Did I Say That? » Meme Time http://www.evilnickname.org (a weblog) Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:43:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Gimme Some Words I Can Live By http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2009/12/03/gimme-some-words-i-can-live-by/ http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2009/12/03/gimme-some-words-i-can-live-by/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:50:50 +0000 Evil Nickname http://www.evilnickname.org/?p=1824 Okay, so I've done this one before. Only this time I didn't need no website to find some quotes.

  • If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain, from a 1894 notebook.
  • You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
  • Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. Bruce Springsteen, introduction to "War"
  • Angst is mar veur eben, spiet is veur altied. Daniël Lohues
  • Don't let your dreams get all rusty / Keep on using 'em as hard as you can Jim Steinman, "A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing To Waste"
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  1. Google Analytics — the stats for this website
  2. Boing Boing — a directory of wonderful things
  3. Cynical C Blog — Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth. Lillian Hellman
  4. Defective Yeti — The musings of Matthew Baldwin, Pretty Okay Guy
  5. EvilNickname on Last.FM
  6. Meat Elkaar Online — the Dutch Meat Loaf forum
  7. .god.voor.dommen — Atheïstisch betrokken
  8. [Ervaringen] MSI WIND en Clones - Deel 3 — discussion about the kind of laptop I bought as a present for myself for being able to walk without crutches again
  9. I Watch Stuff — The Best Movie News Ever
  10. Jon Oliva's Pain forum
  11. Kasim's Journal — Meat Loaf's bass player's weblog
  12. Liliputing — Compact Computing
  13. MikePortnoy.com Forum »­­ General Public and Music Chat
  14. Nu.nl
  15. The Rockman Record — The Jim Steinman message board
  16. Popdose.com — Pop Culture News
  17. Google query — site:evilnickname.org/weblog/files/archive/ knee
  18. Google Reader
  19. Pharyngula — Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
  20. tvgids.nl — what's on now and next
  21. Uncrate — The Buyer's Guide for Men
  22. Vaults of Heaven — Dave's page
  23. Waxy.org —Andy Baio lives there
  24. Xystus — Dutch metal band who made an rock opera I went to see this year
  25. Youtube
  26. Lords of Metal — Monthly metal e-zine with reviews, interviews, concerts and specials.
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The instructions for this one are simple: open up your favorite music player (in my case, foobar 2000) and answer the following questions truthfully.

  • How many songs total: 12,291
  • How many hours or days of music: 6 weeks, 3 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes and change.
  • Most recently played: Circle II Circle — "Burden of Truth" (acoustically enhanced)
  • Most played: Jim Steinman — "(Vespers) The Song of Gotham City / The Graveyard Shift" (40 plays according to Last.fm)
  • Most recently added: Meat Loaf — 3 Bats Live
  • Sort by song title:
    • First Song: Metallica — "- Human" (pronounced mī'nəs hyū'mən)
    • Last Song: Acda en De Munnik — "Zwerver met een Wekker"
  • Sort by time:
    • Shortest Song: Dream Theater — "John Thinks He's Randy Song" (0:10)
    • Longest Song: Dream Theater — "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" (41:33)
  • Sort by album:
    • First album: Meat Loaf — (Give Me the Future with A) Modern Girl
    • Last album: Zwerfhond — Zingend de Kerk in (not counting a title-less bootleg recorded in Zurich)
  • First song that comes up on shuffle: Bløf — Mooie Dag (live)
  • Search the following and state how many songs come up:
    • Death: 124 (including Iron Maiden's Live after Death, Dance of Death, Death on the Road and A Matter of Life and Death albums)
    • Life: 195 (including 26 versions of "Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back", and 11 versions of "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence)
    • Love: 491 ("I'd Do Anything for ~" — 43, "Dead Ringer for ~" — 27)
    • Hate: 13
    • You: 675 (excluding 'young', 'Youp' and 'your', including 38 versions of "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth")
    • Sex: 35 (including a Meat Loaf bootleg called Sex Muffin)
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  • Queensrÿche - I Don't Believe In Love
  • Winter Rose - I'll Never Fall In Love Again
  • Black Sabbath - Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me) [mp3]
  • Keane - We Might As Well Be Strangers
  • Lana Lane - Love Is An Illusion
  • Dusty Springfield - Anyone Who Had a Heart [mp3]
  • Daniël Lohues - Allenig
  • Bon Jovi - This Ain't a Love Song
  • Manic Street Preachers - You Stole The Sun From My Heart
  • Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love [mp3]
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  1. The title of whatever random Wikipedia page you land on is the name of the band.
  2. The last four words of the last quote on this page is the title of the album.
  3. Put the last word of the quote (the album title) into the search box on this page, and the third image the search brings up is the cover of the album (this will search Creative Commons Attribution licensed photos and sort them by interestingness).
  4. Combine and share.

The result is as follows:

  1. Wikipedia article: Peekko
  2. Last words from quote: Value to your Listener (Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged)
  3. Photo: Andrew Pile, Programmer

Which leads to the following, all too believable, cover for Peekko's Value your Listener. Peekko is apparently some Scandinavian indie-rock god.

Peekko - Value to your Listener

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