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May 30, 2005
Not So Random 10
All five versions of a pelican
Yea, I know bloggers have a habit of posting the first 10 songs on their ipods but I am home today - listening to la radio and not la ipod. So I thought I would post the first 10 (not so randomly chosen) songs I heard on KROQ this morning.
BTW, It’s “A FLASH BACK WEEKEND on KROQ” (but when is it not!!?):
1. Say It Ain’t So - Weezer
2. On A Plaine - Nirvana
3. Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers
4. Some song I don’t know and couldn’t find on the KROQ website
5. Some band I don’t know called Supersonic (I think) with some song I don’t know. Bleh.
6. Wrong Way - Sublime
*7. Glorified G - Pearl Jam
8. Sabotage - Beastie Boys
At this point I got tired of waiting for them to play Oasis and I switched to 93.1, and got:
9. Yellow - Coldplay
10. One of These Nights - The Eagles
And then I turned back to see if I could STILL catch Oasis and got:
11. When I Come Around - Green Day
*Funny story about finding the name of this song
Funny story about finding the name of this song: I vaguely remembered this Pearl Jam tune but couldn’t think of the name. TGFTI (Thank God for the Internet!). When I googled “All five versions of a pelican”, which I thought was the chorus, I discovered that not only was I completely wrong (the lyrics actually say something about a pellet gun), but that there is actually a website for mondegreens. Anyone who knows me knows that mondegreens are a way of life for me. I generally hear only about 1/3 of what people are really saying, but I got so tired of saying “what’ or “excuse me” or “could you repeat that”, that I just stared telling people what I thought I heard. Usually, this stops the conversation cold and results in much laughter before the person can compose themselves and tell me what they really said.
Some favorite examples from conversations with my cuz are:
“You want to go lingerie shopping?”
“Hostess snack cakes make great gifts”
I can’t even remember the original conversations anymore. But whenever she’s talking so fast that I can’t make out what she’s saying I’ll just chime in with, “You want to go lingerie shopping?”…
Posted by lk at May 30, 2005 11:49 AM