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The First 15 Songs, and 100 Grand

June 10, 2009 By Jeff 111 Comments

ipod-classicI have to attend some sort of yearend throw-down at the younger Secret’s school this afternoon, so this is gonna have to be super-quick…

At facebook I’m starting to receive requests for me to participate in various polls, support causes, sign petitions, and play mysterious games with other facebookers.  Please be aware that I will be ignoring most of these requests, because I think they’re stoopid.  Nothing personal, mind you.

However, my friend Eugene sent a challenge, or tag, or whatever, saying I’m required to turn on my iPod or mp3 player, and post the first fifteen songs that play in the shuffle mode.

That one actually sounds kinda fun, so I’ll do it.  Here are the first fifteen, as they’re unspooling in the bunker:

“Midnight Rendevous” The Babys
“From Now On” Paul Carrack
“Diddy Wah Diddy” Captain Beefheart
“Girls of Today” Shoes
“Culture Shock” The Rezillos
“Noise Annoys”  The Buzzcocks
“Beauty and Sadness” The Smithereens
“Break Open the Sky” Jason & the Scorchers
“We’re For the Dark” Badfinger
“Changes” The Zombies
“Betcha By Golly, Wow” The Stylistics
“Genius” Kings of Leon
“Kiss Me, Son of God” They Might Be Giants
“Razor Face” Elton John
“Fadeaway” The BoDeans

That’s completely honest, with no editing.  Care to play along with this particular bit of internet grabassery?  Fifteen’s probably too much, but if you want to list your first five or ten shuffle-play songs in the comments, we’d be interested in seeing ’em.  Well, I would, anyway…

Remember the guy at my job who won $100,000 in the lottery?  Well, I was given bad information.  He didn’t quit, he just took Monday off.  He was back in the trenches last night…

I talked with him, and he said the tax man is automatically taking $25K, so the check will only be for $75K.  Plus, he was warned, he’ll probably owe more on top of it.

He had to turn over the winning ticket to the lottery commission, who will reportedly be conducting a chemical analysis(?!) to confirm its legitimacy.  He said he snapped a photo of the woman who took it from him.  Heh.

It’ll be six weeks, supposedly, before he’ll actually see the money.  Six weeks!  How shitty is that?

The dude had a photocopy of the scratch-off ticket with him, and it made my heart beat a little faster just looking at it.  The floor of my ass would fall out, if something like that happened to me…

He’s going to buy some sort of lifelong-dream motorcycle, he said, and bank the rest of it.  He’s a nice guy, and I got no problem with any of it.  I hoist a vessel of the golden elixir in his honor.

And I need to go.  I have to be at the school at 12:45, and my scrotilia will be run through a grinder if I’m late.

I’ll be back with a real update tomorrow.

See ya then!

Now playing in the bunker.

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  1. NDfaninAZ says

    June 11, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    AngryWhiteGuy –

    I’d ask “how you durrin'”, but I think your comment displacement answers that question 🙂

    I thought RuPaul liked Shirley Q. Did something happen recently?

    Reply
  2. AngryWhiteGuy says

    June 11, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    Again, back to last weeks reason I still have to carry a cell phone. Congrats on being number 100- so much less pressure than being number one.

    Reply
  3. AngryWhiteGuy says

    June 11, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    Jesus Christ, NDfan- I can barely put a thought together today. You are correct…its that other guy that has about five TV shows now that dresses as the Mad Black Woman that got offended. And I said it twice. My bad.

    Reply
  4. Brynhildr says

    June 11, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    I never like to be first at anything because I fear looking too desperate. Now, if I can just force myself to not be the last to leave the party…

    Reply
  5. NDfaninAZ says

    June 11, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    @AngryWhiteGuy

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzx7d45XBEE

    Reply
  6. Lee Harvey Ramone says

    June 11, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    Did you know that the Maine Coon — which is noted for its large bone structure, its rectangular body shape, and a long, flowing coat — is the second most popular cat breed in the world? Health problems, such as feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and hip dysplasia, are seen in this breed, but testing is available to detect the genes responsible for causing these abnormalities.

    For some reason, I find all of this so interesting!

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  7. Brandy says

    June 11, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    ok, fine, I’ll do it. whatever.

    1. Summer Nights – The Vandals
    2. Pretty Girl – Sugarcult
    3. My Name is Jonas – Weezer
    4. Smashed into Pieces – Silverstein
    5. Build Me Up Buttercup – The Temptations
    6. Speed of Dark – A Wilhelm Scream
    7. Working Class Hero – Blind Melon
    8. Happy Breakup Song – NOFX
    9. Anatomy of a Broken Heart – Away from Here
    10. You Know I’m No Good – Amy Winehouse
    11. Punk as Fuck – The Transplants
    12. Dizzy – Jimmy Eat World
    13. Golf Shirt – Nerf Herder
    14. My Best Friend’s Girl – The Cars
    15. Eighteen – Hometown Hero

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  8. DTO says

    June 11, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    I like being next.. Sometimes I let people go ahead of me just so I can still be next. I’m next… and that is very cool. A position of power…especially when you let people go ahead of you. How friggin’ cool is that??.You can act like you’re waiting for someone or you’re just being the most gentlemanly person they’ve ever met… but you’re still always NEXT!!

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  9. TaraWVU says

    June 11, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    It’s late but WV has a lot of great bands. For those inclined, check out Guinness Clarke’s Wine and Byzantine. Mind you, I usually hate metal but Byzantine’s Jermiahed is awesome, even for those of you who don’t like head banging stuff. GCW is relaxing and just nice summer music. Check it out.

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  10. TaraWVU says

    June 11, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    And feel free to judge but here’s my list:

    Party-Nelly Furtado
    Take Me Away Into the Night-4 Strings
    Take Me As I Am-Mary J. Blige
    Another B*tch-Notorious BIG
    Joe and Rosalita-Phil Vassar
    So Close-Rachel Proctor
    Fumbling Towards Ecstasy-Sarah McLaghlan
    The Crystal Ship-The Doors
    Let’s Get Down-Tone, Tony, Toni
    Break of Love (Vesiga Club Mix)-Seashells
    Egyptian in the Night- Nuttin’ But Stringz
    Lie in our Graves-Dave Matthews Band
    I’ve Got the World on a String-Lisa Stansfield
    Just Watch the Fireworks-Jimmy Eat World
    Light My Fire-The Doors
    I Want to Know What Love Is-Foreigner
    Faded-Soul Decision

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  11. BlueRidge Foothills says

    June 15, 2009 at 6:15 pm

    No IPod or MP3, did a random songs from all the CDs on my SqueezeBox audio server. Here we go.

    Hurricane – Dylan
    A Deeper Blue – The End of the Sky
    The Time is now – Stanley Jordan
    Mr Chow – Acoustic Alchemy
    El Kabongs Fiesta – Ben Tavara King
    Astrud – Basia
    Pessimisticism – Crusaders
    One Waty Out – Allman Bros
    North Easter – Cusco
    Perhaps Love – John Denver
    Gaia – James Taylor
    Who Needs Ya – Steppen Wolf
    Come Rain or Come Shine – Kenny Rankin

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