iPod Skirmish

[shadesong]

About yesterday's iPod poll? As of right now - and I know I said I'd post this soon as I woke up, but I went straight to the math competition 'pon waking, so you get "soon as I get to the computer" instead - the poll is closed. List A is a clear winner, with 67 votes to List B's 47.

So. Most of the voters agree with me - my playlist was better. :P Yes, mine's A and his is B; auryn29a and sainthuck guessed correctly! It's difficult to tell our iTunes apart at times, as we've got a lot in common. The dead giveaways here, if you know us, are:

1. Fiona Apple. I would not be caught dead with whiny-chick crap on my iTunes. Especially not covering Frosty the freakin' Snowman. Yes, I know some of you actually like that. *shudder* I love you anyway. As I say to Adam so frequently, usually regarding his puns: "In spite of." Ditto anything involving The Beatles. I can use pretty much the same argument against The Beatles as I do against Tolkein.

2. Ministry. Adam? Not so much with the industrial music.

Other than that? Hell, we even duplicated a band (Oysterband).

But! Anyway. In anonymous competition, mine won. Hee! I am going to make him make me a victory cocoa.

In math-competition news: Elayna didn't place. But there were 280+ kids there, so we don't feel so bad about it. She feels she did her best, and that's what we're after, and she had a good time - yes, my child thinks taking four consecutive math tests at 9 AM on a Saturday is a good time, wtf, dude? - and made a new friend, and was philosophical about not getting a trophy, and she's going to a Girl Scout sleepover tonight and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe tomorrow, so life, for her, is good. *nod*

Comments

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

'was philosophical about not getting a trophy'

'I have interesting ways of hitting boys who defeat me in math competitions.'

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yes.

[beowabbit]

I can use pretty much the same argument against The Beatles as I do against Tolkein.

Um, c’est quoi? asks beowabbit, who likes the Beatles and Tolkien better than their imitators.

[caulay.livejournal.com]

I'm rather curious myself on that.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

See comment right below you.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Highly overrated, and are as Big as they are mostly because of their cults, who verbally attack anyone who isn't a True Believer.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I'd argue that's true of every fandom. ;)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

To some degree, yeah, I guess. :) But very few fandoms are as big as those two, and as mean and stupid.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Don't say that! You make the baby Lennon cry!

Kidding. I've never had direct experience with either cult, thank everything. The Beatles, which I sought out on my own (Dad's a fan, but never forced it on me), really work for me; Tolkien sort of works, though I feel that he was a blunt-force fiction writer (I was glad to see C.S. Lewis had a much lighter touch). I had a far stronger emotional response to Peter Jackson's films than to the original novels. Same thing with Stephen King's Dark Tower; I read that and said to myself, "I needed a story like that." I didn't have the same reaction to Tolkien's novels.

Still, it's always good to remind myself how useful the phrase "Your mileage may vary" is...

(P.S. And while I'm not too familiar with Fiona Apple, I get the impression of a slyness to her work that makes it not-whiny to me. Whatever it is, I tend to smile when her songs come on...)

[museumfreak.livejournal.com]

i also guessed correctly, but i thought it would be polite not to spoil other people, so just posted that I knew and not what the answer was. so the people who spoiled get RECOGNIZED in your journal and I don't? *sulk*

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

But see I didn't know!