A Lust for Lists

So I'd been telling myself to stop launching new blogs... but I've gotten into these 'top ten' list things so much, and I've found that there is just so much to say that can fit into a 'top ten' format, that I was worried my "A Proper Blog" blog would just be swamped by top-ten lists ad infinitum. So I decided, even though it will decimate my "A Proper Blog" readership, to spin the top ten lists off into a new blog, called "A Lust for Lists". You can find it at http://a-lust-for-lists.blogspot.com/ where hopefully it'll offer listiness on a relatively regular basis.

Enjoy!

Bungle Music: the Index

So I've been keeping a good number of different blogs. Not all of them talk about music, but many of them do. Because they're spread out over different blogs, though, it's tough to find things I've written about particular musicians. So here's a rather horrifying 'master list' of blog entries referring to musicians. The links that follow the names are... well, you guessed, didn't you?

• Aerosmith link
• Apple, Fiona link
• Aqua link
• Artists for Haiti link
• Astley, Rick link
• B.o.B. link
• Beach Boys, the link
• Beastie Boys link
• Beatles, the link link link
• Berry, Chuck link
• Beyoncé link
• Björk link link
• Black Eyed Peas link link link
• Blige, Mary J. link
• Blind Faith link
• Bolton, Michael link
• Boss Hogg link
• Bowie, David link link
• Byles, Junior link
• Chicago link
• Chumbawumba link
• Clapton, Eric link
• Clinton, George link
• Cocker, Jarvis link
• Collins, Phil link link
• Counting Crows link
• Creedence Clearwater Revival link
• Cruz, Taio link
• Cyrus, Miley link
• Deee-Lite link
• Depeche Mode link link link
• Dexy's Midnight Runners link
• Dire Straits link
• Dixie Cups, The link
• Dizon, Leah link
• Doors, the link
• Dwarves, the link
• Dylan, Bob link
• Eminem link
• Evanescence link
• 50 Cent link
• Flying Burrito Brothers link
• Fox, Samanta link
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood link
• Funkadelic link link
• Genesis link
• Ghostface Killah link
• Golden Palominoes, the link
• Gore, Lesley link
• Guns 'n' Roses link
• Haggard, Merle link
• Harrison, George link
• Hendrix, Jimi link
• Herman's Hermits link
• Holly, Buddy link
• Human League link
• Jackson 5 link
• Jackson, Janet link
• Jackson, Michael link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link link
• Jay link
• Jay-Z link
• Joel, Billy link
• John, Elton link link
• Jones, Norah link
• Joplin, Janis link
• Karlsson, Sofia link
• Keith, Toby link
• Kilgore, Merle link
• Knight, Gladys link
• Kuti, Fela link
• Lanois, Daniel link link
• Lattanzi, Chloe Rose link
• Led Zeppelin link
• Lennon, John link
• Lewis, Huey and the News link
• Linkin Park link
• Lipps, Inc. link
• Lydon, John link
• M/A/R/R/S link
• MacColl, Kirsty link link
• Madonna link link
• Marley, Bob link
• McCartney, Paul link
• McFerrin, Bobby link
• Mingus, Charles link
• Minogue, Kylie link
• Mitchell, Joni link
• Montana, Hannah link
• Mothers of Invention, The link
• Mumba, Samantha link
• New Order link link link
• Nilsson, Harry link
• Nirvana link
• Northern Lights link
• O'Connor, Sinéad link
• Ono, Yoko link
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark link
• Osment, Emily link
• Osmond, Donny link
• Outkast link
• P.M. Dawn link
• Palmer, Robert link
• Parliament link
• Parsons, Gram link
• Perry, Lee link
• Pet Shop Boys link
• Pixies, the link
• Pogues, the link
• Presley, Elvis link link
• Pretenders, The link
• Prince link link link
• Procul Harum link
• Public Enemy link
• Public Image, Ltd link
• Puckett, Gary and the Union Gap link
• ? and the Mysterians link
• Rihanna link
• Riperton, Minnie link
• Ross, Diana link
• Rough Trade link
• Rough Trade link
• Roxy Music link
• Santana link
• Sawhney, Nitin link
• Scorpions, the link
• Sex Pistols, the link
• Shakira link
• Shirelles, the link
• Sly and the Family Stone link
• Sommers, Joanie link
• Sonic Youth link
• Soulwax link
• Spiritualized link
• Springsteen, Bruce link
• Stefani, Gwen link
• Stone Roses, the link
• Sugarcubes, the link
• Supertramp link link
• Talbot, Connie link
• Television link
• 10cc link
• Tindersticks link
• Travis, Merle link
• U2 link link
• Ullman, Tracey link
• Underworld link
• Usher link
• Vanilla Ice link
• Vega, Suzanne link link
• Velvet Underground, the link
• Wailers, the link
• Weezer link
• Who, the link
• Wu-Tang Clan link
• Yan, Sophia link
• Yes link
• Zappa, Dweezil link
• Zappa, Frank link link

