Mo' Meme-in'

Firsts

1. Who was your FIRST prom date? What is this “prom” you speak of?

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? First off, I was like 3 the first time I was in love. Secondly it was probably my 19 year old, motorcycle riding, cousin. Thirdly he drank himself to death... Oh yeah that poem one entry down is about him so I guess I talk to him, he just doesn't answer.

3. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink? Genesee Beer

4. What was your FIRST job? Cleaning the bathroom for a quarter

5. What was your FIRST car? 1977 Ford Maverick, steel gray exterior, black interior

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today? I don't do “text”

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning? Rick Moranis

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher? Mrs. Decker

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane? Ithaca to Buffalo? Ithaca to Seattle? One of those probably.

10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk? Tadpole Morris. Haven’t seen him in the flesh since 1970. Looked at pix of him on classmates about 6 months ago.

11. Where was your FIRST sleep over? Kristin Hammond's or Kris Robinson's? No, probably Julie Connelly.

12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today? Jetson if cats count, Oliver if not.

13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time? Only been in one aside from my own, Julia’s wedding from hell. Will possibly never submit to that ever again.

14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning? Groused at the cat

15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to? 1974 -5ish John Denver @ Chrisler Arena

16. FIRST tattoo? Tiny, 2x2, black & gray, piece of flash on upper R arm

17. FIRST piercing? Ears, the old fashioned way - solid needle at the Dr’s. office

18. FIRST foreign country you've been to? Canada

19. FIRST movie you remember seeing? Run Appaloosa Run or Swiss Family Robinson

20. When was your FIRST detention? Skool or legal?

21. What was the FIRST state you lived in? New York

22. Who was your FIRST roommate? Do lovers count? James Thomas

23. If you had one wish, what would it be? Health

24. What is something you would learn if you had the chance? Patience

25. Who do you think will be the next person to post this? Millions of lame nerds like me

A meme about stuff I actually care about

The 15 (really 16) albums that blew up my world, in the order of doing so, and why

1) The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson

I have told this story so many times it’s become almost apocryphal by now. But, when my brother brought this home and put it on when I had just turned six, my life was literally saved by rock’n’ roll. I would have been one of those kids who had had a “tragic accident” or something because I was so, fucking, out of here. But Fripp told me that I just had to wait patiently and when I got old enough I would find a different reality and it would be good. And he was mostly right.

2) Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd. - The Monkees

Let’s just get this straight. I am, un-apologetically, a fiend for a well crafted pop song. And The Monkees had the best writers in the business. Boyce & Hart, Carole King, Nillsson, Neil Diamond, Don Kirschner and more, and Michael Nesmith turned out pretty good as well. The Monkees just ruled me in childhood popland.

3) Paranoid - Black Sabbath

The first 45 I ever went out and bought with my own money was Iron Man b/w Electric Funeral. I freaking loved Electric Funeral when I was like 10. Then when I heard War Pigs and Planet Caravan - oh man, that was just some really, really, good shit. Of course, just to balance that out I will confess that in that same outing I also bought Dancing Machine by The Jackson Five and Werewolf by Five Man Electrical Band.

3 - again cuz it’s a tie) Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy - The Who

So it was a best of. So what? It was either this or Tommy that had to be included and while I listened to Tommy incessantly down in my brothers room with the earphones on from 1970 to 1972 and then again for all of 1976, I think this one had far more far reaching influence on my whole life. These are, with the exception of The Seeker and Pinball Wizard consistently my favourite Who songs.

4) Love It To Death - Alice Cooper

This was the first album I ever bought with my own money. It was at a garage sale. I remember just seeing those crazy eyes, having no idea what it was at all, and being mesmerized into buying it. Then I took it home and listened to it. Oh my freaking god it was the coolest thing EVER! To this day I will kick the shit out out of anybody at karaoke by doing “Is It My Body”

5) The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars - David Bowie

I was at the Earthworks “meet and greet new recruits” party at the Boehnkes house in the summer of 1977. I was wrecked on weed, morning glory seeds, some kind of low budget sweet alcohol and visions of becoming, finally, one of the really, truly, cool kids. Pete Grobner put this on the stereo. My glam self was born in that moment. T-Rex came a little later, Bowie was my ambassador and probably still is. Again, most of my favourite Bowie songs except “Eight Line Poem” are here.

