Musical Fortune Teller

Instructions: Set the music player of your choice on random and answer the following questions (in order) with the songs that come up...no cheating!

I lost my fortune from lunch yesterday so I'm doing this instead. I first saw it on www.last.fm but it was Hannah that actually inspired me to do it. I loaded up over 7,000 songs in media player and hit shuffle; this oughta be pretty random.

I'm including the album as well because in some cases it is relevant to the answer.

Format the answer however you wish, but I'm doing it like this:
Artist - Album: Song Name
Comments (usually lyrics from the song)



How does the world see you?
Front 242 - 05:22:09:12 Off: Animal (Zoo remix)
I'll never be who you want me to be.
You put me in a cage!


Will I have a happy life?
VA - Tragic Hero Remixes EP: Untitled Track
Equivalent to the 8-Ball Reply hazy, try again answer.


What do my friends really think of me?
Velvet Acid Christ - Calling ov the Dead (beta ver): The Dead (unreleased demo)
Put forth by the state copulate, reverberate in this darkened space work to love and love and love death, dead, we are death, over and out, totally burned out.


Do people secretly lust after me?
Hocico - Wrack and Ruin: Spirits of crime
Here's a lesson...life's...not...fair.
(in other words, I'll never know)

How can I make myself happy?
The Fair Sex - Electro Club Attack Shot Six: Get Out of My Head
The fever of craving wears me out
You pierce thru every fiber of my being
Release me
You haunt me you conquer you fill me up
I'm squirming


What should I do with my life?
Apoptygma Berzerk - Shine On EP: Black Pawn
One day revenge will be mine
'till then I'll walk the line


Will I ever have children?
Wolfsheim - Dreaming Apes: India Theme
Stupid question, stupid answer.


What is some good advice for me?
Culture Kultur - Combat EP: No Surrender (assemblage 23 remix)
Even if no one remembers
Even when my time is gone
I will not surrender


How will I be remembered?
DJ Promo - Masters of Hardcore I: King of Pain
Cool kickin' ass
As I turn the volume up!


What is my signature song?
Theatre of Tragedy - Gothic Club Classics: Tanz Der Schatten (trans. Dance of the shade)
I'm guessing it's really The Dance of Darkness
This song is sung entirely in German, which fits nicely.


What do I think my current theme song is?
Die Krupps - Metall Maschienen Musik: Your Voice
This is your voice, why don't you use it?
Words are your breath, how can you hold it?
(not exactly a theme song, but pretty fucking accurate)


What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Lost Signal - Cyberpolis-A Darker Dancefloor: Torment
You never think about the past and all the things that had to happen.
It's all forgotten in the end, and nothing ever truly matters.


What song will play at my funeral?
Hocico - Kamenz-Fahenfabrik Live: Odio en el Alma (trans. Hatred in the Soul)
Sung entirely in Spanish.
Seems a little harsh for a funeral. But I do really like this song (the live version kinda sucks though).


What type of men/women do I like?
Namnambulu - Blinded!: Ignorance
Never know who will be
The People that you see


What is my day going to be like?
Junkie XL and Don Davis - The Animatrix OST: Red Pill, Blue Pill
This is your last chance.
After this there is no turning back.
Take the Red Pill.
Take the Blue Pill.

Friday

1. Name one of your flaws:
I am a world class procrastinator.

2. Have you ever won first place?
Yeah, mainly swimming stuff.

3. Who is the last person to make you smile?
Ava...true story when leaving for work this morning:

Ava: I want School of Rock!
Me: No Ava, not this morning.
Ava: (softly and clear as day) Please may I watch School of Rock?

4. Describe a time when you should have tried harder:
The thing is, I rarely try as hard as I should. Almost never actually. I gave that up long ago.

5. What are you good at?
Fuck it, it's Friday, I'll take off my humble filter and toot the horn for once.
I'm good at everything, but truly a master of nothing.

