Music Challenge - Day 14

I have been waiting for this particular day of the challenge since I started.  This is the one where I am gonna blow everybody away with a song and a genre of music that makes the rest of the songs on this list look like.... well, like what they look like.  A fluffy little teenybopper's favorite mix-tape.

BUT NOT TODAY!!  Today I get to become a bad ass and share with you a song that no one who knows me would expect me to love.  Or to even have ever heard.

I had a song ready to go.  It was Danzig's "She Rides."  Now... I really, really do love this song.  However, after listening to it, there are several elements of the song that make it right up my alley.  It's slow, it's kinda bluesy, and, yes... it falls into a rather large category of songs that make me want to take my clothes off.  Somewhere inside me there is a very strange urge to be a stripper.  But I could never really do that.

And so instead, I will give you the other song that might make your head spin in confusion.

Day 14 - A Song That No One Would Expect You To Love

White Zombie.  Is anyone else looking at the screen like I have three heads?

day 01 - your favorite song
day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song you can dance to
day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep
day 11 - a song from your favorite band
day 12 - a song from a band you hate
day 13 - a song that is a guilty pleasure

Music Challenge - Day 13

Interesting that so much emotional stuff should crop up at a time like this.  It wasn't hard for me to think up a song for today.

Originally, when I signed on to do this music challenge, I saw this particular day's challenge and already started getting ideas in my head.  Ideas like songs by Aaron Carter, Nick Carter, and (wait for it...) 2ge+her.  I'm sure I'll figure out a way to bring them into the challenge anyway...

Today's song challege is about guilty pleasures.  And I've just given you my shameful list of runners up.

But today... today is interesting.  There have been new developments in my drama-filled disaster of a love life.  I'll refrain from giving you the details on that.  Just know that I'm running on about 4 hours sleep because between 3am this morning and now... I've been an emotional wreck about all of my drama.  So now for a continued string of apropos songs, I give you... Miley Cyrus. (I apologize for the ad)

Day 13 - A Song That is a Guilty Pleasure

"Shh-ah."  I shudder at the thought that I actually like this song.  And I do.  It didn't have to grow on me.  I liked it the second I heard it.  Granted, I didn't find out that it was Little Miss Hannah Montana herself until after I decided I liked it... but on a more positive note, I probably wouldn't have the ability to use it in my music challenge otherwise.

And, yeah.  This (and a few other songs) pretty much describe EXACTLY how I'm feeling right now.  Thank you catharsis!

And okay, I'm gonna cheat again.  'Cause I almost worked for this guy's manager.  Which would have been entirely, hilariously IRONIC. (See Ash, I used it correctly!  Alanis Morrisette has nothin' on me!)

Yet another on the list of songs that make me want to take my clothes off.  Sigh... how embarrassing...

day 01 - your favorite song
day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song you can dance to
day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep
day 11 - a song from your favorite band
day 12 - a song from a band you hate

Music Challenge - Day 12

So okay, I had to think of a band I hate for this one.  I don't really hate any bands.  It's a waste of energy.  If I don't like a band, I don't hate it, I just don't listen to it.  Why bother, if I can just listen to something else?

I don't like the Jonas Brothers.  But as far as I know, they've disbanded because one of them went solo or something... like I said, I don't pay much attention.  Not worth the energy.

Also not worth the blog post.

So instead, I'll tell you about someone else I don't hate.  Beyonce.  Don't get me wrong.  I think she has an incredible voice, I think she's very pretty (when she doesn't have a bleached blonde lion's mane for a hair-do) and I think she deserves her spot as a musical icon.

That being said, I also think she is incredibly over-hyped, and I would be just fine if she decided to take a break from making singles that play too often on the radio.

Here's her latest single:

Day 12 - A Song from a Band You Hate

Hmm.  How apropos.

day 01 - your favorite song
day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song you can dance to
day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep 
day 11 - a song from your favorite band

Music Challenge - Day 11

I'm trying to stay on top of this because I'm so behind.  So for today's music challenge I'm supposed to choose a song from my favorite band.

Well, my favorite band will always and forever be *NSYNC.  But since I've already used them (right out of the gate too, shoulda thought of that...) I'll use my *current* favorite band.  Maroon 5.  What can I say?  I love sexy men who sing sexy songs about sex.  Also, songs about love.  But mostly sex.  Did I say that enough?  Sex.  Also, apparently I like them in fives.

