La Redécouverte

[aredblush]

Wow... I virtually vegetated all day....
I had a lot of little things to do, none of them important, and I just started a bunch of them and didn't finish even one. I'm in that mindset where I want to do things, but I'm not ready to do them.... This happens to me a lot. It's like, if I'm not keyed up enough to complete a task in a way that will result in an amazing outcome, then it's not the right time to start it. Usually I can work myself up and then focus on one thing and do it, but today I really couldn't. I should be upset with myself , but I'm not... which upsets me >:[

Ok, change of topic!

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Since I'm a lamer who doesn't have anything better to do on Sunday night, have a nice (and hilarious) music meme :)

(I uploaded all the songs for you, because I had to do something right today, ok?)

RULES:
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
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.



IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
Sweet Ones (Sarah Slean)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
D.A.N.C.E. (Justice)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Dance Into The Night (The View)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Yellow (Coldplay)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Stolen (Dashboard Confessional)

WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
Too Long (Yael Naim)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Anna Begins (Counting Crows)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Beauty In A Car Crash (Flight 409)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Close Your Eyes (Alska in Winter)

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Firewater (Yellowcard)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
A Match Made In Texas (Her Space Holiday)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Case Of You (Joni Mitchell)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Don't Stop Me Now (Queen)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Sweetness (Jimmy Eat World)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Umbrella (covered by Marie Digby)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Driftwood (Travis)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Silver Lining (Rilo Kiley)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Hold On Love (Azure Ray)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
This Side (Nickel Creek)

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
I'm Outta Love (Anastacia)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Under the Sea (Sebastian)

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
La Redécouverte (Yann Tiersen)


I'm always disappointed when I do this kind of meme because the shuffle option on my iTunes must hate me big time. The "answers" are always either hilarious or hilariously accurate (scarily so).

Anyway. You know what's the most hilarious of all of them? The one about my wedding. Because when "Umbrella" came out I was obsessed with it and got my hands on any cover ever done of that song. I was so fixated that I went and burned myself a cd with 16 tracks of Umbrella-covers! Now, I don't want you to be jealous. Why don't you click here and burn yourselves a copy too? I even included coverart :)
And just because I'm in a present giving mood have these versions too:
Amanda Palmer sang it live.
Linkin Park did a cover when they played in London
And someone did a very Cool Mashup titled "Thnks fr th Umbrellas". You can't resist the awesome that is FOB and Rihanna in a single song.

Comments

[belenustenebrae.livejournal.com]

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Beauty In A Car Crash
This just made me laugh.
This meme always gives awesome-weird results.

I like Mandy Moore's cover slighty more than the original, I don't know why.
And David Sides' cover on the piano is just awesome. Hadn't heard it before.

[aredblush.livejournal.com]

I love piano covers :D
I have a folder on my laptop dedicated to them. Most are by this guy (http://www.youtube.com/user/doublsh0t). He play by ear, but he's really talented :)

[belenustenebrae.livejournal.com]

Hee, awesome. *suscribes* I love piano music.

[smunchkin89.livejournal.com]

Luckily, I don't need to burn a copy for myself: I simply go on and steal yours!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! (Don't worry, I won't: actually, I'm a bit fond of that whole "being alive" thing)
And yes, they really are scarily accurate, aren't they? lots of hugggggggggggs

[aredblush.livejournal.com]

OMG! You're alive! Still!
I thought you'd abandoned these fair shores for the facebook cliffs. Guess I was wrong :)

(Stay away from my albums!)

[milenaa.livejournal.com]

I never do those music memes because I don't use i-tunes and I'm way to lazy to make a playlist of all the songs on my computer by hand :)

But thank you so much for uploading yours! I've wanted a good mp3 version of Under the Sea forever \o/

I know the feeling of wanting to do something and then you just... don't. It happens to me a lot and it's always frustrating and I wish I knew how other people deal with it so I could just change it already.

[aredblush.livejournal.com]

Ok, this is were I fess up and tell you that I have pretty much every Disney song ever recorded on my iTunes but shhhh! Don't tell anyone!

I'm out of that funk now :). I noticed that it happens to me a when I'm too excited, too much pent-up energy to focus on just one thing. I try to work it out dancing in my room a la "Risky Business" again, DO NOT tell anyone! and once I've calmed down I can get to work.

[saba1789.livejournal.com]

Oooh, totally grabbing the Umbrella covers, thank you so much for sharing! :)


PS: You did know Gerard did one as well, right?

[aredblush.livejournal.com]

YES YES! I have that too! *is totally shameless*
I have something of a cover!complex. There's a folder full of covers on my laptop. I'm really interested in how people rework things. I like to see how an artist relates to someone else's work and then "makes" it their own, adding/changing things and make something new using "old" stuff.
I think that's why I like all those furniture things made out of recycled stuff. All the reinventing that's behind them is really enthralling :) /babbling

[saba1789.livejournal.com]

Hee! I actually used to not like covers since I am very much a creature of habit and if I like a song I very much like it just the way it is and when things are changed it just messes with my head and yeah, I don't like that.
But I do have come to like quite a few covers in recent years and can now appreciate them as something new and independent.
I should do a post about my favorite covers - maybe I even have something you don't have yet? :)

[aredblush.livejournal.com]

maybe I even have something you don't have yet? :)
This would make me very very VERY happy!