Game!
Jason Linkins suggests:
1. Take out your iPod (or Zune, I guess…really, who buys a Zune?)
2. Press shuffle songs.
3. Answer the following: a) How many songs before you come to one that would absolutely disqualify you from being President? b) What is that song?
I was pretty excited to try this, but you know how to figure out if you’re lame? You LOSE COUNT before you get to a song that would disqualify you from being President! Seriously, it took me like over a hundred before I got to “Postcard to Nina” by Jens Lekman, which I imagine would disqualify me because it’s about a guy pretending to be his lesbian friend’s boyfriend for her religious father and contains lyrics like “And the clock on the wall strikes 4:56 / My eyes can’t buy a big crucifix / Guess that’s why he won’t let you go / His Catholic heart is big and slow.”
Even that’s pretty tame. Plus I probably would get extra credit from Evangelicals for having a ton of Sufjan Stevens.
Sigh. I need to buy some more subversive music.
Update: I just got to “Paper Doll” by Louis XIV. Definitely a disqualifier. Makes me feel a little better, I suppose. :-(
Comment by Brandon Ruiz on 28 June 2008 at 10:01 am:
Six: Hermaphrodite by Stephen Lynch
About a relationship with a hermaphrodite.
Comment by tet on 28 June 2008 at 10:15 am:
One: Play It All Night Long.
Tom
Comment by Joshua on 28 June 2008 at 5:53 pm:
Eleven: Science Fiction Double Feature from Rocky Horror Picture Show. No disqualifying lyrics, but people don’t want to picture POTUS in lipstick and fishnets armed with a watergun, yelling “Great Scott” as they send a roll of TP flying at the screen….
Comment by thetodd on 28 June 2008 at 9:09 pm:
I am lame because almost none of the music I’ve been listening to lately has any lyrics :) Most of it’s either from video games or is peaceful, ambient, electronic stuff.
Comment by Buck B. on 29 June 2008 at 12:24 am:
Nine: Rock is Dead by Marilyn Manson. Because… well, you know.
That was lucky, though. I didn’t hit another for at least 25 more.