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Overcompensating brings us a new meme. Forever.
Last five wikipedia searches, as revealed by filtering for 'wikipedia' in my browser history:

Batman
platypus
Honeycrisp
Hwi Noree
motion sickness


Not too bad. NOW YOU

Sitting around waiting for a shirt to dry, I ran across in someone's blog a songmeme that sort of seemed to be about soundtracking the movie of one's life. It sort of sucked though, so I made a new one.

The original procedure was to put your whole music collection on shuffle and just see what comes up for however many songs in a row, but I am completely amending this to 'if it sucks, or makes no sense, find something else.' I think the point is to recontextualise music and fake up a plot out of nothing. At least that's what it is for me.

My results:

Opening Credits: Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Hawa Dolo
Protagonist Introduction Sequence: Force of Nature - Nightshift (I picture this playing over a lot of really boring day-to-day actions. Maybe like three minutes of doing dishes.)
Antagonist Introduction: Medeski, Martin & Wood - Sequel (man, this movie is too 'cool.')
Conflict Setup: Pixies - The Sad Punk (This movie is about mismatched lifepaths or something?)
Character Development Interlude: Jean-Jacques Perrey - The Saturn Ambassador (I am picturing a puppet show)
The Love Interest: Dead Kennedys - I am the Owl (we totally have a punk/not punk conflict here. Maybe I left the brotherhood or something.)
Fight Sequence: Hideki Naganuma - The Concept of Love (Hooray)
Antagonist's Exposition: Rinken Band - Shichiguwachi Eisa (Aww, the antagonist is Okinawan! He misses his low-key homeland, but life has forced him to become a punk super-spy.)
Preparation for Battle Montage: The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make (No one sees the point of this battle!)
Pre-Battle Dancefight: Joshua Morse - Medical Insurance (This is an excellent dancefight song.)
Ultimate Battle: Hepcat - Yoko Zuna (Maybe everyone is just sitting around and listening to this song instead of actually fighting.)
Aftermath and Resolution: Eartha Kitt - Monotonous (Everyone is sick of this movie. Even Eartha Kitt.)
End Credits: Devo - Pity You [E-Z Listening version]

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Anticyclone reminded me of the vast array of archetypes and levels of amusement inherent in muppets, and I was idly trying to think of a muppet that would make a good avatar. So, share my bemusement and pointless woolgathering; put your hand inside the puppet head. Name a muppet that you'd use, yourself, for an avatar. If it's a Muppet Show muppet, I can screengrab you some images of it, because I have the boxset and some other episodes lying around (and in case you don't know how I love screencapping, yesterday I was checking one of Delia Deetz's horrible outfits by flipping through my Beetlejuice screenshots directory (1.5 gigs), instead of actually checking the dvd). So make me do some muppet searching. It'll be great. And you have an excuse to think of the muppet that best represents you, quiz-free.
If it's Sesame Street, though, it's just you and youtube.

(PS: I keep using this avatar for puppet-related posts because Miguel Ferrer is at his most muppetlike in this frame of Robocop. You can just see his head flapping up and down.)
(PPS: He is uttering the 'uh' phoneme of 'Fuck Jones,' or, in the TV edit, 'Forget Jones.' The facial expression is a lot more understandable if you know he's saying 'Fuck.' But I do enjoy the TV edit a lot. Regardless, that frame shows confluence of several amusing things (puppety Miguel Ferrer, bastardised-for-TV dialog, hilarious overly cocky scornful devil-may-care expression).)