26. Nov. 2008, 10:24
A fine waste of time. Here are the rules:
1. Set your iTunes/iPod on Shuffle
2. Answer each question with the title of the song that comes up
3. Don't cheat!
4. Share
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Faerie Dance (Plants & Animals)
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Cold Days From The Birdhouse (The Twilight Sad)
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Always in Your Mind (Jennifer O'Connor)
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Allegro Ma Non Troppo (Prokofiev Piano Concerto #3)
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Tanto Tempo (Bebel Gilberto) - translation: 'so long' in Portguese)
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Some Are Lakes (Land of Talk)
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Noch losch das Licht nicht aus (Wagner from Tristan und Isolde)
(sort of translates as "there is still not enough light")
WHAT IS 2+2?
On Tour With Zykos (Okkervil River)
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Quiet Friend (Steve Roach) - This is so not true!!!
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
I Want To Live On An Abstract Plain (Frank Black)
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Coro Dell'Imeneo (From Giovanni Pacini's opera Saffo)
(translates as "Chorus of the Imeneo" Imeneo is a man who rescued a girl by killing all the pirates on a ship. Imeneo is not a character in Saffo, so I have no idea why they are singing a chorus to him.)
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Driving to La Salle (Dario Marianelli from the Sountrack to the movie 'The Return,' which I have never seen, it's a horror flick)
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Pennies (Smashing Pumpkins)
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Puttin On the Ritz (Rufus Wainwright) Oh lord...
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Mansard Roof (Vampire Weekend)
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Peregrina II (Hugo Wolf, poem by Morike) - Translation of the first line of the poem: "Something wrong entered the moonlit gardens
of a once sacred love." The guy in the poem dumps his true love and then wishes her back.
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Flume (Bon Iver) - Definition of a flume: An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
The Harrowing Adventures Of... (Tokyo Police Club)
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Natural One (Folk Implosion)
HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Evviva! Beviam! Beviam! (Verdi from his opera 'Ernani') -I guess I will die drinking!
WHAT IS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Little Miss Can't Be Wrong (Spin Doctors)
WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Notwo (Autechre)
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Sons And Daughters (The Decemberists)
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
O Sank Hernieder, Nacht Der Liebe (Wagner from 'Tristan und Isolde)
-translation: O sink down, night of love
WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Up On Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days (Sunset Rubdown) -as good an answer as any
WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Devil's Island (Megadeth) LOL!
DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Pink & Sour (Califone)
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Chi Mai Vegg'io (Verdi from the Opera 'Ernani) -Nico Castel translates this as "What do I see?" Silva enters to find Carlo and Ernani, he is betrayed!
WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Sexfaldur (Amiina) -this might be an Icelandic word, but it might also be nonsense
WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Balled of Lemons (Blonde Redhead) -seems appropriate