a whole life of crime avoided all due to underwear issues

lyric of the day 5/11/08

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:18:14 -0400

It's really for the last couple days.

Where are you?
And I'm so sorry.
I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight.
I need somebody and always
This sick strange darkness
Comes creeping on,
So haunting every time.
And as I stared
I counted
The webs from all the spiders
Catching things and eating their insides.
Like indecision to call you
And hear your voice of treason.
Will you come home and stop this pain tonight?
Stop this pain tonight.

Don't waste your time on me
You're already
The voice inside my head.
- Blink 182, "I Miss You"

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Vox Hunt: Freaky Friday

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:50:14 -0400

Show us the person you'd most like to switch bodies and lives with for one freaky Friday.

I was with Sarah on this one when she said that this smacks of an earlier "would you want to be someone else" entry. But after reading her idea that it's just one day, I began to think about it in a different way. What would I want to experience for one day, who would I want to learn from for one day.
There's a couple:

Sarah McLachlan Tampa May 2005

I'd want her amazing voice, her beauty, the ability to write shivery lyric and music. I'd love to be able to play the guitar and piano like she does. I'd want her humour and her gregariousness.

Jodie Foster

I'd want her talent, her humour, her unbelievable beauty, her humbleness and groundedness. I'd like her ability to speak French fluently. I also find it amusing that she was in the original Freaky Friday.

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Vox Hunt: My Mom

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:24:54 -0400

Show us your mother.

Mom, Meme and Lynne

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lyric of the day 5/9/09

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:14:30 -0400

Yeah. I'm smitten. And I really don't care who knows. There's a reason there's no lyric for yesterday, but I'm not sharing ;). (And I wrote these out the way Prince did; the way he always does in his liner notes. Except I added punctuation.)

From the first moment I saw u
Ooh, I knew u were the 1.
That night I had 2 call u -
I was rappin till the sun came up.
Tellin u just how fine u look.
In a word, u were sex.
All of my cool attitude u took -
My body was next.

U made love 2 me
Like u where afraid
Was u afraid of me?
Was I the first?
Was I your every fantasy?
- Prince, "Adore"

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lyric of the yesterday 5/7/08

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:21:08 -0400

Played it several times yesterday to center myself in the middle of a REALLY BAD day.

You take me in
No questions asked.
You strip away the ugliness
That surrounds me.

Are you an angel?
Am I already that gone?
I only hope
That I won't disappoint you
When I'm down here
On my knees.

And sweet
Sweet
Sweet surrender
Is all that I have to give.

Sweet
Sweet
Sweet surrender
Is all that I have to give.

And I don't understand
By the touch of your hand
I would be the one to fall.
- Sarah McLachlan, "Sweet Surrender"

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self-portrait Thursday 5/8/08

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:39:11 -0400

2 for you today:

frogs tattooo

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Vox Hunt: Tool Time

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:10:37 -0400

Show us your favorite tool.
Submitted by Maraschino.

20080429-1_p042908cg-0266-515h

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lyric of the yesterday 5/6/08

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:37:48 -0400

I just realized I didn't do this last night...

I'm stuck in the tardis.
Trapped in hyperspace.
One minute snake charming,
The next in another place.

All the right moves and
Earn the right percent;
Watch me dance like a puppet -
You can almost see the strings.

Give me an answer
Give me a sign
I've been climbing up this ladder.
I've been wasting my time.
- Radiohead, "Up On the Ladder"

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More from Sarah's Visit

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:27:16 -0400

She met Pleeplius!

Pleeplius Meets Sarah

And I can't tell if Kiersty is trying to give Brian rabbit ears or thump him on the head.

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for Tyrone

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:05:41 -0400

Yes, Sarah, your little guy came to mind when I saw this on BoingBoing this morning.

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