! Jayceee! Big dork that I am, I love hearing about them doing/enjoying things I do, too. Thanks for the picture.

Also, dude, those cheekbones? You're the one I was referring to in the entry about knowing why I've got upwards of 100 pictures to process, and I've had to stop on almost every single one of JC because those cheekbones. Is it just me though, or did he smile differently back then? There's one picture in particular that made me do a double-take, and I could be going crazy but I swear his teeth are different (interestingly, I think they were better [more straight & even] in these old European shots than now.) Also, is it weird that I think he looks more like himself today in some and almost weirdly little boyish in others? The hat vs. Caesar haircut seems to make all the difference, and it's just weird that he seemed to go from teenage boy to grown-up handsome in the span of a few months (some of the pictures have dates on them.)

And look! Matching icons! Sort of, but I've been dying to break this one out.

[silentfire.livejournal.com]

a couple left over that i actually know:

9. it's all been done! i <3 BNL :)
13. she's a lady, yo.

hi! how've you been? dude, didn't we say we were going to put some effort into this keeping-in-touch thing? i suck, but i'll call you!

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

Dude, you knew Tom Jones! But then, if I expected anyone on my flist to know that one, it was you.

Hey! I've been busy and not in the mood for AIM. *g* Sucking, err, goes both ways, and while I don't know my house number yet, my cellphone should work out here. I'm not that far away from civilization...

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

Yar, going back through the memoried entries. I'm a fan of this meme.

2. Cake: Half As Much
4. 3 Doors Down: Kryptonite
5. Squeeze: Tempted by the Fruit of Another
6. New Radicals: Crying Like a Church on Monday
9. Barenaked Ladies: It's All Been Done
11. Rod Stewart: Forever Young
12. Ben Folds: The Ascent of Stan (textbook hippie man)
14. Simon & Garfunkel: Kathy's Song
15. Weezer: Buddy Holly (ooh, ooh, and I know you're mine)
16. George Michael: Father Figure
17. R.E.M.: Man on the Moon

More than half, go me. More than I got for anybody else, I think, except Erika. Isn't it so bizarre to see the lyrics and recognize them, but not be able to hear them, and therefore place them properly in a song?

And, hee! Pervtastic! Productive morphology at it's FINEST!

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

Eleven is a very respectable number indeed. And you're absolutely right about the lyrics - what's really weird is when you read them and have no clue at all, then you find out what song it was and it's because the pacing of it in context is so different, you had no chance of just reading it straight and recognizing it.

Agreeably pervtastic! I love it! It's going on my next shirt.

<- dork who's just now going through ancient comments. I'm usually better than this, but we all have our days.