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I especially love this thing because it introduced me to a good 8-10 awesome songs/groups I'd never have otherwise found. Yay for links in birthday threads!
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Thank goodness. Seriously. At this point, if I can't count on my brain, I've got nothing but pratfalls to fall back on.

Although I would fall back on them really awesomely.
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As inspired by The Transmutation Effect, a blog I read regularly.

Directions: As usual, hit random play on iTunes and see what songs come up.
This one is the soundtrack for your life.

Opening Credits:
"Experimental Film" (by TMBG) covered by SongsToWearPantsTo.com
Great, upbeat cover. Better than the original, IMHO.
At least we're starting off okay. And appropriate too, eh?

Waking Up:
"Happy Birthday" by Weird Al Yankovic.
Ha. Again, apropos to start off my life-soundtrack.
I play this song every birthday as soon as I wake up. This and "It's Not My Birthday" by TMBG. I'm a cynical bastard.

First Day At School:
"Come On Come On" by Smash Mouth
"...and tell me why you're starin'...it must be what I'm wearin'"
Yeah, I used to get really excited about the first day of school and simultaneously hugely concerned with first impressions.

Falling In Love:
"Just Push Play" by Aerosmith
Man, I'm liking these songs...especially since it's the songs we're using, not just the titles.

Fight Song:
"Do You Wanna Dance?" by the Ramones
Don't mess with me; I'm the Boogie Man.

Breaking Up:
"The Geeks Get The Girls" by American Hi-Fi
...Oh, cool. So I only think it's a break-up, but it turns out she's waiting by the car saying, "What took you so long?"
PS: FYI, I am a geek.

Prom:
...um. "Track 15"
...which turns out to be a mashup of 1) a cover of Norwegian Wood and 2) the Mission Impossible theme song. Appropriately, the theme for Graham Street Salon Prom this year is spies (Prom '007).

Life:
"What You Waiting For?" by Gwen Stefani
...Good question. Hmm. I do live to "get me some brand-new fans," don't I?

Mental Breakdown:
"Groove is in the Heart" by Deee-Lite
Quite psychadelic with Bootsy Collins and Q-Tip featuring prominently. Yeah, that sounds like what it'll sound like when I snap. I can't wait until my left eye twitches and the soundtrack goes, "He's not vicious or malicious, Just de-lovely and delicious"

Driving:
"Don't Phunk With My Heart" by The Black Eyed Peas
Hugging the curves of a winding mountain road like they're her humps, her humps, her lovely lady lumps. This actually makes great driving music.
...Shut up. Don't judge me.

Flashback:
"You Get What You Give" by the New Radicals
Shiver up my spine. This is definitely a great emotion-grabbing flashback song.
iTunes, don't fail me now; you're really giving me good random songs. Keep it up.

Getting Back Together:
"This is How A Heart Breaks" by Rob Thomas
...I jinxed it, didn't I? Damnation.
Actually, this song accurately portrays my feelings on 'getting back together': Don't. It didn't work the first time, why's this time going to be different? I realize some might think me a bit hypocritical, given my current situation. My response to those Some: ...Shut up. Don't judge me.

Wedding:
"You're Beautiful" by James Blunt...wait no.
"You're Beautiful Karaoke Version" (by James Blunt)
Yes, I will have karaoke at my wedding.
If I have my way, my vows will be a song parody.
And considering what kind of woman I'd marry, it'd likely be a duet. I'd fight for "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Imagine that for a moment, won't you?

Birth of Child:
"Pacific Coast Party" by Smash Mouth
Oh hells yeah! First kid, I'm gonna be beside myself with the need to PARTY!

Final Battle:
"Stoned" by Smash Mouth
Very laid back verses. I imagine it starts out with my slo-mo walking and looking badass (but then, I always imagine things involving my slo-mo walking and looking badass). However, by the end, it feels very hand-to-hand and Matrix-dodgy. Which is the only way I'd have my Final Battle be.
...Also, it's apropos, since --if anybody kills me-- it'll be Andy.

Death Scene:
"I Can Only Imagine" by Mercy Me
Whoa. Okay, iTunes. You're trying to make my audience cry. Stop that. Stop...sniff...th-that... This is one of those religious songs that gets me right there, regardless of its religiousness. ...Shut up. Don't judge me.
Anyway, the death scene would be at the very beginning of the song, and then the crescendoing rest of the song would be a hazy sunny flashback to all the promise that my too-short life had, until the last two lines when it comes back to my last breath...

Funeral Song:
"The Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet
HAHAHA! This is exactly what I want my funeral to be like. I want an Irish Wake: everybody drinking and singing and dancing to huge songs like this. And if Rachel could choreograph an entire crowd dance starring all my friends, I'd die happy...or 'have died happy,' I guess.

