Odds and Ends May 31, 2007
Posted by charmingbutsingle in Blog, Contests! Contests! Contests!, Publicists Send Me Things, Songs I Can't Get Out Of My Head.trackback
Don’t forget to post your questions for author Meg Cabot in the post below. Best question = free copy of “Queen of Babble” by Ms. Cabot. (And, um, a note from me?) A quick question could get you some superfab summer beach reading. Who could ask for anything more, right?
Major writer’s block this week.
Contests? Do we likey/not likey?
I’ve had a BIG spam problem as of late – Akismet normally catches about 20 spam comments a day, but when I got home today I had 200 spam comments pending. While I was deleting them, more were being posted … and they’re slipping through. A few here, a few there. Anyway, I have no idea why the spam is so crazy all of the sudden, but it seeeeriously annoys me.
I would like to remind you all that you can subscribe to this blog and get posts e-mailed to you first thing in the morning. (Between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. CST.) This is super great for those of you who have been banned from blogs at the office by your evil IT people. Productivity-schmoductivity. Anyway, I think the e-mail subscription is cool. (Good morning, e-mail subscribers! Enjoy your coffee!)
And, to finish on a random note, I present my Top 25 Played on iTunes:
- “Single” by Natasha Bedingfield
- “Who Knew” by P!nk
- “Home” by Michael Bouble
- “Addicted” by Kelly Clarkson
- “Fools Like Me” by Lisa Loeb
- “Not Ready To Make Nice” by Dixie Chicks
- “U + Ur Hand” by P!nk
- “Stupid Boy” by Keith Urban
- “Chicago” by Sufjan Stevens
- “Same In Any Language” by I-Nine
- “Because Of You” by Kelly Clarkson
- “SOS (Rescue Me)” by Rihanna
- “How To Save A Life” by The Fray
- “Break Your Heart” by Barenaked Ladies
- “Butterflies” by Dave Barnes
- “Bright Lights” by Matchbox 20
- “Tonight I Wanna Cry” by Keith Urban
- “Ring the Alarm” by Beyoncé
- “Fighter” by Christina Aguilera
- “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” by Death Cab for Cutie
- “Slow Dancing In A Burning Room” by John Mayer
- “Catalyst” by Anna Nalick
- “New Shoes” by Paolo Nutini
- “Leave The Pieces” by The Wreckers
- “Check On It” by Destiny’s Child
I shall call that playlist “Last Year/VH1 called and it wants its music back.” Also, I am shocked – SHOCKED – that “Don’t Bother” by Shakira and “Say It Right” by Nelly Furtado didn’t make the Top 25. iTunes tells me I’ve only listened to “Say It Right” 14 times. Which I find hard to believe because that song is ALWAYS in my head. Shakira narrowly missed the Top 25 because I’ve only listened to “Don’t Bother” a mere 31 times, as opposed to 34 times for “Check On It.”
Yes, I was serious earlier about the writer’s block. Why do you ask?
Hate writer’s block, but it’s a sad truth for people like us. And by us I mean living, breathing, and trying to write.
Also, are you doubting that people like the contest? Certainly I think it’s awesome to do one (kudos to you for it) and while I can’t say I’ve read Megs books I did add a question or two. Depressing as they might be. Moody day.
Perhaps you should toss in an autographed photo to sweeten the deal?
Don’t know why that struck me as funny. Maybe because noone has a clue as to your physical appearance, which really doesn’t matter anyways, I suppose.
I don’t know Charming…”American Idiot” keeps coming up as my #1 and I SWEAR I skip it when it comes on because I’m so over that song for now. iTunes lies..lies I tell ya! There is no freaking way I’ve listened to The First Self Righteous Church of Pascagula by Ray Stevens more than I’ve listened to Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace! It just ain’t happening, I tell ya!
Oh, and on the Meg Cabot front: I read “Size 12 is Not Fat” and honestly, I didn’t like it. The main character - Heather Wells - came across as completely unlikeable, for me at least. And the writing style was, well….annoying to me. I think it was supposed to come across as if I were “listening” to Heather tell her story, but the vernacular she used and her “voice” in general was just too young and almost dimwitted/spacey/spastic. I could never connect with the character, her background, her current situation, her dreams, wishes, desires and especially her actions.
On the other hand, I could actually sympathize and connect with Rachel. Hmm…that’s probably a bad sign, huh?
Maybe Queen of Babble will be better, but Size 12 was my first MC book and it didn’t inspire me to put her on my fave author list, ya know?
Paolo Nutini!!!!
I listen to “Jenny Don’t Be Hasty” all the time. ALL THE TIME!
It must be all the YA Lit I’m reading, but that song just speaks to me.
i saw John Mayer do “…burning room” live and it was just amazing. he’s so great!
Have you been hacking into my computer??? That iTunes list look oddly familiar… LOL!
Love contests but never can come up with good questions to ask people.