Call it what you will here, way down down in this subbacultcha

[vovat]

This morning, there was some story on AOL about Saddam Hussein's motivations, based on the recent interrogation of the former dictator. According to the article, he wanted to create a legacy, catch up with Iran in the weapons department, and go against the United States whenever he could. It did not, however, made him sound like he was an immediate threat to the country. He WANTED to create weapons of mass destruction, since Iran had them, but the indication seems to be that he didn't actually have any.

Anyway, after dropping bethje off at school today, I went to Pizza Hut for the lunch buffet. I got there at 1:15, and the buffet closed at 1:30, so they weren't as quick about refilling it as they generally are earlier in the day. At one point, they had very little other than thin crust pizza, which, while it isn't bad, seems kind of pointless. It just strikes me as somehow wrong to go to Pizza Hut and not get pan pizza. I did have a good lunch, though, and I even ate a salad, which doesn't sound so crazy in and of itself, but perhaps it would sound more so if you realized that I'm not a big fan of salads.

Yesterday, I took this quiz, which I got from sarah's blog.



Indie Kid.


Which Subculture Are You?
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Really, I didn't have a particularly accurate answer for most of the questions. The first one listed a bunch of bands, but I hadn't heard more than two or three songs by most of them, if that. I mean, I have an idea of what the Cure and the Sex Pistols sound like, but even in those cases I don't think I've heard very many of their actual songs. I guess I'm just not up on my subcultures. {g}

Another pointless exercise I did was to go back into my journal archives and look at the music I've listed in the "current music" field. Probably most of my entries were made when I wasn't actually listening to music, for whatever reason. When I AM listening to music, I sometimes kind of cheat and put on something I don't listen to all that often, so as not to give off the (largely accurate) impression of being someone who only listens to two or three bands. Anyway, here's what I came up with:

15 They Might Be Giants and related artists (10 TMBG, 2 Mono Puff, 1 Hello the Band, 1 song from the People Are Wrong soundtrack, 1 feed of Now Hear This)
12 Camper Van Beethoven and related bands (4 CVB, 6 Cracker, 2 Monks of Doom)
10 Young Fresh Fellows and related artists (3 YFF, 6 Minus Five, 1 Fastbacks)
9 XTC and related artists (2 XTC, 6 Andy Partridge, 1 Edward Rogers covering XTC)
7 Magnetic Fields and related bands (5 MF, 1 Future Bible Heroes, 1 6ths)
5 each from Tori Amos and Belle and Sebastian
4 Sugarplastic
3 Frank Black (one with the Catholics, two without)
2 each from the Apples in Stereo, Laura Cantrell, Neko Case, the Monkees, Sloan, and Thrush Hermit
2 video game themes (Waltz De Chocobo and the Super Metroid theme)
2 songs from compilations (Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops from The Bottle Let Me Down, and the Whites from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack)
1 each from the dB's, the Decemberists, Destroyer, Ani DiFranco, Ben Folds Five, Kelly Hogan, Hypnotic Clambake, Tom Lehrer, April March, Carolyn Mark, the Moldy Peaches, Moxy Früvous, Muckafurgason, the Replacements, the Sadies, the Statler Brothers, and Talking Heads

I probably missed a few, but that's definitely most of them. What does this show? Nothing, really. Just that I like making pointless lists. {g}


I need a drink. No, not an alcoholic one.