End Credits:
"Shout Shout" by Ernie Maresca
Oh, a peppy oldie. I really was born far too late. I'd have done so much better in either the 1950s or else being born in the 1850s, the former for music tastes and the latter for appreciation of insufferable wit.

And then one more song to wrap up (since Sketch threw one in himself): "Face Like Billy Joel" by Da Vinci's Notebook. Hilarious.

Well, my life soundtrack came out pretty awesome, actually. And only one repeated artist; that's amazing.
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I got complimented on my writing today not once but thrice. That made me go on a self-indulgent spin in the mid-life-crisis convertible that is my LiveJournal's Writing Tag.

Which found me reading through it all and remembering why I like to write so much... and also realizing that I have far more possibly-publishable poetry than I thought. Regardless, the major thing I rediscovered was my semi-annual foray into the world of found-haiku.

Whee!

Haiku2 for kit27kit
and reality bending 2 dimensional criss cross from the 5th
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you are you okay let me know jason jason if you're going to
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Reloaded and rerandomized from November 23, 2005:

Go to your iTunes/Windows Media Player/WinAmp and put it all on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and after each one press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question.

In order to keep this from just randomizing to the first song in my playlist first, I've set it to start on "Word Disassociation" by Lemon Demon. Apropos. Now: Randomize!

What do you think of me, iTunes?
"Shake Machine Parts I and II" by Paul and Stormy
...TILT? Or am I just pathetic, iTunes? Is that it?

Will I have a happy life?
"Heads Carolina, Tails California" by Jo Dee Messina
...Which is the happy life though?

What do my friends really think of me?
"Caught Up" by Usher
Yeah.

Do people secretly lust after me?
"Itty Bitty Pretty One" covered by Hewie Lewis and the News
This is either creepy (if referring to how I'm seen) or good news (if it's who's lusting).

How can I make myself happy?
"Another Postcard" by Barenaked Ladies
Do I take this as a full statement? Either way, it's an okay answer in a sea of depressing others.

What should I do with my life?
"Genius in France" by Weird Al Yankovic
Thanks, iTunes. By comparison, I'll always be the best.
How comforting.

Why must life be so full of pain?
"They" by Jem
(Who made up all the rules? We follow them like fools,
Believe them to be true, Don't care to think them through
And I'm sorry, so sorry, I'm sorry it's like this
I'm sorry, so sorry, I'm sorry we do this)
...GOOD answer.

How can I maximize my pleasure during sex?
"Rocked by Rape" by The Evolution Control Committee
...Aaaaawkwaaaaaard. Bad, bad answer.

Will I ever have children?
"All-Night Disco Party" by Brakes
...so... no?

Will I die happy?
"Enema Countdown" by Da Vinci's Notebook
Oh man, this meme is making me cry.

Can you give me some advice?
"Into the Words" by Forbidden Broadway
Yeah, that's where I've been for years, thanks for confirming.

What do you think happiness is?
"Cut To The Dismemberment" by Night Attack
...Does that count? An improvised radio comedy show by myself and three of my friends? Well, I'll count the show itself as what happiness is, and not necessarily the title. I do so love bending meme rules.

What's my favourite fetish?
"Feel Good Inc." by the Gorillaz
I get high on enjoying life, sucka!

What is my significant other thinking at this very moment?
"What's Your Flava" by Craig David
Hungry, huh? Well...well, good.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?
"We Can Work It Out" by Stevie Wonder
Together, we can do anything.
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Damnation, this morning has kicked my ass.

Whatever. No excuses, right? I'm late, Bob Loblaw, let's move on.

Here's the MR CIM for this week:



No, I'm just kidding.
I'd never try that big a cop-out.

No, here's the real MR CIM SIX:



Here's Sketch's ISIDTA strip for the week. His was up on time. He wins.

Also, I took this meme:

I am: Gregory Benford A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.

Which science fiction writer are you?

I can only say:

"Uh...who?"
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The Annual First-Sentence-Of-My-First-Journal-From Each-Month meme. A little early because soooomebody decided he couldn't wait until the end of December to post his. Well, fine. Jump the gun. See if I care.

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January: 1) Back on campus. Pump up the volume, pump up the funk.

February: Murdoc blue-screened yesterday after I'd spent a half-hour typing this up.

March: Found via Sketch's blog, these are from a SomethingAwful.com Photoshop contest's results: "Choose Your Own Adventure books that never quite made it."

April: Well, my yesterday sucked monkey balls, as I think we can all agree.

May: Premises.

