Last Monday night a cold surprised me in my sleep and for the past two days my throat has been sore from ear to ear. I don't know why a sore throat always makes me feel so ill. Migraines are debilitating, but at least they don't make me wish for Death to come and take me away. If I have to suffer through one more day of this I may just have to kill myself.

LJ-surfing the other day I came across two entries by lifeinamarble which had me rolling on the floor.


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One was a huuuuuge picture post full of cat macros. I thought I found macros only mildly amusing at best, but seeing so many together srsly built up the giggles. My personal favourite is the Prozacs cat.


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The second was an entry with weird, cheesy and downright disturbing album covers. Be sure to read the commentary, it adds to the brilliance!


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Now, a meme horked from heartofdavid:

Go to Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article title that you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to The Quotations Page random quotations:
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to Flickr and click on "explore the last seven days"
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.


My results:

Band name: Immortality *
Album title: I myself deny it.
Album cover:


* To be honest, the actual title of the article was "Immortality (Celine Dion song)", but what self-respecting band would name themselves that?


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My current favourite song is Jailer by Nigerian singer Asa (or Asha). It's getting a lot of airplay on French radio, and I've steadily fallen in love with it. I found a nice live version on YouTube, check it out:


Happy holidays, everybody. :)

And I also found Marcia baila (see meme post)! Hadn't seen this clip since the '80s, great seeing it again. BTW, I heard some years ago that the MoMA acquired this video for their collection :)



(I tried to post this together with the other video, but then I kept ending up with two Marcia baila's and no Froggy?! What did I do wrong?)

I guess everybody here knows this cartoon, but I mentioned it to a colleague today and discovered it can be found on YouTube (I don't know why that surprised me):

From heartofdavid:

"Comment and I'll give you a letter. In your journal, list 10 of your favorite songs that begin with that letter." She gave me the letter M:

1. The Mercy Seat - Johnny Cash
2. Master Song - Leonard Cohen
3. Les Marquises - Jacques Brel
4. Marcia baila - Les Rita Mitsouko
5. Mother Goose - Jethro Tull
6. Monkberry Moon Delight - Paul McCartney
7. My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist - The Decemberists
8. Missed Me - The Dresden Dolls
9. Morning Glory Story - Harry Nilsson (the only song I don't have)
10. Man on the Moon - R.E.M. / Melody - Rolling Stones (couldn't choose)

Horked...

Go to Google, enter "[your name] needs" in quotes, and post the top ten results. If they don't make sense, are mangled or repetitive, skip to the next until you have ten unique entries.

... to wear a support bra. — (HA!)

... more toys.

... to see distant lands because she needs to explore the nature of her dreams.

... to stop copying Rebecca and her mannerisms. — (Hey Rebecca! :-D )

... to start participating. Soon. By tomorrow... or else.! — (I know, I know...)

... to re-evaluate reality in a hurry.

... a place to stay or she'll be sent back home.

... support at this time too.

... to clean house from top to bottom. — (So true!)

... a shave.

... a laugh. — (OK so that's eleven)


( unread books meme )

I had heard this song on the radio before and liked it, but I came across the video just now and fell in love. It's in Dutch, sorry guys.