Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Because otherwise I never get any work done. Memes found via Pariah's now-updated Memelist.

1. Though last week's question was better (my answer: Girlyman's Mt. Holyoke College show last September, which started with an incredible half-a-capella cover of Paul Simon's "Born at the Right Time"), Midweek Music Meme asks a past tense question this week:

What TV show theme song did you like best, even if you didn’t care for the show itself?

Though it's an "even if," I'll go for the theme song to Malcolm in the Middle, They Might Be Giant's award-winning "You're Not The Boss Of Me." Other possible contenders include the theme to the Daily Show (another TMBG favorite) and, oddly enough, Shawn Colvin's theme song to the Little Bear show my daughter watches, though the rendition, not the song, is the real guilty pleasure here.

Other guilty albeit half-remembered pleasures: Themes to the "New Zoo Revue" and PBS staple "The Bloodhound Gang," both from, oh, 1980 or so. And the theme song to the old "Candyland" commercial from the late seventies. Do commericals count?

2. An electrifying Wednesday Mind Hump this week from Blogdrive Insanity amidst an overly tricked-up Halloween design:

01. If you had an off/on switch, what would you want it to switch off/on instantly?

I'm torn between sleep and sobriety. But I can say with some authority that if I had a volume knob, I'd use it for my daughter -- cute as a button, but a shriek like a banshee.

02. Your favorite celebrity will be knocking on your door in exactly one minute. Considering you only have one minute, what would you do before you answer the door and how would you greet them?

What I wish I'd be doing is uncorking the wine. What I'd probably be doing is fidgeting with my hair and clothes for the hundredth time. "Welcome, Mr. McLuhan, you look so well preserved -- can I get you a nice hot cup of newspaper?"

03. If you could save time in a bottle, what time(s) would you save?

This one time? In band camp?

And my daughter's every wonderful moment, of course.

04. Look around you. First, tell us what room you're in. Now, name the first red thing you see ... likewise blue, and yellow.

Not much immediate visual diversity in the Dolben Information Commons. I see a shelf of red New York Times indices, a blue Historical Atlas of the United States, and a bunch of students typing away at computer terminals, each with one of those yellow plastic lifebracelets.

05. If you had a peephole in your head, what might people see when they peep in?

Darkness. Unless I had a skylight, too...then they'd see...um...brains?

I guess if I had a peephole that showed what was happening in my mind this question would have been a lot more interesting, huh.

3. Our old memefavorite Lori asks What's On 'your party's to attend this month' Right Now? but I haven't got any on the books except maybe a haunted house-type thing for Willow at the school Chaplain's home Halloween eve. Does a De La Soul show with my advisees on the 29th count as a party?

Comments:

1.What TV show theme song did you like best, even if you didn’t care for the show itself?

I'm gonna look like such a friggin' flake...The Big Blue Marble was/is my fav. tv theme song. Both versions of 'em. The whole show was about trying to unite the world through peace, and the lyrics to both versions of the theme song reflected that.

From the first version:
Folks are folks and kids are kids
We share a common name
We speak a different way
But work and play the same

Honestly, I liked the second version of the theme song...

Cloooser, getting cloooser....
(ok, that's kinda creepy - that and why do I feel like a lotta folks are laughin' at me right now - better drop this).

01. If you had an off/on switch, what would you want it to switch off/on instantly?

I'd like a switch to switch off mud. I hate mud. Someone's gotta switch it off....

02. Your favorite celebrity will be knocking on your door in exactly one minute. Considering you only have one minute, what would you do before you answer the door and how would you greet them?

I'd look for my pants before I answered the door. If I couldn't find 'em in a minute, I'd just tell 'em I'm not home due to wardrobe malfunction.

03. If you could save time in a bottle, what time(s) would you save?

I'd save the time I was playing at that ultra-cool arcade in that mall when I was a kid. I miss arcades...

04. Look around you. First, tell us what room you're in. Now, name the first red thing you see ... likewise blue, and yellow.

Hmm...red: part of my hand. Blue, part of my hand. Yellow, part of my...yikes! Time to wash my hands.

05. If you had a peephole in your head, what might people see when they peep in?

Stuff so perverted, stuff so horribly horrible, stuff that...well, ok, it'd probably be pretty hollow.

What's On 'your party's to attend this month' Right Now?

My newspaper's possible farewell staff party. Of course, being that I'm the only staff member, it's probably gonna be a pretty lonely party.

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Shaw Israel Izikson : 7:25 PM, October 20, 2004