6) Freakout - Frank Zappa

More Earthworks revelatory experiences. I had heard some Zappa, but I think it was mostly Overnite Sensation. While I was appropriately 12 year old titillated by Dirty Love I never “got” Zappa till Josh Ezekiel played the whole “Freakout” album for me at music appreciation class. I think I learned it by heart in a week. We used to sit stoned in the middle of the diag singing “Who Are the Brain Police?” and “You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m here” almost everyday. It was some sort of protest I suppose. I wish I could jump into someone’s brain (who had one) who saw that and retrieve their memory impression of it. That was some really serious backwards trippingness. I think we did it at Briarwood once as well and were escorted off premises by security.

7) Horses - Patti Smith

Dec 26, 1977. Julia got this one, the eponymous “Runaways”, and Rod Stewarts “Tonights The Night” for X-mas. Rod Stewart lasted a week. Horses and Cherry Bomb lasted forever. That was when we really knew once and for all we were going to make great art out of being bad, bad, really bad, girls.

8) One Nation Under A Groove - Parliament Funkadelic

What can one say about their first conscious experience of George Clinton? I immediately promised to funk the whole funk, becoming a lifelong funkateer. Early exposure to Mojo helped I’m sure. The nazi-like punks I was hanging out with had the horrors. To this day I believe it’s their loss.

9) Germ Fee Adolescent - X-Ray Spex

This album excuses any weirdnesses Poly Styrene later came out with and keeps her one of my musical heros forever and ever, world without end. What an inspiration to my 15 year girl self this was. I could and would do anything I chose.

10) The Clash - The Clash

Truly humorous punk with “pop sensibilties”? Be still my beating heart. I was just never so angry that I didn’t want to laugh a lot as well and this was fun, fun, fun, and smart.

11) Sunrise On The Sufferbus - Fela Anikulapo Kuti

I love this guy. Another one of those “I remember exactly where I was when I first heard that” moments. “Sorrow, Tears and Blood” In Gab Ugwu’s dingy aptartment above the Guild House ministries offices. Probably ‘78 or ‘79. “Who is this??!! What is this??!!” O, it’s Soca... I want more.

12) A Saucerful Of Secrets - Pink Floyd
The epitome of my brain on drugs. But I hated “Corporal Clegg” passionately because I was always too high to remember to drag myself up from laying on the floor and flip the album before that jarring, non-conducive, awful part came on. I finally wised up and taped it w/out it. It took a while to think of that. By the time ripping and burning became available I’d stopped doing acid. You kids don’t know how good you have it.

13) Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
Was in a pile of albums left behind by one of the ever revolving lineup of roommates. If you are out there anywhere Steve Curl, bless you a thousand times. I now love a whole lot of Tom Waits a whole lot. But this one is ever so close to my heart because it was my first and it is just so fucking good.

14) Another Green World - Brian Eno

Something about the line “I’ll come running to tie your shoe” brought me back a little piece of my lost innocence at a time when I really needed it. If I am ever on a rampage just put this album on and I’ll stop being The Hulk immediately.

15) Swingin’ with Django - Django Reinhardt

Somehow along the way, I was the victim of one of those weird misinformation, brain shorts that can happen when pieces of disparate information come in around the same time and get fused in the memory banks. Consequently I was always under the impression that Django Reinhardt was somehow in the same category as or affiliated with Wavy Gravy. I was having none of that so I never explored that avenue any further even though I had heard various people being excited about him at various points in time.
Fast forward to summer of 2000 and move me to London. I am standing in the Borders in front of the amazing discount racks of cd’s they had at the time. There is a disc called “Swingin’ with Django” and the cover has a 1930’s B&W photo on it that doesn’t seem like hippie shite at all. With the exchange rate it comes out to about $6.50 so I picked it up. Took it back to the flat, noone else around so I crank it up. It’s all pretty dang good and then comes on Bolero De Django. Total mind fuck. Turn it up and play it again. I am all hot and cold. Apparently I am not too old and jaded to have a piece of music blow up my world.

