It's true: I've been neglecting my LJ like I'm being paid to. But what better way than to break out of the funk with some good, down home, meme action?! This one is the ~*Cell Phone Meme*~ that's been making the rounds.

And it comes (as far as I know) from barkinmad.

1. Grab Your Phone.
( LOL, SORRY! I FORGOT TO MAKE A CUT, AT FIRST! )

ETA: I'VE DECIDED TO ACTUALLY INCLUDE THE PICTURES OF MY CAT I MADE REFERENCE TO, SO NOW THEY ARE IN THERE. BUT THEY ARE HUGE. GOOD DAY TO YOU.

ETA2: THEY ARE NO LONGER HUGE. I FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE THEM REGULAR-SIZED. CARRY ON.

Okay, so I've decided to give some visual hints to the movie meme that I posted yesterday.

( These are, in no particular order, the hints. )

And this is a link back to the original post, if something's jogged your memory.

And y'all can probably expect the answers to those still unguessed in about a day or so. I know, I know… you're all on the edges of your seats. But try to be patient, the answers will come.

So, once I saw this thing going around, you had to figure it would only be a matter of time before I decided to play, too. The problem is that I am distracted by basketball tournament happenings (more on that later). But here is das meme:

Movie Meme

1. Pick 16 of your favorite movies*.
2. Go to IMBb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO cheating, if you don't know any of them that that's just too bad.
6. You don't have to be tagged in this to play.

But come on, do you ever have to be tagged to do something? No, of course you don't. Tagging is just a silly practice to begin with, but that's a rant for another day. For now, the meme is behind the cut text.

( This would be the cut text )

In other news, the basketball brackets came crashing down upon me yesterday, when Pittsburgh lost. See, at this stage, it's pretty brutal to lose a team you had in the final game. I mean, sure, my champion is still alive, but I took a real hit yesterday. And it looks like Louisville is in trouble, too. That would take out two of my final four picks. Furthermore, if Ty Lawson and company play like they did on Friday, Oklahoma will be in some trouble, as well. But as long as Blake Griffin just destroys stupid Tyler Hansbrough, I will be happy enough. I mean, my bracket's pretty dead, anyhow. Oh well, at least UConn still looks on pace to win the whole damn thing. That will be slightly vindicating.

…it's almost as if I have something else I should be doing. Something I'm avoiding. But never you mind about that. For now, it's MEME TIEM

This is from hobbit_eyes and goes a little something like this:

1. Put your music on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing the memo as well as the person you got the note from Fuck that, do it if you want.

( Doing memes where you listen to music beats watching golf, any day. )

Hello everyone! And Happy New Years wishes for all of you. I have made no resolutions, as those are for suckers. However, whereas last night was for my lovely bottle of Jean Claude Mas Crémant de Limoux, today is for lazing about and watching sports. And possibly a haphazard meme thrown in, as well. WHO KNOWS?!

( Currently, 'sports' includes that outdoor hockey game they are about to play some 11 blocks north from here …and kinda one and a half blocks east, too. This may or may not have something to do with the fighter jets I rant about elsewhere in this post. )

So anyhow, as I look up an hour later, I see that my hockey team is winning! This is quite exciting. Well, maybe not "quite," but it's something. No one can deny that.

ETA: LOOK, jimmiefearsylar DID A MEME, TOO! I CAN ADD MY OWN VERSION TO THIS POST! HOW VERY EXCITING!

( It's about the first thing you said each month and stuff. Click and you'll see what I mean. )

I do too many memes.

…such as looking for a job, finishing up my Masters project, cleaning the apartment, digging my car out of the snow, etc. So what am I going to do? Why, a meme, of course! This is that one that's been going around for ages where you answer 20 questions, but if you don't like one of them you can write a new one and then you tag more people. But I am at the end of the line, here; by the time jimmiefearsylar tagged me, everyone else had already done this, so it appears that this leg of the meme dies with me. Not that I really care. No meme's gonna boss me around!

