Somewhere with DEVO

Song title Q&A meme: DEVO!

1. Are you male or female:
   Post-Post-Modern Man
2. Describe yourself:
   Happy Guy
3. How do you feel about yourself:
   Through Being Cool
4. Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend:
   Soft Things
5. Describe your current boy/girl situation:
   Shrivel-Up
6. Describe your current location:
   Wiggly World
7. Describe where you want to be:
   The Satisfied Mind
8. Your best friend is:
   Swelling Itching Brain
9. Your favorite color is:
   Pink Pussycat
10. You know that:
    A Change is Gonna Cum
11. What’s the weather like:
    Beautiful World
12. If your life was a television show what would it be called?
    Time Out For Fun
13. What is life to you:
    Freedom of Choice
14. What is the best advice you have to give:
    Whip It
15. If you could change your name what would you change it to:
    Mr. DNA

Nouveau annoyances

1. Facebook apps. All of them. They should all be banned.
    
2. Crossposting all your tweets to your blog. I subscribed to your blog because I want to read your occasional lengthy thoughts. If I want to read your tweets, there’s this really great site called Twitter where I can go to read them!
    
3. Retweets. Same issue: I’m following you because I want to know about you. If I really wanted to hear all about the #worthless #esoteric #crap you follow, don’t you think I would be following it myself? Ever hear of the concept of signal-to-noise ratio?
    
4. Twitter as diversion. Trust me, no one but you wants to read the play-by-play of that intramural soccer game or five-minute updates on your experience at the airport luggage carousel. Tweeting just because you’re bored is a great way to prove to the rest of the world how boring you really are.
    
5. Lack of due diligence. Never ask a community to answer a question you could answer yourself with 15 seconds’ research. Google and Wikipedia can answer almost any question your little mind can formulate in less time than it takes you to post it to a 5,000-member forum.

Big Wax Attack

Forty albums that influenced me meme, huh? Okay, I’ll play along with this one.

Rather than try to order them by some subjective ranking of how big an influence each was, I think I’ll do my best to set them down in as close to a chronological order as I can. Hopefully that’ll give you an idea what my road has been like.

1. Abba: Greatest Hits Vol. 2
2. Elton John: Captain Fantastic
3. Sweet: Desolation Boulevard
4. Aerosmith: Toys in the Attic
5. Devo: Freedom of Choice
6. The Cars: The Cars
7. Various: Heavy Metal: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
8. Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Caberet
9. Aldo Nova: Aldo Nova
10. Loverboy: Get Lucky
11. Billy Squier: Emotions in Motion
12. Def Leppard: Pyromania
13. Fleetwood Mac: Tusk
14. Nik Kershaw: The Riddle
15. Wall of Voodoo: Call of the West
16. Art of Noise: (Who’s Afraid of) the Art of Noise
17. Rush: Caress of Steel
18. They Might Be Giants: They Might Be Giants
19. Negativland: Escape From Noise
20. Moby: Moby
21. H.W.A.: Livin’ in a Hoe House
22. Laibach: Opus Dei
23. Ministry: The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
24. Kraftwerk: Electric Cafe
25. KMFDM: Nihil
26. KLF: The White Room
27. EMF: Schubert Dip
28. Bentmen: Magicroom
29. Emergency Broadcast Network: Behavior Modification / We Will Rock You
30. Concussion Ensemble: Stampede
31. Shriekback: Go Bang!
32. Robert Plant: Now and Zen
33. Stan Ridgway: Mosquitos
34. Various: Mashin’ Up the Nation Vols. 1 and 2
35. Madness: Complete Madness
36. Dance Hall Crashers: Lockjaw
37. Toasters: Dub 56
38. Beat Soup: Start From Scratch
39. Gangster Fun: Pure Amphetamines
40. Pressure Cooker: Pressure Cooker