Not to be confused with the other pieces frequently listed under Django and Bolero. This IS the one covered by The Dave Grisman Quintet except that their version sucks balls. Accept no substitutes for the Django at the Hot Club version.

10 pontifications meme

1) Ladies, I have to tell you that you are not helping the cause when I see you in disproportionate numbers doing really stupid crap while driving. Especially when most of you I see doing these things are on cell phones. But the guy who honked aggressively at the car in front of him for making a right turn takes the freaking jerk cake.

2) All relationships end one way or the other. So if you are in a stupid or bad one just get out already. Yes it is true that we frequently give up too easily, acting like furtive transients. But it is equally true that some horrific christian ethos about sex and marriage poison lives by socially guilting people into “trying to work it out” because it’s somehow “owed” to some evanescent artificial moral construct.
If you are calling each other names, cursing each other, feeling actual hatred, either fix it or quit it already.

3) Why would you swim in the ocean? You might as well walk into the forest, bush or rain forest naked and weapon-less. There is almost no coastline on this continent where there are not sharks. And, they say that sharks are coming inland in rivers as well. Bull sharks in the warm areas and Greenland sharks in the Saint Lawrence Seaway. A great white was killing people in a river in Matawan Jersey in the early 1900’s. And that’s just sharks.

4) Are you over 18? Then stop bitching, whining and blaming your parents. Most of them did the best they could or they would have done better. Most of them were both fucked up and fabulous. Talk about the one percenters, that is like the people who had awesome parents. Also in a fairly small percentage are people who have completely fucked parents. I know some of those people, and you neurotics who writhe at the idea of taking personal responsibility have no idea how bad those people actually had it and you are actually wrongfully encroaching on their justified pain.

5) What is it with alcohol? What a cheap, lousy drug to waste that much time on. Talk about your opiate of the masses. Even the highest quality of it is worse than actual good drugs. Some alcohol is fine. I enjoy the occasional getting stupid session myself. But God, give it a rest sometimes. Do you need really need it at the level you are using it? And stop giving me the ol’ fisheye when you’re drunk (a lot) and I’m not.

6) And while we’re on the subject, when we were kids we were foolishly trying to become more sophisticated not more lowest common denominator. Whatever happened to the days of drinking potato vodka, chartreuse and smoking gauloises’. Trying to be artistes. Now it’s PBR, chewing tobacco and beer pong. Trying to be extreme cage fighters. We were trying to extract the cracker not roll in it like breading. Although I have to admit that a cracker breading is perfect for fried oysters, but that’s about it.

7) We don’t buy the “miracle of birth” trip. When every living thing does it, It seems more miraculous to be able to avoid it.

8) I am also not buying the idea that no two snowflakes are ever alike. I could believe that no two humans, other than identical twins, are alike. You are dealing with zillions of permutations of DNA. It is seemingly possible to get no matches. But if you think of how many times it has snowed on this planet since the beginning of time, then of how many snowflakes are in a single snowstorm and the fact that we are dealing with crystalline structures which have some basic parameters and also potentially identical or similar weather conditions many, many, many times, why wouldn’t there easily be identical flakes?

9) I don’t want to hear about how you are too cool for TV. What is that about? I totally get the philosophy of limiting and controlling your children's exposure to it. I heartily approve of that. But if you are making a big point of announcing that you don’t “do” TV because you are too sophisticated then you are trying to prove something that isn’t likely to be true. I can’t help but notice that many of of my friends who are extra loud about this are people who, if you turn on a TV around them, get completely mesmerized. They can’t look away or hear the other conversations going on at the same time.

10) I hate the expression once a (blank - insert pejorative name calling) always a (blank). This is so prevalent and it is completely false. Change is one thing we have proven humans absolutely can do. But apparently people do have a really hard time with ambiguity. They should just learn to live with it.

