Name That Tune...Name The Theme

I know that will the ease of the Internet that you can easily cheat and get the answers. So be it.

$100 - Well the dogs were barking at a new moon, whistling a new tune...Hoping it would come soon and the sun was wondering if it should stay away for a day til the feeling went away.

$200 - On my knees, I'll ask... last chance for one last dance. 'Cause with you, I'd withstand, all of hell to hold your hand.

$300 - Idealistic will so hard to please...put your indecisive mind at ease.

$400 - Less concerned about fitting into the world...Your world that is, cause it doesn't really matter anymore (no it doesn't really matter anymore).

$500 - Me and you are subject to the blues now and then but when you take the blues and make a song...You sing them out again.

$600 - I'm on the outside looking in...Let me into your heart.

And the theme is....figure out it.

I'll Take POTPOURRI for $___ Alex 2.0

Due to massive amounts of studing...I can't commit to one topic tonight...so let's do another round of Potpourri.

Category - From a Movie Genius

$ 200 - "Since God created man and man created The Transformers, The Transformers are like a gift from God."

$400 - "All I said was that the Easter bunny at the Menlo Park mall was more convincing and he just jumped the railing and knocked me down. "

$600 - "You people. If there isn't a movie about it, its not worth knowing is it?

$800 - "Hey look, I'm sorry I dragged you away from whatever-gay-serial-killers-who-ride-horses-and-like-to-play-golf-touchy-feely-picture you're supposed to be doing this week."

$1000 - "Cats is the second worst thing that ever happened to New York City."

Final Jeopardy - "I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you."

Finally....enjoy a pic of MC at the lake.

Your First Hit Should Always Be Your Best - Take 2

So without a doubt the hottest first line of a song is the opening line to Honey & The Moon by Joseph Arthur. I have discussed this several times on this blog and have not changed my position on this and doubt that I ever will. That being said...there are plenty of other songs that can melt a heart with its first words...and here are a few more for your enjoyment.

Love of My Life by Santana and Dave Matthews - I am not a big fan of either artist as I feel that both are somewhat overrated. Yet together they created a pretty hot song. The mood of the song is pure passion...but the opening line is what makes the song sexy. The line "Where you are, that's where I want to be." Simply put...that is what true love is all about.

I'll Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie - I am a huge Death Cab for Cutie fan. Ben was clearly born to be a crooner. Even when he is not singing about love, he sounds hot. I like this song...not because I would ever want someone to sing these words to me and mean it, but because it is nice to think that somewhere someone loves someone that much that they would. As cynical as I have become about love and romance, I still believe that it has to work out every now and then. The line: "Love of mine someday you will be die and I'll be close behind, I'll follow you into the dark."

Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Yes I know I just blogged about this song. It is a hot enough song that it warrants multiple entries. And yes it is still suck in my head. Anyway...the line: "When I see your smile, tears roll down my face."

Fade Into You by Mazzy Star - Okay so this song is very My So Called Life but it is still a really hot song. RK used to say that it is a stalker song but I disagree (surprise surprise). I think that this song is about about wanting to know someone completely...even if that person doesn't understand or feel the same way. It is about meeting the person underneath it all, which rarely if ever happens in relationships. Perhaps that is why so many fail. The line: " I want to hold the hand inside you, I want to take a breath that's true."

We Belong Together by Ritchie Valens - I freely admit that my love of the movie La Bamba is the main reason that I like this song so let's move on from that. To some this song might be creepy because it is sounds possessive. So what? There is something very sexy about a man being possessive. (Possessive...not crazy stalking.) I might be betraying the women's lib movement by admitting this but I don't care. The line: "You're mine and we belong together."

Okay so this was a pretty lame entry. Hey...I promised posts everyday that I am not out of town...I never promised that they would be good. I am too distracted to really devote any time to a post this evening...so this one was written on auto-pilot. I'll do better this weekend when I return from yet another trip to a place that I would never visit if I didn't have to.

The Best of the Stupid

So we have all heard them...those songs that make us say WTF? Here is my list of the songs that manage to be both incredibly dumb and entertaining. Enjoy.

1.) Another Postcard by The Barenaked Ladies: So this song makes absolutely NO sense. It is the strangest and stupidest song I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. I heard it and immediately thought it was a joke. The BNL are slightly weird to begin with...what with being the first band to ever ask if they can make pre-wrapped sausages why can't they make pre-wrapped bacon...but this song took them to whole new level. I bought the Everything to Everyone Album for this song and never really listened to any other track. This song also inspired my greatest prank to date...the 309 pictures of chimpanzees that were mailed to Todd over a 7 month period from 26 (I think) different states. The winning line: "At first I thought it was funny but now I have money on a monkey fight."

2.) Peaches by The Presidents of the United States: Okay so the sexual references in this song are abundant...but nevertheless...this song is flat out dumb. Its' catchy tune and hilarious video cemented its' place in 90s music history...but let's face it...the guys had to be high when they wrote it. The winning line: "If I had my little way, I'd eat peaches everyday, sun-soaking bulges in the shade."

3.) Dominated Love Slave by Green Day: This song barely makes the list because it is my belief that it was intended to be dumb. I will not list a line from this one because they are all equally stupid. I must have been about 11 when this song resurfaced and I thought it was cool to sing it out loud. Oh well...moving on.

4.) Scotty Doesn't Know by Lustra: This song became a hit after the movie Eurotrip came out. Perhaps it is the fact that in the movie Matt Damon is playing a punk rocker as he sings this song in front of poor Scotty...but this song is the best part of the whole damn movie. I tried for about a week to download this song before breaking down and buying the soundtrack from Amazon. It was worth it for this one song. Most of lines are pretty raunchy but here is the safest line from the song. I will leave it to your imagination to figure out what is the line before it...or you can YouTube the song and see the clip from the movie. "Its a three-way call and he knows nothing."

Mope by The Bloodhound Gang: Here is a yet another song that hooked me with its opening line but not in a good way. "Tried to O. D. on the Cold-Eeze". Okay so it isn't technically the opening line...since there is spoken words at the beginning...which are always comical. I don't think anyone was expect Falco! (Listen to the song.) It is hard to narrow down the stupidest line so I will go with "I like to pretend I'm speed reading" as opposed to "I like to dance naked in front of my pets." As a bonus...this song has "cameos" by both Pacman and Homer Simpson. It is by far the dumbest song on this evening's list. To be fair...any song by The Bloodhound Gang could take its place...as they all are pretty damn stupid.

So there you have it. As terrible as all of these songs are...each one of them is on my iPod, which begs the question of who is more stupid? The person who wrote them or the dumbass who paid $0.99 to download them?