June: I celebrated Rachel's 21st birthday with her last night, and she managed to foist a couple drinks on me as well.

July: I walked to McDonalds at 11:30pm.

August: Ever since I saw my first Forum Spoiler post --you know, the kind that changes the font color of the Spoiler-- I've been curious as to where else that technique would come in handy.

September: In my inbox today (again, let's take it in steps): Subject: large selection of watches

October: Wachovia.com is the bane of my existence

November: The whole Madonna adoption thing has been a crazy little slice of forehead-smacking since the beginning.

December: Credit to Sketch for pointing out the existence of this book to me.

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This year has been the second most stressful of my life. Mostly self-imposed, mostly mostly. Interestingly, the April line doesn't refer to what one might think it would, and I was actually a bit relieved to find that I'd written a few journals at the very top of March just to keep my improv-career-killing words from resurfacing.

Let's see, what happened this year?
1) I worked as Marketing Coordinator for the Theater.
2) I watched the first four seasons of 24 back-to-back, a few hours every night. This was the true beginning of my TV-shows-on-DVD obsession.
3) I stopped doing improv, after burning several interpersonal bridges and hurting several important friendships.
4) I started going to the Graham Street Salon.
5) I started buying more and more DVDs and video games because I had an extra 25 hours a week on my hands and an extra 50-some-odd dollars a months burning a hole in my wallet.
6) Except.
7) I graduated from UNC with an English degree.
8) I got an 8-5 job.
9) I lived and paid rent in two different apartments (summer, fall-current).
10) I got published in an online literary journal.
11) I started visiting Atlanta again.
12) I bought an XBox 360. And accessories.
13) Somewhere along the line, I completely stopped truly caring and fell back into my old 2002 stance on the world: You Know What, Who Cares What I Do When I Can Easily Be Happy Watching Movies and Writing Self-Indulgent Trifles The Rest Of My Life.
14) Somewhere along the way after that, I started caring about a lot of stuff, realizing that the main problem with #13 is the fact that Anthony Fichera took that route and predicted I'd do the same, and if there's one thing I cannot allow, it's for Anthony to have been right about something.

Oops. Two points too many. Well, anyway, thank heavens I didn't come across as depressed and unable to let go. That would have been pointless and annoying. Yay for retrospectives!
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Before looking behind the cut, do this yourself.

QWERTY Association Meme:
Type the first three words that you think of when you type each letter on the keyboard, going across each row (Q-W-E-R-T-Y, etc). Proper nouns and names are fine, but try to keep it words as much as possible.

( my results )
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I, in turn, blame niewolnoczekac for this meme.

The first five people to respond to this post will get some kind of art by me, for them. Provided, of course, you gimme your mailing address, or provided that I already have that.

Also, this is a meme-ish thing, so if you sign up, you have to post this on your own journal as well (and I will check). Pass it on.

PS: I will be taking requests, but no portraits; I'm not good at people's faces.
PPS: I'm hip to scanning. I can totally scan something in for you if you're uncomfortable with my having your address. In fact, you can email me at kit27kit AT email DOT unc DOT edu to let me have your info, so you don't have to post it in the public eye. See how thoughtful this budding artist is? I'm such a nice guy... and I promise I won't turn around and send you extra mail either, like SOME people.
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I liked this meme last year, and now I see it's making its annual comeback. So, I'll go Trick-or-Treating again. Let's see, last year, I believe I did this as a Teenage Werewolf, but this year, I think I'll go as your hero and mine: Frank West (he's covered wars, you know), photojournalist and zombie genocider extraordinaire!



So here I go! Me likie candy! Me likie candy! ...

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
kit27kit goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Frank West.
anthonylpatch tricks you! You get a clothespin.
captainstekimal tricks you! You get a block of wood.
coleoptera tricks you! You get a piece of paper.
jack_snow tricks you! You get a rotten egg.
katyjack tricks you! You get a toothbrush.
kosherpickle tricks you! You get a wet rag.
kudzita tricks you! You get a dead frog.
lcpalmi gives you 7 green cinnamon-flavoured jawbreakers.
niewolnoczekac tricks you! You lose 2 pieces of candy!
portermason tricks you! You lose 4 pieces of candy!
kit27kit ends up with 1 pieces of candy, a clothespin, a block of wood, a piece of paper, a rotten egg, a toothbrush, a wet rag, and a dead frog.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Okay, you can all go to hell. Except Lisa. Thanks for the cinnamon jawbreakers, Lisa; allow me to escort you out of the zombie horror zone.

Okay, I refuse to let that stand. Once Lisa's safe in the Security Office, I'm changing outfits and going back out there.

Hmmm...second try is...


