Black Market Kidneys » Robot Brains http://blackmarketkidneys.com/blog In Five Years This Blog Will Be Completeley Legitimate. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:27:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 they have a plan http://blackmarketkidneys.com/blog/2009/07/21/they-have-a-plan/ http://blackmarketkidneys.com/blog/2009/07/21/they-have-a-plan/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:34:30 +0000 Tito http://blackmarketkidneys.com/blog/?p=1971 During a recent visit, my sister told me a chronology posited by a friend’s 4 year old son:

First there were dinosaurs.
Next came cavemen.
Then came people.
Then there were people and robots.
Next there will just be robots.

(more or less – I may have misquoted). Speaking of which.

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I recommend this batch for starters if you’re looking: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists at Brownies (NYC) July 4, 2002.

]]> http://blackmarketkidneys.com/blog/2009/03/04/unpaid-advert/feed/ 0 it’s better my sweet, that we hover like bees http://blackmarketkidneys.com/blog/2009/02/11/its-better-my-sweet-that-we-hover-like-bees/ http://blackmarketkidneys.com/blog/2009/02/11/its-better-my-sweet-that-we-hover-like-bees/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:45:32 +0000 Tito http://blackmarketkidneys.com/blog/?p=1653 As with all things, Facebook is the Prime Mover. You know how it is. By fiat, I’ll put all my chain-notes on this blog & link back from there, so that all y’all aren’t required to go to FB for scoops on me if you don’t want to/can’t. I’m talking to you China and Ticha (or other people that work at corporations who firewall the FB juggernaut). Plus You get the extra-special bonus of me including MP3’s of each song for your fair use/pirating needs & a few possibly NSFW youtube links!

Go!

The Soundtrack of Your Life as Determined By Your Ipod.

This is totally random and ridiculous, but kind of fun.
HOW TO DO IT…
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For the first question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button TWICE
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…just type it in man!

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

Tito’s Soundtrack

Opening Credits
So Far Away – Carole King [MP3]
I would have played this later in the movie, but who am I to argue with iPod?

Waking Up
Los Angeles, I’m Yours – The Decemberists [MP3]
Works for me. The harmonica in gives me fond memories of those Gary Coleman videos we rented from Applause on Dodge during my youth (ca. 1984). You know, where he lived in a lockers at a train depot and had some mystical ability to pick horse winners. Oh, where were we?

On The Right Track

On The Right Track (1981)

First Day at School
Name Names – The Mendoza Line [MP3]
Good. The opening guitar riff that settles into a barracuda-ish stutter sets the mood nicely. Besides, who can forget first day of school roll calls where the teachers got to stumble over all the foreign names & I had to explain my name was really Tito.

Falling in Love
Lighten Up – Beastie Boys [MP3]
Another one of the Beastie Boys instrumental noodlings I could do without. Come on iPod!! You know this is the band that gave us Girls, don’t you. Sheeeeeeeet.

Fight Song
The Fool – Neutral Milk Hotel [MP3]
Does not bode well for the “fight”. Do the engineers at Apple know something I don’t? Don’t Answer!

Breaking Up
Steady Rollin’ – Two Gallants [MP3]

but I shot my wife today
dropped her body in the Frisco bay

Look out, Monica!

High School Prom
The List of Dorms – Pavement [MP3]
Would have been nice to go to a high school where this was the dance music.

The one that got away
Prince – Gett Off [MP3]
And Stay Off!

Life
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite – R.E.M. [MP3]
The best thing I can say about this is: if Get A Life can use REM for a theme song, that’s good enough for me. Speaking of which:

Best.
News.
Of.
The.
Day.

This series is available on DVD!! Totally coming to my house on the wings of the US Mail golden chariot in the sky.

Mental Breakdown
Dark Leaves Form a Thread – Destroyer [MP3]
Dan Bejar serenading my psychological collapse seems right. He Just Gets Me.

Driving
I’ll Be Your Friend – Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova [MP3]
I don’t drive much, but this would be a nice song for a shot of me wistfully looking out a MUNI window, Midnight Cowboy steez

Flashback
The Farewell Party – Cursive [MP3]
Tim Kasher laying the lyrics for retrospection & memory? Not toooo much of a stretch.

Getting Back Together
Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie [MP3]
Where WERE the spiders?

Wedding
Bitchin’ Camaro – The Dead Milkmen [MP3]
YES!

Birth of Child
Ain’t No Cure For Love – Leonard Cohen [MP3]
Awww yeah, baby being born to some sweet hot sax lix.

Final Battle
Crazy Feelin’ – Roy Hamilton [MP3]
I was pulling for some Flaming Lips at this point. But again, I bow before iPod.

Death Scene
Disappear – Beyoncé [MP3]
Here Lies…Tito Fierce.

Funeral Song
The Air Near My Fingers – The White Stripes [MP3]

life is so boring
it’s really got be snoring

’nuff said

End Credits
Outro With Bees (Reprise) – Neko Case [MP3]
Outro!
And I’m Swayze!

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2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

Go! {via}

Also, I’ve done these Magic Eight Ball MP3 quizzes in the past. This one was borderline freaky with some of the answers. I say it’s a Repeal Day Miracle!!

IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
Those Magic Changes – Sha Na Na

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Cream – Prince

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
I Love The Night Life – India and Nuyorican Soul

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Goddess On A Highway – Mercury Rev

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Everything Falls Apart – Husker Du

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) – They Might Be Giants

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Temptations – 2Pac

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Rock’N’Roll Is Here To Stay – Sha Na Na

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
The Only Living Boy in Omaha – Simon Joyner & The Fallen Men

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
The Chase , Part II – A Tribe Called Quest

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Oh Take Me Back – M. Ward

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Close To Me – The Cure

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
The Steve Martin – EPMD

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Waiting In Line – Turtle Moon

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Resignation Superman – Big Head Todd & The Monsters

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Don’t Believe The Hype – Public Enemy

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Alibi – Elvis Costello

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Victory March – University of Notre Dame Marching Band

WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Sweet and Low – Fugazi

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Amorous in Bauhaus Fashion – The Faint

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) Duke Ellington

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Jane – Ben Folds Five

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Stone Age – De La Soul

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
I Summon You – Spoon

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Lose Yourself – Eminem

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Take Her Out of Pity – The Kingston Trio

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Six Days – DJ Shadow

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Coin Operated Boy – The Dresden Dolls

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bonus: LFO – Summer Girls [MP3]

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Error Screenshot

Any help the internet can throw my way will be nice. So far google has failed me.
(For those scoring at home, my iTunes library is not 2 Billion gigabyes.)

As I note that “synced” is apparently a Word.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAAgfY_NHzw

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A Ha!– The first song is The Jam’s Beat Surrender. Some while back a friend gave me a bunch of Jam songs to “get me wise”. True to my form, this is the first I’ve finally fired them up. Good job random.

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(I expected this typo be corrected before you ever see this, but it only fuels my speculation that Apple press releases are cut-n-paste into “news” articles with the flimsiest of rubber-stamp editing)

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