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I’m not sure what I dislike more, the total feeling of helplessness I feel when I am consumed by the inability to articulate the thoughts in my head or memes.  Somehow they both tend to fester in the recesses of my mind rotting there until released from their stagnating pools of decaying gray matter.  Either way, what eventually emerges is usually babble and not nearly worth the time I have invested in them.  I suppose it’s a process, a learning process and I should appreciate the lessons.  Like Castor Oil, it’s good for me, and though I can’t immediately see that, I shouldn’t be dismissive. 

No, I haven’t been tagged as they say.  I did , however, read a very interesting meme by Darren over at Clare’s Dad the other day and it kind of stuck in my head.  It basically uses the songs on your iPod to answer a series of questions.  I had no intentions of completing the meme but the very first question gave me a very cool answer and before long I found my self deep into it.  Oddly, many of the answers my iPod gave were appropriate, some eerily so.

So here are the instructions:

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question.
4. NO CHEATING.  (This may have been interpreted as more of a guideline than a rule for a couple of my answers.)

So here is the meme and how my iPod answered the questions for me.

Q: What does next year have in store for you?
A: It’s Good to be King by Tom Petty  Wildflowers  (All hail King Ed!  I just may be able to live with that.)

Q: What does your love life look like next year?
A: Shame, Shame, Shame by Kenny Wayne Shepherd   Ledbetter Heights  (I feel I should comment here if only to debunk this crappy little exercise in humility yet by saying anything I fear it would only confirm the harsh realities of life that are being revealed by my ruthless electronics.)

Q: What do you say when life gets hard?
A: Fall Out  by The Police  The Police Live (disc 1)  (Not so sure it’s a statement or my little way of dealing with adversity.  I’m like one of those fainting sheep.)

Q: Song that reminds you of good times?
A: Remembering J.P. by Larry Carlton  Larry Carlton Collection Volume II

Q: What do you think when you get up in the morning?
A: Little Miss Muffet by Countdown Kids  30 Toddler Songs  (Where’s your mind?  I’ve got kids!)

Q: What song will you dance to at your wedding?
A: Desperately Wanting by Better Than Ezra  Friction Baby  (We actually had a zydeco band.  This was pretty cool though.)

Q: Song that reminds you of your first kiss?
A: Emily by Earl Klugh  Solo Guitar  (I do not know Emily, nor have we ever been intimate.)

Q: Your favorite saying?
A: Who Stole My Monkey  by Boozoo Chavis  Who Stole My Monkey  (I do spend quite a sizable portion of each day searching for misplaced items.  Not so sure I lost my monkey, though.  I may have to incorporate the saying.)

Q: Favorite place?
A: Empty Spaces by Pink Floyd  The Wall (Disc 1)  (Oh, for a few hours of solitude.)

Q: Most Missed Memory?
A: Ocean Size by Jane’s Addiction  Kettle Whistle  (This thing is a little fun.  I love the ocean and have very fond memories of family vacations to Florida in my youth.)

Q: What song describes your best friend?
A: Take Time by Lenny Kravitz  5  (I’ll buy that.)

Q: What song describes your ex?
A: Sell, Sell, Sell  by Barenaked Ladies  Maroon  (No comment.)

Q: Where would you go on a first date?
A: Pull by Better Than Ezra  How Does Your Garden Grow?  (I swear this is the song that showed up.  I immediately had flashbacks to that movie, There’s Something About Mary.)

Q: Drug of choice?
A: Weed Whacker by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones  The Hidden Land  (You can’t make this stuff up!)

Q: What song describes yourself?
A: Twenty Four Hours A Day by Billie Holiday  Quintessential:  Volume 1, 1933-1935  (I am often tired.  Hmm.)

Q: What is the thing you like doing most?
A: Goodbye by Patty Griffin  A Kiss in Time

Q: The song that best describes the president?
A: Louisiana Rain by Anders Osborne  Live at Tipitina’s  (I swear, I did not cheat.  This is the song that came up.  I suppose it could have just as easily been  Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix or Death Machine by Fiction Plane.  Oh, I don’t know.  Pick a song about something remotely gone wrong in the last eight years and I’m sure it could just as easily apply.)

Q: Where will you be in 10 years?
A: Don’t Get Around Much Anymore   by Harry Connick Jr   It Had To Be You  (I don’t get around much now.  My God, if this thing is true it’s going to suck.  I’ll never get out of the house.  Oh, wait.  See #1.  I won’t need to leave–the castle!)

Q: Your love life right now?
A: Dream a Little Dream of Me by Louis Armstrong  The Best of Louis Armstrong  (See #2)

le=”FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS”>Q: What is your state of mind like at the moment?
A: Tears, Tears and More Tears by Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint  The River in Reverse  (That’s not true!  I am happy!  These are tears of joy!  I’m smiling on the inside!…. Don’t look at me.  I’m hideous!!!)

Q: How will you die?
A: Take That by Lee Rittenour and Larry Carlton  Larry and Lee  (So there you have it.  I’m King of the World one day and the next it’s all over because of some flippant act of retribution by a couple of jazz guitarists.  Great.)


And that’s that.  Babble.  But it was interesting and fun to do.  Try it.  You’ll see.