"If I ever lose my faith in you"

The challenge: Set your digital music player to random/shuffle. Use the title of the next song to play to answer each question.

These are the real answers that came up! It's uncanny — and a little unnerving!

1. If someone says, "Is this okay?" you say?
"It's All Right with Me" (Tom Waits covering Cole Porter)

2. How would you describe yourself?
"Wrong" (Lindsey Buckingham)

3. What do you like in a guy/girl?
"Sexual Healing" (Kate Bush)

4. How do you feel today?
"You Oughta Know" (Alanis Morissette)

5. What is your motto?
"Love Is Love" (urm ... Culture Club)

6. What do your friends think of you?
"Jump Around" (House of Pain)

7. What do you think of your parents?
"Laying Down the Law" (INXS w/Jimmy Barnes)

8. What do you think about very often?
"And So Is Love" (Kate Bush)

9. What is 2 + 2?
"The Crucifixion" (Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack)

10. What do you think of your best friend?
"California" (Sarah Slean)

11. What do you think of the person you like/love?
"Give Peace a Chance" (John Lennon)

12. What is your life's purpose?
"Love Will Find a Way" (Pablo Cruise)

13. What is your life story?
"Waterloo" (ABBA)

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
"Lucky Me" (Sarah Slean)

15. What do you think of when you see the person you like/love?
"Walk like an Egyptian" (The Bangles)

16. What will you dance to at your wedding?
"Spark" (Tori Amos)

17. What will they play at your funeral?
"I Put a Spell on You" (CCR)

18. What is your hobby/interest?
"Don't Go" (Yaz)

19. What is your biggest fear?
"On My Own" (Les Misérables soundtrack)

20. What is your biggest secret?
"Look What You've Done to Me" (Boz Scaggs)

21. What do you think of your friends?
"Fame" (Irene Cara)

22. What will you post this as?
"If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" (Sting)


Try it yourself — and be sure to post the results!

L

The vault of lost lyrics, chapter 132

Probably one of the strangest Christmas singles ever, and likely also one of the most histrionic — and yet it still gets me every time.

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"The Power of Love" (as recorded by Frankie Goes to Hollywood)

I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door

Feels like fire
I'm so in love with you
Dreams are like angels
They keep bad at bay
Love is the light
Scaring darkness away

I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal

The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
Flame on, burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal

I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down I'll be around
With my undying, death-defying
Love for you
Envy will hurt itself
Let yourself be beautiful
Sparkling love, flowers
And pearls and pretty girls
Love is like an energy
Rushing inside of me

This time we go sublime
Lovers entwine, divine divine
Love is danger, love is pleasure
Love is pure, the only treasure

I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal

The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
The power of love
A force from above
A sky-scraping dove
Flame on, burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal

I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door

2008

As a post for 2008 (it seems I only get around to one a year or so) I think I will dedicate it to Leslie's teaching, Carmen's studenting and Bruce's stand-around-observingness. The first issue of Enjoy Gardening hit the shelves at Hole's today and will be populating magazine racks across the country in the coming weeks. Not quite a magazine, similar to a book, sort of a journal and not at all a serial, I believe this is a new form of publication that I intend to call a Moosh.

Long live the Moosh and may she fly high and true.

The vault of lost lyrics, chapter 123

Contemplate the unity between la belle et la bête. Who doesn't love a bit of drama in his life?

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"Beauty and the Beast" (as recorded by Stevie Nicks)

You're not a stranger to me
And you are something to see
You don't even know how to please
You say a lot but you're unaware how to leave

My darling lives in a world that is not mine
An old child misunderstood out of time
Timeless is the creature who is wise
And timeless is the prisoner in disguise

Oh who is the beauty ... who the beast
Would you die of grieving when I leave
Two children too blind to see
I would fall in your shadow, I believe

My love is a man who's not been tamed
Oh my love lives in a world of false pleasure and pain
We come from different worlds ... we are the same
I never doubted your beauty ... I've changed

Wondering...

What does the aspect of this line imply about the speaker's imminent actions?

"You have been the one,
You have been the one for me."

Since I first heard this song (by James Blunt), I've been writing its story in my mind, and I'm really puzzled by the tense. Any ideas?

L

Welcome to 2008

Happy New Year! I hope your entry into 2008 was bright and beautiful. Here's wishing us all a joyous, healthy, and satisfying twelve months. Whee!

L