( Um, I don't have anything clever today. But you'll still have to click this to see the meme. )

You know, meme-related things.

The first one was the song lyric thing

01. Put your music player on shuffle.
02. The first lines of twenty songs are the first 20 lines of lyrics, for your song; the first line of the twenty-first song is its title.

( Find out the answer to these and various other questions! )

Okay, so those are the memes and quizzes. I think most of them come from squeegee_burble, but I wasn't really paying attention. So there ya go.

You know what I haven't done in too long? A good, old-fashioned meme.

From nowhack:

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your lj along with these instructions.
Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

Only, see, my closest book has a big old map on page 123; there are no sentences. Actually, it has big old maps on lots of pages, for reasons that will become clear once you see its title. But the map on 123 is about the text on 122, so after close consultation with nowhack, I've decided to use the text on page 122 for this meme:

"Sauvignon de Touraine in a good year can be a safer bet than Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé from an unreliable source. ¶Pouilly-sur-Loire is the town; its wine is only called Pouilly-Fumé when it is made from the Sauvignon Blanc grape, often known here as the Blanc Fumé. Without the word Fumé, Pouilly-sur-Loire is a light, inconsequential wine made from the mild Chasselas. (Neither has anything to do with Pouilly-Fuissé, the white wine of Mâcon described on page 71)."

—The World Atlas of Wine, 5th edition, authored by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson

Another music meme from jimmiefearsylar. This one was fun and goes a little something like this:

1. Quick, pick a band!
2. Click the cut.

( This would be the cut )

So I figured that, since all the artists that anyone else might actually know from that music meme I posted the other day have been guessed already, I should give you guys the answers to the rest of them. I've edited them into that post, so click here if you want closure and/or some more good free music.

From squeege_burble:

1) Open your top 25 most played songs on iTunes.
2) Post pictures of each band.
3) Once the band has been guessed, edit with an upload of the song! This way we can ALL SHARE THE LOVE!

BUT, I've got a couple of issues, here. Unlike most people, I listen to albums rather that songs. So my top played list would include, like, two artists in the top 25. So what I've decided to do is just use my favorite song from each album, I think. The second issue is that I have no fucking idea how to go about uploading a song. I'll see if the FAQs can help me out with this, but I make no promises. However, in this backwards way, I think I can play. So let's get on with it, shall we?

( Yes. Yes, we shall. )

ETA: Fear not, I've learned how to upload the songs thanks to the diligent tutelage of both cookie_simone and squeegee_burble. Now the only issues I have are that one of my albums comes from the iTunes store and is unsharable (but I think I've found a Rhapsody version of it, if anyone has any free-plays left) and that one of my entries does not actually seem to be on my computer. I guess I stream it? Oh well—I'm sure I can find a link to it somewhere. But we'll just have to deal with these issues once they arise.

As you can maybe tell, my laptop is back and I have decided to (of course) celebrate this momentous occasion with a meme! This one comes from freckles929, and she got it from…IDK, someone. Sorry, I'm too lazy to go back and look and I just closed that window, anyhow. It's all about how people (and particularly Jewish people, interestingly) have been dying on my birthday for, like, centuries.

Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (month/day) and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.

But I'm not beholden to stupid meme rules. You're going to get everything interesting that I find and you're going to like it. So here you go: everything you ever wanted to know about March 16th. And, seriously, I'm sorry to all the Jews out there in internets land. My birthday has not been kind to you. But it's not been kind to others, either. While this isn't one of the holidays listed, I'd like to propose that it be designated, like, International Massacre Day.

( Oh, and I'm also going to italicize my running commentary. Because you know you want it. )

Okay! If you made it through all my ramblings, congratulations. And if not, well, I really can't blame you. The point is, I was entertained. And that's all I can really ask of these things, anyway.

Hello! It’s meme time! This one comes from jimmiefearsylar, who did this question meme a week ago, or so. And, since I love a good question meme, I could not resist.

