A Blast From Nat's Past

Do you know what an amazing feeling it is to hear from someone you haven't seen or spoken to in 26 years?

Last week, an old Navy buddy of mine, Mike, found my blog on the internet. He'd had a flashback when he heard Billy Joel singing about Mama Leone in that Movin' Out song. (Mike used to call me Mama Leone when I cooked spaghetti dinners back in the day when spaghetti was the only thing I could cook.) He found my name in an online guest book for the Navy Waves and eventually located my On The Record blog (which is horribly in need of a new post and some updating,) and this post about I, Robot was the one that confirmed his suspicion that I was, indeed, the Nat he knew in Guam in the late 70's. Good thing I list my email address in my profile!

Mike and I worked together in a section at Navcams Westpac Guam in the message center (comms.) Eventually, we both got tired of our work schedule, which consisted of rotating shifts known as 2-2-2-80. The 2-2-2 part was the grueling one, but the payoff was the 80-hour off time. It was great having 3 day "weekends" all the time, and in a tropical paradise! Anyway, Mike and I ended up moving on from that into a job in a vault, working for a Navy chief. The three of us had a great time, and the Chief was very laid back as far as work schedules. We enjoyed long, cushy lunch breaks, days when we could come and go pretty much as we pleased, and plenty of time off. Probably the most fun I've ever had in my working life.

Mike, March 1979

After hours, we socialized and grew a wonderful friendship. Mike and his wife were terrific to hang out with, and we'd listen to new albums together and have drinks and just kick back. See, music has always been the thing with me! But, in December of 1980, Mike got orders and I got a new partner at work. He was a good enough guy, but he was no Mike! It just wasn't the same. I think Mike and I corresponded once or twice when he was in Quincy, MA, but then we lost touch. I have a history of such things.

Me, 1979 No, that is not my hair. I'm wearing a bandana.

Here's Mike and Joe (our boss, the shorter Italian guy who I thought was ancient because he was over 30), at Mike's going-away dinner at my house. I wonder if I had the guts to serve spaghetti to an Italian? Maybe we just had beer. And yes, that is an ash tray. We all smoked back then. Cigs were just 2 bucks a carton at the Andersen AFB commissary, so we all stocked up and smoked 'em. I finally gave up that nasty habit in 1983, when I married my hubby.




Mike, it's great to have you back! Just leave a comment now and then, would ya?

Weekend Road Trip

Map to local brewery - check
Clean clothes and a pedicure - check
Appropriate Road Trip Music - check



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Top 5 On Friday - With Podcast!

It's the new and improved Top 5. I'm including a link to the podcast. It's short and I don't yap on endlessly. (Be gentle, this is my first time! I think I need a better mike, though. This cheapo that came with my Dell is barely cutting it.) Download it by clicking here, if you like.

Top 5 songs You Currently Can't Get Enough Of

5. What Does It Mean Now (Edit) - World Party

4. People Gonna Talk - James Hunter

3. How We Operate - Gomez

2. Perfect Stranger - Cheap Trick

1. Some Kind Of Ride - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

Podcast. Here. Listen. You do NOT need an iPod. In fact, let's call it a webcast that you can download, if you want to. Otherwise, press the little greenish-yellow button in the left-hand corner of the episode, and the player will magically load. But do it, or you'll hurt my tender feelings and I'll have to take Lexapro or something. (Did that work?)

Vote For Me? Pretty Please.

Here is the link to vote for this blog in the Random Blogs category for Blogs Of Summer. Click here and scroll down to the polls on the right sidebar. I'm in the first group (along with Arethusa and Random Yak.)

Thanks! I think this is the last time I'm subjecting myself to these competition things, though. I'm just here for fun anyway!

Thursday Thirteen

This week it's another Audio Daily DoubleMusical Thirteen!


13 Awesome Podcasts



1. Contrast Podcast - Tim Young, a delightful chap from the UK, puts this together weekly, and it's participatory. He solicits submissions for songs that fit a theme, and the submission must include a spoken intro. I've got a song included in this week's episode, Who? You can listen to this podcast right at Tim's site, or download and listen at your leisure. Next week's theme includes a singing intro to an instrumental piece, and I've been bravestupid enough to submit an entry. New episodes every Tuesday.

