at some point in the past few weeks, i was going to post about little things going wrong and compounding into a giant ball of i completely and irrationally but only occasionally hate my entire life omg wtf. as it turns out, this post does a fairly accurate job.

[via hyperbole and a half]

actually i think i dubbed half of these from my dad's collection.

side 1:

norman greenbaum - spirit in the sky
van morrison - brown eyed girl
thurston harris - little bitty pretty one
the mccoys - hang on sloopy
the drifters - on broadway
ben e. king - stand by me
bill withers - lean on me
marvin gaye - what's goin' on
fats domino - kansas city
gary bonds - quarter to three
the kingsmen - louie louie
the five satins - in the still of the night
the righteous brothers - you've lost that lovin' feeling

side 2:

gene chandler - duke of earl
bruce channel - hey baby
fats domino - blueberry hill
the champs - tequila
the five stairsteps - o-o-h child
the coasters - yakety yak
the beatles - yellow submarine
the beatles - hey jude
the beatles - revolution
the beatles - let it be
the beatles - yesterday
the beatles - sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band
the beatles - with a little help from my friends
the beatles - eleanor rigby
the beatles - ob-la-di

too lazy to link.

hello random!

side 1:

lynyrd skynyrd - sweet home alabama
the steve miller band - the joker
dobie gray - drift away
doobie brothers - black water
don mclean - american pie
the four seasons - december 1963 (oh, what a night (remix))

side 2:

third eye blind - semi-charmed life
steven curtis chapman - free
the o.c. supertones - resolution
sunday drive - god is believable
squirrel nut zippers - hell [for those unaware, mtv stands for "music television"]
audio adrenaline - man of god
green day - good riddance (time of your life)
4 non blondes - what's up

ok. slightly less embarrassing.

side 1:

bush - glycerine
bush - comedown
tripping daisy - i got a girl
tripping daisy - piranha
tripping daisy - motivation
meat puppets - backwater

side 2:

cake - the distance
the nixons - sister
adam sandler - ode to my car [nsfw. i think the edited version is actually funnier, but i couldn't find it]
green day - j.a.r.
smashing pumpkins - today
natalie merchant - carnival
barenaked ladies - if i had $1000000

side 1:

newsboys - take me to your leader
dc talk - in the light
dime store prophets - hitler's girlfriend [i don't know those people listed, but they're definitely not dime store prophets...]
audio adrenaline - free ride [en español!]
sarah jahn - crucible
chris rice - deep enough to dream

side 2:

grover levy - if you want to lead me to jesus
charlie peacock - that's the point
dc talk - jesus freak
michael w. smith - friends [?!]
third day - thief

fun fact: this tape was recorded over an ice cube album.

circa 1997-2000ish.

side 1:
big tent revival - here with me
duncan sheik - barely breathing
wes king - i believe
pedro the lion - lullaby
natalie imbruglia - torn
avalon - testify to love
the normals - everything (apron full of stains) [only version i could find, starts around 2:30]
barenaked ladies - one week
blind melon - no rain

side 2:
billy joel - the longest time
eric clapton - wonderful tonight
aerosmith - sweet emotion
big tent revival - if loving god was a crime
soft cell - tainted love
dc talk - i wish we'd all been ready
kc & jojo - all my life
the byrds - mr. tambourine man
big tent revival - the best thing in life

things i have watched and/or listened to while "cleaning" my media shelf:

- old "friends" episodes ["i want girls on bread!"]
- various austin city limits episodes [erm, might just have to keep nickel creek...]
- various cirque du soleil shows [evidently i had the bravo channel at some point?]
- many many rap songs [this is how we do it; in the trunk; hip hop hooray; down for whatever (also known as 'that one rap song during that one scene in office space')]
- albums that, unless you were at miami university sometime between 1997-2001, i am not sure anyone even knows exists [stephan sharp anyone?]
- omg LANABELLE [NOT going to "bin" this!]
- omg CONSUMED?? [crusade band from "home"? i'm not even sure...]
- omg I COULD SING OF YOUR LOVE FOREVER

okay, this is fun. next up: MIXTAPES.

does not know what she must be doing wrong in life.

"Every now and then, you are on the route from Point-A to Point-B, and you need to find a drug store. You make a left, and all of a sudden find yourself on the route from Point-A to Point-C. You've just folded space in the fourth dimension."

[via driving in the 'burgh]

why do people feel the need to decide what is best for me?