Why me at work is dangerous

[erilyn]

Me doing dull work while listening to my Zen leads to strange strange thoughts.

Like how my Zen is obsessed with certain songs. No, seriously, do other people find that their random/shuffle/whatever function on their mp3 player isn't really random? I've got over 1600 songs loaded on the Zen, but everytime I do random it brings up some of the same things. These include: BSB bootleg from Cleveland, "Qui-Gon's Noble End" from the Phantom Menace soundtrack (my player has a crush on Liam Neeson's ass? Okay), the Evita soundtrack, Plow King (from the Simpsons soundtrack), Push (Matchbox Twenty), Holst's Planet Suite and "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun". Meanwhile, when I poke around, I keep finding songs that I didn't even know were on here cause they never come up. Hmmm.

Also, the other side-effect is starting to plan songvids for every song that I can. A Sheppard vid to Rockstar Baby by Nick Carter would so work! A multi-fandom celebration to the MST3K song Pants! An SGA vid to The Sunscreen Marketing Board by Three Dead Trolls! Darn, there were others as well, but I can't remember them.

Comments

[joyfulseeker.livejournal.com]

When I was going through the lead up terrible weeks to finals period last year, during my toughest term, my computer kept shuffling to "Stress." This song has the chorus, "Stress is the way that I get things done/if I'm not under pressure then, I sleep too long" etc. etc. It was sort of nerve-wracking and yet reassuring in an "I haven't gotten more than five hours of sleep a night for the last three weeks" sort of way.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

What sort of chips are they putting in these players anyway? *g*

[joyfulseeker.livejournal.com]

I dunno, but as long as they don't start speaking to me in a mellow, light voice, saying things like, "I'm afraid I can't do that" and then trying to kill me, I figure I'll be okay.