Gnarls Barkley Vader Rorschach
(fairly complicated costume to make,
especially on the spur of the moment)

Let's try all new houses this time (blows raspberry over shoulder)...

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
kit27kit goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Gnarls Barkley Vader Rorschach.
akbarblog gives you 1 red coffee-flavoured jawbreakers.
befurreal gives you 5 milky white mint-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
elpdragon gives you 7 orange cola-flavoured wafers.
evilezekiel gives you 14 yellow vanilla-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
heymeamy gives you 8 tan peach-flavoured pieces of taffy.
redshirtedgradu gives you 13 white spearmint-flavoured wafers.
salisian gives you 1 pink coffee-flavoured nuggets.
stnuke gives you 3 milky white passionfruit-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
thobgood tricks you! You lose 49 pieces of candy!
kit27kit ends up with 3 pieces of candy.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

SKEEEETCH!
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And, since everybody needs a Marvel Civil War banner...





I think my favorite part of this whole situation is that I'm really enjoying Marvel Civil War...and I'm enjoying all the parodies and jabs people are taking at it.

I love being cognitively bifurcated.
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Well, thanks to kudzita, I took this Z-Day meme.

( You have trained well, grasshopper. Now you are a... )

I always knew I'd be great in a zombie outbreak. I just have so much pent-up aggression, and it would be so nice to unleash it on creatures that 1) are universally reviled, 2) have no rights, 3) are plentiful and easy to find, and 4) would do the same to me and worse if I let them.

For those who are curious, my stated weapon of choice was a machete. I think we all know how much I hate ranged weaponry. It's so easy to aim something you swing and hit with, but not so much something that literally de-aims itself every time you use it. Of course, I do understand that a shotgun blast to the face is a lot faster than hoping you adequately severed the head.

Nearly-Headless Nick: Braaaaaaaains fell out my neck.

So I would obviously have a gun to fire. It's just I would save it for emergencies and --of course-- showy displays of pluck.



On a related note (and mostly for Ben's consideration), I just realized today the epitome of awesome:


Either as a mono-horde or as a buffet-style food supply.
Just saying.
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kit27kit's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9
Average number of words per sentence:	18.02
Average number of syllables per word:	1.50
Total words in sample:	7531
Analyze your journal! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern

Convivial explication extended heretofore necessarily continues thuswardly henceforth, beloved readership.
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Supposedly if you've seen over 70 of these movies, you have no life.
Number the ones you've seen. Put your score in header and repost.

( List of Movies )

I hypothesize that, by these standards, Ethan has no life. I believe this to be a very safe bet.
I'm curious though as to what these sections represent. What trait made them separate Harry Potter 1 from the rest of the series...or did they just have 173 movies and randomly split them up into groups of 9-12 without alphabetizing? How strange.

Also, I wonder if someone similarly on the verge of lifelessness would like to have a movie marathon with me so we can lose our lives at the same time. If enough people want in, I'll even volunteer to host it and serve spiked Kool-Aid.

Happy birthday, PT. Long live evilpt!



I'm tired. I should really get some sleep before my parents call me in 5 hours to give me a ride to the Loreleis brunch (go to the Loreleis concert at Memorial Hall on UNC campus tonight, as in Sunday).

But first, a meme.

Since salisian can, I can twice as many:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three six neat facts, two four births and one two deaths in your journal, including the year.

( The Results of That Trial, in a Moment...I Mean 'LJ-Cut' )
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God, I have written too many papers about Penelope. I woke up late today, as usual, and had to write a 4-page page comparing Wallace Stevens' depiction of Penelope in his poem "The World As Meditation" to Homer's depiction of her in The Odyssey. In an hour.

And I did. Becuase 1) I know Penelope like a fucking glove (giggity giggity), and 2) Ross told me to read Wallace Stevens, so now I know him too. Not personally yet, but we'll see how our second date goes.

So I managed to get a pretty decent paper out of it, which I needed. A lot. Damn. I have too much to do right now.

And for the random meme-ish thing of the week:
( Which Superhero Am I? )

The Four Things Meme: because I'm foured. Tagged by this zombieseeker.

