Eric's House Of Ego

I saw a meme on FB about supporting authors, thought that we needed our own version

Ten Ways To Support Your Favorite Band

Buy Their Music
Write Reviews
Give Their CDs As Gifts
Tell Ten People
Play Their Music For Friends
Post Links To Their Music
Recommend On Your Blog
Take A Friend To Their Concert
Tell Them What You Think
Add Your Own Idea To This List (ok, I ran out of ideas)

Additions
Host a house concert (or any sort of show)

Artists of all sorts are fragile creatures. I know I am. We need to hear your voice in what we do. We need your help getting heard. We need the support. All of the bands you like do.

Let's see if things can get livened up here a little.

Go look at my profile, specifically my interests, and ask me about one or more of them. This may be because it is one of your interests and you want to know what I think about it, or it may be because you have no idea what it is. Keep it to under 5 please.

Instructions:
* Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
* List 5 songs that start with that letter.
* Post them to your journal with these instructions.

geekymary gave me "Y" ... I have these on my work computer ... my co-workers hate me

Yummy Pink Milk - Friends Of Betty
Yuppie Cadillac - Jello Biafra With The Melvins
Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell - The Stooges
You've Got Your Head on Backwards - Young Fresh Fellows
Yötulet - Värttinä

I got this via libra_dragon

So here is how it goes:
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

Of course you don't need to yell, cause you're typing. Any sort of response will do ... sometimes these things are a little silly.

She came up with

MarsCon
I went because Dr D was going to be there. He offered me some stage time, gave me two songs even though he had only played one (still). Then it became dementia music central, and the most fun weekend of music every year (although Mahtowa and Duckon compete pretty strongly, but in wildly different ways)

Iowa
I grew up here, I moved away, I came back, I desperately want to leave again, but, due to the WSPA, I am here for 10 years. It's a nice place to be from

Music
I have a soundtrack in my head. Sometimes it's something I am listening to, sometimes it's something I am working on, but I always have music going.

Guitar
I never really wanted to be a guitar player, but I couldn't come up with anyone who would write what I wanted for my lyrics. Not exactly true, I found the perfect foil once, but he vanished on me one day and I didn't see him for 20 years. So I bought a guitar. I seem to be stuck now.

Toyboat
Bunch of degenerate miscreants. (yeah I know that's redundant, shaddup). My experiences in bands have been ... interesting ... as may you live in interesting times interesting. As a drummer I was marginalized, even then I was writing a lot of lyrics, all of which were ignored. It didn't help that I was a terrible drummer. My punk band Jim? was fun, but problems that at least one member of the band had made life tricky. Soldiers In A Field was the best thing I did musically up to then, but personality conflicts (I had one, he didn't) made it tricky, and the proverbial "artistic differences" finally broke us up. Pity, we did some good stuff. There are other bands in there, but they are, well, not really worth mentioning. Toyboat, as a band, has no ego. Toyboat, as individuals, have no ego. We're there to play. It's the best time I have ever had playing in a band, maybe the best time I have ever had playing music.

Nicked from filkertom via ladysmith.
( With Tom's additions )

Not every movie is worthy of an Oscar. Hell, some movies aren't worthy of anything much but scorn and derision. The Razzies were born in 1981 and as long was we are all copping to the great movies we've seen, let's fess up to the not-so-great ones we've watched... either in a theater or in the private shame of our homes by highlighting them in bold. I'm adding an extra, italize those that you tried to watch, but gave up on in disgust.

( Cut so you can avoid the horror if you wish )
Courtesy of rmjwell

( Comments on 5 questions )

Or is that questions on 5 comments?

Interview Meme:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me!"
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5.When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

My questions are courtesy of bammba_m

( cut just cause )