Archive for March, 2005

Tim’s Definitive Music Post

March 31st, 2005 @ 12:57 pm by Tim

I was going to respond to Chris’s post about his top 20… err… 40 albums of all time. As I started to think about it, I realized I had a bit more stuff to say. Maybe not the most interesting or important, but I’m going to get it all out of the way, and do “Tim’s Definitive Music Post.” It’s in two sections.

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A Sign of Bad Times

March 30th, 2005 @ 1:01 pm by Tim

I overheard this at work the other day.

“I’ve got to get some duct tape to fix the floor.”

I don’t think I even have to say how wrong that is, and what that says about this institute of science.

More Lists

March 29th, 2005 @ 11:59 pm by hordak

Bear said to put it back, so here it is:

I be lovin’ me some lists. Especially the music ones. So, after listing your top 10 current picks, I ask: what are your top 20 albums of ALL TIME????? (Imagine the booming echo) These should be the most important albums in your life, not just a list of what you believe to be the most important albums in the history of rock. And in no particular order, of course. For me? Check it:

  1. Radiohead - OK Computer/Kid A/Hail to the Thief (I know, I’m cheating.)
  2. U2 - Achtung Baby/Rattle and Hum/Wide Awake in America (Still cheating…)
  3. Pixies - Doolittle/Trompe le Monde/Surfer Rosa (Will continue to cheat. Get over it.)
  4. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots/Soft Bulletin
  5. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea
  6. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
  7. Chris Whitley - Dirt Floor/Terra Incognita
  8. Wilco - Summerteeth/Being There/Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  9. Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me/Tim/All Shook Down
  10. Elliot Smith - Figure 8/XO
  11. Smiths - Louder Than Bombs/Peel Sessions/The Queen is Dead/Strangeways, Here We Come
  12. Old Dirty Bastard - N***A PLEASE/Return to the 36 Chambers, the 37th Chamber
  13. Beatles - White Album/Revolver/Sgt. Pepper
  14. Depeche Mode - Violator
  15. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
  16. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
  17. John Frusciante - To Record Only Water for Ten Days
  18. R.E.M. - Automatic For the People
  19. Coldplay - Parachutes/Rush of Blood to the Head
  20. Kashmir - Zitilites

Ok, so I bent the rules. A LOT. Meh.

Review: Star Wars Battlefront

March 29th, 2005 @ 9:06 pm by Peter

I was inspired to write this after reading dick’s gripe about 1st person shooters. Because I feel his pain, and no one should have to put up with that (crap).

But first, of course, the digression:

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Top 5 Things to do with Soap

March 29th, 2005 @ 7:22 am by Mike

After I realized that Boobaah was a Teletubies type show, I seriously debated about changing my #1 made-up cuss word to something like Torp-noodle. It then dawned on me that this might be as pointless of an exercise as writing a massive unread in-joke about a mythical company called Chook for years, only to later debate if the choice of names was in fact the wisest.

Regardless, rather than be a George Lucas or Steven Spielberg-styled-revisionist about my material, I just decided to keep Boobaah as my #1 made-up cuss word and instead do another top five list. Accordingly, I’ve done a “clean” top 5 to the previous “dirty” top five.

Without further ado, here is my top 5 list of things to do with soap (feel free to list your’s):

  1. Wash with it
  2. Use Timmy’s soap
  3. Make soap shavings
  4. Get a rash from using Timmy’s soap
  5. Make up S.O.A.P. acronyms which act as the counterpart to the ever popular made-up cuss word/acronym S.O.D.

Top 5 Made-Up Cuss Words

March 28th, 2005 @ 8:38 pm by Mike

List your top 5 made-up cuss words. Mine are:

  1. Boobaah
  2. Clat
  3. Blarg
  4. Fug
  5. Plurffy

Megan says she likes to interchange the word Pork with the almighty F word.