The hardest part about this is choosing only one song.  I just love them all.  Runners up included: "Kiwi," "The Air That I Breathe," "Won't Go Home Without You," and "Can't Stop."  Actually, scratch that... they're all pretty much runners up.

Day 11 - A Song From Your Favorite Band

I love this song.  It's sexy, and dirty, and slightly reminiscent of 70's porn.  It makes me want to take my clothes off.  Also, it's in the best scene of The Wedding Date.

And because I really, honestly couldn't choose between the two, I'm cheating and giving you this song too.  Because I Just. Fucking. Love it.



So there you go.  Songs from my favorite band.

day 01 - your favorite song
day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song you can dance to
day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep 

Moochie McMoocherson...

I apologize in advance for this draft of "The Great American Novel."

For those who aren't sure, I'm talking about myself.  In the last few months, I have begun to feel like the biggest mooch on the planet.  And just so we're clear, feeling like I'm taking advantage of pretty much everyone I know... is not high on my list of favorite feelings.  Actually, it's not on my list of favorite feelings.  It just feels shitty.

Where to begin?  Well, as much as I enjoy working at my current internship... after six months of work, no pay, and no prospects, I'm beginning to feel as though it's a waste of my time.  I mean, I'm flat broke.  No money.  Zip, zilch, nada.  I don't even have money to put gas in my car.  So it shouldn't be hard to imagine that I struggle with the idea of driving an hour in traffic both directions to go work at a place that doesn't pay me.  Twice a week.  Like I said, I love working where I work.  I love the guys in that office.  I love my boss.  I just can't really do it anymore.

*credit*

 I'm in a place that suggests I should be marching up and down the malls applying to any store that will have me.  But since that idea is less appealing than working for no money... I've been pushing my job search at full speed back in San Diego.  Which means I need money to survive.  Which means I'm mooching.  My parents have tried to comfort me by saying "we don't mind, we're investing in your future" but that doesn't really make me feel any better about taking their money.

Aside from taking my parents' money like a 25-year-old leech, I've been staying with Roommate at her gorgeous condo... where I have a bedroom.  Well, it's not my bedroom... but when I get a job (note the still hopeful, and confident wording) it will be my bedroom until I can save enough money to get my own place.  I've spent the better part of the last couple of months at her place.  And when her bills arrived the other day, she freaked out because they're higher than usual.  Because I've been here.  So now we're in a weird place where she's afraid to ask me for money I don't have, but she needs my help.  Thank god I have understanding parents, but she's still coming to a point of temporarily kicking me out.  I can feel it.  And I understand.  But it still makes me feel awful.  A feeling I've grown quite accustomed to these days.

As if all of the mooching wasn't enough to make me feel bad, there is always the ever present emotional rollercoaster that comes with every interview.  And the drop, when they "liked me a lot but went with another candidate" gets bigger every time.  Speaking of rollercoasters, I need a healthy scream fest.  But I digress...

As long as I'm on this emotional downward spiral, let's not forget about my social life.  Just to give you the short version (because I haven't mentioned it on here until now) I'm currently in a fight with Scooter Pie.  Well... not even a fight.  Because in a fight, you have to be communicating with each other.  Which he isn't.  Basically, Mr. Best Friend - Scooter Pie - and I had been, er... experimenting with other aspects of our relationship.  Remember when I said "what happens in Vegas, stays in vegas?" Well... that's what happened.  And we were pretty good for a while.  But then the subjects of labels and distance were putting a strain on us.  So we talked all the time, and I went down to San Diego every couple of weeks to be with him.  Never let it be said that I didn't try to make it work.  We even made it to "I love you."  Not that it took long.

And then I did something REALLY stupid.  Scooter Pie's resistance to label our relationship as anything other than "Friends Who Love Each Other" and "Together When We're In The Same City" lead me to believe that I'm free to do as I please when we're not in the same city.  And that stupid thing I did? (WARNING: TMI ALERT!)  I slept with someone else.  Someone I really shouldn't have slept with.  And it was horrible.  I felt dirty, and used, and guiltier than a kid with his hand in a cookie jar.  And when Scooter Pie asked me about it, point blank, I didn't lie.  I could have lied to spare his feelings, but I was raised that lying is bad, and I was in no mood to get caught later.  So after apologizing profusely, and getting lied to that he was unaffected by my actions... I left for Israel and came back to find that he's not speaking to me.  At all.

