May. 3rd, 2004

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Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] forgottenpixel

Post this list of Blender's 50 Worst Songs of All Time in your journal and underline the songs that you actually like.

1. We Built This City ... Starship (aw, c'mon, it's not THAT bad)
2. Achy Breaky Heart ... Billy Ray Cyrus
3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight ... Wang Chung
4. Rollin' ... Limp Bizkit
5. Ice Ice Baby ... Vanilla Ice (good just for nostalgia value and to get a laugh out of when you realize that you're such a dork, you still know the words)
6. The Heart of Rock & Roll ... Huey Lewis and the News (sure, it's not bad)
7. Don't Worry, Be Happy ... Bobby McFerrin
8. Party All the Time ... Eddie Murphy (LOL!)
9. American Life ... Madonna
10. Ebony and Ivory ... Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
11. Invisible ... Clay Aiken (geez, a song this recent gets on the "all-time" list? It's not great, but it's not that bad, either)
12. Kokomo ... The Beach Boys
13. Illegal Alien ... Genesis
14. From a Distance ... Bette Midler
15. I'll Be There for You ... The Rembrandts (*gags*)
16. What's Up? ... 4 Non Blondes (great beltin' song)
17. Pumps and a Bump ... Hammer
18. You're the Inspiration ... Chicago (*wretch*)
19. Broken Wings ... Mr. Mister
20. Dancing on the Ceiling ... Lionel Richie (*giggle*)
21. Two Princes ... Spin Doctors (damned catchy)
22. Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) ... Toby Keith (<--- my very least favorite song, or at least one of the top ones)
23. Sunglasses at Night ... Corey Hart
24. Superman ... Five for Fighting (decent, but overplayed)
25. I'll Be Missing You ... Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112
26. The End ... The Doors
27. The Final Countdown ... Europe (also not bad)
28. Your Body Is a Wonderland ... John Mayer
29. Breakfast at Tiffany's ... Deep Blue Something
30. Greatest Love of All ... Whitney Houston
31. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm ... Crash Test Dummies
32. Will 2K ... Will Smith
33. Barbie Girl ... Aqua
34. Longer ... Dan Fogelberg
35. Shiny Happy People ... R.E.M.
36. Make Em Say Uhh! ... Master P featuring Silkk, Fiend, Mia-X and Mystikal
37. Rico Suave ... Gerardo (c'mon, it's funny!)
38. Cotton Eyed Joe ... Rednex (ditto, and it's a great dancin' song)
39. She Bangs ... Ricky Martin (*thinks of William Hung and chuckles*)
40. I Wanna Sex You Up ... Color Me Badd (it might be bad, but it has nostalgia value)
41. We Didn't Start the Fire ... Billy Joel
42. The Sounds of Silence ... Simon & Garfunkel
43. Follow Me ... Uncle Kracker
44. I'll Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) ... Meat Loaf
45. Mesmerize ... Ja Rule featuring Ashanti
46. Hangin' Tough ... New Kids on the Block (sweet nostalgia)
47. The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You ... Bryan Adams
48. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ... The Beatles
49. I'm Too Sexy ... Right Said Fred (silly)
50. My Heart Will Go On ... Celine Dion

(Is it me, or is this list really biased toward 80s/90s music? Unfair. :-P)
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Stolen from someone on OD -- Bold the ones you've read. (Let's see how poorly-read I am, especially for someone with a degree in English...)

Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot (Dot com, dot net, dot org, dot mil, dot gov, dot e-d-u. I think of that same damned joke every time I see "Godot." Thanks, Lilly. :) )
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales (I actually own a full copy of this, in the original Middle English. Yes, I'm a geek.)
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness (I've tried reading this one about nine times. I never get past the first page.)
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (I may have read bits of this in middle school, but I wouldn't swear to having read enough for it to count.)
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I did try to read this once, in French, no less. I got maybe a third of the way through it before I just got sick of the effort of translating.)
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt (Hell, yeah. I read this in 11th grade, and I managed to get two projects out of it for two different classes.)
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick (I tried reading this one, too, honest.)
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved (But I have read The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon.)
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream (About six times, I think.)
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (I'll admit, though, I read a summary of the ending online, because I managed to lose my copy of the book behind my bed in McKinstry into a portal to another dimension, or something, and I didn't want to buy another copy when I was almost to the end and knew I wouldn't want it after we were done with it in class. It was weird, really -- I dropped it behind the bed, and I picked up the mattress and box spring and looked all around underneath, and it just wasn't there. It vanished.)
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath (Zzzzzz.... And the movie didn't even help -- that was pretty boring, too.)
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bleh, hated it.)
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple (I think I read something else of hers, but I can't remember what.)
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth (I did read Ethan Frome, though.)
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse (I might have read this one, 'cause it sounds familiar, but I don't actually remember it.)
Wright, Richard - Native Son

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