iTunes, Therefore I Am :: Come And Play in the Milky Night

A few months ago I was tagged several times with a Facebook Meme where you set a music player to 'Random', and you take song titles as they come up as answers to a sequence of questions.

I idly tried the quiz a few times over several weeks, was amused by the answers it threw up, and kept them (but have since lost the sequence of questions as they were posted). I also did it a few times to see if it I could get crappier answers than the uncanny ones I was getting - but these merely tended to be untitled pieces or things like "Chopin: Étude Op. 10, No. 3 in E major ("Tristesse")". Below is my not-cheating compilation of most of my results (complete with the crap first question which is meant to be how you respond to someone asking 'Is This OK?'; and an acknowledgment of what this this post was really meant to be called):

WHAT I TOLD TO TITLE THIS NOTE AS: Come and Play in the Milky Night
"IS THIS OKAY"? Dig Yourself
"IS THIS OKAY"? Tick Tick Boom

----- TODAY -----

Q: HOW DO I FEEL TODAY?
A: British Hussle
(my favourite answer)

Q: HOW DO I FEEL TODAY?
A: I have forgiven jesus

Q: HOW DO I FEEL TODAY?
A: i'm playing easy to get

Q: HOW DO I FEEL TODAY?
A: Don't take everybody to be your friend
(good advice from Sister Rosetta Tharpe)

Q: WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
A: Pearly Dewdrops Drops
(Cocteau Twins song is given a whole new aspect in this context)

----- IN GENERAL -----

Q: WHAT IS MY LIFE'S PURPOSE?
A: Confusion

Q: WHAT IS MY LIFE'S PURPOSE?
A: Temptation

Q: WHAT IS MY MOTTO?
A: The Open Mind

Q: WHAT IS MY MOTTO?
A: Don't Eat Stuff Off the Sidewalk

Q: WHAT DO I THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
A: dizzy miss lizzy / surfin usa
(that's a medley)

Q: WHAT DO I THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
A: The Canyons of Your Mind
(as if my thoughts echo this wonderful piece of music by the Bonzo Dog Band?)

Q: WHAT IS MY HOBBY/INTEREST?
A: hard to explain

Q: WHAT IS MY HOBBY/INTEREST?
A: The World at Large

Q: WHAT MAKES ME LAUGH?
A: Dancing Shoes

Q: WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
A: Payroll

Q: WHAT SCARES ME THE MOST?
A: Indiepop List
(possibly true)

Q: WHAT SCARES ME THE MOST?
A: If Dogs Run Free
(Bob Dylan knows me fairly well then)

Q: WHAT SCARES ME THE MOST?
A: Balloons
(woah - how did FOALS know that)

Q: WHAT SCARES ME THE MOST?
A: The World at Large
(of course Modest Mouse would suggest such thing ... but isn't this also one of my Hobbies in an earlier question?)

----- MATHS -----

Q: WHAT IS 2+2?
A: Tens
(now you think I am making this up!!! but this was the Diblo track that I got ... uncannily reflecting my grasp of mathematics)

Q: WHAT IS 2+2?
A: Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It
(which might also reflect my grasp of mathematics)

----- FRIENDS -----

Q: WHAT I LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL IS:
A: Hands around my throat

Q: WHAT I LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL IS:
A: Donya Ro Che Didi

Q: WHAT I LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL IS:
A: Swallow Smile

Q: WHAT DO MY FRIENDS THINK OF ME?
A: The Stranger

Q: WHAT DO MY FRIENDS THINK OF ME?
A: Naked Cousin

Q: WHAT DO MY FRIENDS THINK OF ME?
A: Still Ill

Q: WHAT DO I THINK OF MY FRIENDS?
A: I'm Your Man

Q: WHAT DO I THINK OF MY FRIENDS?
A: Freaks

Q: WHAT DO I THINK OF MY BEST FRIEND?
A: Life Must be Wonderful

Q: WHAT DO I THINK OF THE PERSON I LIKE?
A: She'd Rather Be With Me

Q: WHAT DO I THINK OF THE PERSON I LIKE?
A: Pump Up the Jam

Q: WHAT DO I THINK WHEN I SEE THE PERSON I LIKE?
A: Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance
(thank you, Billy Bragg)

Q: WHAT DO I THINK WHEN I SEE THE PERSON I LIKE?
A: The Songs I Didn't Write
(how did the Creak Boards know that?)

Q: DOES ANYONE LIKE ME?
A: The Eyeball Kid
(Tom Waits would lumber me with a freak)

Q: DOES ANYONE LIKE ME?
A: Good Lord (Run Old Jeremiah)
(what? only He likes me? no wonder he's Good. praise be...)

----- MY LIFE STORY -----

Q: MY LIFE STORY GOES LIKE THIS:
A: Choo Choo

Q: MY LIFE STORY GOES LIKE THIS:
A: Twist And Shout > Willie And The Hand Jive > Trip To The Sea
(ie. it's a Jonathan Richman medley?)

Q: WILL I EVER GET MARRIED?
A: I'm Gonna DJ
(instead-of getting married? or at my wedding?)

Q: WHAT WILL I DANCE TO AT MY WEDDING?
A: Hold Me in Your Arms

Q: WHAT WILL I DANCE TO AT MY WEDDING?
A: Let Me Kiss You

Q: WHAT WILL I DANCE TO AT MY WEDDING?
A: A crackly old Chinese song from the 30s (not actually title)
(I can imagine that)

Q: HOW WILL I DIE?
A: Nothing Rises to Meet Me
(Bill Callahan predicts this via iTunes, when he's already written the ace: 'Dress Sexy At My Funeral')

Q: WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
A: Miles Away
(as in: the yeah yeah yeahs song? or the distance from my body?)

Q: THE ONE THING I REGRET?
A: I Might Be Wrong

Q: IF I COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD I CHANGE?
A: Strange Times
(the Black Keys have given me a lot of work to do then)

----- PARENTS -----

Q: WHAT DO I THINK OF MY PARENTS?
A: Mama, You've Been on My Mind
(Bob Dylan, psychic)

Q: WHAT DO MY PARENTS THINK OF ME?
A: We Need Love
(that's what Johnny Osbourne reckons)

Q: WHAT DO I THINK OF MY PARENTS?
A: String Quartet in F major, Op.96 "American" - Allegro ma non troppo
(lost on you perhaps, but uncanny since this was the piece of music I sent them on a CD by the T'ang Quartet after they'd said how the enjoyed their concert in Ireland)

Q: WHAT DO MY PARENTS THINK OF ME?
A: Godless
(who told Mum about my lack of Church-going habits?)

----- GENDER ISSUES -----

Q: WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
A: I Feel Like The Mother Of The World

Q: DOES ANYONE LIKE ME?
A: There Is Nothing Like a Dame

Q: WHAT DO MY PARENTS THINK OF ME?
A: Man O Sand To Girl O Sea
(I don't like these sex-change implications as made by the Go-Betweens)

Q: WHAT DO I WANT TO BE WHEN I GROW UP?
A: Just Like a Woman