Serene of the Oakland Serenes

Before I met you, I didn't even know what a "final girl" was. Now I'm pretending to be all smart in my movie blog by tossing in references to film theory. Thanks for the bit of education.

The 5,000-question survey asked "What is your favorite song lyric?"

I don't have one favorite, but below are 20 of my faves. Can you guess the artist and song for each one without looking it up? Comments are screened until they're all guessed, and I'll mark the guessed ones until they're all guessed, too. The person who gets the most gets a tacky prize from me. Some should be very very easy, and few will be obscure at all to most of my friendslist, I'm guessing.

Edits: Still need 6, 10, 11, 16, 18, 20. (Some folks have guessed parts of these, but no one's gotten song/artist combined.)

Guessed so far: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19; also, yes, being anonymous is fine.

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I always wanted a jukebox, growing up. It's perfect for my way of listening to things -- I want lots of songs that I like, but not always by the same artists. I hate commercials, and I don't really want to be switching 45s all day to get a mix.

Oh my gosh, do I love my new computer (my first new computer ever). I have ALL my CDs on the media player, with 100 gigs to spare, and I now have the long-awaited jukebox. I feel like the last kid on the block to have shufflable music, but here I am, all happy and shit.

Via firecat and surelars, below is a list of all the films nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award since 1970 (with the winning picture at the top of the list for each year). Bold the ones you've seen.

( movie stuff, with my comments in brackets )

Just for fun, I'm gonna list my Pandora songs for the night. It's on a kind of a hippy groove tonight, which isn't my usual favorite music, but it's working fine for me at the moment.

"Witchy Woman", Eagles (marked it "like it")
"He's A Good Face, But He's Down And Out", Dean Ford & The Gaylords (listened, but didn't mark "like" or "don't like")
"Afternoon Tea", the Kinks (listened)
"Only You Know and I Know", Dave Mason (listened)
"You Can Make Me Free", Billy Joel (wow, one of his I hadn't heard or don't remember. weird. listened, didn't mark -- kinda Queen-ish)
"Out Here On My Own", Irene Cara (marked "like it" -- it was a favorite when I was young, and it's total nostalgia)
"Theme", Shooting Star (listened)
"How", John Lennon (marked "like it")
"Cross Over To Me", Catie Curtis (the first one tonight that was already marked "like it")
"New Beginning", Tracy Chapman (already marked "like it")

And now I need to concentrate on some work stuff, so I'm turning it off.

Here are the rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate!
3. You will update your lj with the answers to the questions [or just answer in comments].
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in a post on your LJ [if you want to].
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

[Note from Serene: The normal disclaimer applies -- skip whatever you want to skip, do or do not do, as pleases you, make up new rules if you want. Whatever. Also, I'm only promising to interview the first five people who ask me, but I'll try to get to everyone.]

( My questions, from autographedcat )

I have been SO freaking busy with my fun new job (I'm working part-time for my brother-out-law's company, in addition to all the contract work I was already doing) that I've been essentially absent from here. I'm taking a quick break, though, to post a few little notes:

1) sogwife rocks. Not only is she Snow Fucking White (a *chicken* followed her home yesterday), but she rescued all my plants from my horrid neglect the other day. She trimmed them, watered them, cleaned them, and set them back in their windowsills. She even did the outside ones. Now to see if I can start treating them better. My house has basically gone to shit the past week while I've been riding my new learning curve (which also involves some NP(roject)E), but today I am trying to whip it back into shape.

2) I like "Heroes" more and more, and "Studio 60" less and less.

3) I forgot to post the funniest line at last week's slam. The guy who won actually had a line in one of his poems about Blackbeard coming back from the dead. The phrase he used that just dissolves me and someotherguy into giggles, though, was the unfortunate "disembodied corpse". WTF?

4) Worst slogan ever, on the wall of one of our favorite Thai places, Tuk Tuk Thai (a tuk tuk is one of these): "Tuk Tuk Thai: Let us drive you to a good Thai cafe"

Nice evening last night. Movie with sogwife, wild_irises, alanbostick, pantryslut, imnotandrei, and black_pearl_10. ("This Film Is Not Yet Rated", which I may talk about in another post -- if I had to pick one word to describe it, I would probably choose "Underambitious".)

And I bought a twelve-dollar dress and a five-dollar DVD, and consumed mass quantities of fried foods and milkshakes (one mango, one green tea). The food made me feel like crap physically, and I still do, but it was fun, overall. sogwife and I don't get to the movies often enough.

1. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes -- someotherguy and I like --
no, totally GROOVE on -- cheesy movies, and I've never seen this one. I
think he has, but he put this on the queue, and I'm eager to see it.

2. Sleeping Beauty: Special Edition -- this was my favorite movie in
childhood, and it had my very favorite villain of all time. I still get a
chill when I see this
image, and I am all atwitter. I'm guessing my partners won't want any
part of this one, but I loved it so much.

3. Amazon Women on the Moon -- see #1

4. Flashback -- I put this on the queue to show to someotherguy,
because I think every aging hippy should see it. :-) Plus, Carol Kane is
a must-see.

5. Waiting for Guffman -- I am on a mission to see all of Christopher Guest's movies.
I loved Best In Show and A Mighty Wind. Looking forward to it.