The Faces Behind the Music

I got this meme from 3x1minus1:

1. Open your music player of choice.
2. Put the shuffle mode on.
3. Find a picture of the first 20 artists and write the song title, no matter how embarrassing it would be. If the same artist comes again, skip.
4. Why you should do this? So that other people would know what you're listening and how the bands look like.

( The results )

I'm almost finished reading Thud!, so expect a review in the near future. It's very good so far.

Okay, I'd better get ready to go to work.

The Summoning Dark

I have now finished reading Thud!, and I must say I enjoyed it quite a bit. ( Mr. Shine, him Diamond! )

Incidentally, I noticed that the first subject heading for the book is "Vimes, Samuel (Fictitious character)--Fiction." Was this the case with earlier Vimes books?

Thud! has a companion picture book, Where's My Cow?, which I'm probably going to have to borrow and/or buy in the near future.

And here's another survey, which I got from rockinlibrarian:
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Springfield docent like museums

I thought this week's Simpsons episode was noticeably better than last week's. The first act had most of the funniest moments (Carl being tired of dumbing things down for Lenny, the graveyard construction scene, Bart's zombie obsession), but the rest was a pretty good character-driven story, and Lisa managed to overcome her fear in an amusing way that wasn't totally ridiculous. One minor problem was that there were several bits that seemed like they were going to go somewhere but didn't, like Lisa's shock at Homer and Marge talking behind their friends' backs (that whole scene felt somewhat out of place), the therapist (although that scene did provide some good meta-humor), and the various things that happened in the graveyard. I guess the latter were mostly there just to scare Lisa and provide some quick laughs, but these moments made the episode in general come off as slightly disjointed. Oh, well.

On the other hand, I thought Family Guy was better last week. The beginning of this week's episode seemed kind of derivative of the Daggermouth one. It was still pretty funny, and the premise was interesting, but there have been better ones in recent times.

This has been my third entry today, hasn't it? I find entries about things in continuing series (like Simpsons episodes and Discworld books) to be particularly easy to write. Certainly easier than trying to make what I had for dinner sound interesting. Oh, that reminds me. I should eat something. Maybe some fish. Wasn't that interesting? {g}