2. Two Chicks And A Podcast - Deni Bonet (Last Girl On Earth) and Sharon Glassman, the two chicks, converse and goof off, and have a great time hanging out in NYC. This is the only spoken-word podcast I listen to. Click the link (the title) to pick one of their shows to listen to. Another Tuesday-updated podcast.

3. Aquarium Drunkard - Aquarium Drunkard, from L.A., puts out a podcast semi-regularly, filled with indie and mainstream tunes (mostly indie.) Episode 6.2 can be downloaded by clicking here. Always great music. Always has at least one band that's new to me.

4. Coverville - Brian Ibbott's Coverville is the one that drew me into the world of podcasts. Six cover songs, twice a week, with a theme for each show. The latest show is This love is going to 14th Street in Kansas City, and it includes Laura Cantrell and Thomas Dolby covering tunes by Emily Spray and Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks, respectively. Download this episode by clicking here.

5. Dave Cusick's Post Modern Rock Show - New Music every week! Dave podcasts his live show, heard weekly on KPSU, a college station from Portland State University. Another podcast that's pointed me to bands I'd never heard. This week's show includes tunes from Johnny Cash and The Whitest Boy Alive. So, good college-station music to keep you in the loop if you're not in college any more. Click here to download this week's show.

6. Paste Magazine Culture Club - Not quite weekly. In fact, the podcast has been rather spotty in regularity. But, the good news is that it's really good. Mostly music. There are film reviews, interviews, music reviews, and a little pop culture, just like the title says. The lastest show can be downloaded here, and includes a song and interview with The Stills, and a song and interview with the band Low. You don't have to subscribe to Paste Magazine to listen to the podcast, folks.

7. I'm also going to be attempting to podcast weekly, to coincide with the Top 5 On Friday post. I'm using PodOmatic to get started, and you can find me here. Last week's show was without my voice, but I'm learning how to mix in my recorded voice to the songs, so I hope to do that this week. Click here to listen to my very short (5 songs) Beatles podcast.

8. Bloggedy Pod - Andrew, from Bloggedy Blog, is currently featuring his 100 Albums That Changed My Life series in podcast form. Thought-provoking, excellent stuff here. Previous podcasts are themed, and lots of good stuff there. (i.e. Mostly Ska, Just Another Punk Show, Roots and Rock) Click here to visit Andrew's PodOMatic shows.

9. KCRW's Today's Top Tune - One song per day. Eclectic musical choices, including Lisa Germano, Josh Ritter, and The Chapin Sisters (they totally rule covering Britney's Toxic, and yes, they are Harry's nieces.)
Click here for Luisito Quintero's Love Remains The Same (salsa-ish, but sweeeet!) KCRW's podcast page is here. They offer several worthwhile choices.

10. KEXP Live Performances Podcast - KEXP offers full-song podcasts of an eclectic mix of artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world. Click here to find out how to subscribe. Past artist include: Jose Gonzalez (this one's so damn good!), Drive-By Truckers, and Mudhoney.

11. The Subdudes Podcast - Yes, one of my favorite bands has a monthly podcast. Mostly live performances and some rarities. Go here for the info. The July edition features a song from Primitive Streak that didn't make the US release.

12. Rhinocasts - Yep, Rhino Records has a podcast, featuring their artist. Lots and lots of good stuff. There are 41 of them available at iTunes. It's right here. Fresh weekly.

and

13. The Onion Radio News - A daily dose of the silliest newspaper ever. Kind of like Paul Harvey on ..well...on something. Go here. It's hilarious and short.

There you have it. If you don't like rock, find something else to download. There are podcasts for just about any and everything. News. Sports. Movies. There are video podcasts, too. Just about anything to waste those spare 4 minutes you have each day, right? Happy T-13!
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Podcasts, Podcasts, Podcasts!

I've been doing some listening lately to some pretty cool podcasts. Now, let's not go through the whole "do I have to have an iPod to enjoy a podcast" thing, ok? (And no, you do not. You simply need to download the podcast to your computer and play it using your favorite media player, one that supports mp3 files.)

Here are some good choices:

Contrast Podcast - Tim Young, a delightful chap from the UK, puts this together weekly, and it's participatory. He solicits submissions for songs that fit a theme, and the submission must include a spoken intro. I've got a song included in this week's episode, Who? You can listen to this podcast right at Tim's site, or download and listen at your leisure. Next week's theme includes a singing intro to an instrumental piece, and I've been bravestupid enough to submit an entry. New episodes every Tuesday.