Found Porn

So it's been 3 months since I signed up for DirectTV and my introductory pricing has lapsed. This morning I went to their site to update my programming options and remove the stuff that I have to pay extra for now. Forever a fan of sophomoric humor, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience because:

Learn more about packages
View or make changes to My Package
You may confirm these changes by visiting My Package

Sadly, I could only add or remove features from My Package. There was no option to Increase the Size of My Package. Too bad, that'd be a cool trick. Although, selecting the option for Spice HD might have been a temporary fix for that.

PS— Seriously? HD Porno? Get out!

Wanna See My Baldy?

Okay, so it's not my baldy per se, but still kinda cool. For a few minutes.

Live Bald Eagle Cam

Fortune

I was supposed to post this yesterday but got distracted. So, here is yesterday's lunch fortune:

Now is a lucky time for you -
take a chance.

Translation: Pretty self explanatory really. Now, what to take a chance at... Becoming a world-renowned sea monkey breeder didn't turn out so well, best think of something good this time.

Losing Your Religion

Man, those Scientologists are one fucked up group of people.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006140204,00.html

I need to make up my own religion/money making machine.

Keep It In Your Pants

So, as those of you that care know, I went to the Sisters of Mercy concert Saturday night. If you're bored and interested in a 10 minute read, my full review is here. Short version = I had a blast!

Given my post the other day, I feel obliged to share a small detail about the show. I don't get out much anymore and often forget what it's like to plop myself smack down in the middle of my heritage for an evening. I felt like I was the Tin Man in the Wizzard of Goth. (No, not Dorothy. I may be hard up, but no way am I going there.)

Stockings, Corsets, and Fishnet. OH MY!!

Talk about total visual sensory overload! And that was just the guys. ;-)

Goth hotties, why must you mock me so?

It's Official

Hi, my name's Ever, and I'm a video gameaholic.

I went to the Sister's concert last night (more on that later) and when I got home I hopped on the Xbox. Why is this a problem? I actually FELL ASLEEP playing video games last night.

Friday Five

At least I've been fairly good about keeping up with these lately.

1) Of the various cultures, ethnicities or nationalities you belong to, which most strongly do you consider yourself?
German. Aside from a short, sick part of history, they pretty much rock. Great beer, great music, great cultural clothing (lederhosen, wooooo!) and total agro-sounding language. I think Hitler was one of the sickest fucks to ever walk the planet, but I do enjoy hearing his speeches. They just sound so cool. I'd probably change my mind if I knew what he was saying though.

2) Is there a culture you cannot claim heritage from but which you feel quite close to?
When I was growing up I had an odd facination with Indians. Yes, I know Native American is the proper term now, but that doesn't serve my point here. Believe it or not, I was a pretty wild kid and "Indian" has a wild connotation to it, which is what drew me to the culture.

3) What's one language you wish you knew fluently?
I wish I could know whatever language the people around me are speaking at any given time. Whenever I'm in like an elevator with people speaking another language I hear:
Blabidy bla boo blab hoo hah wickidy wack blab. Ha Ha Ha!

But in my mind I know they're saying:
Hey, check that loser next to us, we can say anything we want about him and he won't have a clue. Ha Ha Ha!

4) If you could move anywhere in the world and be guaranteed a job, etc., where would you go?
It's warm, it has a beach, it has palm trees, and it's not here.

5) If you had a time machine, and could witness any one event without altering or disturbing it, what would you want to see?
I would go back to watch the building of the pyramids so I could definitevely say once and for all: It was the aliens man, the fucking aliens!

Double-team

I seem to be puking out posts today so I figured I might as well add one more that I've been procrastinating for a couple of days.

An old friend has been in town this week and the other night a bunch of us went out for drinks. I know this will shock and awe all of you, but I actually got a FULL night out by myself. All without having to travel to Denver to do it. I'm still scratching my head over how I was able to accomplish such an impossible feat myself.