I did it for FB, I might as well post here as well

Fine, Fine, Fine, I’ll dingily dang do it (After being tagged in multiplicity)

1) I think I’m becoming one of those old, cat ladies

2) I am all about green

3) I freaking love old marbles

4) I itch 24/7/365, there’s no drug for that you know

5) I believe that aliens are here because up until recently we were the only place in the universe where there are nachos and tacos. Think about it, cattle mutilations, crop circles, USO’s (fish tacos)....

6) I would rather do escapist reading than drugs or alcohol

7) I am woefully, painfully, shy and all that that entails

8) If I had someone cooking Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Ethiopian and OM cafe food for me all the time you MIGHT convince me to give up red meat. Except for that rennetless cheese crap, blecchhh.

9) I love bands with big, farty, coordinated dance moves, horn sections

10) I have TLD. I’m in good company - Swedenborg, maybe Blake, probably Moses, Mohammed and Elijah (or is that Ezekiel?), Dostoevsky, Van Gogh, Alan Hovannes they are all likely candidates according to forensic psychology

11) I am obsessed with boxes.

12) My favourite ice-cream is peppermint stick, with chocolate sauce

13) Art Tendler broke my big toe once, it’s still F’d up

14) Limes, more limes

15) I must have about a thousand pencils and pens

16) I won’t eat food that is dyed blue
17) I still remember Chavez’s grape boycotts of 1965 - 67

18) I have never eaten a twinkie

19) I’ve never been in a Walmart

20) I have wanted to be a parapsychologist since I was 9

21) I really, really, really, wish I could draw

22) I have some trepidation about things like Slave gerbiling Paris Hilton on South Park which I attribute to growing up when Rob and Laura had separate beds. But I bless ol’ Larry Flynt regularly.

23) I learned very early not to show off by karate chopping those big, thick, red, kindergarten pencils. There is still graphite floating around in my right hand somewhere I suppose.

24) Man, was I in love with my (now dead) cousin when I was three and he was nineteen. He had a motorcycle.

25) Sometimes I wish I had had my dead cat skinned for cat fur mittens. How rotten is that?

It's Nigel nicked

My uncle once - drove his milk truck, literally, across the Niagara River.

Never in my life - have I killed a human

When I was five - I was boy crazy

High school was - Batshit insane

I will never forget - fairies, Mescalito, and chess sets in the sky

I once met - H.H. The Dalai Lama

There's a girl I know - who is so damn sad, it’s just terrible to watch

Once, at a bar - I licked Mojo Nixon

By noon, I'm usually - feeling fairly human

Last night - my dogs were barking

If I only had - health

Next time I go to church it will be - a wedding, a funeral or Hell will be unseasonably cold

What worries me most is - brain damage

When I turn my head left I see - Nigel hanging out with cats

When I turn my head right I see - a bit of a mess

You know I'm lying when - I lie

What I miss most about the eighties is - having the cajones to wrap and tie myself in shreds of black lace and leave the house

If I were a character in Shakespeare I would be - a fish monger

By this time next year I would - like to have some income

A better name for me would be - Homer Snodgrass

I have a hard time understanding people who - think war is positive in any way

If I ever go back to school - I'll have found a massive pile of money

You know I like you if - I touch your arm

If I ever won an award the first person I would thank would be - Mr. Roboto

Take my advice, never - drink straight vinegar

My ideal breakfast is - going to Frank’s, and splitting an order of french toast, a BLT with fries, and a side of coleslaw with someone witty and charming

A song I love but do not have is - The Bells Of Moscow

If you visit my hometown I suggest you - go sailing

Why won't people - get one F’ing clue

If you spend the night at my house you’d better - like cats and smoke

I'd stop my wedding for - pretty much anything, I’m simply not the marrying kind

The world could do without - High Fructose Corn Syrup!

I'd rather lick the belly of a cockroach than - be a Thanatoser

My favorite blonds(s) is/are - usually under the age of four

Paper clips are more useful than - trying to guess motivations

If I do anything well it's - somatization

And by the way - I want a feast, I want a bean feast

OH

and Robyn Hitchcock’s - I Often Dream Of Trains
( Except one song)

OR

Roxy Music - Avalon
The Pixies - Bossanova
CSNY - Deja Vu
Vangelis - BladeRunner Soundtrack
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
King Crimson - Discipline
Joanie Mitchell - Clouds
Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby

I been chewin' this thing like a bone for about 24 hours now.

