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vvvexation ([personal profile] vvvexation) wrote2005-03-28 08:10 pm
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How do I love music? Let me list the ways....

[livejournal.com profile] qwantz has, in his words, "totally just invented the best format for music EVER."

Nature of this format:
- example found behind the following cut
- example also found prior to cut

Things that are behind the following cut:
- my contribution to the madness

Reasons it is here:
- Already too many comments on above page for me to want to:
-- add directly to the madness something that might have already been done
-- wade through and check if it's already been done

Reasons it is behind a cut:
- length

Amount of further ado anticipated:
- none


You don't really need a title, do you?

Things this might be:
- the real life
- just fantasy

Things we are caught in:
- a landslide

Things we lack an escape from:
- reality

Things you should do:
- open your eyes
- look up to the skies
- see

I:
- need no sympathy
- am:
-- just a poor boy
--- from a poor family
-- easy come
-- easy go
-- little high
-- little low

Ways the wind can blow without it mattering to me:
- any

Things to tell Mama:
- I:
-- just killed a man
-- put a gun against his head
-- pulled my trigger (resulting in his death)
-- have gone and thrown away:
--- my life, which had just begun
-- didn't mean to make you cry
- When I should be back:
-- this time tomorrow
- What to do if not:
-- carry on
-- carry on

Physical indications that my time has come:
- shivers down spine
- constant body ache

People of whom to take leave:
- everybody

Things I must do:
- go
- leave you all behind
- face the truth

Things I want/wish:
- not to die
- to have never been born at all

Things of which I see a little silhouetto:
- a man

People of whom to request a Latin dance:
- Scaramouche

Things that are very, very frightening:
- thunderbolt
- lightning

Names to repeat at intervals:
- Galileo
- Figaro

Ways in which we will let you go:
- not
- never

People for whom Beelzebub has devils put aside:
- me
- me
- meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Things that really matter:
- none

People who can see this:
- any

Specific persons for whom this is true:
- me

Ways in which the wind blows:
- any

[identity profile] mckenzee.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Who is loving this:
* I

[identity profile] daltong.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Hee hee! This is so silly!

*runs off to do one*

Who could give me a critique? You? or you? or you?

[identity profile] daltong.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
How soon is the song?
- now

What am I?
- the son
- the heir to a shyness that is what?
- criminally vulgar

What else am I?
- the son and heir of what?
- nothing in particular

What you should do:
- shut your mouth

How you think I go about things:
- the wrong way

What am I still?
- the son and heir of gloom
- human

Who needs to be loved?
- me
- everybody else

Where might you want to go?
- a club

What could you do there?
- meet somebody who really loves you

What do you actually do?
- go on your own
- leave on your own
- cry
- want to die

What do you mean by:
- happening now: When???

I:
- waited too long
- lost all hope


Re: Who could give me a critique? You? or you? or you?

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
Y'know, I don't think I saw anyone else use questions instead of noun phrases as topic heads, but it actually seems to work better in some ways.

If I remember the song correctly, though, you could expand the "what do you actually do" even further:

- go
- stand on your own
- leave on your own
- go home
- cry
- want to die

[identity profile] marmaladious.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ahhh, lord. No comment.

Who was that guy that wanted a thousand dumb jokes before xmas? Did that work out for him?

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
That was [livejournal.com profile] haggis_bagpipes, and no, I don't believe it did, although he'd've had a better chance if he'd actually left the sucker postdated.

You forgot...

[identity profile] rlpowell.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
At the end:

Ways in which the wind blows:
- any

Re: You forgot...

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't sure how to work that in since it feels like a sentence fragment to me. But your way works fine. *edit*

[identity profile] flwyd.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
Author whose style this meme represents:
Myles nag Gopaleen

Volumes in which this style can be found:
At Swim-Two-Birds, The Best of Myles

Chapter of the latter:
The catechisms of cliché

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
Author who I thought was responsible for the former:
Flann O'Brien

[identity profile] flwyd.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Relationship between Myles na Gopaleen and Flann O'Brien:
- identity
- pseudonym

Usage of the former:
- writing thrice weekly in Irish

Usage of the latter:
- writing twice weekly in English

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
I can't seem to stop. This one I actually posted.

I'm:
- your life
- the one who takes you there
- the one who cares

They:
- betray

I'm:
- your only true friend now
- forever there
- your dream
-- make you real
- your eyes when you must steal
- your pain when you can't feel
- your dream, mind astray
- your eyes while you're away
- your pain while you repay

This is:
- sad
- true

You're:
- my mask
- my cover
- my shelter
- the one who's blamed
- the one who's shamed

Do:
- my work
- my dirty work, scapegoat
- my deeds

Pay:
- the price
- for nothing's fair

I:
- am your hate
-- when you want love
- am your life
- am the one who took you there
- no longer care
- am your dream
- make you real
- am your eyes when you must steal
- am your pain when you can't feel
- am your truth
- tell lies
- am your reasoned alibis
- am inside
-- open your eyes
- am you

This is:
- sad
- true

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
And this one:

I recommend:
- getting your heart trampled on
- walking around naked in your living room
- biting off more than you can chew
- sticking your foot in your mouth at any time

Things you should also do:
- swallow it down
- wait until the dust settles
- throw it down
- hold it up
- wait and see when the smoke clears
- wear it out
- melt it down
- watch for fire trucks

Thing you apparently do a lot:
- learn

Things you do in addition to learning:
- live
- love
- cry
- lose
- bleed
- scream
- grieve
- choke
- laugh
- choose
- pray
- ask
- live

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2005-03-30 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
And this one:

Things I am out of:
- luck
- love

Things I have:
- a photograph
-- picture of:
--- passion killer
---- too much
---- the only one I wanna touch

I see your face:
- every time I dream
- in every magazine
-- on every page

You are:
- so wild
- so free
- so far from me
- all I want
- my fantasy

Look what you have:
- done
- done to this rock 'n' roll clown

Regarding your photograph:
- I don't
-- want it
-- need it
- it's all I've got
- it's not enough

If:
- you were there I'd:
-- be your lover
- you dare:
-- put your hurt on me

You:
- are such a woman
- have style
- make every man feel like a child
- have some kind of hold on me
- are:
-- all wrapped up in mystery
-- so wild
-- so free
-- so far from me
-- all I want
-- my fantasy
- have gone straight to my head
metalfatigue: A capybara looking over the edge of his swimming pool (Default)

How about a little Depeche Mode?

[personal profile] metalfatigue 2005-03-29 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
  • Repeated sequence of events:
    • she's dressed in black
    • I'm:
      • falling down
        • to the floor
      • begging for more
  • Circumstances under which your options are not obvious:
    • when she's dressed in black
  • Endless wanderings of my mind:
    • on paths where she's leading me
    • with:
      • games that she likes to play
      • words that she doesn't say—necessary conditions:
        • we're alone
        • she's dressed in black
  • She is:
    • a picture of:
      • herself
      • the world
    • a reflection of:
      • you
      • me
  • Conditions under which the foregoing may be observed:
    • if you'll only give in to the fire within
  • Reiterated circumstance:
    • dressed in black
  • Shadows fall onto me as:
    • she:
      • stands there over me
      • waits to encompass me
    • I lay here helplessly
  • Circumstances under which your options are not obvious:
    • when she's dressed in black
  • Reiterated circumstance:
    • dressed in black

Re: How about a little Depeche Mode?

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh. I like the reiterations.

[identity profile] gatopreto.livejournal.com 2005-03-29 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Bravo. Extra points for presentation from the NJ/CA judge.

[identity profile] adamchristopher.livejournal.com 2005-03-30 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
That was so funny. That was great. :D