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Injection by Rise Against

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I've been listening to Injection by Rise Against a lot lately: I love the song.

Something interesting I noticed: up until the third line of the first verse (half a minute into the song), it totally feels like a song by The Offspring. The guitar riffs, the break leading into the verse.. yes even the voice and intonation in the verse. It fools me into believing it's The Offspring every single time and that's a rather worthy accomplishment considering The Offspring is still my favourite band ever. I know all their songs by heart so confusing me is quite something!

Does anyone else ever experience that? Where you're convinced you're listening to a certain band and it turns out to be something completely different. And you keep falling for it?

Famous people meme

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I'm starting a meme:

List all famous people you have met and tell how. You must have actually spoken to them and preferably they had some clue who you are. Then appoint five people to repost the meme and say who you think they would love to meet.

Here's mine in approximate order of notability:

  • The Offspring. In 1996 I hosted the most prominent website and ran a mailinglist for the band. When the operator of the site, Cory Hammer, got a job at Epitapth to work on the then new official site, that eventually resulted in an after-show pass for me and the opportunity to hang out with Dexter Holland, Noodles and Greg.
  • Nerf Herder. They always chat up their fans after a gig and I made them say something funny on video. One of the band members used to date Alyson Hannigan (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for which NH did the theme song, American Wedding), so that's a pretty cool indirect bonus as well.
  • A. Travelled to London for a concert in 2001 (my first foreign trip just to see a gig). Hooked up with some fans who waited outside to meet the band. One of the band members threw a cucumber and some casino chips at us in a friendly manner. Fun. And Jason gave me a beer at the Amsterdam concert, which was a lot more intimate with a crowd of 30 people or so.
  • PinBoys. Saw them twice in Rotterdam and they remembered me the second time because we hung out a while the first time. In May I chatted them up on MySpace because I was going to travel to Copenhagen to see them (and the lovely Kirsten), which I did, so we chatted again.
  • Cheap Thrills. Another band I follow. I'm now making a web site for them and hope they will get signed and become more than a local Dutch band.
  • Patrick Volkerding. Met him at Linux World. I run Slackware, so to me he's quite famous.
  • Rob Malda of Slashdot fame. Met him at several Linux World's. We got along and had a running joke on both being Rob from Holland (he's from Michigan, I'm from the country). It's easy to meet high-profile people from the open source world, my list includes Richard M. Stallman, Eric S. Raymond and of course most of the active KDE developers through my participance in the KDE project.
  • Maxi from Mini and Maxi, a popular Dutch music/comedy act. One of the singers lives in Oostvoorne, where my parents live, and we talked briefly at a bistro there once or twice.
  • Judith Nijssen. Surely some people will remember the girl who covered "I will survive" with the Hermes House Band. She's married to my ex-employer. Met her at the office several times, and at their house when installing his wireless network.

I'm appointing: Inge (wants to meet Evanescence's Amy more than Lauri/Aki or James Marsters, I bet), Dorith (Kotani Kinya?), Charlotte (Rufus?), Neil (George Bush) and Kris (no idea so I'll just say Ville Valo). Happy meming!

Media Player quiz

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Stolen from Tomatie. Set your media player to random, each next song is an answer. Interesting.

  1. What do you think of me, Media Player?

    Golden Slumbers - The Beatles. Fair enough, I'm at work so I'm kind of sleepy. Sing me a lullaby!

  2. Will I have a happy life?

    My alien - Simple Plan. Yay! I'm ending up with Ezri Dax after all!

  3. What do my friends really think of me?

    Hand In Hand - Dune. How sweet. Unless they're trying to tell me to leave the rock scene and go back to euro dance.

  4. Do people secretly lust after me?

    Conspiracy Of One - The Offspring. I'll take that as a "no". Be right back, I'm off to order some porn.

  5. How can I make myself happy?

    RC Cola - Lucky Malice. Me, alcoholism? Fair enough. "Give us a whiskey!"

  6. What should I do with my life?

    Lucky - The Riplets. Indeed, feeling and getting lucky is fun.. screw emo.

  7. Why must life be so full of pain?

    Holiday - Weezer. I suppose I could have saved some heart aches if I had never met Rachel. Or maybe it is just a reference to me getting my tattoos in Copenhagen.

  8. How can I maximise my pleasure during sex?

    Captain Kelly's Kitchen (Courtin' In The Kitchen) - Dropkick Murphy's. Aha. Add food, rinse, and get laid on the kitchen table. With me toora loora la, me toora loora laddie, me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie!

  9. Will I ever have children?

    Basket Case - Green Day. Doesn't sound like a good idea to me either.

  10. Will I die happy?

    Don't Pick It Up - The Offspring. I suppose being on drugs would make me happy?

  11. Can you give me some advice?

    Burn It Up - The Offspring. Just when I was trying to quit smoking and arson, darnit.

  12. Do you know where your children are?

    My Best Friend - Weezer. I knew they were his and not mine!

  13. What do you think happiness is?

    New Born Son Of Satan - Nekromantix. Muhaha.

  14. What's your favourite fetish?

    Young, Tight and Alright - Digger and The Pussycats. Well in that case, good for me I know where to find breezah-sluts, bat-teenies and DVDs with barely legal porn stars.

Interesting waste of time and database space.

Last.FM

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My Last.FM radio profile is expanding rapidly. Playing a lot of Bif Naked, The Offspring, Heideroosjes, Nekromantix, HorrorPops (doh!), Young Heart Attack, MxPx, Blink-182.. not all of it is available for streaming but at least my profile radio should be more accurate now, and my personal radio is prepared for additional albums to be licensed.

Have yet to copy some albums from my workstation to the laptop though, so I can play more Weezer, Gob, The Rasmus, Fenix TX, Green Day, No Doubt, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards..

And I'll have to get in touch with Charles on kde-devel for more Sirenia songs so I can get into the right mood for the gig in January.. we still need to make the actual appointment for the tongue piercings as well.

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