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Another 80’s Music Meme

Saw this one on Eyeore’s LJ and of course was compelled to steal it. 🙂

(I got 80% right, BTW)

Your result for The Ultimate 80’s Pop Music Test…
80’s Music Encyclopedia
80's Music Encyclopedia

If this was a class in high school, you just broke the curve. I bet people come up to you all the time wanting answers to all of their 80’s music questions, after all, you know practically everything there is to know about the best decade in music! You, sir or ma’am, are the platinum standard when it comes to 80’s music knowledge. Congratulate yourself (and don’t let it go to your head)!

Take The Ultimate 80’s Pop Music Test at HelloQuizzy (link defunct)

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Back From Vacation

I do believe a week away was exactly what I needed, and now I’m back. 🙂

I’ll try to discipline myself over the next week or so to actually write about what I did while I was away. To start with though, here’s a quickie for you.

While we were in the “Sky Church” at the Experience Music Project (now part of Seattle’s Museum of Popular Culture [MoPop]), I started hearing a song that I immediately started humming along with but didn’t immediately place. Turns out it was an artist named Petra Haden doing an almost completely a cappella remake of Journey‘s “Don’t Stop Belivein’“. Turns out there was a competition for creating videos to go with that song and the others on the same compilation album, and YouTube has the video for this one. I don’t particularly like the spoken word portion. It doesn’t fit with the hyper-accuracy of the rest of the song, but I forgive it anyway. 🙂

BTW, this song was recorded for an album full of “guilty pleasure” songs.

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I Am a Feminist

Yes. I am a feminist.

Thanks to Amy for pointing this one out.

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The Redshirt

I feel like just about everyone who reads this site has seen the movie Galaxy Quest. I found it on the TiVo tonight and watched it again. It’s just spot-on brilliant parody.

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Dude.

while watching The Big Lebowski with Amy, which we’ve never seen before…

Me:

Wow. He’s gonna unpimp her auto.

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3 Unique Things Meme

While I’m thinking about my response to Amy tagging me on the top 10 movies meme, here’s a quickie that I stole from Catherine:

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Online Filesystem Service

Here’s your linkfood for tonight. I found an online file system service called rsync.net. It’s probably most commonly used for backups, but it could work for a lot more things. I’m considering signing up, simply because it’s so flexible. It’s quite a bit more expensive per GB of data stored than Amazon S3, but they support lots of cool applications for accessing the files.

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Debut Album

Most of my friends in the blogosphere have been participating today in a meme that invites you to learn what your band name and debut album would be. (replacement link at archive.org) I blame Amy for infecting me. 🙂

I have to admit that I spun the wheel again on mine, because the first one was just too random to even be amusing. My second try came up with:

what you looking at !!
Rich Villa Hotel’s Dreamed It Would Be

[photo ‘what you looking at !!‘ by Saleh AlKhulaifi]

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A Lot More Doors

Tonight I watched one of the random Nova episodes that TiVo catches for me from time to time. This one was titled “The Ghost Particle”.

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A Water-Powered Car

Wow. Tonight is just a treasure trove of car-related stuff for me to point and laugh at. 🙂

I’ve heard of stuff like this before, but I’ve never actually seen plans. Behold: “PRELIMINARY PLANS TO RUN YOUR CAR ON TAP WATER!” (emphasis most definitely not mine). edit 17 March 2021: I replaced the original link with an archive.org version.

Of course, we all remember how easy it is to show that this won’t work, right?