You load 15 songs, and what do you get ?

[venta]

Right. So, eviltwinemma provided me with a good idea for a game:

Set your iTunes/Windows Media to Shuffle and write down the first fifteen songs. The answers, in the order they came out, will answer the 15 questions below.

Now, as many people know, I'm quite opposed to listening to music on shuffle. I don't own an mp3 player, and all my mp3s on my computer are neatly organised into directories by artist and album title. Eviltwinemma suggested that selecting the lot and hitting "play" would queue everything up for me (not that I'm suggesting the following is her fault!).

Maybe it should have done... but what actually happened was my hard drive span for a while, and both my monitors went completely grey. For some time. Eventually things began to reappear (the corner of my jabber client, half the systray icons, some of the start menu). Then I got an error saying that a particular instruction in Winamp had tried to access memory at 0x00000000. I tried to shut the computer down, and after 15 minutes gave up and hit the big round off-button.

I then thought that maybe 'play' was the wrong choice, and I should have tried to 'enqueue' all the tracks. So, I tried that. And it would have worked, dammit, had it not been for that pesky bug in Winamp 5.2 which makes this happen:



And yes, they were all playing simultaneously.

I gave up and got my boss to show me how to do it in WiMP instead. (I later upgraded to Winamp 5.21, which behaves nicely).

1. How does the world see you?
Smoking Popes - Mrs You & Me (lyrics)

Er, ok. I'm not sure what that says about me. Maybe I'm so harmoniously in tune with the world that it expects me to propose to it.

2. Will I have a happy life?
Goldenhorse - Riverhead (lyrics)

Hmm:

When I was in Riverhead
I wanted to tell you that I was dead
My hands were cold and my lips were bled
On a thorny bed

I think we can take that as an unequivocal "outlook not so good".

3. What do my friends think of me?
Lords of the New Church - Dance With Me (lyrics)

Do you ? Do you really ?

4. Do people secretly lust after me?

OK, technically the answer is:

Johnny Cash - Danny Boy

But I skipped straight past that one because I can't stand it. Even by Johnny Cash. Only my sense of unbalanced completism means I haven't deleted the mp3 altogether.

Instead:

Smoking Popes - Just Broke Up (lyrics)

I think that's another no :)

5. How can I make myself happy?
Cranberries - Yeats' Grave (lyrics)

Y'what ? Just what sort of thing do you think makes me happy ?

6. What should I do with my life?
Suede - The Power (lyrics)

Er, right. Well, it could have been worse. If anyone wants to convert that into a 10-step life plan, that'd be great.

7. Will I ever have children?
All About Eve - Dream Now (lyrics)

I think that's a no, but I think it thinks I want to.

8. What is some good advice for me?
The Presidents of the USA - Boll Weevil (lyrics)

Well, at least that's some advice. "Get out of your home". But I do, I do already!

9. How will I be remembered?
Neuroticfish - Nerocaine (lyrics)

I'll be remembered as narcotic-addled EBM ? Great :(

10. What's my signature dancing song?
Fun Lovin' Criminals - What Had Happened

Well, you can dance to it. Could have been worse.

11. What's my current theme song?
The Crimea - Someone's Crying (lyrics)

Oh dear. Y'know, I'm starting to think that maybe there is something in the claim that I have too much miserable music.

12. What do others think is my current theme song?
Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander (lyrics)

Well, I can live with that. As a manifesto it's not bad.

13. What shall they play at my funeral?
New Model Army - Liberal Education (lyrics)

I can't actually say I've planned my funerary music. I think I'm hoping for something a little less bleak.

14. What type of men do I like?
Pixies - Hey (lyrics)

Well, I guess that's men who make odd conversation and don't speak in sentences, then.

15. How's my love life?
The Music - The Dance (lyrics)

Well, the title's reasonably promising, but really:

Longing for love
I'm fed up of loss

Still, on the plus side it doesn't actually mention death for a change.

Conclusions: I have too much miserable music, and this form of divination, while entertaining, sucks :)

Now I'm off to the US til next week. Be good while I'm gone.

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

WRT 3: Yes. You dance with everyone :)

[keris.livejournal.com]

5. How can I make myself happy?
Cranberries - Yeats' Grave
Y'what ? Just what sort of thing do you think makes me happy ?


I read that as Yeast grave, which could be taken to be beer or bread quite possibly, and I believe they both make you happy?

Enjoy the US :)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

The "ML" button lower right on the winamp controls stands for "Media Library".

1) Click it.
2) Select "Library" -> "Add Media to Library".
3) Pick the directory that all your mp3s live in.
4) Sit back while it churns through your files.
5) All your music should appear in the "local media" view.
6) Right click -> "select all".
7) Right click -> "enqueue selection".

As a "side effect", all your mp3s are now searchable through the media library.