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Friday Random Ten “Pandagonian City Name Shout Out” Edition

Okay, my vanity can’t take it any longer.  Confession time: The picture yesterday was staged. I thought the voluminous amount of drool (actually water, though I was willing to move onto Vaseline if that didn’t show up properly under the flash) was a dead giveaway, as is the oversized (borrowed from boyfriend) sweatshirt that would be murderously hot this time of year in Texas.  It was my attempt to satirize the “blogging femme fatale naps with her favorite weapon” picture in the NY Times profile of Emily Gould

Like Penn and Teller, first I show you the trick and then I explain it.

Okay, you know the drill.  Ten songs at random from your MP3 collection.

1) “If You Stayed Over”—-Bonobo
2) “Him For Me”—-The Ex-Boyfriends
3) “Sock It To Me”—-John O’Brien Docker
4) “A Love Problem”—-Eldrige Holmes
5) “Up To You”—-Conner
6) “Panic”—-Fifty On Their Heels
7) “If You Should Try To Kiss Her”—-Dressy Bessy
8) “Jocko Homo”—-Devo
9) “You Ain’t Woman Enough To Take My Man”—-Loretta Lynn
10) “Furnace Room Lullaby”—-Neko Case

I found a cat picture on the camera when I was downloading that shot yesterday.  I’ll try to be more on top of it, I promise.

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Posted by Amanda Marcotte on 09:38 AM • (31) Comments

For what it’s worth, the staged drool picture has got to be my favorite picture of you ever.

I didn’t say it was worth much.

Comment #1: Charlie  on  05/30  at  10:24 AM

If it was totally staged, we’d have thought it would have been staged with your own book!  smile

Comment #2: Dana  on  05/30  at  10:30 AM

Where’s the sniper team when you need them edition.

1. “Mi Situacion” - Ivy Queen
2. “Rise or Fall” - Common Rider
3. “A Love That Can Never Be” - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
4. “Country Girl” - Junior Wells
5. “Mona” - Bo Diddley
6. “Ruder Than You” - The Bodysnatchers
7. “Bloodstains” - Agent Orange
8. “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” - Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
9. “Wart Hog” - The Ramones
10. “Whispering Pines” - Iris Dement

Bonus: “Terraplane Blues” - Robert Johnson

Comment #3: Sarcastro  on  05/30  at  10:30 AM

1.  Why God Why - Miss Saigon
2.  Tattooed Love Boys - The Pretenders
3.  She’s a Rebel - Green Day
4.  Steal my Sunshine - Lem (Remember that song?  Huh?)
5.  Cool - West Side Story
6.  Space - Something Corporate
7.  I Don’t Care - Black Flag
8.  Violence - Black Flag
9.  Barcelona - Stephen Sondheim (Company - 1994)
10.  Superboy and Supergirl - Tullycraft

Comment #4: Jonathan Hohensee  on  05/30  at  10:31 AM

“The Life And Death Of Mr. Badmouth” - PJ Harvey
“Prozak Blues” - King Crimson
“Get Up” - Osibisa
“What Goes On” - The Feelies
“Whirl - Y - Reel1” - Afro Celt Sound System
“Live By The Gun” - Terry Bozzio & Billy Sheehan
“Who Can See It” - George Harrison
“Robin’s Complaint” - Boiled In Lead
“Don’t Worry.com” - Tabla Beat Science
“Moon Palace” - Luna
“The National Blues” - The Bad Livers

Comment #5: ron  on  05/30  at  10:36 AM

1. “When Smokey Sings” - ABC
2. “Jaime Come Try Me” - Eddi Reader
3. “Jung at Heart” - Peter DuCharme
4. “Ice” - Shelleyan Orphan
5. “Siol Ghoraidh” - Runrig
6. “You Should Be Loved” - Original Cast Recording of Sideshow
7. “Broken Arrow” - Robbie Robertson
8. “Flashlight” - Parliament
9. “Rivers Run” - Mistake Theory
10. “Swing that Music” - Louis Armstrong

Comment #6: JonnJonzz  on  05/30  at  10:53 AM

My Random Ten:

01.  Silvia (Who is She?) [11:27]—Steve Winwood
02.  25 or 6 to 4 [1986 version] [04:20]—Chicago
03.  Single Life [06:37]—Cameo
04.  Queen of Memphis [03:20]—Confederate Railroad
05.  What a Fool Believes [03:45]—Doobie Brothers
06.  Interstellar Overdrive [mono version] [09:41]—Pink Floyd
07.  I Hate Myself for Loving You [04:08]—Joan Jett
08.  Thank You [04:47]—Led Zeppelin
09.  Victim of Love [04:12]—Eagles
10.  Black Cow [05:11]—Steely Dan

Comment #7: Jovan1984  on  05/30  at  11:36 AM

man, this blog need major design change. It’s painful to look at.

