Here’s an exercise that I found in someone else’s blog… but I added this parameter: complete the list as best you can in five minutes or less!

1. Your favorite song with the name of a city in the title or text.
Bis– Chicago

2. A song you’ve listened to repeatedly when you were depressed at some point in your life.
Natalie Merchant– San Andreas Fault

3. Ever bought an entire album just for one song and winded up disliking everything but that song? Gimme that song.
Goldfinger– Here in your Bedroom

4. A song whose lyrics you thought you knew in the past, but about which you later learned you were incorrect.
Information Society– What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)

5. Your least favorite song on one of your favorite albums of all time.
Ben Folds Five– Sports & Wine

6. A song you like by someone you find physically unattractive or otherwise repellent.
Hole– Teenage Whore

7. Your favorite song that has expletives in it that’s not by Liz Phair.
Nelly Furtado– Shit on the Radio

8. A song that sounds as if it’s by someone British but isn’t.
Transplants– Diamonds and Guns

9. A song you like (possibly from your past) that took you forever to finally locate a copy of.
The Four Tops– Eleanor Rigby

10. A song that reminds you of spring but doesn’t mention spring at all.
Amateur Lovers– Her “I Do”

11. A song that sounds to you like being happy feels.
Black Eyed Peas– Let’s Get Retarded

12. Your favorite song from a non-soundtrack compilation album.
Mercyland– Eula Geary is Dead

13. A song from your past that would be considered politically incorrect now (and possibly was then).
Soundgarden– Big Dumb Sex

14. A song sung by an overweight person.
Frank Black & the Catholics– Whiskey in Your Shoes

15. A song you actually like by an artist you otherwise hate.
Crucial Conflict– Hay

16. A song by a band (whose members actually play instruments) that features three or more female members.
This is like everything I listen to, so: Breeders– The She

17. One of the earliest songs that you can remember listening to.
The Four Tops– Seven Rooms of Gloom

18. A song you’ve been mocked by friends for liking.
Ace of Base– The Sign

19. A really good cover version you think no one else has heard.
Collapsis– Voices Carry

20. A song that has helped cheer you up (or empowered you somehow) after a breakup or otherwise difficult situation.
R.E.M.– Leave

As we returned from lunch today, Corey and I were talking about race. (There’s been a hilarious conversation going on about race between us for a couple of days, but I can’t really blog about it because it would hurt someone’s feelings… it’s basically that someone we’ve known for a while did not realize Corey was black.)

Somehow the idea that we’d have DMX in a room with a color-blind white guy came up, and the color-blind white guy would not know what DMX stood for so he would apply “white reasoning” and try to make the letters stand for something.

I had to stop and ask if “white reasoning” was some widely accepted term that I didn’t know about. He said he made it up.

Since my last name is White, I think everything I do will be caused by my White Reasoning.

Less funny in print, now that I look at it.

So, someone remind me to tell Andi about this one: a graphic artists compiled 300 images from 1800 sites and began to study the commonalities among simple icons on web site. Very cool. Found on boingboing.