Two Chicks And A Podcast - Deni Bonet (Last Girl On Earth) and Sharon Glassman, the two chicks, converse and goof off, and have a great time hanging out in NYC. This is the only spoken-word podcast I listen to. Click the link (the title) to pick one of their shows to listen to. Another Tuesday-updated podcast.

Aquarium Drunkard - Aquarium Drunkard, from L.A., puts out a podcast semi-regularly, filled with indie and mainstream tunes (mostly indie.) Episode 6.2 can be downloaded by clicking here. Always great music. Always has at least one band that's new to me.

Coverville - Brian Ibbott's Coverville is the one that drew me into the world of podcasts. Six cover songs, twice a week, with a theme for each show. The latest show is This love is going to 14th Street in Kansas City, and it includes Laura Cantrell and Thomas Dolby covering tunes by Emily Spray and Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks, respectively. Download this episode by clicking here.

Dave Cusick's Post Modern Rock Show - New Music every week! Dave podcasts his live show, heard weekly on KPSU, a college station from Portland State University. Another podcast that's pointed me to bands I'd never heard. This week's show includes tunes from Johnny Cash and The Whitest Boy Alive. So, good college-station music to keep you in the loop if you're not in college any more. Click here to download this week's show.

Paste Magazine Culture Club - Not quite weekly. In fact, the podcast has been rather spotty in regularity. But, the good news is that it's really good. Mostly music. There are film reviews, interviews, music reviews, and a little pop culture, just like the title says. The lastest show can be downloaded here, and includes a song and interview with The Stills, and a song and interview with the band Low. You don't have to subscribe to Paste Magazine to listen to the podcast, folks.

I'm also going to be attempting to podcast weekly, to coincide with the Top 5 On Friday post. I'm using PodOmatic to get started, and you can find me here. Last week's show was without my voice, but I'm learning how to mix in my recorded voice to the songs, so I hope to do that this week. Click here to listen to my very short (5 songs) Beatles podcast.

That's all for now! Try out a podcast or two. I dare you not to get addicted.

*Note: I just realized that if I add 6 more podcasts to this post, I'll have my Thursday 13 ready! *tempted*

**Note 2: I just read that Lance Bass of *NSync announced that he's gay. Wow. Just think how newsworthy that would have been 7 or 8 years ago!

Artist Of The Day

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Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

This gal is going to be big. Just watch. She's playing free this week in Boston (July 27, Copley Square) and I'm aching to get there now that I've listened on her web site.

There are all kinds of comparisons to Bonnie Raitt and Aretha floating around the net, but I'd say she reminds me of Bonnie with some Susan Tedeschi mixed in. In any case, she's got a blues/soul/gospel/rock vibe and it is refreshing.

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Take Me Back Tuesday

Fallen says:

So keep cool and think cool. Because that my friends is our topic this week.

The definition of cool.

We're talking Big Band, Swing, Jazz, Classical....whatever it is you listen to in hopes of taking your mind off the heat. Maybe the Beatles do it for you. Or Klaus and the rest of those German metalheads.

Whatever it may be, it's all up to you.

Artist. Songs. Albums.

Begin.

Cool Artists:

David Bowie - Always cool, no matter what persona he takes on.
The Replacements - The "I don't give a fuck" attitude makes them cool.
Nick Lowe - Comfortable being Nick Lowe. That's cool.

Cool Songs:

Miserlou - Dick Dale & The Del-Tones - Cool surf music put to use in a cool way by Tarantino in Pulp Fiction.

Green Onions - Booker T & The M.G.'s - Come on, you feel cool just listening to it. (shades recommended)

Rebel, Rebel - David Bowie - I know you'll dance in your chair when you listen to this. We like dancin' and we look divine.


Cool Albums:

Rockford - Cheap Trick - Currently cool and fun!

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys - Cool in the 60's.

Goodbye Jumbo - World Party - I'm just getting into their stuff, but it is sooooo cool.

New Releases - July 25, 2006 - With Free Downloads!

Live From Austin - Delbert McClinton

Rich Some Day - Randall Bramlett

Stranger Things - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Click here to download Wear You Down from this new release. It's from their site.

