The Sketchy Shuffle

  Skipping through music, I've discovered quite an odd list when on shuffle:

I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan- Frank Sinatra

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off- Ella Fitzgerald

White Wedding- Billy Idol

I can't tell if I see a message there or some sort of terrible prophecy!

Edit: Upon further listening, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off features Louis Armstrong singing "Potato, Potahto, let's call the whole thing off," I assume he's telling not to worry about it. Though now I must come up with a dance called the Sketchy Shuffle.

A Game!

  I came up with this weird association game yesterday.
The way you play is that you pick a song on your playlist, any song. Choose a word from the title and find a song with that word in that one's title. Lather, rinse, and repeat as necessary. For example:

1. Sorrow-Bad Religion
2. I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow-O Brother Where Art Thou?
3. Piano Man-Billy Joel
4. The Piano Duet-Corpse Bride
5. Violin Duet-Gaelic Storm

 I ran out of songs that could work there, which is the point of the game and it's over! If I had gone with Iron Man by Black Sabbath instead of Piano Man, I would have gotten Iron by Ensiferum and been done. If I had gone with Sadness and Sorrow [Piano Version] by Enigma, I would have come full circle to Sorrow by Bad Religion, but I felt that was cheating because it's not really the title.

  Anyway, It's cool to see where you end up. I went from a punk song about religion to lively fiddles by an Irish band. What did you get?

I'm a lyrical lover...

Random story from freshman year:
  I was listening to Mr. Boombastic by Shaggy one evening while my roommate was around. The conversation went more or less like this:

"Ha, letting out your inner gangster?"
"I guess? I found out about this song in the whitest way possible..."
"How so?"
"I was watching a BBC improv show (Mock The Week) and the prompt was 'things the queen left out of her Christmas card this year.' The comedian started to sing the lyrics to Mr. Boombastic and I liked it enough to download it."
"Yeah, that's pretty white."

Dungeons And Dragons

  I'm a gaming nerd. I'm sure that's no surprise, given the numerous Minecraft blogs. Well the summer going into senior year of high school, a few of my friends and I formed a band called The Flintlocks. It was awesome, and while we never went anywhere, I wrote this song that our singer refused to sing because it would ruin his street cred. That said, here it is.

There are cave bears (the furry beasts!),
but our wizard shall toast them, there shall be feasts!
he makes the most checks so we don't die,
and he's got a spell so we can fly!
he's chaotic evil and fire based.
he's one of the worst enemies you've ever faced.

We have a warrior; we call him a fighter,
we really wish he was a little brighter.
His intelligence is eight,
so he knows just enough to mate.

We have a bard, he likes to sing.
His inspiring words, he will fling!
We hit stronger, we hit harder,
When we're dead, our names they shall martyr!


We're playing Dungeons and Dragons,
Meetin’ hot chicks n’ drinking outta flagons.
We've fought goblins and we've fought kobolds
Leavin’ victorious, loaded with swords and gold!


Of course there's the ranger, the drunken lout.
He just strings his bow and shoots about.
He could never miss a single shot.
He can shoot a fly the size of a dot!

We acquired an avenger, what an odd guy.
He’s a royal assassin, so he's quite sly.
He’s mostly good for that one monster you can't hit.
But he's weak, so after every battle he'll have to sit.

We're playing Dungeons and Dragons,
Meetin’ hot chicks n’ drinking outta flagons.
We've fought goblins and we've fought kobolds
Leavin’ victorious, loaded with swords and gold!

We have a glorious warlord, he's really scary.
big and burly, and a wee bit hairy.
He's a tiefling, but he can be nice.
still don't mess with him or you'll pay the price.

A halfing rogue is last and least (just kidding).
daggers and knives are really quite fitting.
He jumps and twirls, dances and leaps,
the bodies stack up in nice neat heaps.

We're playing Dungeons and Dragons,
Meetin’ hot chicks n’ drinking outta flagons.
We've fought goblins and we've fought kobolds
Leavin’ victorious, loaded with swords and gold!

Of course then there's the dungeon master
he's everything from troll to caster.
he throws out the monsters for us to kill
even though we always die a little.

As a party we knock them about,
stick them in a bag of holding, drag them out!
Staves, swords, axes, lutes and knives,
Stand in our way, we shall take your lives!
Of course then there's the dungeon master
he's everything from troll to caster.
he throws out the monsters for us to kill
even though we always die a little.
he plans wars and he plans battles,
across the continent our fights will rattle!
There are steam punk engineers and a mage level thirty,
Jim Darkmagic has spells that are really quite hurty!
There are fire dragons and crazy guns,
soon we'll deal with emperors' sons!
Our team speaks almost every speech,
so there's no language in which we cannot preach!
Our heroes will arise to paragons, and even gods.
There's nothing we can't handle, we win by all odds!