No limit's dammit

You know that list kind of bummed me out. Because I forgot or couldn’t put on, so many things.
Like
Saucer Full Of Secrets, Umma Gumma, and Piper At The Gates of Dawn.
or Peter Gabriel Plays Live
or Elvis Costello’s Spike
or Etta James’ Tell Mama
or Black Sabbath's Paranoid
or Dead Meadow's (self titled)
or It's a Beautiful Day's (self titled)
or Devo's Are We Not Men or Freedom Of Choice
or The Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues
or The Red Hot Chili Peppers (self titled)
or Bob Marley & The Wailers’s Rastaman Vibration
or Philip Glass/ Ravi Shankar’s Passages
or Donovan’s Sunshine Superman
or Coltrane’s Giant Steps
or 2 or 3 George Clinton albums - One Nation Under a Groove, Maggot Brain, most notably
or all the great comps I love
or all the soundtracks
or all the jazz I pretty much glossed over
or all the other albums by groups I already listed
or the albums I left off because it’s really like 3 songs that I love, love, love and could pretty much leave the rest
or the mixes I make for myself of tons and tons of my favourite songs under groupings that only I understand

Aaaghhhh I need a top million songs, we hates limits we does. When it comes to music especially. I could do top books easier. Well, don’t challenge me on that. I think that just might have been a lie.

Another one of them, memes

Top 25 Albums por moi
Snitched from Nigel. It was supposed to be 20, but I can never leave these things alone and 25, a quarter century, seemed more realistic. And in no particular order. And I had to leave off a lot. A lot.

Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
Their Satanic Majesties Request - The Rolling Stones
World Clique - Dee-Lite
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
We’re Only In It For The Money - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Love It To Death - Alice Cooper
The Best of The Ohio Players - The Ohio Players
Rumblefish Soundtrack - Stewart Copeland
Whirled - Vasen
Parallel Lines - Blondie
That’s The Way Of The World - Earth, Wind and Fire
Boys Don’t Cry - The Cure
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
The B-52’s - The B-52’s
At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
The Heat Is On - The Isley Brothers
Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
Rum, Sodomy and The Lash - The Pogues
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncey - The Who
Dirty Mind - Prince
Disreali Gears - Cream
Los Angeles - X
Red - King Crimson

If you hadn’t noticed, I’m old.

Homework Avoidance

1. Where you named after anyone:
A song apparently

2. When was the last time you cried?
I don’t usually cry. I leak. But I do recall suddenly crying heartrendingly for about 5 minutes earlier this last summer. Then I thought about how stupid I probably looked.

3. Do you like your handwriting?
Yes

4. What is your favorite lunch meat?
Real turkey

5. Do you have kids?
Noooooo.

6. If you were another person would you be friends with you?
I would try but that bitch is so damn prickly and exacting.

7. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
It’s my refuge

8.Do you still have your tonsils?
No and my advice is don’t get em yanked as an adult

9. Would you bungee jump?
I would if I wasn’t fat and terrified of my back.

10. What is your favorite cereal?
Raisin Bran

11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Untie

12. Do you think you are strong?
Oh yeah

13. What is your favorite ice cream?
Peppermint chip with chocolate sauce

14. What is the first thing you notice about people?
Whether they are wearing somebody's “uniform”

15. Red or pink?
Red oh red

16. What is your least favorite thing about yourself?
Anxiety related symptomatic disorders

17. Who do you miss the most?
My innocence

18. You want everyone to blog this?
I no understand

19. What color pants and shoes are you wearing?
Pants as in the British underwear? None
Shoes black with brownish soles

20. What was the last thing you ate?
Rich, chocolate Ovaltine

21. What are you listening to right now?
Coronation Street

22. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Some nice green

23. Favorite Smells?
Petrichor, 4711, Satsuma, Monteil Parfum and grapefruit

24. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
Dad

25. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
Stole this from you mean? Hell’a

