Friday Meme of the Moment
Category: Memes... Music...
Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 at 08:02 AM [GMT-6]

This is the inaugural post for an ongoing series which, now that I've established it and in keeping with my newly-cultivated anarchist/slacker/retro-chic persona, will never again be updated unless I feel like it.

The questions are simple and few:

1. Pick one of your favorite blogs (not including your own; we'll get to that), and suggest a theme song for it. Explain.


2. If your blog (see, I told you) had a theme song, what would it be? Explain.


3. If your blogging career suddenly collapsed into a steaming mass of putrid refuse because of your inability to cope with its worldwide popularity, and your friends decided to try to revive your spirits by putting on a benefit concert*, which musical artist(s) would you hope that they would invite? Explain.

Note that if you don't have a blog, you can still participate. Just substitute "job" for "blog" in question 2 and leave out "blogging" in question 3.

OK, here are my answers (even though, technically, I'm exempt from this ridiculous exercise, being the perpetr originator):

1. For this question, I choose...Julie's Lone Prairie Blog, for which the ideal theme song would be Leslie Gore's classic, "You Don't Own Me," because of Julie's consistently articulated defiance in sticking it to The Man. Plus, it's a cool song, and she's a cool blogger.


2. If the Gazette had a theme song (and really, that's a silly proposition...no music is big enough to hold..well, you know), it would have to be "Dance of the Cucumber," by Larry the Cucumber and his reluctant interpreter, Bob the Tomato. The fiery Latin defiance of this rousing number perfectly captures the Gazette's unflagging dedication to sticking it to The Man.


3. Not that a collapse of my blogging career is possible to envision, for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it's never taken off to begin with, my benefit concert would ideally feature a reunion of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker (you tell me) as well as an appearance by The Talking Heads (are they still around?). Their fiery British defiance, blah, blah, blah...

*This question -- which, now that I think about it, is likely to someday be voted as the Most Interesting Question Ever Posed in the History of the Internet -- was inspired by a comment left by "David" (if, indeed, that is his real name) on a prior Gazette post. David is the eloquent and urbane proprietor of North Sea Diaries, which is a must read for anyone interested in the soap opera posing as western European politics. Dave's observations are routinely witty and insightful, two qualities I absolutely loathe in another blogger. But that's not the point, really.