We started off at a halfway decently fancy restaurant, downed a good many beers (martini's in my case) and had a few appetizers. Some of the other sorry saps had to go home early so they filtered out. When the numbers dwindled down to a core of 5 of "the guys" and one gal that was here with my friend (they're attending a conference), we headed over to this tiny little hole in the wall dive bar. Which, by the way, had some of the best wings I've ever tasted.

The beers continued to flow, however this time they were coming from pitchers. As you can imagine, given the environment, company and near dangerous levels of alcohol, conversation rapidly degraded into "dude talk" pretty quick. Oddly enough, this attracted the attention of a pair of twins sitting by themselves a table over. They grabbed some seats over at our table and then the conversations really got out of control.

They eventually hit on all of the guys at our table, at one point even singing a little choreographed song that went like this: Double your pleasure, double your fun, when you're in bed, two girls are better than one!! Quite interesting I must say.

Anyway, before you start to think I'm writing a Penthouse letter or something, I really need to clarify one slight, teeny, little detail. Yes, they were twins. Yes, they were definitely looking for a party. And yes, they were 55 years old.

Needless to say, I'm quite happy to say, the story pretty much ends there.

But, at least this appears to be a sign that things might be looking up... I mean hey, if I can attract 55 year old twins, I surely oughta be able to attract a 30-something non-twin. Right?

Fortune

I forgot about HNT again, so you get today's lunch fortune instead.

Your investments of time now
will lead to success later.

Translation: This is a toughy, I don't quite know what it means. But it does sound like I should start working diligently on something I want I guess. Now, if I could only figure out what to choose. There are a lot of things I could really use right now...

Holy Crap!

Gotta wear shades
Originally uploaded by That Will Guy.

Well, I guess I'm offically a photographer. I just checked my Flickr mail and had a message that this picture has been selected as one that the company which is developing the new Official Washington State Tourism site wants to license for use on there! I'm sure I can find some way to use the $50 or whatever it pays. The coolest thing is that I didn't apply for this or anything, they just found the picture among the masses. And here I thought there were only like 4 people that looked at my crap.

First I'd like to thank the acadamy. HappyKap for turning me on to Flickr. My daugher for constantly putting up with my lame picture taking. My friends, family, and many people I've never met. My employer for not noticing that I fiddle with Flickr from there. And last but not least, my camera, for taking good pictures despite the fact that I know absolutely nothing about photography beyond what button to push.

:P

These Boots Were Made...

Zoo Boots
Originally uploaded by That Will Guy.

...for Zoo Visiting?

As promised, here's a picture of those boots from the Zoo. Sadly, I didn't get a shot of the stockings...that probably would have been seen as weird. Would have been hard anyway since you could only see them when she was walking and the skirt slit opened up. (that kind of sounds dirty...I swear I wasn't staring and drooling)

I really should crop that butt out.

Turning on a Know It All

I am often^* asked "How exactly does one turn on a Know It All?" As a free public service, I thought I would answer this question for the masses once and for all. Also, I'm selfishly trying to promote the answer because I think it would be totally steak sauce^** if this happened more often.

What brought about this post you say? Well, I've recently been reminded of this particular (fetish?) of mine by two highly unusual sighting locations: The Zoo and Chevy's Restaurant.

So cut to the chase, two hyphenated words: Thigh-Highs.^{† ‡}

I don't know what it is about them, but there is absolutely no article of clothing that could possibly be cooler. Well, I suppose no articles of clothing at all would potentially be better, but that's a whole different conversation. Not to mention really tough to find in public since I don't frequent nude beaches.

Anyway, I found it extremely unusual (yet quite exciting) that a trip to the zoo several weeks ago netted someone all done up in a long sleek skirt split about all the way up, thigh-highs and total stiletto heels. The heels don't do much for me, but those stockings...dear lord! I normally hate the zoo, especially when it's cold out like it was that day, but that particular visit turned out to be just what the doctor ordered. I've got a picture of the heels that I'll throw up on Flickr one of these days. I found heels of that altitude to be even stranger for touring the zoo than the stockings, so of course, I had to document them.

