Stolen meme thing

vicus did this meme and I thought it rather splendid so I have nicked it. I left out some questions as they seemed a bit irrelevant to me.





1. Put your ipod on shuffle


2. For each question press the next button to get your answer.


3. Don't cheat








What would best describe your personality?





Lady Madonna - The Beatles








What do you like in a girl/guy?





Brass Buttons - Gram Parsons





How do you feel today?





Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd





What's your life's purpose?





Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops





What's your motto?





Never Can Say Goodbye -The Communards





What do your friends think of you?





Fido, Your Leash is Too Long - The Magnetic Fields





What is your life story?





What Can I Do? - Antony and the Johnsons





What do you want to be when you grow up?





Bright College Days - Tom Lehrer





What do strangers think of you?





Karma Police - Radiohead





How's your love life?





Goodbye to Love - The Carpenters





What will they play at your funeral?





Picture This - Blondie





What's your biggest secret?





These Boots are Made for Walking - Nancy Sinatra





What do you think of your friends?





Everybody Knows (Except You) - Divine Comedy





What song do you listen to when you are sad?





Decatur - Sufjan Stevens





In love?





Not a Crime - Gogol Bordello





What's your signature karaoke song?





Justified and Ancient - KLF





What is your greatest desire?





The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer





How will you die?





Ther She Goes Again - The Velvet Underground





Do people secretly lust after you?





All the Way To Reno - REM





What's the best advice you will ever get?





Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf








Well, I'm not sure that was very enlightening although the combination of having a personality like Lady Madonna and having to 'Say Goodbye to Love' is a bit worrying.

Heroes of the new enlightenment

Apparently the end of civilisation as we know it means that we will have a flowering of culture as people try to find more meaning in their lives than has hitherto been the case. Instead of dreaming of acquiring such trinkets as this, this or this, we will sit about penning sonnets, planning our allotment, making do and mending and talking to our children. Except in our house, where the main topic of conversation seems to be the X Factor and how lovely and smiley Cheryl Cole is and to think I thought she was just a cheap Northern slapper when actually she is a little china doll who you would just like to have sitting on your mantlepiece giving you encouraging little smiles and hugging you every time you feel a bit crap.*


Apropos of nothing at all, is anyone else in the world watching this, it is a bit buried in the schedules after the Billie Piper sex thing on ITV2 but has made me laugh a lot. Alan Statham was on it last week as a super villain with the power to turn off lights. They should get Cheryl on with her superpower being the ability to turn cynical old munters into softies.


*I was going to insert a lovely picture of Cheryl here but in all the ones I saw she appears to have her tits or fandango on display so I haven't bothered.

Things I have Learnt This Week

1. The proper way to refer to calculus is 'the calculus'. That's what Prof. du Sautoy called it last night in the very wonderful Story of Maths - BBC4.


2. Any, admittedly tenuous, grasp I thought I had on how economics works has evaporated. Does anyone out there know what the fuck is going on?


3. How to play A, E, and D (and their minor equivalents) on the guitar. Also I can do the beginning of Smoke on the Water which is really very easy.


4. Attempting to assist teenrealdoc with her French homework when your main source of knowledge is Foux de Fa Fa is a bit of a waste of time. *


5. This doesn't work.



So there you have it - lifelong learning in action


*Although I can ask for my favourite soft drink. "Jus de pamplemousse et jus d'ananas dans un melange s'il vous plait."