Now, I've been speaking with our mutual friends about my situation, and like the hopeless lunatic I'm beginning to feel like, they agree that I still have a shot at reconciling this relationship.  I have a ridiculous theory that because we're still friends on Facebook... he's not done with me either.  However, it's been over a month that he hasn't spoken to me, and... today... exactly two months since I've actually seen his face.  I'm hanging on to what little hope I have left. 

With everything else that's going on in my life, all the struggles and bad feelings... this kills me more than anything.  Under normal circumstances, Scooter Pie is who I would turn to when I feel as bad as I do.  Even if all I got was a big bear hug -- something he is extraordinary at delivering, I would feel better.  And I can't get him to talk to me.  And despite the fact that I have the greatest friends IN THE WORLD ('cause I do), I feel more alone than I've ever felt. 

Okay, so maybe that wasn't really the short version...

I'm in a hole, desperately trying to scratch and claw my way out.

Everybody keep your fingers crossed for me.  I need it.

Music Challenge - Day 10

For this installment of the challenge, I have to tell you what song makes me fall asleep.  Well... I fall asleep to the TV... so turn off the lights, make the room glow blue, and turn on some white noise and I'll be out like a little light bulb.  However, this is a music challenge, so I can't really use the TV as an answer.

I DO however, have a song and an accompanying story to go with it... because I already know you're gonna read this and make a face as though I have three heads.

Day 10: A Song That Makes You Fall Asleep

Okay.  You think I'm crazy right?  This jaunty song by the Norm Wooster Singers is more fitting for a stroll through the park or a carriage ride than it is for bedtime.  Let me explain.

When I was about... 11 or 12, I was getting to a point in my life where sleeping over at friends' houses and going on class trips out of town were becoming more common.  At the time, I couldn't fall asleep without the TV.  Well, okay, if I got tired enough I'd eventually pass out, but I was basically unwilling to try any alternative to television.  So my parents devised a plan.  Maybe we'll try music.  And so we did.  The first couple nights were pretty rough, but eventually, I got used to it.

I had a boom box in my room (when it was working) and the CD I used to use was the soundtrack to That Thing You Do!  For those of you who don't have this soundtrack, this is track one.  In all honestly, the entire soundtrack is the answer to today's music challenge, but if I can only pick one, this is the song I associate with that time in my life.  Make no mistake, some nights I made it all the way to "My World is Over," "Mr. Downtown," and even "I Need You (That Thing You Do)," which is the last song on the soundtrack.

Just for kicks, I'll tell you that to this day, I still sleep with the television on.  Not because I can't sleep without it, just because I prefer to sleep with it.  Runner up in today's challenge, "Down In New Orleans" from the soundtrack of The Princess and The Frog.  I was falling asleep to that movie for a while and it got to the point where I'd be passed out before the movie really even started.  So I guess maybe that should have been my answer.  Whatever, I like my anecdote better.


day 01 - your favorite song
day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song you can dance to

Music Challenge - Day Nine

For today's installment of the music challenge, which I am trying desperately to catch up on, I thought long and hard.  I scoured the long list of my iTunes and decided that a lot of those songs applied to today's challenge.

Just to backtrack a bit, I am a dancer by nature.  I like to dance.  I like dancing to whatever is currently playing, as long as it has a decent beat and/or melody.  Frequently, when I'm alone, I will rush to my computer, open my iTunes and dance around the room.  Sometimes, I even dance in my underwear (though I have never officially pulled a Tom Cruise in Risky Business) because I get all sweaty in clothes.  And I don't always dance like I'm at a party.  Sometimes, I find myself dancing like I have some kind of choreography.  Sometimes I dance in a modern/ballet style.  Sometimes I dance like I'm at a club.  Sometimes I dance like a stripper.  A Burlesque stripper.  Yeah.  But one of my favorite things to do, is retreat back to my days spent in endless dance classes, and dance in front of a mirror.  Before you judge me for that, I would like you all to consider how many times you look at yourself in a mirror.  Or any reflective surface for that matter.  I am totally guilty of the narcissistic tendency to look at myself whenever opportunity presents itself.  Which brings me to my song selection...

Day 09 - A Song You Can Dance To

This particular challenge day is dedicated to Ashley, because a few years back, when we were roommates... she actually CAUGHT me dancing to this song and watching myself in the mirror.  She will never let me live it down, and so now, I share my humiliation with all of you.  Enjoy it.

Oh, and I didn't realize that I was supposed to be linking you in this other summary of songs, so... these have links.

day 01 - your favorite song
day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to