iPod Roulette
May. 11th, 2008 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
next_to_normalIn celebration of Apple tech support fixing my iTunes (and doing it for free even though my iPod warranty is expired), without making me cry or feel like an idiot, like the Dell tech support people do (seriously, I have never been on the phone with them while not in tears), which is only one of the many, many reasons I'm getting a Mac next time I need a new computer (another reason being the fact that my computer suddenly, inexplicably failed to recognize iTunes despite it having being installed on my computer for about 8 months), and... that sentence kind of got away from me there.
Anyway, in celebration, I switched the ol' iPod to shuffle and here's what came up, along with the original music videos for as many as I could find. And since many of these songs are from the '90s, the videos are hilarious.
On an unrelated note, does anyone else here use Office 2007? Because I really would like to know what setting I can use so that when I copy and paste from Word it doesn't require me to go in and delete all the font and style html so that it appears in LJ's default font. (It would also be nice if I could set the default font in Word, but no matter how many times I change it, it automatically fucking changes itself back.) I never had this problem when I used Word on my Mac. *sigh*
Anyway, in celebration, I switched the ol' iPod to shuffle and here's what came up, along with the original music videos for as many as I could find. And since many of these songs are from the '90s, the videos are hilarious.
1. “Bad Boyfriend,” Garbage – Mmm, Logan Echolls. I downloaded this song after it was used in Veronica Mars, when Veronica’s accusing her bad boyfriend of murder.
2. “Somewhere, Someplace, Sometime,” Denise Van Outen – From the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Tell Me On a Sunday. As cheesy a show as it is, it has some fantastic songs. This one’s not my favorite, but I do like the positive message. I especially like the line, “Something good will come out of this, I’m sure. I know who I am.” (Not that I’m that optimistic.) (Also, no link on this one because it's absolutely impossible to find.)
3. “I’ll Cover You (Reprise),” Jesse L. Martin – From one of the best musicals ever, Rent. I like this slower reprise from Angel’s funeral more than the upbeat version; it’s so emotional. And sidebar: who knew the guy from Law & Order could sing?? He’d already left the cast by the time I saw Rent on Broadway, but I was super impressed by him in the movie, and I’m glad he’s leaving L&O to do more theater.
4. “Long Time,” James Marsters – Of course, lol. This used to be one of my favorite James songs. Then I bought his second CD, which has made much of the first one very hard to listen to (but points for improvement!). Before I’d ever heard him live, I thought the horns were nice. Now, I prefer the more pared-down arrangements. (Bonus – James/Spike slideshow w/ the vid.)
5. “In Bloom,” Nirvana – James’ recent “All Apologies” kick prompted me to download some Nirvana. They, along with Green Day and Gin Blossoms, were one of the first bands I discovered for myself (as opposed to listening to the music my parents listened to). This was back when I was in middle school, which should make James feel old, lol.
6. “All Star,” Smash Mouth – Hey, remember when everyone loved Smash Mouth, before we realized all of their songs sounded exactly alike and they got really annoying?
7. “Jumper,” Third Eye Blind – Oh, man. I will for the rest of my life remember Third Eye Blind as the concert we went to see the night Kathleen accidentally got shot with the pellet gun. (Don’t worry, she was fine.) Ah, college.
8. “Fraggle Punk Rock,” Allister – From my “punk covers are the coolest thing ever” phase, which started because of a boy named Kevin. He also made me listen to emo and Rush Limbaugh. Looking back, I really should have hated him.
9. “Over You,” Daughtry – I have a rule about avoiding American Idol like the plague (ever since I got suckered into listening to Clay Aiken), but this guy’s actually tolerable. I love love love his “Wanted Dead or Alive” cover – anyone who can sing Bon Jovi better than Jon is okay with me.
10. “How the Other Half Lives,” Angela Christie & Sutton Foster – From Thoroughly Modern Millie, a thoroughly adorable musical. I love belting out Millie’s songs in the car or while cleaning my apartment. (The video is a little dodgy – totally bootleg recorded on a cell phone – but it’s the original Broadway cast.)
11. “I Am a Patriot,” Eddie Vedder – Weirdly, I found this song while looking for material for West Wing songfic. I’ve kept it all these years because I love how everyone cheers when he says, “Sure as fuck ain’t no Republican, either.”
12. “Simple Creed,” Live – Live was my first college concert. I had never heard of them, and really only went because it was the most exciting thing to happen on campus that year. I did recognize quite a few songs once I heard them, though.
