This is what I do instead of working

Yesterday, after taking a quiz that said that my musical taste was somewhere between Nicole Kidman and the Fab Five from Queer Eye I spent an entertaining afternoon looking through celebrity playlists with tromboneborges. My personal highlight was the Frank Black (of Pixies fame) and his 100% Burl Ives set. I also loved Michael Penn on Bruce Springsteen:

"Brilliant Disguise": I know, I know. This is when he went all 'Pop', this is when he dropped the E-Street band and you felt like you'd never have your Jersey-Alleyway Opera boy back again. You know what? Shut up.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Last night I had an excellent time at la casa de ali_wildgoose y emsariel playing all sorts of board games. However, I think the geek genes that I'm missing include both "killing monsters, beating things up, or going on adventures generally" and "motivation through negative reinforcement." I like puzzles and mysteries and the Great Adventure of every day life; I am more motivated by feeling that I am doing some things well than by losing over and over again until I work something out. This may be why I'm not a big gamer.

However, I am movie geek enough to be excited to watch Jon Stewart host the Oscars this year, and rather than seeing Narnia again, I'm off to see The Producers!