Comment #8: squashed  on  05/30  at  11:41 AM

1. Yo La Tengo - Too Late
2. Young People - Slow Moving Storm
3. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
4. Swell Maps - Cake Shop Girl
5. Blonde Redhead - My Impure Hair
6. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - A Globe of Frogs
7. Syd Barrett - No Man’s Land
8. Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
9. M.I.A. - XR2
10. The Birthday Party - Ho-Ho

Comment #9: mothworm  on  05/30  at  12:27 PM

JonnJonzz, I believe that’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone listening to Shelleyan Orphan. To collect 6 IMS obscurity points, send proof of purchase and a summary of Boris Williams’ reasons for leaving The Cure.

Comment #10: mothworm  on  05/30  at  12:35 PM

Vacation! Edition:

1. Blow Out - Pablo Honey
2. Gnossienne III - Erik Satie
3. What It Look Like - YoYoYoYoYo
4. I’ll Melt With You - Modern English
5. Breakfast in Bed - Dusty Springfield
6. Hey! Mr. Sky - Jackie-O Motherfucker
7. Mike Mills - Air
8. Police On My Back - The Clash
9. Hopeless and Unsung - The Brother Kite
10. Lived in Bars - Cat Power

and the bonus: (Find A) Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart

Comment #11: inkybrain  on  05/30  at  01:28 PM

“The Machine Randomly Provides Cruel Reminders of My Exposed Failings” edition

10.  David Bowie - “Golden Years”
9.  Nine Inch Nails - “The Great Below”
8.  Book of Love - “I Touch Roses”
7.  Joy Division - “Shadowplay”
6.  Mike Ness “You Win Again”
5.  Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You”
4.  Garbage “Special”
3.  Sisters of Mercy “When You Don’t See Me”
2.  The Bangles “Hazy Shade of Winter”
1.  Gravity Kill.s “Guilty”

the “OMGWTFBBQ?!?!?!” bonus trax” (seriously, is this thing trying to depress me today?)
a.  The Cure - A Night like this
b.  Echo & The Bunnymen - the killing moon
c.  Rolling Stones - “Beast of Burden”

Comment #12: The Crapture  on  05/30  at  01:51 PM

this is the first time I have ever read the Friday random 10 post and actually been listening to a random playlist, so here it is:

1. Oman - Dead Can Dance
2. Games in Germany - How We Live
3. Threshold - Front Line Assembly
4. Beyond The Shadows - Garden of Delight
5. Highs in the Lows - Mira
6. The Last (Maschinen Mix) - Funker Vogt
7. Once a Believer - Vanishing Point
8. Easter - Marillion
9. Time - Joe Satriani
10. Ceremony - Garden of Delight

Looks like I’m looking forward to a Garden of Delight festival - which, since I moved to London and started enduring the bad weather, has been something of a regular on my iPod…

Comment #13: flashheart  on  05/30  at  01:57 PM

Love the new site design!

1. Chaos Breed—Entombed
2. Tilebreaker—Polvo
3. Song of Filth—Pig Destroyer
4. Mind—Colour Haze
5. Adam’s Apple—Aerosmith
6. U. M. F. G. Horsemen—Circle
7. Apple Blossom—White Stripes
8. The Violent Stink of Twitching Terror—Spektr
9. Holiday—Weezer
10. Gods Gazing from Beyond—Old Wainds

Comment #14: Dr. Locrian  on  05/30  at  02:14 PM

Ah, Shelleyan Orphan. It just goes to show you that a) I’m aging quickly, b) my music collection is not cool enough, and c) I like 80’s pop music.

Or did I already show that with “When Smokey Sings?”