26. Favorite sport to watch?
Skateboarding

27. Hair color?
At the moment Cherry Cola

28. Eye color?
Brown

29. Do you wear contacts?
Not yet, thinking about it.

30. Favorite food?
Something Thai or Murgh Tikka Masala

31. Scary movies or happy endings?
Old scary movies not this dang modern crap

32. Last movie you watched?
IDK. Oh wait, High Anxiety this am

33. What color shirt are you wearing?
Black

34. Summer or Winter?
Spring and Fall thankyou very much

35. Hugs or kisses?
I’m told I give good hug so....

36. Favorite Dessert?
Chocolate Mousse

37. Most likely to post this on their blog?
Eh, whatever

38. Least likely to blog this?
Eh, whatever

39. What book are you reading now?
“Nicomachean Ethics” by Aristotle, “Eye of the Sybil” by Philip K. Dick, just finished “Tales of the Unexpected” by Roald Dahl, read “While Mrs. Coverly Was Away” this morning on the bus and read “Carrie” by Stephen King yesterday. Much of that was/is for school

40. What is on your mouse pad?
Padses? We don’t need no stinkin’ padses.

41. What did you watch on TV last night?
Corrie Street, Dr. Who double feature, cartoons

42. Favorite sound?
Water in many permutations

43. Rolling Stones or Beatles?
Stones

44. What is the furthest you have ever been from home?
Probably Sweden or England

45. Do you have a special talent?
Peevishness, baton twirling, and a little knack for the pasteboards

46. Where were you born?
Ithaca, NY


47. Whose answers are you looking forward to getting back?
Eh, whatever

48. What time is it?
7:56 pm EDT.

"I fear...out of 86 things”

(OK so I received this meme and it was pretty interesting, but the psychologist in me had to change it all around, add and subtract. I got it with 72 items. I also changed the stats part. Which means if ever it had any scientific basis, which I’m highly doubtful of, it certainly doesn’t now.)

If you get more than 40 you might want to consider that you’re a just a smitch paranoid.
If you get 30 to 40 you’re still mostly “normal”.
If you get 20 to 30 you’re fairly “normal”.
If you get 10 to 20 you're fairly fearless.
People who get 10 or less want people to think they are tough.
(And I have to add that if you get more than 50 some therapy or other approach is probably called for, a better life is possible, take action).

I FEAR

[] men
[] women
[] republicans
[] democrats
[x] government
[] gay people
[] being myself in front of others
[x] large crowds
[] my SOs/(ex)SOs dad
[] my SOs/(ex)SOs mom
[] being single forever
[] being a parent
[] being touched
[] love
[x] someone you love or care about getting hurt
[] someone you love or care about hurting you
[] losing my loved ones
[] making hard decisions
[] change
[x] the future
[] the past
[] growing up
[] failure
[] success
[] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[x] poverty
[] having great responsibility
[x] being alone
[] death
[] Heaven
[] Hell
[] No afterlife
[] global warming
[] being robbed
[] rape
[x] the dark
[] open spaces
[] closed spaces
[x] heights
[x] driving
[] flying
[] Jumping from high places
[] fire
[] dark water
[x] the ocean
[] snow
[] rain
[] wind
[] tornadoes
[] hurricanes
[] thunder/lightning
[] flowers or other plants
[] mice/rats
[] snakes
[] sharks
[] frogs/toads
[] black cats
[] birds
[] fish
[] ants
[] lady bugs
[x] spiders
[] doctors/dentists
[] germs
[x] diseases
[x] shots
[] being blind
[] being deaf
[] being otherwise disabled
[] bee stings
[] blood
[]cotton balls
[] cemeteries
[x] clowns
[] crossing bridges
[] Friday the 13th
[] ghosts
[x] monsters under my bed
[x]creepy noises in the night
[] Halloween
[x] Christmas
[] school
[] trains/railroads
[] odd numbers
[] even numbers
[] stickers

