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Memed from schuyler - Shuffle your current playlist and list the top twenty songs:

1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Pretenders - I'll Stand By You
3. Indigo Girls - Least Complicated
4. Semisonic - Singing in My Sleep
5. Jewel - Foolish Games
6. Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Broken Hearted Savior
7. Pink - Family Portrait
8. Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
9. Bush - Glycerine
10. Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson
11. Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
12. Sarah Mclachlan - Prayer of St. Francis
13. Elvis Costello - Allison
14. Stan Rogers - The Bluenose
15. Radiohead - Creep
16. PM Dawn - I'd Die Without You
17. Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
18. Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
19. Carlos Santana & Everlast - Put Your Lights On
20. Jimmy Eat World - Praise Chorus

I'd just like to state that the amount of Bruce Springsteen in this sample is statistically aberrant.

( See, here's the last twenty... )

... which reveals that one of the hazards of a 476-song playlist is that you still have Christmas carols on it in mid-January.

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iuliamentis has some thoughts on Bush's new space proposal, here, which y'all should go read. Because regardless of the political machinations involved, dude, who the fuck says mother ship in a nonfictional sense?

A conundrum.

So, there's this movie coming out - Miracle - based on the true story of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team.

My first thought on seeing a promo today - aside from 'nice hair, Kurt Russell' - was 'I bet I can write slash for that.'

Now, you probably think that's self-evident, given my love for hockey and slash, but I'm not completely sure. See, I can't write slash for hockey, because they're real people (realer than, e.g., popstars) and it gives me the jibblies. Now, characters in a movie about hockey ought to be fine, except that, as it's based on a true story, they're presumably representing real hockey players, who are probably off limits (although, since I am a wretched hypocrite, probably only off limits if they made it to the NHL and I recognize their names; otherwise I can pretend they're completely fictional even if they probably aren't). Just as I can't write Band of Brothers slash, because even though any two given Very Close Guy Friends in an HBO miniseries ought to be fair game, within the constraints imposed by historical time period and it being really freaking cold all the time, those particular characters are actually real people (for the record, WWII vets are way realer than popstars, and possibly realer than hockey players as well).

Clearly, what I need to do is:
1) Rent and watch Mystery, Alaska and/or Slapshot 2 and write slash for that instead, and,
2) Stop being so half-assed about my RPS squick. It's too confusing.