Comment #15: JonnJonzz  on  05/30  at  02:27 PM

Dr. Locrian, I am intrigued by your playlist. What manner of music is “The Violent Stink of Twitching Terror”, and can you post sane comments while listening to it?

Comment #16: flashheart  on  05/30  at  02:27 PM

Flashheart: 

“What manner of music is “The Violent Stink of Twitching Terror””

Hmmm . . . Spektr is a one man French black metal/dark ambient horde.  The sound is somewhere in the Cyclopean Bermuda triangle between Napalm Death, Coil, and Autechre—some shoegazey noise, a lot of weird soundscapes, and some out and out confusional thrashing.

“and can you post sane comments while listening to it?”

Certainly.  As a matter of fact, even as I type—

Ia!  Ia!  Y’ai ng’ngah, Yog Sothoth, h’ee-l’Geb, f’ai throdog uuuah!

—actually, the answer is no.

Comment #17: Dr. Locrian  on  05/30  at  02:45 PM

<ol>
<li>Who Loves the Sun - The Velvet Underground
<li>God-Spell me wrong - Lizzy Mercier Descloux
<li>BARTÓK:  10 Easy Pieces, Nº 6 - Hungarian folk song - Chris Breemer
<li>Let The Wind Blow - Gil McLean
<li>The Riff - The Grooveblaster
<li>Mona - Bo Diddley
<li>The Egg Man Don’t Cometh - Teddy & the Frat Girls
<li>Nothing Changes [Peel Session] - Strawberry Switchblade
<li>Always - Barbara Cartland
<li>Papaya - La Sinfonica de J.B
</ol>

Comment #18: haydn60  on  05/30  at  02:47 PM

well, I am now investigating Shelleyan Orphan and Spektr… may the Twitching Terror overwhelm me…

Comment #19: flashheart  on  05/30  at  03:09 PM

I didn’t see a stage in that last picture.
Hmm, random (duo) 10:

Devil’s Arcade by   Bruce Springsteen
Long Shadow by   Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Wild Wild Life by   Talking Heads
The Wheel   by the Mudhens
Dancing In The Sunshine Of The Dark by   Fury In The Slaughterhouse  
Mrs. O by   The Dresden Dolls
Ashes To Ashes by   David Bowie
Ridiculous Thoughts by   The Cranberries
Mother Goose by   Jethro Tull
Heart Of Stone by   The Rolling Stones
Side Of The Road by   Beck
It’s A Raggy Waltz by   Dave Brubeck

Comment #20: JohnL  on  05/30  at  04:19 PM

funny how Emily was being attacked on Gawker, yesterday- or not.  I think many of the commenters are just sad that she’s gone.

too many d.j., rock-starry, punk exes and psuedo-exes,  edition:
(“I guess it’s just nostalgia”, as Smart Went Crazy, would say.

1. Scream Club- “Fine as Fuck”
2. The 90 Day Men- “Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life”- yeah, he wishes!
3. Tones on Tail- “Twist”
4. Millencoliin- “Disney Time”
5. 764-HERO- “Stutter Steps”
6. Dismemberment Plan- “Superpowers”
7. Smog- “Prince Alone in the Studio”
8. Caribou- “The Barn”
9. Operation Ivy- “Freeze Up”
10. The Lucksmiths- “The Shipwreck Coast”
Bonus Time!  Hot Snakes- “Suicide Invoice”
              Windy & Carl- “Set Adrift”
              Havergal- “Lungs for the Race”

Comment #21: holly. e. r.  on  05/30  at  04:26 PM

oh, yeah:  I love the new design, as well!  just had to share.

Comment #22: holly. e. r.  on  05/30  at  04:30 PM

1)  Beyond and Back (Live) - X
2)  Castellana - Sabicas
3)  Dogs Rule the Night - Porno For Pyros
4)  Together - William Shatner
5)  Cause and Effect - Cop Shoot Cop
6)  Feurio! - Einsturzende Neubauten
7)  Jealousy - Liz Phair
8)  Identity - X-Ray Spex
9)  Oh Bondage, Up Yours - X-Ray Spex
10)  Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd

Comment #23: Jake Squid  on  05/30  at  04:35 PM

ooooh… Jake Squid- it’s been a very long time since I’ve seen Cop Shoot Cop- have a couple 7’‘, yet too busy/lazy to have converted any of my vinyl over to mp3 format.  I should get on that.  that was some great stuff.