For The Best Of Us - John Doe

Live At Montreax - Rory Gallagher

Intersections 1985 - 2005 - Bruce Hornsby

Americanitis - Will Kimbrough

Loggins & Messina - reissues

Melissa Manchester - reissues

Cheap Trick - reissues

Highway Companion - Tom Petty

Platinum Collection - Simple Minds

Personality (One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird) - The Sleepy Jackson

Loon - Tapes N Tapes

Dreaming Through The Noise - Vienna Teng

Catch Flame - Paul Weller

Troubled By The Fire - Laura Veirs - click here to download Bedroom Eyes from her site.

New Blog

*This post is sticky and will remain on top for a week. New posts are directly below.

Shameless plug and cry for help here.

I'm opening a parody blog, Most Secret. Send me your most inane (and probably made-up) secrets and I'll post them. All you have to do is be creative!

Send your jpg, or gif to most-secret@excite.com. Come on, you know you've all got it in you!

Psychedelic Sunday

The Afternoon -
(a) Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)
b) (Evening) Time To Get Away - The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed

This is what you get when you add The London Festival Orchestra to The Moody Blues: a British take on psychedelia. This album is best enjoyed in its entirety, but some of the cuts stand up on their own (The Night AKA Nights In White Satin, or Nat's senior prom theme, is the other.) I quite enjoy the symphonic break at around the 4:10 point of the piece, then the quiet, almost Pink-Floydish part of Evening. Justin Hayward and John Lodge's harmony is absolutely mesmerizing.




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Top 5 On Friday

Updated with a podcast added. See below!


This one's different, but I like it!

Top 5 ways that you'd describe your favorite band. (Be as silly, truthful and/or creative as you want to be)

I guess my all-time favorite band would be The Beatles.

Influential in many ways (music, hair, clothing)
Scream-inducing
Cute (even Ringo, in a "he's so ugly he's cute" way)
Talented
Fab

Want to hear a short podcast of Beatles tunes? Click here.

I Think This Is Just Hilarious

Microsoft Confirms Plans For iPod Rival. (click to read story)

No, thanks, Microsoft. I've seen how well Windows performs! All I need is a blue screen of death while I'm listening to Comfortably Numb to send my stress level into the stratosphere.

Nominate Me, Please?

If you like my blog, would you be so kind as to click here and nominate me for The Blogs Of Summer's Random Blog award?


If you want to nominate MostSecret, too, as a humor/satire blog, that link is here.

Danke.
Thanks.
Muchas Gracias.
Arigato.
Grazie.
Tack.
Xie Xie.
Toda.
Spasibo.
Asante.

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Bad Hair Days

We've all had them! Add the anguish of bad glasses and you have one bad trip down memory lane. Don't laugh too hard, ok? I can hear you!

1. 1965 - I had wavy hair and my mom loved to force those "pixie" cuts on me. And she set my hair in those horrid, scratchy rollers the night before my school picture. At least I still smiled!





2. 1966 - Still setting the hair against my will for a pose at Olan Mills. (Are they even still around?) The glasses were new to me during third grade. Stylin', eh?



3. 1967 - Somehow, I got the rollers only on the ends this time. EEEEK! How much grease did we use to flatten that down?


4. 1968 - Summer - I'm tanned, I'm rested, and I don't care what my hair looks like.


5. 1968 - School Photo - Hello? Laura Petrie wants her hair back, Nat! Still with the black cat-eyed specs, which would soon break. The replacements were horrific. Trust me. There is no photographic evidence.


6. 1970 - Long and unmanagable. I wore it tied in pigtails and ponytails quite a bit. But at least it was my choice. NO MORE PIXIES, EVER, Mom!! Yet another pair of glasses, too. How attractive. I think Lisa Loeb wore them for awhile, too, 26 years later.


7. 1972 - Not giving up the long frizz. At least I started parting it in the middle like everyone else! I started removing the glasses for photos.


8. 1976 - I finally cut it when I left for boot camp in 76. Humidity in the Orlando area caused one side to flip out, while the other side behaved. That hair lives in infamy. My glasses? I lost them during boot camp (I had those John Denver things at that point!) I refused to wear the ugly Navy issue glasses unless I was in class and needed them to see.


9. 1982 - My Lady Diana cut (I had it before I heard of her, though!) And these were the second set of replacement windshields glasses after I finished boot.


10. 1987 - I had a two-year-old. Cut me a break. Look, my glasses are taking over my entire face!


