Which one of these is not on my iPod?
Lose yourself, Eminem
Suite for solo cello 1 in G Major, Yo-Yo Ma
You were meant for me, Jewel
Personal Jesus, Depche Mode
Bookends, Simon and Garfunkel
Put a Flying Squirrel on Your Website
DA BOOK
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Da Momma: Elizabeth, a journalist and college instructor. Formerly a latte-slinging, cell phone-talking Washington political junkie. Now a wild-dancing accidentally offensive woman with an irrational passion for flinging things on the floor and hanging things from ceilings. Wants you to think she's a grown-up, even though she calls her Dad the minute things get complicated.
Baby Eden: The Schmoopy. My sweet little Three, who shrank instead of grew. But she's always had Momma's back.
Mary: Devoted to hermit crabs and FREAKING OUT. Made me a mother.
Karenna: Peekaboo Streak. The Roodle, Doodley. Everybody knows about Roo. Passionate about folk music. Some werewolf tendencies. Always looking for new employees. Sophisticated vocabulary
Cute Husband, Esq: A former Marine, it was he who instilled in our daughters a love of getting up very early in the morning to go off and do things. Some days he's lucky he's still alive.
Moonbeam and Sunbeam: Yes, okay, somehow or other they got the same sorta names as our cats, Moonlight and Sunshine. That was a total accident. However, like the cats, they are super-cuddly, will get food for themselves if hungry, and they're part of the family. Like the rest of the family, they believe in the power of liquor, drugs, and hot glue. They have no fear of blood.
The Beasties: Two cats. And some cacti that refuse to die. This is a picture of a fish we killed a long time ago. Need to update that.
I’m going to go with Jewel.
Bookends.
It’s GOT to be Jewel. I know for a fact you have Eminem on there. Just a hunch. A hunch I know to be right.
Dude. Um. Jewel? Personal Jesus? Neither of which are on my ipod…
thanks for the midday quiz, though!
Jewel…I say this because I have all of those on my ipod except for Jewel!
I’ll be the naysayer and guess that Yo-Yo Ma isn’t on there. I have my reasons for believing that. And I love that Jewel song.
oh, they’re all on there. i’d believe it. looks like my playlist, too. just add some sesame street and raffi. (the kids have their own playlist, but when you put it on random, anything can pop up. i was running along to the baby einstein version of Fur Elise the other day. had the ipod in my bra and was wearing mittens, so it was more trouble than it was worth to change it.)
Im going with Yo- Yo Ma.
Just because
yeah, I think I’m going to go with “none of the above” because they are all on there, right? Entertainment Weekly.com occasionally does a thing were they ask you to post the last 5 songs played on your IPOD.
There are some embarassingly strange mixes out there, for example I give you the mine:
18th floor Balcony…Blue October (going to see them in concert tonight, too)
Heart of the House…Alanis Morrisette
When October Goes….Barry Manilow (yes, that’s the really cringe worthy one)
Sweet Sixteen…Billy Idol
Nepenthe…Chip Davis
Anyone?
Jewel gets my guess…just a little too foofy for a c-section soundtrack, maybe.
Now I’m wishing I’d thought to rock out to Eminem for mine…
I’m really hoping its Jewel that isn’t on your iPod, because I’d like to remain friends with you. That song makes me NUTS.
I really think you neeed Ellie as your friend so just say Jewel.
I am also voting for Yo Yo Ma. Everything else would be on my iPod!
i’m voting for yo mama.
Yo-Yo Ma.
I vote Jewel. Spill!!!
I’m going to go against the tide and say Lose yourself, Eminem
oh and to clarify- it’s not that I can’t imagine you liking that song- but I just don’t think of it as ‘calming’ which I was thinking was more your goal with the iPod/birth music thing.
All of them.
As a lover of rap and Eminem (not what he says, just the catchy way he says it), I refuse to believe you would NOT have Lose Yourself on there, so let’s go with Yo Yo Ma.
Hilarious.
I have to go with ‘Jewel’ also. But I think even I’ve managed to allow that to sneak onto my iDevice somehow, but don’t have any Yo Yo Ma, so I’m torn.
AND NOW I HAVE THAT STOOPID JEWEL SONG IN MY HEAD.
Thanks a lot. That was your secret plot, wasn’t it?!
Musical terrorist.
Love the Meredith Brooks story. Of course.
My vote is for Jewel. You just don’t seem like a Jewel person.
El? You were meant for me. And I was meant for you. Because Jewel makes our skin crawl, and we have this in common, even though we never knew it.
She does go up in my regard because Ei likes her, but I have a long history of detesting Jewel’s music. In fact, a colleague in the Congressman’s office used to enjoy torturing me by singing her stuff under his breath in our very close quarters. This was the penalty whenever I pissed him off. “Ring ring! Through bearded barley!!” AAAAACK!
Yo-Yo Ma actually appears twice, once for that cello piece which has been my favorite for many years, and once for the innaugral performance of “Air and Simple Gifts.” Simple Gifts is my favorite hymn of all time.
And then this morning I loaded the Bee Gee’s “Staying Alive.” Who could NOT want that on their iPod?
The song your colleague was singing was actually by Sixpence None the Richer, an equally annoying band. Sorry to be a nudge!
It’s okay, Liz. You are a republican so I forgive you, you know not what you do.
Pamela — thanks. That clears up a lot. I really hate that song.
Ei — yeah, I think forgiving me for being a Republican has to be a lot more work than the Jewel thing. Lol.
It’s not so much the forgiveness that gives me problems. It’s the sheer novelty of agreeing with you so often. Knowing you has rocked my reality.
Yeah, so I missed the “not”. Jewel totally makes sense.
My vote is Jewel. That was my first guess, and then I see nearly everyone else in the comments agrees and then that was it. Wonder what it is that makes you seem such a non-Jewelish woman? *grinz*