Monthly Archives: April 2006

Top 5s

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I've seen the movie, but I haven't read the book

One of the main themes of the movie High Fidelity is  top 5 lists.  I'd rather not list my top 5 breakups (have I even dated 5 women?) or top 5 missed opportunities.

Instead, I'll do some top 5 music lists.  Comments encouraged.

Top 5 musical artists making music in my lifetime:

  1. Bruce Cockburn – Incredibly prolific, stylistically diverse
  2. Prince – Symbols notwithstanding, he can play anything
  3. Patty Griffin – Diminutive woman, gigantic talent
  4. John Leventhal – Amazing producer
  5. Johnny Cash – Legend

Top 5 number 6 tracks: 

  1. Someday – Steve Earle (Guitar Town)
  2. Cry Like An Angel – Shawn Colvin (Steady On)
  3. Get Up Stand Up – Bob Marley and the Wailers (Legend)
  4. Day After Day – The Pretenders (The Singles)
  5. Fat Man and Dancing Girl – Suzanne Vega (99.9 F°)

Top 5 songs to leave on repeat:

  1. Train in Vain – The Clash
  2. Happy Time – Daniel Johnston
  3. Long Hair Man – The Horsies
  4. Once in a Lifetime – Talking Heads
  5. Saturday They'll All Be Back Again – David Wilcox

MCC Sale

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We went to the Kansas MCC Mennonite Relief Sale this morning.  Abe ate an entire piece of sausage and some verenika.   I ate too many New Year's cookies.

We looked at some of the quilts and walked through some of the other exhibits.  It was a nice day, a little chilly but no wind.

We wanted to go on Friday night, but the weather was awful.  Cold and dreary with 50 mph wind gusts.

Since I took Friday off, today seems like Sunday. 

My second

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I got another greenlight on Fark.com last night.  I might be a little ashamed at the headline.  Then again, I might not.

I submitted it right before I gave Abe his bath last night and then promptly forgot about it.

A nice surprise this morning.  Perhaps this will balance out my horrible showing in my fantasy baseball leagues. 

Songs in my head

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I have, for some unknown reason, had more songs than usual stuck in my head the past few days.

So far:

  • Lorelei – Styx
  • There's no business like show business – Ethel Merman singing
  • Release – Pearl Jam
  • Jolly Holiday – Mary Poppins
  • Radio, Radio – Elvis Costello
  • Three Little Birds – Bob Marley

Time to put The Weepies on and get the earwigs out.

Uh oh

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I may have made a serious mistake.

In the spirit of the season (Baseball) I decided to participate in a fantasy baseball league (Yahoo).  I did this last year with a group of college friends and had fun.  So, before the season started, I sent some email around to last years participants and even got a couple of new people involved.  We did an autodraft and we're off.

In the meantime, I saw a thread on TotalFark.com  about a TF fantasy league (Yahoo).  I had also done a TF team last year so I signed up immediately.  The TF league did an autodraft and it's also up and running.

A couple of days later, I saw another TotalFark thread and signed up for another TF fantasy league (also Yahoo).  We did a live draft, which was a lot of fun.

It appears I might have an addiction to Yahoo Fantasy Baseball leagues.  Maybe I can get in on a couple of mid-season drafts.

Of course, my forecast is that I will fail miserably in all three leagues. In order to be successful I would have to devote daily attention to each of my teams.  It also probably doesn't help that I didn't do a tremendous amount of research before the drafts and that, when in doubt, I picked players based on my historical affinity for the team on which they play.

Most likely, I will concentrate any effort I make on the team in the league with my college buddies.  Bragging rights and all…