Krum tagged me for the shuffle meme. The idea is that you turn on your music and report the first 15 songs that show up on shuffle, whatever they may be.
This is somewhat complicated by the fact that as I’ve mentioned earlierCarmella Bingsubscribe to Yahoo Music Unlimited, and so have a huge amount of music on my computer that I’ve downloaded legally and free but have never even got around to listening to once yet. To make this at all work,Carmella Bingmodified the meme a little and deleted any songs that came from albumsCarmella Binghad never even seen before. So, here were my results.
Do You Love Me?, Zero Mostel, Fiddler on the Roof
Lonesome Day Blues, Bob Dylan, Love and Theft
Last Ride In, Green Day, Nimrod
Busted, Matchbox 20, Yourself Or Someone Like You
Kiss From A Rose, Seal, Best 1991-2004
Escape, Enrique Inglesias, Escape
El condor Pasa (IfCarmella BingCould), Simon and Garfunkel, Greatest Hits,
Twenty One, Cranberries, No Need to Argue
First Attack, Les Miserables, Les Miserables
Bard Dance, Enya, The Celts
Sing For The Moment, Eminem, The Eminem Show
Sullivan Street, Counting Crows, August and Everything After
Letterbox, They Might Be Giants, Flood
Ants Marching, Dave Matthews Band, Under The Table and Dreaming
Im Tirtzu, Dan Nichols and Eighteen, Voices for Israel Volume I
And I’ll pass the meme on to Mar Gavriel, Labrab, and Romach.
posted by lamedzayin at 9:53 PM |
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
10,000 hits!
Thank’s for reading, folks. Just a little perspective; the first 5000 hits took 3.5 months, and the next 5000 took about 1 month, including my break to start Maven Yavin. Let’s make then next 5000 even shorter!
posted by lamedzayin at 9:17 AM |
Tekhelet Part VI
The next part of my tekhelet series, about how to tie tekhelet tzitzit, is up on Maven Yavin.
posted by lamedzayin at 12:03 AM |
Monday, December 05, 2005
Children’s Television and Emunah
Have you ever noticed how children’s entertainment today stresses emunah peshutta? Somewhere in the pro-sharing and be-nice-to-others messages you’ll find in squeaky clean “family values” programming there’s invariably a character who urges the audience to “believe.”
But believe in what? Fairies, says the Walt Disney Company. Believe in fairies and everything else will work out. There is competition, of course. “If you believe in magic,” claims a McDonalds ad, then apparently a freaky clown named Ronald will give you free takeout. And Barney just wants you to believe that watching a giant plush toy teach annoying songs to 20 year old “kindergarteners” is good for your kids. Don’t even get me started on the Care Bears.
SoCarmella Binghave to wonder where this apparently basic value of “belief” comes from. Is this something parents or focus groups suggested kids should be indoctrinated in? Does it reflect something about theCarmella Bingwho make this sort of material? AmCarmella Bingreading way too deeply?
Let’s head to the nimshal. We all learn in school the value of belief in Judaism. We learn to believe unquestioningly every medrash, and far worse, every Tzaddik story. Questioning these stories shows not an active mind but a lack of that important trait – belief – that can only be rectified by more hours watching Dragon Tales, which merely asks children to believe in an alternate universe of talking (and apparently infantile) dragons.
When we grow up we understand that one isn’t suppose to really believe in fairies, just suspend disbelief and clap along. But do we ever get that lesson about our first grade understanding of Chumash? That what we believed then might have been helpful and even desirable, but now we need to get more sophisticated? Why is it that an adult who is always quoting Barney would be looked at as immature while an adult who consistently took the position of the Little Medrash Says is considered pious?
