51 posts tagged “qotd”
What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.
I am trying to try to vox. I really am. There is a common blogging cycle of initial enthusiasm, grand vision and promise, decent content, subtle decline padded with excuses, and finally the slow trickle until completely halting. I had been hoping vox was simple enough, and I had enough friends using it, to maintain momentum. As the friends drop off one by one, it renews my interest to keep going against all odds. As the criticisms of vox's lamitude are becoming commonplace, it gives me even more desire to flaunt the hating and keep it up. Well, for a while. Not so sure anymore.
I've "blogged" for over ten years; never consistantly. I lack the gene that makes me feel its important to constantly document existence and share it. But through various types of software, various blogging concepts, various levels of popularity of the medium I feel sadly and bitterly informed of the nature of the blogging experience. I know I am going to quit this completely soon.
And so, in accordance with the ftqotd spirit, I present my top 3 versions of Transparent Radiation. The original Red C(K)rayola followed by 2 del SM3. The power of this song will scrub all sins from the voxscape and anyone who listens is guaranteed a very pleasant night's sleep.
Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever seen a ghost?
Submitted by Nancy.
No. Yes.
Books, movies, music; what's in your top 5 right now?
1. Friends and family, as always
2. Grimacing totempole style otters 'n' orcas
3. Open windows, especially in the car
4. My chromatic mirepoix of green, yellow, and black
5. Boston Terriers, as always
bonus:
6. hating on the increasingly pathetic QOTDs
sub-bonus:
7. Dear vox, pls hire me to write seriously good QOTDs and make crazy boston terrier CSS themes. thx!
Do you listen to podcasts? Are there any you'd recommend?
Inspired by Alex.
I love Joy Haught's "Politics of Food"
the politics of food is fat and apples and red meat and water. it is fast food, slow food, patents on seeds, toxic fish in tribal rivers, rows of vegetables in the shadow of skyscrapers. it is post-capitalist hunger and post-modern bloat. it is farmers, anthropologists, historians, honest scientists, rebels, people who eat. it is a good time.
It seems that the podcasts are not being updated anymore though, I usually try to catch it live.
What is your earliest memory?
Submitted by Megan.
I can't determine the earliest, but I remember the uncomfortable feeling of diapers, I remember the bars of my crib, I remember struggling to get familiar with my body. For example I was dazzled by swallowing as I tried to go to sleep. I didn't know what it was I was doing, I just knew that I would get uncomfortable if I didn't do "it" every once in a while, and I could summon the act even if I didn't know what it was. I visualized some kind of lobed pinwheel, like brightly colored lightbulbs aranged with their ends connected to each other. Each time I swallowed, the thing would get brighter and then spin around a couple turns, and then the colors would start to slowly fade; they had to be recharged by this process.
Awesome Turkish psych. It has a long intro so be patient and give it a chance to get cookin':
What are your top 25 most played songs?
Submitted by Cooxie.
I have some skewed results due to leaving player running overnight on accident, but this is pretty close. And looking at it, I have to say, holy cow this is good stuff!
Transparent Radiation - The Red Crayola
Nobody To Love - 13th Floor Elevators
Rose And The Thorn - 13th Floor Elevators
Old Aunt Dinah (1934) - Butter Boy
Transparent Radiation (single version) - Spacemen 3
All I Ask - The Barons
Transparent Radiation - Spacemen 3
Plum Dumb - The Dead Milkmen
Myna Bird - Eden Ahbez Eden's Island
Eden's Cove - Eden Ahbez
Without Her - The Barons
Eden's Island - Eden Ahbez
Tribal Elders - Nick Riff
You Don't Know - 13th Floor Elevators
Nasty Nazi - Big Boy Pete
The Wanderer - Eden Ahbez
Bundan Sonratma Bizi - Selda-Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unu
Surf Rider - Eden Ahbez
Street Song - 13th Floor Elevators
You're On My Mind - Barons
Tradewind - Eden Ahbez
Speed - Ron wray light show
You're Gonna Miss Me - The Spades
Oh the Wind and Rain - Jody Stecher
Black Sheep (S.R.C.) - Mystic Siva
If you are going to dress up for Halloween, what will you be? Why?
Submitted by Auweea.
Instead of answering this, I will provide more evidence that I am a humorless, dark-hearted wretch of a little man.
I HATE conceptual halloween costumes. If you have to explain it to anyone, its dumb. If a 6-year-old cannot appreciate it, its dumb. If your actions are part of the costume (least favorite ever: "I'm dressed as a jerk" while they act like one all night), its dumb. A costume should show up well in a snapshot. If, every once in a while, someone had a mildly clever punny conceptual costume, that would be great; but the holiday is essentially ruined for me among adults as everyone tries to out-abstract each other.
What was your very first job?
Submitted by Laurel.
Writing DOS batch files for the Woman's Rape and Abuse Crisis Center in St Louis. My mom was a volunteer, but I was given a pretty good little salary to make their PCs go. Installing software, making autoexec menus so when the computer was booted you would just hit 1 for Word Processor, 2 for Spreadsheet, 3 for command prompt etc.
I think it was under the table. If so, my first "real" job was making, cutting, and delivering pizza in Jefferson City, Missouri.
What are some of your favorite, forgotten albums that have stood the test of time?
Submitted by PeterGibbons.
Ugh, music stuff will fatigue me to think about on the level of lucid detail my voxaudience has come to expect, nay demand from me.
I did mention this one:
http://mantid.vox.com/library/post/x.html
But I am a little confused by the wording here... favorite AND forgotten? Like "oh! I had totally forgotten this is one of my all-time favorite albums!"??
Um... I guess if they are forgotten, I can't remember them right now. But some older favorites:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
First half of Butthole Surfers discography, The Dicks, other TX punk
13th Floor Elevators
Spacemen 3
Pretty much entire AmRep catalog
Early Nirvana/SubPop is probably old enough to be "classic rock" now, eh?
Yeah, pretty half-assed post, but I refuse to Cut n Run. I stay the course and will post for freedom.