11. 1989 - MULLET!! Please don't tell anyone you saw this.


12. 1992 - Looks like my hairdresser just cut the back of the mullet clean off. I'm sportin' Sally Jesse Raphael red glasses now!


13. 1996 - Stop the insanity! I had no style, but I loved Bonnie Raitt's "do" back then. I thought I could copy it. And the glasses are still too big, but I ditched the red color.


And now for 2006....
Hair is better and glasses are more appropriate for me. Too bad it took me this long to figure it all out!


Tell me about your bad hair days!



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*Sigh*

This cartoon is by Dave Walker.

Peeved Off

I don't usually rant here at the blog, but you know when you've been pushed over the edge by that one last idiot? ARGHHH!!

There are three locker rooms available to women at the gym: a family locker room for any and all family members to use, a girl's locker room for females of all ages (like moms and daughters,) and an adult female locker room. Each door has signs posted. The adult locker room's sign reads, "Over age 18 ONLY. No children allowed." Some women choose to ignore this. One lady is in there every day with a kid on her hip (about 3 yrs. old.) What? Since the kid's not on the floor and is attached at the hip, she's not a separate being? I don't want to take my bra off in front of a 3-year-old! Makes me want to go running for the Y staff like a tattletale.

When the driver of the car in front of you is swerving this way and that and going only 25 mph, you know they are:

(a) Messing with a kid in the back seat
(b) Drunk
(c) Chatting on a cell phone
(d) Any iterationcombination (sorry, brain fart!) of the above


All before 10 a.m.

Take Me Back Tuesday

This week, it's all about dancing! You won't catch me doing that in public, since I'd look like Elaine from that one Seinfeld episode. Well, maybe not quite that bad.

Take Me Back Tuesday - Week 80


Every few years another line dance becomes popular. What line dances have you heard of and can you do any?
Electric Slide
That thing they do to Cotton-Eyed Joe
The Bunny Hop - I can certainly hop like a wabbit.

What is your favorite type of music to dance to?
Anything I can jump up and down to.

Do you have a favorite place to dance? Where?
To quote Lionel Ritchie, Oh what a feeling, when we're dancin' on the ceiling. If he can do it, why can't I?

Are you familiar with disco? Do you have any favorite disco songs or do you believe that disco should stay dead?
Oh yes, I secretly love the entire Saturday Night Fever soundtrack album. And I love me some Donna Summer, too.

What bands do you think of when you think of dance music?
Madonna
Bee Gees
Earth, Wind, And Fire
I know nothing about contemporary dance music!

New Releases - July 18, 2006

I haven't posted new releases in a few weeks, so it's time to get back to it. Is it too hot to go shopping?

Working Man - Albert Cummings

We Are The 80's - The Bangles

Superbi - The Beautiful South

We Are The 80's - Bow Wow Wow - Hey, I want candy!

Life Short Call Now - Bruce Cockburn

We Are The 80's - A Flock Of Seagulls - Just watch out for that hair!

In The Maybe World - Lisa Germano

Another Fine Day - Golden Smog - PICK OF THE WEEK

Collector's Box - Guns N Roses

Beautiful Lie - Ed Harcourt

Fly Like An Eagle [30th Anniversary Edition] - Steve Miller - 30 years! This one was a staple in the NTC San Diego barracks in 1976.

We Are The 80's - Eddie Money

An Introduction To... - Mott The Hoople - Hoop on down and get this. They were much more than All The Young Dudes.

Precious Little - Jeremy Spencer - 33 years out of Fleetwood Mac, Spencer unleashes a little blues again. Could be another PICK this week.

We Are The 80's - Rick Springfield

Return To Cookie Mountain - TV On The Radio

Apple Box - XTC

Artist Of The Day

Photo by Debora Francis

Jennifer O'Connor

During a recent visit to the Matador Records site, which I hit up regularly for good, free tunes and introductions to upcoming releases from their artist, I stumbled up Jennifer O'Connor's free mp3, Exeter, Rhode Island. She was new to me, and I was curious, so I downloaded it. Now I'm compelled to share the wealth.

Her vocal quality is slightly husky, akin to Marianne Faithfull with less grit.
As for the music, the earlier releases, which you can sample at her site, are more or less "a chick and her guitar," but 2005's The Color And The Light added production layers and more instruments, so there's a fuller sound.

