1. Eddie Walker - Ben Folds Five
2. Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright
3. This is the Life - Weird Al Yankovich
4. Not the Same - Ben Folds
5. Everything you Know is Wrong - Weird Al Yankovich
6. Neighborhood #2 (Laika) - The Arcade Fire
7. Fired - Ben Folds
8. A Cloud Crashes - Of Montreal
9. Daydream Believer - The Monkees
10. Saint Simon - The Shins
11. I got it From Agnes - Tom Lehrer
12. Waiting is the Hardest Part - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
13. Fred Jones, Part 2 - Ben Folds
14. George Murphy - Tom Lehrer
15. Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk - Rufus Wainwright
16. Be Prepared - Tom Lehrer
17. Do you Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
18. All Kinds - Some guy I randomly found on myspace
19. Smut - Tom Lehrer
20. Instant Pleasure - Rufus Wainwright
21. It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier - Tom Lehrer
22. Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games - Of Montreal
23. Going the Distance - Cake
24. Poisoining Pigeons in the Park - Tom Lehrer
25. Piano Concerto No. 20 (D Minor) - Mozart
What do these songs, as being my most listened, really say about me? Any ideas? Do you think I need to expand my horizons a little bit? I mean, Tom Lehrer is repeated 6 times and Ben Folds 4 times. Nearly half the songs are written by 2 artists. Any other thoughts?
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Anatomy of my humor
Here is an example of one of my "work in progress" songs, of which I have many. This song is about a guy who decides to lower his standards in order to end a dryspell of not dating any women. Basically, its just a bunch of "you're ugly" jokes set to music. To make it interesting for at least 2:30 minutes, I had to tell a story from the 1st person point of view.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Stand-Up comedy story
3 years have passed since the very first time I performed stand up comedy. Stand up is much more fun nowadays mainly because people have stopped throwing beer bottles at me....for now. I can remember that first time; I got booed off the stage with beer bottles whizzing all around me.
"You're an asshole! Get off, you're being a fucking jerk!"
Looking back, yeah maybe I was being a little harsh. But in my defense, the joke that everyone got pissed off at was pretty damn funny. If I could re-enact the joke in text form, I would. This, however, would not do the joke much justice and its not really all that funny in print form, I have to act it out.
(If you would like to know what the joke is, message me and I'll, to the best of my ability, explain it through type.)
You can really learn quite a bit about yourself and your poise whenever you have a room full of angry people booing you and throwing glass objects at you. I guess in the long run, I'm glad I got people pissed at me the first time. I wasn't allowed to come back, but I still tried again at different venues. Hopefully, I won't have to deal with an angry mob again. And if I do, I'll know how to handle the situation a little better.
"You're an asshole! Get off, you're being a fucking jerk!"
Looking back, yeah maybe I was being a little harsh. But in my defense, the joke that everyone got pissed off at was pretty damn funny. If I could re-enact the joke in text form, I would. This, however, would not do the joke much justice and its not really all that funny in print form, I have to act it out.
(If you would like to know what the joke is, message me and I'll, to the best of my ability, explain it through type.)
You can really learn quite a bit about yourself and your poise whenever you have a room full of angry people booing you and throwing glass objects at you. I guess in the long run, I'm glad I got people pissed at me the first time. I wasn't allowed to come back, but I still tried again at different venues. Hopefully, I won't have to deal with an angry mob again. And if I do, I'll know how to handle the situation a little better.
"Yield" signs optional in Missouri....like education
People in Missouri don't seem to grasp the concept of what yielding truly means. If we are in separate lanes and we are merging at the same time and your lane happens to have a yield sign (here is a visual aid to help if you happen to encounter one on the road) then you should consider giving me the right of way, never mind that you can't really "give" something you don't have, but yeah....at least consider it. I think they should put exclamation points on yield signs so people take them seriously.
The yield sign is the high school dropout (or community college graduate) of the road sign family.
"What's that yield sign? You have an opinion about politics? That's adorable! I mean, your opinions really shouldn't be taken seriously because you're a moron who evidently couldn't figure out the intellectual complexities of high school work.....but I'll listen anyways, its just too cute!"
I heard that the fear of cancer in cell phones is making a comeback. I thought they cleared cell phones from the cause (or maybe it was $upre$$ed) but it seems to be making the minor headlines.
I have a problem with this. Mainly because they are saying cell phones cause head cancer, because of the proximity of your head and the cell phone. I don't spend too much time on the phone, so my cell phone spends the majority of its time in my pocket.....my FRONT pocket. This seems to be more scary to me. So here's what I did. I got myself some fishing line. I tied one end to the line to the phone and I tied the other end around my waist. Now, when I'm not using my phone, I just throw it behind me and it follows me around. Everywhere I go, I'm being followed by a cancer causing killing machine, but I feel safe because its closer to everyone else. Remember, things aren't more correct just because you can say them louder.
The yield sign is the high school dropout (or community college graduate) of the road sign family.
"What's that yield sign? You have an opinion about politics? That's adorable! I mean, your opinions really shouldn't be taken seriously because you're a moron who evidently couldn't figure out the intellectual complexities of high school work.....but I'll listen anyways, its just too cute!"
I heard that the fear of cancer in cell phones is making a comeback. I thought they cleared cell phones from the cause (or maybe it was $upre$$ed) but it seems to be making the minor headlines.
I have a problem with this. Mainly because they are saying cell phones cause head cancer, because of the proximity of your head and the cell phone. I don't spend too much time on the phone, so my cell phone spends the majority of its time in my pocket.....my FRONT pocket. This seems to be more scary to me. So here's what I did. I got myself some fishing line. I tied one end to the line to the phone and I tied the other end around my waist. Now, when I'm not using my phone, I just throw it behind me and it follows me around. Everywhere I go, I'm being followed by a cancer causing killing machine, but I feel safe because its closer to everyone else. Remember, things aren't more correct just because you can say them louder.
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