The Heart Asks Pleasure First
5:22 p.m. -- 2009-02-01
OK... here�s the thing. Apparently I have to answer each question with the name of a song by using �shuffle� on my iTunes collection. This, I am assured, will provide insights into my character. I am obliged to write down the song title, no matter what it says. (And you�re going to have to trust me on that.)
I�m hoping that you won�t let me look a tw*t all on my own here, and will join in the fun. Or maybe you all did this months ago, and I�m just showing how horrendously out-of-date and generally un-trendy I am. Ah well...
1. IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
One for John Gee (Jethro Tull) - Erm? Is this going to work?
2. WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Telekinesis (Robert Calvert) - Another miss. Actually I have no supernatural abilities, unless being able to waggle my right ear counts.
3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Losing my Religion (REM) - Heh.
4. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Ride the Wild Wind (Queen) - Well, at least it sounds exciting, I suppose...
5. WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Track 03 (Passwort Deutsch) - Er... yeah, I�ve been meaning to delete those language lessons.
6. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Eight Easy Steps (Alanis Morissette) - �...How to hate women when you�re s�posed to be a feminist...�
7. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Maymorning, live (Runrig) - Well I quite like the song. Gave it four stars, but I wouldn�t say I think about it all the time...
8. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Track 18 (P.C. Doherty, The Angel of Death) - I think I need to delete some of the audiobooks that I�ve finished... Let�s try again shall me? What do I think of my best friend? Comin� Home (Lynyrd Skynyrd) - Actually let�s forget this question and move on to the next.
9. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper) - Heh... okay.
10. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Day by Day (Doug and the Slugs) - An appropriate title, I suppose, if unexciting.
11. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Walking on Broken Glass (Annie Lennox) - No! No I don�t!
12. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Track 08 (Clive Cussler, The White Death) - Aw, c�mon... that�s stupid, and all these audiobooks are going to piss me off. Let�s try again. Is that fair? You Learn, acoustic (Alanis Morissette) - �I recommend walking around naked in your living room...� Yeah. I like it when Vicky does that.
13. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Big Sky (Runrig) - Er... do they? Okaaay...
14. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Too Hot to Handle (UFO) - iTunes had a 1 in 1,593 chance of getting it right... and I can assure you this was not what Victoria and I danced to.
15. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Can�t Take my Eyes off You (Boystown Gang) - ...the hell? What�s Vicky�s music doing on my Mac? It�s not mine... honest!
16. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Micro Man (Hawkwind) - Well... maybe back in the 1980�s.
17. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Track 12 (P.C. Doherty, The Angel of Death) - Regular readers already know my biggest secret, anyway.
18. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Osiris (Nik Turner�s Sphynx) - �Am I still on Venus, though this does feel Atlantissy? Have I been asleep? Is this just a fantasy?�
19. WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Forgiven (Alanis Morissette) - Er. Actually forgiving and being forgiven can�t be bad.
20. HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Track 12 (Star Wars Soundtrack) - What, killed by John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra? Well, there�s worse ways to go, I suppose. Please excuse my sloppy, unnamed iTunes music. Looking it up, I find that Track 12 is �Destruction of Alderaan�... gulp!
21. WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Ravenscraig (Runrig) - Actually I�ve been to Ravenscraig Castle, Kirkaldy, and I don�t regret it a bit. It was great there, one foggy morning on a deserted, eroding cliff. Back when Lucy and I still had some quality of life, that was.
22. WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Muffin Man (Frank Zappa) - Actually it does. Everybody should own some Frank Zappa.
23. WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Doctor Who (KLF) - Hmm... not really. No. Well, maybe the ending of that Christmas episode of Doctor Who where Kylie Minogue died.
24. WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
T.V. Suicide (Hawkwind) - Thank Goodness that wasn�t the answer to question 19 or 20.
25. WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Track 13 (Clive Cussler, The White Death) - Arrgh. Just fuck off Cussler, will you? It was a shit book anyway. Establishing an Eskimo-led new world order by mutating the world�s fish stocks? The word �drivel� is too good for it. Let�s try again. What scares me the most? I want Candy (The Go-Gos) - Yeah. Scary.
26. DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Trains and Boats and Planes (Astrud Gilberto) - So... lots of machines, but no actual people, it seems.
27. IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Beside Myself (Jethro Tull) - That�s actually a bit too deep to comment on, if you think about it.
28. WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Lord of the Hornets, demo (Robert Calvert) - Well, I suppose he would sting a bit.
29. WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
The Heart Asks Pleasure First (Michael Nyman) - Second time today that tune has turned up. It was playing on the iPod in the car, earlier. So fair enough. It�s another one of Victoria�s, but I quite like it. And that, I think, is supposed to become the title for today�s entry.
Hope you enjoyed that little sojourn into my psyche... or at least, my record collection.
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