Hilariously cheesy Dad-generated pun of the day

Me: "I just edited David Limbaugh's column."

My dad: "I hope you didn't have to 'Rush' into it."

my iPod top 25

I'm taking Valarie's lead and posting the top 25 most played songs on my iPod. It's a healthy mix of indie rock, hip hop and stuff that is pure guilty pleasure -- basically a perfect summation of my musical tastes (and for all of you who pretend you're too good to listen to Britney Spears, you're only kidding yourselves)

1. Soul Meets Body -- Death Cab for Cutie
2. Marching Bands of Manhattan -- Death Cab for Cutie
3. Let Me Be -- Britney Spears
4. The Food -- Common feat. Kanye West
5. Unplayed Piano -- Damien Rice
6. Key to My Heart -- Craig David
7. I Will Follow You Into the Dark -- Death Cab for Cutie
8. Get it Together -- Beastie Boys
9. Title and Registration -- Death Cab for Cutie
10. Paper Chase -- Jay-Z
11. Why You Wanna -- T.I.
12. Trouble Sleeping -- The Perishers
13. Let Go -- Frou Frou
14. The Sharp Hint of New Tears -- Dashboard Confessional
15. My Favorite Accident -- Motion City Soundtrack
16. White Men in Black Suits -- Everclear
17. Bring Em Out -- T.I. feat. Jay-Z
18. One Mic -- Nas
19. What It's Like to Be Me -- Britney Spears
20. What Goes Around .../...Comes Around -- Justin Timberlake
21. Last Call -- Kanye West feat. Jay-Z
22. Still On My Brain -- Justin Timberlake
23. Walking With A Ghost -- Tegan and Sara
24. Train Underwater -- Bright Eyes
25. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight -- Postal Service

me sing good

So, I am reposting this from my Myspace blog, because I feel like it. Blake's response to this posting was "maybe you should stop listening to awful crap." I will admit, he has a point. But the first two songs were ones that you couldn't escape in middle school/ high school. I didn't necessarily mean that I would like them had they not been gramatically incorrect. Anyway, here's the post:

So, every once in a while my love of music is compromised by one of my other loves: copy editing. Now, I know that music should allow for a proper amount of leniency in this area -- but sometimes a complete lack of logic in a song, or an especially egregious grammar error can have a big effect on how much I enjoy the track. Here are some examples of lines that have always bothered me:

The Backstreet Boys, "I'll Never Break Your Heart"
OK, so I know that grammar isn't really what makes this song bad. But even as an 8th grader, I remember cringing when I heard the lyric "As time goes by/ you will get to know me/ a little more better." MORE better, really? I mean, he could easily say "a little BIT better" without changing the meaning or the flow of that lyric. But a little more better? Come on, AJ. Even you can do a little more better than that.

Jessica Simpson, "I Think I'm In Love With You"
In addition to correcting grammar and punctuation, copy editors need to look for holes in logic. Nowhere is this more apparent than this Jessica Simpson song, where she sings: "I don't know what's gotten into me/ but I kinda think I know what it is/ I think I'm in love."
Ummm ... I'm sorry, didn't you JUST get done saying you DON'T know what's gotten into you? Why would you declare then, in the very next sentence, that you DO know what it is? Make up your mind, Jess.

Dashboard Confessional "Again I Go Unnoticed"
What bothers me most about the error in this song is that in a slightly different version of this song on the album "The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most," he actually sings it correctly. But on the version that appears on "The Swiss Army Romance," he messes it up.
The lyric is supposed to go "Out of the corner of your eye won't be the only way you're looking at me then."
But on this version, he says "Out of the corner of MY eye won't be the only way you're looking at me then."
How could someone look at you through your eye instead of their own eye? Was your eye surgically implanted into their head? Chris, as much as I love you, this is fucked up.

tis the season

In honor of the upcoming election, here is some of the best political stuff I've read/watched lately:

Bill O'Reilly: "Do you want the United States to win in Iraq?"
David Letterman: "First of all ..."
O'Reilly (interrupting): "It's an easy question. Do you want the United States to win in Iraq?"
Letterman: "It's not easy for me because I'm thoughtful."

"At a New York Times lunch, when Stewart was asked how his show did such a good job digging up clips catching the president and other officials contradicting themselves, the comedian shot back, 'A clerk and a video machine.'" -- from a Rolling Stone cover story on Stewart and Colbert written, interestingly enough, by Maureen Dowd

"Go ahead, people, you have your orders from Napoleon Bonaparte, I mean Donald Rumsfeld. 'Back off' and 'relax.' Book a cruise to Chillsville. Don't worry your pretty little heads about the debacle in Iraq, because 'it's complicated, it's difficult.' Are mere mortals going to be able to get their minds around a problem that even Albert Einstein, I mean Donald Rumsfeld, finds complicated? Let's be realistic here.

We should all thank our lucky stars that 'honorable people' are willing to do all this super-advanced thinking for us. Aristotle, I mean Donald Rumsfeld, was kind enough to phrase it that way rather than spell out what he really meant, which was 'people who are smarter than you.'" --Eugene Robinson in a Washington Post column

"The other familiar excuse for negative advertising is that "everybody does it." Newspaper stories about attack commercials usually include a sampling of harsh Democratic spots in an effort to appear evenhanded. But there's really no comparison between what the two parties and their respective surrogates are doing. According to factcheck.org, a respected site that reviews the accuracy of various ads, "the National Republican Campaign Committee's work stands out this year for the sheer volume of assaults on the personal character of Democratic House challengers." Negative Democratic ads tie Republican candidates to President Bush, and to the Iraq war, or accuse them of being in the tank for the oil or pharmaceutical industries. But Democratic ads do not charge that their opponents "prey on our children"—even though one recently resigned following accusations that he did precisely that. One can only imagine the ads Republicans would have made this year if Mark Foley had happened to be a Democrat." -- from a Jacob Weisberg article in Slate