Been there, done that

Another meme in honour of Mr. Patel who has left the shire
Have you:
(X) Smoked a joint
(X) Done cocaine
(X) Been in love
(X)Had a threesome
(X) Been dumped
(X) Shoplifted (not since I was 15)
(X) Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
(X) Been arrested
(X) Made out with a stranger
(X) Gone on a blind date
( ) Had a crush on a teacher
(X) Been to Europe
(X) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
(X) Seen someone die
(X) Thrown up in a bar
(X) Met a celebrity (Bonnie Raitt, Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg, Anthony Keides, The Chili Peppers & The Romantics came to one of our shows, Patti Smith, Ziggy Marley, Robert Thurman, Ram Dass, The Pogues minus Shane McGowan, The Dead Milkmen, Mojo Nixon, Micheal Davis, Dee Dee Ramone, some dumbass famous comedian -he was a jerk, Lex Hixon, HH the Dalai Lama, Rinchen Norbu, The guy who was pictured on the cover of Time in the 60’s at the door of the Cornell administration bldg. with a big gun and a bandelero - he’s actually a very nice man, David Mann, Tragic Mulattos - they crashed at my house, Babes in Toyland - we opened for them in like 89 or so- they were obnoxious, Dave Yow (sp?) & the Jesus Lizard -we opened for them back in the day as well, Iggy Pop - supposedly he hit on me at a party and I called him a very dirty word but I have no memory of it, Paula Cole, possibly Courtney Love but everyone remembers it differently, exchanged several emails with Frank Olinsky, Francesco Clemente, John Sinclair, Ron & Scott Asheton, Lyle Tuttle, Leo Zulueta & lots of other famous tattoo artists, probably a few more but the old memory is not all it should be.
(X) Met someone from the internet in person (Nige this whole thing is for you)
(X) Been moshing at a concert
(X) Gone backstage at a concert
(X) Lain outside on the grass and watched cloud formations go by
(X) Made a snow angel
(X) Flown a kite
(X) Cheated while playing a game (when I was a little kid, not in the past 30 years)
(X) Been lonely
(X) Fallen asleep at work
(X) Fallen asleep at school
(X) Used a fake ID
(X) Been kicked out of a bar (I was banned from The Old Town at 12 for being too drunk and destroying the piano by dropping a singapore sling in it’s guts, what can I say it was the 70’s)
( ) Felt an earthquake
(X) Touched a snake
(X) Slept beneath the stars
(X) Been robbed
( ) Won a contest
(X) Run a red light
(X) Been suspended from school
( ) Had braces
(X) Felt like an outcast
() Eaten a pint of ice cream in one night
(X) Had De Ja Vu
( ) Stolen a car
(X) Totaled a car
(X) Hated the way you look
(X) Witnessed a crime
(X) Been to a strip club
( ) Been to the opposite side of the world
(X) Swam in the ocean
(X) Felt like dieing
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Sung Karaoke (what a fun game, I win)
( ) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(X) Made prank phone calls (again no more recently than 30 years ago)
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(X) Had a bonfire on the beach
(X) Crashed a party
( ) Seen a tornado
(X) Had a wish come true
( ) Gone bungee jumping
(X) Screamed in public
(X) Told a complete stranger you loved them (It was Mojo Nixon, I was drunk, I licked him as well)
(X) Had a one night stand
(X) Kissed a mirror
(X) Had a dream that you married someone
( ) Gotten your fingers stuck together with super glue
( ) Been a cheerleader
(X) Sat on a rooftop
(X) Talked on the phone for six hours straight
(X) Not taken a shower for three days
(X) Made contact with a ghost while playing with a Ouija board
( ) Had more than thirty pairs of shoes at at time
( ) Gone streaking
(X) Gone skinny dipping
(X) Been pushed into a pool/lake with all your clothes on
(X) Had sex in a semi-public place
(X) Been kissed by a complete stranger
(X) Broken a bone
(X) Caught a butterfly
( ) Mooned/flashed someone
(X) Had someone moon/flash you
( ) Cheated on a test
(X) Forgotten someone's name
(X) Slept naked