Buffy Overload

Yeah, I've been lax. Too busy trying to find a job and stuff like that. Just thought I'd log in to let you know that... that I've been lax. Which you might have figured out. Turns out the Buffy project has been so overwhelming I've barely had time ot do anything else blog-like. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Of course, the nice column to the left here contains lotsa links to what's new, hot and sexy. Well, probably not sexy.

Joe Pesci, Billy Joel and N!xau

Meh. A very 'meh' week indeed. Nothing to knock the socks off of those with really big socks on. Just... some stuff. You know, stuff. Strange, because I felt like I did a lot this week.

• The only time I accessed my 'proper blog' was to complain about Yahoo! News.
• A trip to Namibia for the awesome name of "N!xau".
• Theo Huxtable, who I'm getting bored of, becomes a Pokémon.
• This week's horoscopes discuss Joe Pesci.
• I've used sights around Toronto to put together a graphic alphabet.
• It's rather obvious that it'd be a two-parter. This week, we look at Google Insights' info concerning Siamese Twins, for the second week.
• On the Buffyverse front, we look at Illyria, Principal Snyder, Drusilla, Jenny Calendar, and Holland Manners.
• And the songs... worst song of the week, "We Didn't Start the Fire".
• Best one? "A Whiter Shade of Pale".

Oh, and vaguely sexy new designs on some of these blogs courtesy of the kind people at Blogger.

Suzanne Vega, John Malkovich and Siamese Twins

It doesn't feel like I did that much this week. Getting a bit lazy in my old age? Could be...

• The Buffy epic carries on with five more entries: Anne, Sahjhan, Amy, Gwen and Kennedy.
• Pictures of Theo takes on the Spike Jonze movie "Being John Malkovich".
• This week's horoscope addresses the problem of people misspelling 'barbecue'.
• We look at the Google Insights track record for 'Siamese Twin' couplets like 'spic and span'.
• A Proper Blog has a little short story that may or may not have to do with 80s music.
• Speaking of 80s music, this week's Best Song and Worst Song are both by Suzanne Vega: "Tom's Diner" and "Luka". But which is which?
• Oh! And "Lost in Google Translation"..., er... maybe I shouldn't give any clues.
• Up there in Canada, Poll Vaulting looks at the province of B.C.
• And we learn about the Canadian-only Awesome Name that is "O-Pee-Chee".

And that's all she wrote. Or he wrote, to be more technically correct.

Looney Tunes, Hannah Montana and Crazy Buttocks

Another week, another bunch of blogs. What have I been doing this week? In addition to eating and sleeping, this:

• I got the Buffy and Angel blog up and going this week, with five entries on five characters: The Groosalugg, Ben, Professor Walsh, Skip, and Caleb.
• I actually added something to my woefully infrequent 'poetry blog' Decapitation Classic. It's called "A City is Destroyed".
• A bit of jingoism from Pictures of Theo, as Theo Huxtable gets mashed up with Uncle Sam.
• Except that's a different country. Up here, I have a blog devoted to Montréal through Google Street View. This week, I did some pictures of the Metro's Orange Line.
• But speaking of that other country, Brits Supertramp sing this week's Worst Song nominee, "Breakfast in America".
• And the Best Song nominee is an American act, singing about a different place altogether: "Funkytown".
• On the topic of music, my once-a-month blog Better as a Single sinks its teeth into, of all things, a Hannah Montana album.
• And, just to show I'm no more mature than Miley Cyrus herself, A Proper Blog this week ogles album covers with nudity in them.
• More anatomy: Living with Crazy Buttocks. Don't worry; it's just a book with an Awesome Name.
• Lost in Google Translation this week takes inspiration from VH1.
• And lastly, some Google Insights about Looney Tunes characters.
• This week's horoscope offers all kinds of sage advice, courtesy of Horoscopes Monkey Trial.

Wow, eh?

Canada and other Countries

So my second attempt at a weekly run-down. There's 12 entries here for this week, which surprises me, because I didn't think I did all that much this week. In any case, there's no overriding theme, except that three of them are about Canada. So what have I been up to this week? This:

• I have a blog that shows Toronto through Google Street View screencaps. This one is a but different, in that I've taken a few of those pictures and turned them into Tilt-Shift pictures, i.e. made them look like miniatures.
• My blog about Google Insights uses data from that site to consider whether Canadians use American or British spellings more.
• And in Poll Vaulting, I consider the woes of the Canadian Leader of the Opposition, Michael Ignatieff.
• Both my best-song and worst-song blog entries are American, though. Nominee for Best Song Ever this week is Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love"
• Nominee for worst is Michael Bolton's "Why Give My Songs Titles; They All Sound the Same Anyway".
• My poor unloved Lost in Google Translation site has a mixed-bag entry.
• I'm launching a blog that is a bit of an obsessive's guide to the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. I got the introduction up to the Top 50 Characters list that I'll be doing at the rate of one per weekday.
• Pictures of Theo has a Monty Python-inspired GIF. God loves GIFs.
• The Awesome Name of the week is "Bapsybanoo". Tell me you wouldn't name your daughter that.
• My Horoscopes blog has another edition this week: more horoscopes guaranteed to be true beyond any shadow of a doubt.
• And A Proper Blog has two entries this week. First is a silly thing about nursery rhymes.
• The second Proper Blog entry is about bisexuality, and the 'spectrum' of sexuality.

Hm. That was a lot. Yay me.

A Musical Week

So I've been thinking... since I have all kinds of stray blogs that are updated semi-regularly (in some cases, rather less frequently), I need some kind of central point: a meeting point from which all of my blogs can be accessed. So I opened one here using my own nom de plume, and what I'm going to do is this: about once a week, I'm going to update this blog with links to whatever I happen to have posted over the preceding seven days. I'm sure there's some way, with RSS and whatever, to do that automatically. But I have the tech savvy of an eighty-year-old Amazon forest native. So here we go instead...

Recent stuff I've done:

• I keep a weekly blog about the best songs ever: this week, it's Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You For Talking to Me, Africa".
• Plus, the worst songs ever, too. This week the badge of honour gets pinned on the lapel of Herman's Hermits, for their "Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter".
• Additionally on the topic of music, in my catch-all blog, I've written about Elvis Presley, and the incredible sadness of his 1970s album covers: white jumpsuits, microphones, and not a speck of imagination.
• A theme week for the Lost in Google Translation game of mangled song lyrics: this week, they're all by the same musician.
• Actually, it's a very musical week. My Things with Awesome Names blog, devoted to things with strange or interesting names, looks at Fiona Apple's ridiculously-titled second album.
• Understanding Google Trends looks at vitamins, and who's been Googling which ones. More interesting than it sounds, I promise...
• Something I've been trying to do for a while now, Poll Vaulting has part one of a two-part look at the 'youth vote' in Canada - who under-25s vote for, or at least who they intend to.
• My blog devoted to Photoshopping pictures of Theo Huxtable (well, who says blog themes have to make sense?) gives you 'Old Theo' this week.
• And of course, the stalwart Horoscopes Monkey Trial gives you another edition of life-enhancing and 100% correct in all circumstances astrology, completely guaranteed to change your life.

And there you go... seven days in the life of Bungle Jerry, Esq.