Four Jobs I’ve Had
Data Entry/Attic Organization for Blue Cross
Blackboard test/coursework entry/formatting for LearnNC
Cashier for an office supplies store
Weekly columnist/crossword creator for Georgia Tech's student newspaper

Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over Again
Clue
Sin City
Snatch
Fight Club

Four TV Shows I Love to Watch
(I'm not assuming 'still airing', since I don't watch cable)
24
Family Guy
Arrested Development
Buffy the Vampire-Slayer

Four Places I've Been on Vacation
Fields of the Woods (Murphy, NC)
Atlanta, GA
Washington, DC
Hershey, PA

Four Favorite Dishes
General Tso's Chicken and fried rice
roast pork and applesauce
pineapple casserole
Bob Evans fried chicken patty and biscuits w/ strawberry jelly

Four Websites I Visit Daily
DSI Comedy Forums
AdventureQuest
Order of the Stick
Pandora

Four Places I'd Rather Be
on stage
in the DramaTech green room
Chapel Hill Comics
in 1988, mildly sick in bed, taping tracing paper to the TV, pausing my He-Man beta tape and drawing mustaches and hats on the characters

Four Bloggers I'm Tagging
Zack
Val
Adam
Sketch

Rate Kit's Traits:

http://kevan.org/johari?name=Kit's Alter Ego
http://kevan.org/nohari?name=Kit's Alter Ego

So kudzita gave very clear directions for this, the return of my very favorite meme:
"Because like...I remember when this meme went around last year. Now, granted, I've had this journal since 2000...and granted, that trick-or-treat meme has gone around the last three Halloweens or so...but still, this meme makes me feel crotchety, and that is an entertaining enough feeling that I am going to do it for 2005. *g* First sentence (or first two, if the first is really short) of first post from each month, you know the drill."

In the year 2005 I resolve to: Get a carnivorous fish.
1) Three weeks until the big day(s!):

I can't stand people saying they're writing in meter when they're obviously not.
I haven't labeled anything my friends have ever done as truly evil.
I'll Pay It Forward from kosherpickle
In my email today, from the University: You may qualify for a research study using an investigational drug to treat diarrhea-predominant IBS or functional diarrhea.
Well, here's one English class in which I'm apparently not going to be a popular guy: The American Novel.
Ah, the long and languid pauses this livejournal does take.
I may never get long, involved monologue topics, but today brought two stories that people enjoyed.
I stayed up until 4-5 am on Friday at the DSI Pre-Opening party.
While hanging out with PT, two Amandas, Jeff and Ben Matchar, I encountered something that people everywhere KNOW I should own: a DVD player that is unable to read the dialogue track of a great deal of DVDs.
For those not in the know, it's a tongue-in-cheek XBox video game with the titular character voiced by Cary Elwes.

Go to your iTunes/Windows Media Player/WinAmp and put it all on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and after each one press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question.

What do you think of me, iTunes?
"Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand
Asking for a date? Or assisted suicide?
Or perhaps saying, "Use me more often."

Will I have a happy life?
"Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Looney Tunes)"
SUCCESS!

What do my friends really think of me?
"Powerhouse" covered by Dennis Caiazza & Swing Factory
Limitless supply of energy. Yep, probably.

Do people secretly lust after me?
"Somebody" by Bonnie McKee
Ooh! Who?
(Bonus points for one of my favorite accidentally-found songs)

How can I make myself happy?
"Genius in France" by Weird Al Yankovic
Oh. Hang out with people less intelligent than myself so I feel superior. Hrm.

What should I do with my life?
"Suckerpunch" by Bowling For Soup
('Here she comes again with another boyfriend,
introduces me and says,
"This is the sweetest guy I've ever known."')
Grin and bear it? Or suckerpunch everyone who does this to me?

Why must life be so full of pain?
"Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)" by the Ramones
Because of the existence of the concept of werewolves.
Got it. Makes perfect sense.

How can I maximize my pleasure during sex?
"Ch-Check It Out" by the Beastie Boys
Oh, ha ha, iTunes. To maximize my pleasure during sex, I should first have sex. Ha. I get it. STUFU.

Will I ever have children?
"Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin
Well, that's depressing.

Will I die happy?
"Fight For Your Right" by the Beastie Boys
I will. It seems it's all I do any more.

Can you give me some advice?
"Holla Back Mickey" a Gwen Steffani/Toni Basil mashup
??? Do I parse this 1) Holla Back, Mickey! or 2) Holla Back, "Mickey!"?

What do you think happiness is?
"My Father's Eyes" by Eric Clapton
I refer to my journal about 'The Royal Tenenbaums'. Good job, iTunes.

What's my favourite fetish?
"Homestar Runner Shutdown Sound"
('Did you wemember to saaaave? All of youw fiiiiiiwwes?')
I suppose I am a hardcore fan; I download what I can from the internet, but I buy all the DVDs too.

What is my significant other thinking at this very moment?
"Whatcha Want, Lady?" a Beatles/Beastie Boys mashup
I swear, the Beastie Boys don't make up all that huge a portion of my playlist.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?
"A Million Ways" by OK Go
iTunes, you so smaaaaart.