Then, just this past weekend, I go to an otherwise uneventful dinner at Chevy's and in walks this guy and his girlfriend headed towards the table for 20 right in front of me. She had on a way tight half-shirt, extremely short jean skirt, and yes, thigh-highs. That made my dinner.^††

So let me be the first to declare a revolution on panty hose. Viva la Thigh-highs!!


^*When I'm asleep and dreaming.
^**See How I Met Your Mother.
^†Double points for sweet designs a la Wicked Witch of the West.
^‡Triple points for completing the ensemble.
^††Is it sad that spying this sort of thing while out and about is pretty much as exciting as it gets for me?

Fortune

Well it's been a week now, I guess it's time for another post. I've really let this thing fall to the way side the past several weeks. Amazing the things you end up not doing when you fill up your free time with other projects.

I recently had the chance to design the graphics and layout for an internal website related to Xbox and I've found that to be a little more fun than the other things I usually do when I have slow moments or just need a break (go figure). But that's been implemented now so aside from a few minor tweaks to take care of, I guess I have my free time back.

I couldn't think of a better way to start back up than with my fortune from today's lunch. Actually, that's a lie, I just didn't take the time to think of something better.

Anyhoo...

Remember three months from this date.
Good things are in store for you.

Translation: I have no friggin' idea. How does one remember something which hasn't happened yet? Maybe in June I'll get that pony I've always wanted. And by pony I mean Nymphomaniac. Maybe if I "remember" it enough it'll happen. That'd be real swell.

Nooooooooooooo!

For god's sake, would you just. Go. Away?!!

Paris Hilton Opens Up on Career, New Album

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187146,00.html

Freeeeeeeeeeedom

Today is no different than any other crap day, except that it's a happy day. I just logged into the interweb this morning and made my last student loan payment. HELL YEAH! Hard to believe I've been paying those for like 9 years now.

Now, what to do with the extra $200 a month?

Friday

What an odd mixture of questions this week...

1. What color is your hair?
Kind of a dirty dish water blond. It used to be much lighter when I was a youngin, mainly because my hair changes color easily and I used to spend much more time outside. It was also much longer, giving it a chance to bleach out. Now that I keep it short, it stays pretty dark.

2. When is the last time you accepted a dare?
Can't think of the last time someone dared me to do something. Probably on a Friday night back in college.

3. Do you think you could have an affair?
Depends on your definition of "could".

4. How often do you feel like walking on air?
If by walking on air you mean stepping off the roof of a building, never. I'm not afraid of heights, but I'm afraid of falling from them.

5. How about despair?
I am always feeling Despair.

Throwies

God bless the internets.

Ever heard of Throwies before? I hadn't until today but you're damn right I'm going to make some of these things. I love the name and I love the idea. We sooooo have to do this the next time I'm in Denver...

The What and How of Throwies

A Flickr Version

And Don't Miss the Video

PS- That main site, http://www.instructables.com is super rad!

Thoughts on a Thursday

• I really, really hate working with some people
• I keep skipping HNT because I'm addicted to video games
• The people behind Quake 4 are deeply disturbed
• DEEPLY
• But I'm cool with that
• There are stupid people in this world of ours
• And there are also stupider ones
• In fact, every time I think I've encountered the stupidest person we have to offer, somebody even stupider comes along
• Some people piss me off
• Some people disappoint me
• I disappoint pissed off people
• Sometimes I hate it when dreams don't come true
• People surprise you sometimes
• I've been offered an opportunity to make graphics for an Xbox Live Arcade game
• Of course, it's a garage project that the Xbox folks haven't even heard about
• Let alone approved
• I suck at *real* grapihcs creation
• I have little self control
• I have great desire to hit the gym
• I have little incentive to hit the gym
• I don't hit the gym
• If you think things can't get worse, you're usually wrong
• They do
• Did I mention I really, really hate working with some people?

Meh

Haven't had a bla post in a while, so...

BLA