( 23 questions of fun await you! )

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By limitedbythesky

Moe Hill and the Mountains Stats Formed: 10th June 2008 Split: 19th April 2016 Best Album: ‘Recoupe Recited Outring’ 7/10 in the NME Best Single: ‘Bines Iodous Bilkers’ 9/10 in the NME (Single of the Week 12th September 2014.) Records Sold: 963,453 in total (290,876 albums, 672,577 singles). Reputation: Cult Groupies: seffina reportedly beat squeegee_burble to within an inch of their life after the Moe Hill and the Mountains keyboardist refused to fuck them. barkinmad and ibroketuesday were more than happy to compensate for any ill feelingS. Other Shortly after ‘Aphonias Raging Papacy’s release in June 2008, momar_mole received a death threat from the Pope who warmed them that if they released such unadultured shite in the future they would disappear in the night. Moe Hill and the Mountains Member Profiles momar_mole Without momar_mole, Moe Hill and the Mountains would be a very different band. It is safe to say that momar_mole’s vision and charisma shaped the band during their most vital periods. barkinmad</p> barkinmad is certainly no Jimi Hendrix but ain’t a Barney Sumner either. They are distinctly middle of the road and bore the bloody tits off me. ibroketuesday Aggressive, passionate and erratic. Three words which sum up ibroketuesday as a whole. cookie_simone A number of up-and-coming bands have mentioned Moe Hill and the Mountains’s drummer cookie_simone in the music weeklies, citing them as an important influence on their current sound. squeegee_burble If squeegee_burble steps up the practice a little bit by limiting the amount of time that their finger remains up their asshole they have a chance of becoming a capable musician. Single Releases # Title Date 28 Springy Peed Catenate Wart Shives Aug 2008 26 Clubhaul Oct 2008 22 Interns Animes Dec 2008 23 Sraddha Grimaces Stutter Eateries Jan 2009 25 Sponsors Outguns Jan 2010 30 Chino Tzarina Rachilla Manille Soonest Mar 2010 29 Coddled Fazes Razzing Melodize Absorber Apr 2010 38 Aphonias Raging Papacy Apr 2011 61 Mikron Tippable Cooking Weaning Sceptral Goa Jun 2011 74 Shire Angaries Agnostic Jul 2011 30 Corrupt Fribble Cabildo Toras Truths Feb 2013 25 Touraco Hayers Tanker Sjambok Favorers Apr 2013 21 Challahs Jun 2013 19 Largos Vealiest Hogbacks Debarred Jul 2013 3 Feint Pencils Editable Scoring Samples Jul 2014 1 Bines Iodous Bilkers Sep 2014 1 Rammer Geneva Engirds Sextuple Sitcoms Nov 2014 Album Releases # Title Date 31 Pharoses Airless Revisals Draffy Astigmia Jun 2008 24 Kingpins Redrive Oct 2009 19 Recoupe Recited Outring Feb 2011 67 Sighters Rawest Dec 2012 18 Shofroth Octavos Jun 2014 northern ireland’s worst

Heh. The Pope hates us. That's fantastic.

So, it's been a couple days since anyone made a guess on any of these, so I'm giving out the answers. Plus some special surprises! What are these surprises, you ask?

( You'll just have to click to find out. )

For memes that is. This one comes from barkinmad. Here's how it works:

Put your media player on random and post the first few lyrics from the first 12 songs that play (unless the title is included in those lyrics), no repeat artists!
Guess artist/title in comment

Also, here's a helpful hint: if the song began with the chorus, I skipped ahead to the verse. Similarly, if the lyrics began with the song's title, I simply skipped to the next line. GOOD LUCK!

1. The video game says, "Play me"/Face it on a level but it takes you every time on a one on one/Feeling running down your spine/Nothing's gonna save your one last dime/Cause it owns you/Through and through…

2. Working from seven/To eleven every night/It really makes life a drag/I don't think that's right…
Since I've Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin. Guessed by squeegee_burble.

3. They're forming in a straight line/They're going through a tight wind/The kids are losing their minds…
Blitzkrieg Bop, by The Ramones. Guessed by barkinmad.

