My brain and blog are both so erratic already, I'm having trouble coming up with any arbitrary facts to write! Therefore In an attempt to up the ante and take things to a whole new level of randomness, I'll put my itunes on shuffle and and play a new song for every factoid. I'll include a lyric from whatever is on at the time. Good stuff. So without further ado:
1. As a little girl if my parents asked for a list of what I wanted for my birthday or whatnot, it always started with "1.) horse," followed immediately by "2.) puppy." I didn't really want a horse. I just figured that if I put something super unrealistic in the top spot maybe they'd be more amicable to getting me a puppy.
Typical, an instrumental piece with no lyrics. We're off to a great start, now aren't we!
2. I think it would be cool to be a tattoo artist. I love art and am constantly coming up with awesome ideas for tattoos. Problem is I don't want them for myself... I figure that if I worked in a tattoo parlor I could force them on other people. Seriously though, it would be really cool. I don't know if all the pressure and anxiety of worrying that the customer wouldn't like their tattoo would totally freak me out though. I mean, if they were dissatisfied it's not exactly like I could start over!
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"... Would you do the whole thing all over again, knowing what you know now, knowing what you knew then?" And he smiled, like the old pumpkin king that I knew, then he turned and asked softly of me, "Wouldn't you?" - Nightmare Before Christmas, Closing
3. As a youngin' I used to play the "Beauty and the Beast" soundtrack in my badass cherry red tape player and recreate the opening scene when Belle is at the bookshop. I'd whirl and dance around clutching my mother's faux leather checkbook, because it was the right size and looked like the book she holds in the movie.
Reading the non Disney-fied versions of fairy tales for the first time was my equivalent to learning Santa Claus didn't exist. The real Sleeping Beauty puts Saw to shame.
No wonder no wonder/ Other half, strange steps/ Hells turned black./ The cinders they splinter/ And light the path/ These strange steps/ Trace us back trace us back. - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hysteric
4. About twice a day I end up unwittingly and unwillingly participating in a fly suicide. I swear, all the depressed insects in my general vicinity had a meeting and came to the conclusion that my face is an excellent place to die. I'll be walking along when *BAM* a bug will swoop down and charge into my ear/nose/eye. I also see roadkill on average three times a day, yet no one else ever notices them. I don't know if this is indicative of something about me or the way I view the world, but considering my love for animals it's super distressing.
I'm going down in flames for you/ Baby you are the weapon I choose/ These wounds are self inflicted/ One more thing I'm addicted to. - Katy Perry, Self Inflicted
5. My sister and I get in super intense and heated debates over which one of us has the cozier bed. She insists mine can't win because the mattress and pillow are made of plasticky stuff due to allergies I had as a child, but I refuse to surrender. PLASTIC IS COMFY. I will fight to the death defending my bed because it is THE BEST EVER. Even if it's made of plastic.
That is not my bed. But it's still really cool.
That secret that you know/ That you don't know how to tell/ It f--cks with your honor/ And it teases with your head. - Bon Iver, Blood Bank
6. I used to hide from my boyfriend in kindergarten because he always wanted to kiss. I was afraid that we would be caught by a teacher and get in trouble but too timid to say no. Difficulty being assertive much? I was relieved when he broke up with me and moved on to another girl named Sarah.
I hope this old train breaks down/ Then I could take a walk around/ And see what there is to see/ And time is just a melody - Jack Johnson, Breakdown
7. That being said, I still own the necklace he made me. Blue and white beads on a stretchy string are the kindergarten equivalent to a strand of pearls.
Just cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there/ There's always a siren/ Singing you to shipwreck - Radiohead, There There
Okay, so now it's your turn! I have some random questions for you:
1. TOTALLY out of the blue, but I've been pondering this all day... Imagine you were in a car that was on a track headed towards a brick wall, and all you could control was the accelerator and brakes. Would you push hard on the gas to go ramming into the wall and get it over with or go slow and drag the process out, knowing that you were going to inevitably crash eventually?
2. Now that I've thoroughly freaked you out with my morbid musings... At random post a song lyric! Operation Random Lyric is a GO!
Aww recreating Disney moments - I used to do scenes from the Lion King ;) Loved your random facts!
ReplyDeleteHmm, if I was in the car, I would press my magic ejector button, fly out of the car and my parachute would open, allowing me to float gently to the ground. Sorry, I'm too optimistic...without my button I'd probably attempt to do some kind of dangerous stunt, such as flip the car, whilst crashing, because I'd want to crash in style!
Random song lyric...precipitated by the previous question...staying alive staying alive ah ah ah ah staying alive etc ;)
Sarah x
Haha, I'm the same way about tattoos! I don't think I want one, but I would love to be able to give them to other people.. then again, yeah, I'd be too nervous about messing up too!
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question: Ermmm. I would use the brake to slow down the car as much as possible then jump into the back seat to avoid most of the impact of hitting the wall.
Lyric: They'll name a city after us/ and later say it's all our fault - Us by Regina Spektor :]
Have a lovely day! x
I used to recreate every scene from Beauty and the Beast...favorite childhood movie, hands down :)
ReplyDeleteUmmm...to be honest I'm a baby. I'd brake for sure. Hopefully enough to stop the car? Guess that's not an option, haha. Morbid question!
My iTunes is currently playing Kanye West (random song for operation random lyric): "Damn, here we go again, all these people talk sh!t but when the Sh!t hits the fan, everything I'm not made me everything I am"
Wise words, Kanye. Hope you have a wonderful Monday!
I always asked for a horse too! Because I really, really wanted one. And when my parents asked where I'd keep it, I said the garage. Saw no problem there. ;)
ReplyDeleteI would accelerate!! I don't see why I would want to drag out the inevitable. Way to be a defeatist, huh? :p
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I think if I would try jumping out of the car completly Haha!
ReplyDeleteRandom song lyric: I'm blue daba dee daba da.....
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Heh.. your love of tattoos reminds me of the common food obsession among anorexics - "I figure that if I worked in a tattoo parlour I could force them on other people" … I used to want to own a restaurant so I could make food for people and force them on it even though I was barely eating anything myself. Oi.
ReplyDeleteI think I would keep breaking until I reached the wall at a snails pace… I'd still be alive, no?
I think my random song lyrics would be a bit too inappropriate to re-type :o Eminem and I are kind of inseparable, and he's got quite the mouth on him :)
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I like your morose musings and to answer the question, I would brake and try to swing sideways. Or more realistically, my mind would blank and I would neither accelerate nor brake, just cruise along at the same speed until I smashed.
ReplyDeleteRandom lyric: It's the ride we take/The many winged escape/It's the bough we break to blow away