BOTB 14
40) the kooks - she moves in her own way
39) foo fighters - let it die
38) the white stripes - icky thump
37) rilo kiley - the moneymaker
36) eels - old shit/new shit
35) modest mouse - parting of the sensory
34) we are scientists - it's a hit
33) r.e.m. - supernatural superserious
32) arcade fire - keep the car running
31) a fine frenzy - rangers
30) spoon - don't you evah
29) the decemberists - o valencia!
28) the white stripes - rag & bone
27) grinderman - no pussy blues
26) radiohead - faust arp
25) dave matthews & tim reynolds - eh hee
24) bright eyes - hot knives
23) the shins - phantom limb
22) foo fighters - the pretender
21) david gray - you're the world to me
20) eddie vedder - hard sun
19) stars - take me to the riot
18) bruce springsteen - girls in their summer clothes
17) the shins - sea legs
16) feist - 1, 2, 3, 4
15) rilo kiley - silver lining
14) nick cave & the bad seeds - we call upon the author to explain
13) glados & jonathan coulton - still alive
12) arcade fire - (antichrist television blues)
11) a fine frenzy - almost lover
10) glen hansard & marketa irglova - falling slowly
9) peter bjorn & john - young folks
8) death cab for cutie - i will possess your heart
7) sia - breathe me
6) johnathan rice - we're all stuck out in the desert
5) nick cave & the bad seeds - dig, lazarus, dig!!!
4) eels - souljacker, pt. 1
3) the decemberists - the perfect crime #2
2) silverchair - straight lines
1) spoon - the underdog
The Story
We always knew that my great (great?) uncle was on the Titanic. My grandmother (and my mother) always told us about how he survived by dressing up as a woman and sneaking on a lifeboat. Not honorable but hey, he was third class, he wouldn't have survived anyway. And that sums up my grandmother's side of the family.
Anyway. Back when the Ellis Island website first became searchable and the manifest of the Titanic was not searchable, my mom spent a week searching for him. She found him on the Carpathia as one of the survivors. She couldn't find him at Ellis Island but when she finally figured out that someone dated all the papers three months ahead, she found him there.
But he was never on the official list of Titanic survivors. She searched and searched and looked and looked. She told me about how she started looking for him as a little girl but could never find him.
Well Titanic was on last night and I thought, hey, let's just try to look for him. And I went on Encyclopedia Titanica and looked at every page. No Philip Zennie on the lifeboats, no Philip Zennie in third, second or first class. I called my mom and told her that Titanic had inspired me to find him and we looked together. I got really excited because the site had biographies for every survivor. But we still couldn't find him. I sorted the survivors by age.
This is why we can't have nice things
GTA IV has gotten to that point of no return that all GTA games eventually reach: Rachel can't beat this goddamn mission and therefore will never get any farther in this game ever. Many controllers were slammed around and curses were shouted. Then I looked at gamefaqs and it just said shoot the guys. I CANNOT SHOOT THEM, I AM DEAD. BUT THANK YOU, STUPID WALKTHROUGH MAN.
So I am watching Titanic. I hate this movie. Ugh. Time to change the channel. Okay, I guess I will watch Love Sick: Secrets of a Sex Addict. Oh, Lifetime. Why do you make me watch these terrible, terrible movies?
Trapped in the Closet
Now I know this is OFN (and I'm behind by two years) but did you know that there are now TWENTY-TWO CHAPTERS of Trapped in the Closet?
And that you can watch all of them online at (for some crazy reason) ifc.com?
And did you know that if you get confused, there's a character map?
I didn't know. And my life was forever changed.
I was watching from chapter 11 on but decided to start all over again because it was just so good the first five times.
Sorry, guys. I was just happy this said I wasn't from Michigan. Eat that, stupid friends!
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
So. Season finales for shows this season? Kind of very lame.
The season finale of Bones is stricken from my world. Like the last Harry Potter book, it never happened.
And House? Really? I didn't like her but...really?
The Office was better than the last couple episodes. But Jim and Pam were supposed to get engaged! I was upset. Until the very end.
Anyway, lame.
I am ill and hoping to recover tomorrow so I can go to work but I am feeling completely awful. I am going to have to go to work and just be useless I guess.
I want a milkshake.
Bleh.
I love you all.
P.S. IRL, life has been lame. Father of kid who used to work with us died. Father of blogger I like is really sick. Laura is gone and I really need her.
P.P.S Oh and I am a bridesmaid now. Which is not lame but awesome. Pumped, I am.
Totally jaded now though because those signs? Behind him? The handwritten ones like Women for Obama? Plants. The dude handed them out like an hour before Obama came out. And showed them how to cheer etc.