4. I certainly haven't been shopping for any new shoes/And I certainly haven't been spreading myself around/I still only travel by foot and by foot it's a slow climb/But I'm good at feeling uncomfortable so I can't stop changing all the time…

5. We dressed all in black/We snuck up around the back/We began to attack…
Egg Raid on Mojo, by Beastie Boys. nowhack got it.

6. My mother was a witch/She was burned alive/Thankless little bitch/For tears I cried…

7. I can't believe/Your thinking/Save everyone/Inside you…

8. I'm hunting shadows in the dark/Through steaming jungles of the world/Either to kill or to be killed/By creatures never named or heard…
Breathless, by Dan Wilson. nowhack got this one, too.

9. We're bobbing on the surface/And the shadow glides below/They say she feels my heartbeat/Oh…but how, I'll never know…

10. Lying in my plastic bed/Thinking how things weren't so cool to me/My baby likes to shoot pool/And I like lying naked in my bedroom…

11. …Girl I heard you/Calling my name/Junior, I love you/Junior, I love you/Hope you love me/I said I do, baby…

12. Step out the front door/Like a ghost into a fog/Where no one notices the contrast/Of white on white…
Round Here by Counting Crows. burkle got this one.

Well, I have been slacking on my LJ duties, I know. But what better way to get back into things than with a brand new fun meme?! The answer? None. This one comes from jimmiefearsylar and squeegee_burble and was brought to my attention by ibroketuesday.


My Personality

Neuroticism	31
Extraversion	32
Openness to Experience	73
Agreeableness	52
Conscientiousness	6

You very rarely feel depressed and are usually in a good frame of mind, however you feel strong cravings and urges that you have difficulty resisting. You tend to prefer short-term pleasures and rewards over long-term consequences. You lead a leisurely and relaxed life. You would prefer to sit back and smell the roses than indulge in high energy activities. You prefer familiar routines and for things to stay the same. You can tend to feel uncomfortable with change. You dislike confrontations and are perfectly willing to compromise or to deny your own needs in order to get along with others, however you feel superior to those around you and sometimes tend to be seen as arrogant by other people. Your sense of duty and obligation is average and although you are mostly responsible you can sometimes be unreliable.

Take a Personality Test now or view the full Personality Report. The best Ugg Boots

( Here are my in-depth results: )

All in all, it's pretty accurate. I don't think I'm quite as threatened by change as this suggests and I actually see myself as pretty adaptable but that doesn't mean I don't prefer for things to stay the same. But, other than that, it's a good description. ALL FOR NOW! MAYBE I'LL STOP NEGLECTING THIS THING, SOON!

Ganked this one from K (jimmiefearsylar). The rules are very simple. Open iTunes and answer the following questions:

( STILL better than talking brackets )

Yay! Another hour in which I've successfully avoided cleaning my apartment!

So, after what seems like forever, we finally have new memes and quizzes to do. These were introduced to us by resol37, who was no doubt using her time at work most productively, last night. Just as I'm doing right now.

( For not having gone to the theater since 2004 (that I can recall), I've sure seen a lot of these. )

Ah. And now, a question meme. You know, I joined a comm that was supposed to send me 5 question memes every Friday, recently. And they had been very good about sending these out. Right up until I joined, that is. Since then, nada. Lousy lazy comms!

( *shakes fist* )

And finally, the quizzes!

( I have done some of these before, but I might not remember exactly which ones. So if there are repeats, I apologize. )

So, if you guys think way back to mid-January, you will remember that we made all those little dollies and posted them over on Beanie's other journal. Well, I only did one for Squerbles at the time. And, since it took so long, lazy got the better of me. But last week, I resumed my dolly crafting and now I have one for many of you. Well, not for K, because the dolly site is still racist. And not for my newer friendies because I have not yet decided on what your internet selves look like. But, there are ones for barkinmad, squeegee_burble, cookie_simone, ibroketuesday, resol37, and one for me, as well.

( So here's what you all look like in my head. )