Below are the answers to my iPod shuffle/song lyric quiz.
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Material Girl, Madonna
Building a Mystery, Sarah McLachlan
Space Dog, Tori Amos
Chapel of Love, Bette Midler
Sally’s Pigeons, Cyndi Lauper
Sweet Jane, Cowboy Junkies
Tusk, Fleetwood Mac
Daughter, Pearl Jam
Buttermilk Biscuits, Sir Mix-A Lot

9 to 5, Dolly Parton
I Love Rock & Roll, Joan Jett
Private Dancer, Tina Turner
Terrible Lie, Nine Inch Nails
Poo, Poor, Pitiful Me, Terri Clark
Big Poppa, Notorious B.I.G.

Here are the first lines of fifteen random songs from my iPod. Can you guess any of them without cheating?

Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me, I think they’re okay
You come out at night, that’s when the energy comes
Wake up, mister microphone
Spring is here and the sky is so very blue
When I was eight I had a friend with a pirate smile
Anyone who’s ever had a heart wouldn’t turn around and break it
Why don’t you ask him if he’s going to stay?
Alone, listless, breakfast table in an otherwise …

A few years ago, I was listening to sports radio and the morning show had the singing psychic as a guest. She played her guitar and sang her predictions about who was going to win what ball game, including point spreads. A quick look at her website (website is closed down as the singing psychic has passed away.  RIP.) explains that she has also predicted other events, like the Iraq War and 9/11 in addition to having located over 500 missing persons.
Anyway, whether you believe her or not, it’s totally …

I’ve been listening to The Orb and downloading some songs that remind me of high school.
Years ago, when I was a student at Shorewood High School, two friends and I put together a video for National History Day. Our lowly little project on the history of the telephone made it to the state competition in Ellensburg, Washington where we lost to some nerd who wasn’t cool enough to use copyrighted British ambient house music as the soundtrack to his video on Nazi death camps.
I rebounded a year later, using two …