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 So I was fooling around with Omegle about twelve years ago. You had a pretty good chance of having a meaningful conversation back then. One that still sticks with me is this hour-long chat with a guy from South Dakota going to school in Indiana, who graduated high school with a 99% average. He'd be 32 now, I guess.

Anyways, he recommended ( Read more... )

As previously discussed, I was a musically deprived child. I think I heard this song in elementary school, as part of some lesson. I don't remember the class or context. I wasn't aware that this was a parody. I wasn't even acquainted with Star Wars at the time.

Yet this is my pick for day 12.

Weird Al - The Saga Begins

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Latter-day Star Wars has been ( Read more... )

 Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack - Grissom Academy  (a.k.a the co-op mode background music)

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What a rubbish music meme this is. It's nearly impossible to get tired of a song. The better a song, the more catchy it likely is, and the more likely it is to get worn out quickly.

However, during the seven hundred hours I've played Mass Effect 3 multiplayer - ( Read more... )

 Lana Del Rey - California 

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Yes, for this slot I picked a Lana Del Rey song. Open up a separate page for the lyrics, and then let me explain why this song makes me sad.

Now, I'm Canadian, but Dude Boy'd landed a job in California before he killed himself. I regret that we drifted apart in later years (if I was even allowed to say that at age 25). I ( Read more... )

 Vienna Teng - Stray Italian Greyhound

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"Stray Italian Greyhound" is an odd little metaphor for the odd little feeling of unexpected optimism when you feel you can't afford to be hopeful again. Vienna Teng wrote it after an Obama rally, during his first presidential bid. Both she and Obama seem mostly retired these days, but I could still use this ( Read more... )

The Weeknd - Tears in the Rain

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I put together an entire mix of alcohol-n-drug songs when I was in university. Sadly, that mix was compiled before I discovered the Weeknd, the bulk of whose oeuvre comprises of menacing songs about trying to fill a gaping existential void with drugs and sex in a haunted strip club.

Kiss Land is my favourite Weeknd ( Read more... )

 Charli Adams - Passenger Seat

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This pick is a cheat. It's not a great song to drive to, unless it's dusk on at October evening, there's a bit of a nip in the air and frost on the leaves, and you're driving home on a county road. There's no other cars on the road, and as you pass forest after forest your thoughts start wandering into what-ifs and ( Read more... )

Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado ft Timbaland

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How can I explain how this song earned its place in my heart?

Surely it can't be any particularly fond memories of school dances in the gym. Sean Paul's Temperature, of the same era, makes me want to run for the hills this very day.

I don't find the verses particularly sexy or tuneful, but Nelly and Timbaland ( Read more... )

I could pick a bunch but here's one I'm listening to a lot lately:

Pendulum - Machinae Supremacy

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My favourite line is "You are so much more than what's been done to you," which is very on the nose, but it's a sentiment that's got to be said sometimes.

This is a song I want to put on a very dramatic fanmix for a borderline unhealty pairing in a sci- ( Read more... )