Comment #24: holly. e. r.  on  05/30  at  04:50 PM

Boy, howdy, I loves me some Neko Case. Great voice, great songwriter. Not sure if I’d have pegged you as a fan of hers, though, Amanda.

Comment #25: Dan, Grand High Emperor of Bananas Foster  on  05/30  at  05:18 PM

1) “Sorry Entertainer” - Calvin Johnston
2) “Big Sky” - The Kinks
3) “It Takes All Kinds” - Aimee Mann
4) “Mitchell’s Plain Samba” - The Tony Schilder Trio
5) “Careless Love” - Josh White
6) “Someone Else’s Bell” - Squeeze
7) “A Tiny Fold” - Bishop Allen
8) “My Fondest Wish” - Sometimes I Wonder
9) “I’m In Love With a Girl” - Big Star
10) “Suspicion” - Dawn Landes

Bonus: “Long Lost Penpal” - Hello Saferide
Bonus 2: “I’ll Be Your Lampshade” - Beulah

Comment #26: Ben Alpers  on  05/30  at  05:52 PM

Yog-Shoggoth guards the gate. Yog-Shoggoth is the gate…

Um, anyhow, how did anyone mistake the photo of you for not being staged, what with it being your deliberate response to a really stupid Big Media thing? And the uncomfortableness of hanging over the bed like that.

Your cat, otoh, is totally ready for her debut as the next famous blogger.

Comment #27: Samantha Vimes  on  05/30  at  05:56 PM

1.  The Weakerthans - Everything Must Go
2.  Lucero - And We Fall
3.  Judy Garland - Who Cares? (So Long As You Care for Me)
4.  Dan Deacon - Wham City
5.  The Replacements - Somethin to Du
6.  She & Him - You Really Got a Hold on Me
7.  The Fugs - The Ten Commandments
8.  The Constantines - Little Instruments
9.  Silkworm - Ooh La La
10.  Solomon Burke - Cry to Me

Comment #28: blucas!  on  05/30  at  06:04 PM

Jeff Buckley - New Year’s Prayer (unmixed)
Dark Sanctuary - Sortie Du Cloitre
Sigur Ros - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Antimatter - Psalms
Uaral - Niche
Keep Of Kalessin - Reclaim
Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
Zyklon - Zycloned
Beherit - The Oath of Black Blood
Falkenbach - Roman Land

Comment #29: Torgrim  on  05/30  at  08:09 PM

1. TKO (Peaches Knock Out Remix) - Le Tigre
2. Tell Me - Polyphonic Size (Not to be confused with the Spree!)
3. No Krugerrands for David - Camper Van Beethoven
4. Bitter Tears - Magnetic Fields
5. Testosterone Gone Wild - Alice Donut
6. This Love - The Archies
7. Gimme Danger - The Stooges
8. One More Kiss - Ivy
9. Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie - Belle and Sebastian
aaaaand…
10. Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club (Classic!)

Since everyone else is talking about the layout, I like it. The only real problem I have is that the names on the comments are so tiny, and also on the bottom. I never realized how often I skipped certain people’s comments (well-known trolls, people who consistently write five page essays) as soon as I saw their name at the top. I hope this is fixed pronto! I’m sure my needs come first.

Comment #30: Metal Guru  on  05/30  at  08:44 PM

Wow - I finally get to do this, now that I have some stuff downloaded into my new mp3 player!

The “too many covers” edition:

1)  Blue Chair - L’il Cap’n Travis
2)  Where the Hell is Bill? - Camper Van Beethoven
3)  Rose-Colored Glasses - Blue Rodeo
4)  Halleluja - Jeff Buckley
5)  Everybody Knows - Concrete Blonde
6)  Fakin’ It - Grand Champeen
7)  Downtown Baghdad Blues - Black47
8)  I’m Your Man - Leonard Cohen
9)  Nelson Mandela - The Specials
10)  It’ll Chew You Up & Spit You Out - Concrete Blonde

Bonus:  Metro - Berlin
        Bad Day - REM

Comment #31: shartheheretic  on  05/30  at  11:31 PM
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