Pseudotherapy

Didn’t get much participation in my music quiz. There were only three contestants (Eden’s guesses were placed after the Tuesday midnight deadline), so I put each person’s name in the bowl three times. The winner of the $20 Amazon e-certificate is Adena. Congratulations, Adena — check your email! Hilly, Nat and Eden, thanks very much for your guesses —all of which were correct.

Here are the answers:

1. Message In A Bottle - The Police
2. Heaven Beside You - Alice In Chains
3. My, My, My - Rob Thomas
4. Numb - Linkin Park
5. Now - Def Leppard
6. Knights Of Cydonia - Muse
7. Sober - Tool
8. Conversation Via Radio (Do You Ever Wonder) - Blue October
9. I Want You - Savage Garden
10. Dust In The Wind - Kansas
11. Highlife - The Blue Hawaiians
12. Pressure - Staind
13. Don’t Speak - No Doubt
14. Haunted - Type O Negative
15. Come Anytime - Hoodoo Gurus
16. Calling All Angels - Train
17. Pearl Necklace - ZZ Top
18. Tango Till They’re Sore - Tom Waits
19. 21st Century Digital Boy - Bad Religion
20. Sex And Candy - Marcy Playground

I’ve put off participating in this music meme because, judging by the other versions I’ve seen around the blogiverse, I’m dancing to a somewhat different tune than most of you. But what the hell, you may recognize more of these than I think! For any cave-dwellers among us, here’s how it’s done:

• Set your music player on random/shuffle (or in the case of Media Monkey, Auto DJ).
• Post the first four lines from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song may be (skip instrumentals, repeat artists or songs; I also skipped any song in which the title was part of the first four lines).
• Let your readers guess what song and artist the lines come from. Try really, really hard to NOT use search engines, please.

Everyone (even you, Juli) who posts at least two correct guesses by midnight Tuesday PDT gets their name in a random drawing for a $20 Amazon gift e-card! Ready? Here we go …

1. Just a castaway, an island lost at sea
   Another lonely day, with no one here but me
   More loneliness than any man could bear
   Rescue me before I fall into despair
2. Be what you wanna be
   See what you came to see
   Been what you wanna be
   I don’t like what I see
3. The light from the window is fading
   You turn on the night
   The sound from the avenue’s calling you
   Open your eyes
4. I’m tired of being what you want me to be
   Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
   Don’t know what you’re expecting of me
   Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
5. I wanna know you better
   Let’s spend some time together
   I wanna be what’s on your mind
   Look in my eyes, they’re calling
6. Come ride with me
   Through the veins of history
   I’ll show you how God
   Falls asleep on the job
7. There’s a shadow just behind me
   Shrouding every step I take
   Making every promise empty
   Pointing every finger at me
8. You must be broken
   By a thousand ways of wasting time
   Get to the point
   And off a hundred lines a week
9. Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
   And I am taken to a place
   Where your crystal mind and magenta feelings
   Take up shelter in the base of my spine
10. I close my eyes
    Only for a moment, then the moment’s gone
    All my dreams
    Pass before my eyes, a curiosity
11. Eve said, I’m tempted by what I see
    There ain’t no witchcraft voodoo, no mystery
    Eden is a jungle and it’s getting wild
    So why don’t we just go out in style
12. I just need this to be all right
    I can’t feel this another night
    I can’t take this, I come unglued
    I might break down in front of you
13. You and me
    We used to be together
    Everyday together always
    I really feel
14. A swollen sun melting at the horizon
    Between the sheets where I wait for her to come
    A living flame, impossible to resist
    Burning me deep with every bite, kiss and lick
15. What is it you want from me?
    There isn’t much I will not do
    If it’s only company
    You know I might need that too
16. I need a sign to let me know you’re here
    All of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere
    I need to know that things are gonna look up
    ‘Cause I feel us drowning in a sea spilled from a cup
17. She’s really upset with me again
    I didn’t give her what she likes
    I don’t know what to tell her
    Don’t know what to say
18. Well ya play that Tarantella
    All the hounds they start to roar
    And the boys all go to hell
    Then the Cubans hit the floor
19. I can’t believe it, the way you look sometimes
    Like a trampled flag on a city street, oh yeah
    And I don’t want it, the things you’re offering me
    Symbolized bar code, quick ID, oh yeah
20. Hangin’ round downtown by myself
    And I had so much time
    To sit and think about myself
    And then there she was

You may pick up your pencils and begin.

One of my co-workers is planning a summer kick-off barbecue and pool party on June 21st, and?I’ve been “volunteered” to supply the music. The request is for a minimum of four hours of tunes, appropriately summerish. Having been a SoCal teenager in the ’60s, I’ve got the whole Beach Boys/surf music aspect covered. But I want to keep the music varied, and at least half the guests will be under the age of 40, so I want more recent tunes as well.

Help me out by posting all your favorite summer songs in the comments. Or even any you can think of, favorite or not. Include the artist if you can, so I can find it easier. I’ve put up a page with the list on it, so you can see what songs have already been suggested.

This may be tougher for those of you still getting snow …

Found here.

Yes, Kevin, Bret does indeed have a red Strat. Here’s my favorite picture of Bret and his baby:

He’d donned my Halloween wig, and was posing as an ’80s rocker. I had to throw my nightie over his lap ’cause he was nekkid.

Bret despises everything Slowhand (he likes earlier Clapton). His guitar heroes (heh) are Ritchie Blackmore, Adrian Belew and?Buckethead. He’s also a big fan of?Tool. And Stone Ales.

[tags]Stratocaster, guitar, Stone Brewing Co.[/tags]