13. “State Your Peace,” Hootie & the Blowfish – My love for Hootie knows no bounds. Also, this song is from their “Live in Charleston” CD. Granted, the band is from Charleston, and they’ve probably done a million concerts there, but I like to think it was the one I was at. That concert was the greatest coincidence ever.
14. “Sick Cycle Carousel,” Lifehouse – I can’t remember how I got into Lifehouse (probably from one of my Christian friends in college), but I think they have fascinating lyrics.
15. “When You’re Gone,” Cranberries – Oh, add the Cranberries to that list of bands I discovered in middle school. Serious nostalgia there. We used to have a bus driver who let us listen to the "cool" radio station, so all this stuff reminds me of taking the bus to school. Also cassette tapes. Remember those?
16. “Jane,” Barenaked Ladies – Love those Canadian dudes. I used to know every word to “One Week.” Shut up. You did, too.
17. “How’s It Gonna Be,” Third Eye Blind – This song is ruined for me – ruined! – thanks to the hilarious “Angel’s Lament” parody.
18. “Valley Song,” Jars of Clay – Oh the Jesus music. Jars of Clay was always a little too cheesy for me, but I love this song mostly for the bit where the music stops and the singer just breathes and goes, “Yeah.”
19. “Be My Downfall,” Del Amitri – Has anyone else ever even heard of this band? I tend to lump them in with Hootie and Blues Traveler in terms of my musical eras. They had that one hit “Roll To Me,” but some of their other stuff is great. This is one of my favorites. (The song kinda wanders off into uncharted territory at the end there… Oh, the foibles of live performances.)
20. “Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4,” Frederic Chopin – Because I am incredibly pretentious. No, actually, I think I played this, back in the days when I had a piano at my disposal.
2. “Somewhere, Someplace, Sometime,” Denise Van Outen – From the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Tell Me On a Sunday. As cheesy a show as it is, it has some fantastic songs. This one’s not my favorite, but I do like the positive message. I especially like the line, “Something good will come out of this, I’m sure. I know who I am.” (Not that I’m that optimistic.) (Also, no link on this one because it's absolutely impossible to find.)
3. “I’ll Cover You (Reprise),” Jesse L. Martin – From one of the best musicals ever, Rent. I like this slower reprise from Angel’s funeral more than the upbeat version; it’s so emotional. And sidebar: who knew the guy from Law & Order could sing?? He’d already left the cast by the time I saw Rent on Broadway, but I was super impressed by him in the movie, and I’m glad he’s leaving L&O to do more theater.
4. “Long Time,” James Marsters – Of course, lol. This used to be one of my favorite James songs. Then I bought his second CD, which has made much of the first one very hard to listen to (but points for improvement!). Before I’d ever heard him live, I thought the horns were nice. Now, I prefer the more pared-down arrangements. (Bonus – James/Spike slideshow w/ the vid.)
5. “In Bloom,” Nirvana – James’ recent “All Apologies” kick prompted me to download some Nirvana. They, along with Green Day and Gin Blossoms, were one of the first bands I discovered for myself (as opposed to listening to the music my parents listened to). This was back when I was in middle school, which should make James feel old, lol.
6. “All Star,” Smash Mouth – Hey, remember when everyone loved Smash Mouth, before we realized all of their songs sounded exactly alike and they got really annoying?
7. “Jumper,” Third Eye Blind – Oh, man. I will for the rest of my life remember Third Eye Blind as the concert we went to see the night Kathleen accidentally got shot with the pellet gun. (Don’t worry, she was fine.) Ah, college.
8. “Fraggle Punk Rock,” Allister – From my “punk covers are the coolest thing ever” phase, which started because of a boy named Kevin. He also made me listen to emo and Rush Limbaugh. Looking back, I really should have hated him.
9. “Over You,” Daughtry – I have a rule about avoiding American Idol like the plague (ever since I got suckered into listening to Clay Aiken), but this guy’s actually tolerable. I love love love his “Wanted Dead or Alive” cover – anyone who can sing Bon Jovi better than Jon is okay with me.
10. “How the Other Half Lives,” Angela Christie & Sutton Foster – From Thoroughly Modern Millie, a thoroughly adorable musical. I love belting out Millie’s songs in the car or while cleaning my apartment. (The video is a little dodgy – totally bootleg recorded on a cell phone – but it’s the original Broadway cast.)
