this is young dibbo's idea, and the delay is because it is singularly difficult for me to shuffle my music. i have gone to great organisational heights in the last few months, and the result is that my music is actually even on different drives. o well, i have shuffled the little bits i had scattered around, some repeats from stuff i have elsewhere, but really, much more of the colourful music is in classified folders, all.
also, power is important. we have current now, incidentally.

Rules:
1. Put any music player (like Windows Medias Player, Winamp, iPod) on shuffle/random mode
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write the name of the song no matter what. No cheating!

1. IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY?” YOU SAY?
try and catch the wind - donovan
that's a bit like swapanda, actually, asking little kids to look for question papers in refrigerators.

2. WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
streets of philadelphia - bruce springsteen
never been there, i'm afraid. but i do love to walk, there's that.

3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
there is an end - holly golightly
even i won't own to that!

4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
(a bagpipe rendition, folk)
very lovely.

5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
while my guitar gently weeps - beatles.
escapes me.

6. WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
just the two of us - grover washington jr with bill withers
i don't know.

7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
wind of change - scorpions
ask them. but i usually think of my friends with a mild sort of sympathy. this is why. i drag them around willy nilly quite enough. most of them are great sports, i should say.

8. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
summer wine -bono and the corrs
complete overdose.

9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
only you - grania renihan (from starlight express, andrew lloyd webber)
o well.

10. WHAT IS 2+2?
the music of the night - john diedrich (phantom of the opera, again andrew lloyd webber)
there is a logic to this, i think.

11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
evergreen tree - cliff richard
although i doubt i would ever put it like this. sometimes cliff richard can be very persuasive.

12. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
berkeley woman - john denver
likable, yes.

13. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
ballad of a thin man - bob dylan.
because something is happening here
but you don't know what it is

14. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
(a piano rendition, i don't know who by)
nicely obscure, albeit very melodic.

15. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
cotton fields - the new christy minstrels
nope. songs of distant lands and distant things.

16. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
southwind -john denver
they try not to think very much on this subject, actually.

17. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
seeing is believeing - janis kelly (aspects of love, andrew lloyd webber)
that's nicely sceptical.

18. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
over and over - nana mouskuri
i wouldn't, all said and done!

19. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
anywhere is - enya
admitted. BIG interest, all of that.

20. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
crying - don mclean
mm?

21. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
year of the cat - al stewart
mm. sort of.

22. WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
puff the magic dragon - the brothers four
i have this thing with dragons, admitted.

i tag the long-suffering hack. and am myself going to resist all and any tags hereonwards.

photographs.
but 'whatever we have done, [he] did first.'

'I used to work in a shed in my garden. But it got too crowded with books and manuscripts and all kinds of bits and pieces, and I got fed up with being down at the end of the garden, especially on rainy days; and then we moved house anyway, and I had to decide whether to take the shed with us or leave it there. In the end I gave it to a friend, the illustrator Ted Dewan - on condition that when he's finished with it, he'll give it to another writer. He's replaced the windows and some of the roof, and I like the idea that it'll get passed on to lots of other writers and illustrators, and each of them will replace this bit or that bit until there isn't an atom of the original shed left.'

blake, dickinson, and above all milton, who is turning 400 soon. a most fervent 'long live' for that last.

but to come back to what i was saying -- pullman and his dark materials. over the recent film.
(and some drawings from the books.)

i can see how to think pullman's thrust contradicts milton's, but the point is milton makes him think like that at all. i should say that i can see difference, but not what i would call contradiction. but i don't have to argue very hard. pullman is quite vocal about his affection.

walking the city, 'I’d rather concentrate on ideas than the technical side of things.'
and other things.

shame.
the headline is a little hysteric, but i get the point.