Samples available at her site: Laughlike from Truth, Love, Work
Sister from Jennifer O'Connor
Hole In The Road from The Color And The Light
The Color And The Light from The Color And The Light
and from Matador's site, a song from her forthcoming album,
Exeter, Rhode Island from Over The Mountain, Across The Valley, and Back To You
(click the titles to listen, right click to save to your computer.)

Psychedelic Sunday

Lucifer Sam - Pink Floyd

Like many young American female teens, my first taste of Pink Floyd was from radio airplay from Dark Side Of The Moon's hit single (#13 on Billboard Singles), Money in 1973. It was a cool song, to be sure, but later, when I finally experienced the entire album, seemed a bit out the flow with the rest of the music. Several years later, probably after Wish You Were Here and Animals were released and I became a solid Floyd fan, I delved into their back catalog. What a bunch of freaky crap, I thought. What is this, Careful With That Axe, Eugene, shit? I didn't get it. Not one bit.

Time, however, has led me to appreciate some of the pre-Gilmour Floyd, especially Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, their first album, circa 1967.

Here, I give you Lucifer Sam, for your psychedelic listening pleasure. Dig the far-out driving guitar chords, the lyric "that cat's something I can't explain," and the weird, random noises leaping out from behind the dark shadows.

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Meme-ology

When Paula talks, I listen and comply.

GRUB-OLOGY
What is your salad dressing of choice? Light Ranch.
What is your favorite fast food restaurant? In & Out Burger, but Wendy's has to do where I live.
What is your favorite sit down restaurant? McGuire's Irish Pub, Pensacola, FL.
On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant? 20%.
What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? Ice cream.
Name three foods you detest above all others. Liver. Brown rice. Head cheese.
What is your favorite dish to order in a Chinese restaurant? Steamed dumplings.
What are your pizza toppings of choice? cheese and mushrooms
What do you like to put on your toast? cinnamon and sugar
What is your favorite type of gum? Bazooka Joe, baby! (but I never chew it anymore.)

TECH-OLOGY
Number of contacts in your cell phone? too many to scroll through
Number of contacts in your email address book? I'm not counting!
What is your wallpaper on your computer? some trees
What is your screensaver on your computer? family photos
Are there naked pictures saved on your computer? Who's asking? Is this the FBI? (but no, I don't)
How many land line phones do you have in your house? 4
How many televisions are in your house? 5
What kitchen appliance do you use the least? electric knife
What is the format of the radio station you listen to the most? internet !

BI-OLOGY
What do you consider to be your best physical attribute? Hair
Are you right handed or left handed? Right.
Do you like your smile? Yes
Have you ever had anything removed from your body? Like babies?
Would you like to? Not ever again!
Do you prefer to read when you go to the bathroom? No. A quick in and out is preferred.
Which of your five senses do you think is keenest? Smell.
When was the last time you had a cavity? This year. I was shocked!
What is the heaviest item you lift regularly? My Le Creuset dutch oven.
Have you ever been knocked unconscious? Knocked? No.
How many sex toys do you own that require batteries? I'll take the fifth here.

MISC-OLOGY
If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? Why would I need to know that?
If you could change your first name, what would you change it to? Beth
How do you express your artistic side? Crafts. All kinds of crafts.
What color do you think you look best in? Pink.
How long do you think you could last in a medium security prison? Not one stinking day.
Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake? Yep.
If we weren't bound by society's conventions, do you have a relative you would make a pass at? Gawd, NO!
How often do you go to church? Every week. But under protest.
Have you ever saved someone's life? Not that I know of.
Has someone ever saved yours? Not that I know of.

DARE-OLOGY
For this last section, if you would do it for less or more money, indicate how much.
Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000? Only if there was an entire town of blind folks.
Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100? Sure. But no tongue.
Would you have sex with a member of the same sex for $10,000? Maybe.
Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000? Hell, no.
Would you never blog again for $50,000? Let's see. Fifty grand vs. the need for self-expression? NO.
Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000? Not for ten times that.
Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? If I could have a Pepcid chaser, yes.
Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000? I don't think so.
Would you shave your head and get your entire body waxed for $5,000? Nope.
Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000? Sure! But I'd record all episodes of Gilmore Girls, Entourage, Weeds, My Name Is Earl, Scrubs, and 24 to watch when the year was up.

Play along if you want to! (But it's a no-brainer post if you're lacking ideas today!)