I found this in My Documents the other day, it's a simple list, something I was sent no doubt, where you create the soundtrack to your life.


Here's mine from 2007:
Opening credits – Girl Inform Me – The Shins
Waking up - This Fine Social Scene – Zero 7
First Day at School – Tell Me What To Do – Jim Noir
Puppy Love – The Celibate Life – The Shins
Fight Song – Unwell – Matchbox 20
Breaking Up Song – Slow Dancing in a Burning Room – John Mayer
Prom – SexyBack– Justin Timberlake
Life is Good – Be Gentle With Me - The Boy Least Likely To
Driving – Walk Away – Franz Ferdinand
Flashback – Kill – Jimmy Eat World
True Love – Spin – Lifehouse
Wedding – Brand New Colony – The Postal Service
Moment of Triumph – The Perfect Crime #2 – The Decemberists
Death Scene – Slow Hands - Interpol
Funeral Song – Hell – Foo Fighters
End credits - Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac


And again in 2008:


Opening credits: Bryn – Vampire Weekend
Waking up: Sleeping Lessons – The Shins
First Day at School: Tell Me What To Do – Jim Noir
Puppy Love: Make Someone Happy – Jimmy Durante
Fight Song: Mutha’uckas – Flight of the Conchords
Breaking Up Song: Slow Dancing in a Burning Room – John Mayer
Prom: I’m Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You – Black Kids
Life is Good:Be Gentle With Me - The Boy Least Likely To
Driving: Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters
Flashback: Action/Adventure – Andrew Bird
True Love: Like U Crazy – Mates of State
Wedding: I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
Moment of Triumph: End Theme – Zero 7
Death Scene: Heartbeats – Jose Gonzales
Funeral Song: Parachutes – Mates of State
End credits: Drop and Anchor – Mates of State

Only a little overlap, I hope to keep doing this from year to year to track how my tastes change.

Eight Things I'm Passionate About:

• Coffee
• China
• Family
• Friends
• Cantaloupe
  
• Chapstick
• Sleeping
• Day-old sandwiches

Eight Books I've Read:

• The Great Gatsby
• Jurassic Park
  
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Princess Bride
• The Andromeda Strain
  
• Ella Enchanted
• A Wrinkle in Time
• The Grapes of Wrath
  

Eight Things I Often Say:

• Shivawhat?
• I'm bored.
• TFAGNRF
• What are you doing?
• Like
• Great story Jeopardy contestant!
• Ugh
• Pshaw

Eight Things I Look For in a Friend:

• Humor
• Wit
• Sarcasm
• Energy
• Musical Taste
• The Office
• Appropriately placed harsh language
• Humor

Eight Things I Would Like to do Before I Die (Or Really, Before I'm 35):

• Get a Masters degree
• Marry
• Have Kids, Maybe
• Buy a Hybrid vehicle
• Travel back to Europe
• Learn to like tomatoes
• Learn to Meditate
• Beat Zelda on DS AND Wii

Eight Things I Learned in the Past Year:

• What a true friend is
• I'm completely worthy of going to college
• Parents are never finished parenting
• I'm pretty funny sometimes
• I heart NY
  
• I needed to leave, and come back
• Target will eat your soul
• Happiness is sugar-free chocolate Jello pudding cups
  

Heavy metal 3 little pigs?

Years and years ago I came across a blog called Television Without Pity (commonly abbreviated to TWoP). It offered snarky recaps of some of my favorite shows and also had forums for each show where fans could connect and talk about what was going on etc. I loved TWoP, would spend way to many hours on the forums, and I genuinely enjoyed the recaps because they were written by people who liked the show. When the site started it didn't have any kind of media affiliation, it was powered by ads and by profits generated in the store which sold hilarious shirts that I never bought. Two years ago the site was purchased by Yahoo! in order for it to be incorporated into Yahoo!'s TV section. I didn't have any problem with this. The layout remained the same and I was happy to see it get a little more exposure by referring Yahoo! readers to TWoP to get the latest recaps and gossip. Recently it was again bought out by Bravo, which is owned by none other than NBC Universal. Massive changes have been brought. The entire layout has changed, I see ads on TV for it, the original founders of the website have jumped ship, the writers of the recaps are boring and they are now about half as long and dry as a bone, and worst of all, active moderators have been established in every forum. This may not seem like a bad thing, but I used to LOVE participating on the Office forums, until Moderator "TWoP Barnes" showed up on the scene. So many rules were established that I couldn't even type straight. The entire forum was rearranged, she changed the titles of a lot of the actor threads to only say ACTOR: and then their name. John Krasinski's thread used to be called "John Krasinski: We'd Climb Him Like a Tree" and now it's just "ACTOR: John Krasinski." What. The. F**k. Honestly. I once aired my grievances about the new methods on a thread that this moderator started in order for us to ask her questions and get accustomed to her presence or something only to have my post DELETED. Deleted! She up and deleted my post because I was criticizing her methods. That is censorship, my friend. I have since all but eliminated any ties I've created with TWoP. I think everyone who reads this (all two of you) should make fake accounts and spam the hell out of them. I will if you will!

Rules that would be acceptable to break with John Krasinski

Doing drugs
Having pre-marital sex
Breaking the dating range
Getting totally wasted
Speeding down the freeway
Shoplifting
Sneaking into the movies
Mooning passing cars
Calling out of work for no reason
Double parking
Going into the men's room
Jumping the check
Indecent exposure
Going to Hart Park after 10pm

There are no rules when John Krasinski is involved.

This has nothing to do with rules, I just felt like quoting Brixtnezy: "I'm pretty much not going to have sex with anyone covered in blood unless it's John Krasinski." Word.

Why is it, in this day in age, that a movie that doesn't come in number one in box office totals on it's very first weekend is considered a flop? For instance, I was just reading about a movie (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) that I want to see in the theatre. It did not come in at number one and the tag of the article I was reading said "Marshall gets dumped." It only made 17 MILLION dollars and opened in about 2900 theatres, that's 250 less than the number one movie, The Forbidden Kingdom. That movie made about 20 MILLION dollars. Let's average that out. $6623 for Kingdom, $6200 for Marshall per theatre, using the exact numbers from Yahoo!. A difference of about $400, which is roughly 40 people per theatre during the entire duration of the weekend, which is Friday through Sunday. Now let's say that there's ten showings per day and that's less than one more person at each showing. Broken down like that it doesn't seem like there is a big difference, if one more person had been at each showing of Marshall then it would have won. The point is, from what I gather, about 89% of the people who saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall this weekend, that's about 1.5 million people, liked the movie, so just because it debuted at number two doesn't make it a flop.

I was at Disneyland. Pirates of the Caribbean got my butt really wet. It wasn't sexy.