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Din Din Wo

May 6th, 2008 Roshan Posted in internet |

Posts like this are probably a reasonable indicator of how much productive activity I’m currently engaged in. I picked this game up from Chitra the Physicist, and it’s loads of fun, and considering my predilection for letting machines tell me The Truth, I couldn’t resist. The way it works is you put your playlist on shuffle and then hit next for each question, the song’s name being your answer. So here we go:

• If someone says “is this okay?” You say? - Never Been (Joe Savini). Ha ha, that is such an apt answer I can’t even say anything.
• What would best describe your personality? - Windy Town (Rod Stewart). Hey! That’s not funny.
• What do you like in a guy/girl? - Drive (Incubus). Ah, that’s interesting.
• How do you feel today? - For Yasgur’s Farm (Mountain). I’m sure there’s some really deep meaning to that but for the life of me, I can’t figure out just how I’d feel for Yasgur’s Farm..
• What is your life’s purpose? - All I want to do is make love to you (Heart). Ouch, some things are better kept private. I knew I should have put off ripping that old Top Rock CD till after I was done.
• What is your motto? - Paranoid eyes (Pink Floyd). It’s always a bad idea to ask The Final Cut a question, the answer is always freaking depressing.
• What do your friends think of you? - Brain Damage (Pink Floyd). Shit, when this came up I laughed out so loud my brother came in with that contemptuous look of his and the very next thought that crossed my mind was, “No one’s going to believe you.” so I hit next and I got Come Together (Aerosmith). I think I’ll go with the first one.
• What do you think of your parents? - Strip the Soul (Porcupine Tree). Ha ha ha, so unfair. Of all the people, my parents. Ha ha ha. Poor people, all that effort and they get this. Ha ha ha.
• What do you think about very often? - Joan Crawford (Blue Öyster Cult). Okay, I would just like to go on record saying that this is definitely not true. I didn’t even know of her till I first heard this song. Makes me wonder at the accuracy of this whole thing. Quite simply, “I did not think of that woman.”
• What is 2+2? - Can’t stop (Red Hot Chili Peppers). That doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, but By The Way was a reasonable album even if I liked only a few songs. If anyone wants to gift me something, Stadium Arcadium would be nice.
• What do you think of your best friend? - Obscured by clouds (Pink Floyd). Ha ha ha, ha ha. You know what this means. My friends, always seeing castles in the purple (hazy) sky.
• What do you think of the person you like? - Cheap Day Return (Jethro Tull). It’s not true! I swear! I’m sorry, it wasn’t me! And neither is that bit about Joan Crawford. Ha ha, cheap day return.
• What is your life story? - Child in Time (Deep Purple). That’s touching. Really, you don’t know how much it means to me. “See the blind man, shooting at the world.”
• What do you want to be when you grow up? - Mudmen (Pink Floyd). Okay, now this is getting embarrassing. I’ll leave that band out the next time this happens.
• What do you think when you see the person you like? - Hymn 43 (Jethro Tull). WHAT?! NO! Interesting coincidence that both similar questions got answers from the same album.
• What do your parents think of you? - Sound of pain (Vitor Cunha). That’s it, they deserve what they got for that previous question about them.
• What will you dance to at your wedding? - Goodbye Cruel World (Pink Floyd). Ha ha, this is such a perfect bachelor joke. Ha ha, if someone does actually play this song at my wedding, I swear…
• What will they play at your funeral? - Anytime (McAuley Schenker Group). Wow, thanks all of you. I’ll just have you know that I’ll be pissing on your bloody heads from Heaven.
• What is your hobby/interest? - Come out and play (Offspring). Wow, not true. I’m so sedentary I’m sometimes marked on maps of Madras.
• What is your biggest secret? - Round and Round (Beats working). That’s not a secret, everyone knows the time I did that.
• What do you think of your friends? - The Fletcher Memorial Home (Pink Floyd). That’s for you, you overgrown infants, a place of your own.
• What should you post this as? - Din Din Wo (Habib Koité). Cute, ‘Little Child’.

Not bad, not bad at all. Maybe there is something to this, it could be a worthwhile successor to the Calculator Of Truth, though I suspect that Windows Media Player isn’t too random with its shuffle.

Disclaimer:
I have a limited digital playlist, I bet it would’ve been totally weird if I could’ve included the cassette collection.