11. “I Am a Patriot,” Eddie Vedder – Weirdly, I found this song while looking for material for West Wing songfic. I’ve kept it all these years because I love how everyone cheers when he says, “Sure as fuck ain’t no Republican, either.”
12. “Simple Creed,” Live – Live was my first college concert. I had never heard of them, and really only went because it was the most exciting thing to happen on campus that year. I did recognize quite a few songs once I heard them, though.
13. “State Your Peace,” Hootie & the Blowfish – My love for Hootie knows no bounds. Also, this song is from their “Live in Charleston” CD. Granted, the band is from Charleston, and they’ve probably done a million concerts there, but I like to think it was the one I was at. That concert was the greatest coincidence ever.
14. “Sick Cycle Carousel,” Lifehouse – I can’t remember how I got into Lifehouse (probably from one of my Christian friends in college), but I think they have fascinating lyrics.
15. “When You’re Gone,” Cranberries – Oh, add the Cranberries to that list of bands I discovered in middle school. Serious nostalgia there. We used to have a bus driver who let us listen to the "cool" radio station, so all this stuff reminds me of taking the bus to school. Also cassette tapes. Remember those?
16. “Jane,” Barenaked Ladies – Love those Canadian dudes. I used to know every word to “One Week.” Shut up. You did, too.
17. “How’s It Gonna Be,” Third Eye Blind – This song is ruined for me – ruined! – thanks to the hilarious “Angel’s Lament” parody.
18. “Valley Song,” Jars of Clay – Oh the Jesus music. Jars of Clay was always a little too cheesy for me, but I love this song mostly for the bit where the music stops and the singer just breathes and goes, “Yeah.”
19. “Be My Downfall,” Del Amitri – Has anyone else ever even heard of this band? I tend to lump them in with Hootie and Blues Traveler in terms of my musical eras. They had that one hit “Roll To Me,” but some of their other stuff is great. This is one of my favorites. (The song kinda wanders off into uncharted territory at the end there… Oh, the foibles of live performances.)
20. “Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4,” Frederic Chopin – Because I am incredibly pretentious. No, actually, I think I played this, back in the days when I had a piano at my disposal.
On an unrelated note, does anyone else here use Office 2007? Because I really would like to know what setting I can use so that when I copy and paste from Word it doesn't require me to go in and delete all the font and style html so that it appears in LJ's default font. (It would also be nice if I could set the default font in Word, but no matter how many times I change it, it automatically fucking changes itself back.) I never had this problem when I used Word on my Mac. *sigh*
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Date: May. 11th, 2008 08:50 pm (UTC)Michael has every song Del Amitri ever did, he was a fanboi.
D'ya mind if I ask about how old you are? my music stops around this time for general stuff. If I'm 34 are you older or younger?
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Date: May. 11th, 2008 09:56 pm (UTC)Hee. NKOTB didn't look too awful after some of the later ones.
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Date: May. 11th, 2008 09:37 pm (UTC)In fact, if I do write in Word anyway (to use its spellcheck and wordcount functions) I cut and paste into Notepad, then cut and paste from there into LJ as a two-stage process. It's quicker than trying to get rid of all the codes that Word insists on stuffing in there...
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Date: May. 12th, 2008 02:03 pm (UTC)On LJ, I am using the Rich Text instead of HTML, because I didn't want to have to fuss with HTML, but Word pastes screwy so I end up going into HTML anyway to fix it. I want it to preserve my bold, italics, etc. but keep the default font, text size, and spacing. I'd say maybe I'm asking too much, but I could do exactly that with my previous version of Word (without changing any settings). So I feel like it should be possible, but I don't know how to make it do what I want.
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Date: May. 12th, 2008 02:34 pm (UTC)I use a cheat to keep everything consistent within a fic without needing to keep resetting things; when I'm writing a multi-chapter fic I start each new chapter by opening the previous one, changing the chapter number in the headers, I 'Save As' the new chapter title/number, delete the body text and then start writing in exactly the same layout as the last chapter.
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Date: May. 12th, 2008 03:41 pm (UTC)When I do multi-chapter fics, I write the whole thing in one document. That's more for writing flow, since I tend to write more than one chapter at a time and play around with my chapter breaks, but it also means I don't have to worry about resetting anything. I'll then copy and paste each chapter into a new doc to send to the beta, and then if there are corrections, I make the changes to the original document.