The Juke Box Hero Presents: Adventures in SackVille

Audio: Share a song you can't help but sing along to.

Toto - africa

Toto

Show us a smooch.

Show us a smooch.

In my boredom, I found this thingy on a quiz site that gives a dictionary definition for names.  They're all random, however here are the first results for people in my neighbourhood and myself:

Jukebox Hero: A person with a sixth sense for detecting the presence of goblins

Knuckle Toes: A person with a taste for acorns

Abigail Road: Full of bees

Gamany: Sexually stunning

Disfunktional Sequence of Time: Tastes like fried chicken

Cute Frog: A hard-core grave robber

Palinode: Pretentiously academian

Schmutzie: A master blogger

Christine: A person who is constantly high

B-Rock and the Pub Dogs: A person who falls into an outhouse and dies

V-Man: Having the texture of congealed cheese

Show us chaos. 
Submitted by Natalie. 

I did a google image search of chaos and picked my favorite from the first five pages.

Not too much to say today other than that i had the awesomely amazing job of filling graves in the hot prarie sun, which lead to the maturation of my farmer tan...or farmer burn as it were.

I'm currently working on creating a new banner for the vox.  Should be pretty sweet. 

To not make have this post end up being totally useless, I'm going to answer the question of the day about what book I'd give someone as a gift.  I would give Abigail Road this book:

How to Toilet-Train Your Cat: 21 Days to a Litter-Free Home

Paul Kunkel

Well good folks of Vox, here I am on location in SackVille.

I'm spending my summer here working for the public works department here being a labourer/grunt/bitch.  It's my third summer doing this now.  I took a hiatus last year but finally made my triumphant return this morning at 8 am.  It's been kind of hard to adapt.  There's been BIG changes since I've been gone.  We, uh, got a new lawn mower.  We get, uh, new gloves.  Like I said: BIG changes.

The day was boring as hell but I got my exercise.  I wandered around picking up litter from 8:15 to 9:55, stopping briefly to pick up a $5 bill, and do a small happy dance.  Then there was the coffee break.  10:30 to 11:50.  Lunch.  1:05 to 2:55.  Coffee again.  And finally, we ended our grueling day at 4:50 with 10 solid minutes to just sit around.  Tough work.  Really tough work.

The real tough part of being here in SackVille isn't the work, fighting off boredom, or dealing with the fact that after only one day I already have a farmer tan, it's being away from Knuckle Toes so much.  My darling is a long 3 hour drive from me, and my first night away from her was an ordeal in itself.  However, I must percerviere fore this work will aid in my quest to fend off the dragon which is otherwise known as Student Loans.

Now I must leave to rest my weary head after my grueling first day and rest up for my ardous second day.

What's your suggestion for the Question of the Day? 
Inspired by Princesskasren.

My suggestion of the QotD is:
      
    What is your favorite movie quote?

Audio:  Share a great instrumental song or album.

I love this cover of 'Say it isn't so', originally done by Weezer, but put covered by a string quartet.  Also, anything by Jesse Cook is amazing.  Check him out.

The String Quartet Tribute to Weezer - Say it Ain't So

String Quartet

Jesse cooke - air

Jesse Cook

Ok, I don't read a whole hell of a lot, and what i do read is not on this list.  but I'll try this whole challenge thing-a-majig anyway.   Her Goes:.

*Look at the list of books below.
*Bold the ones you’ve read.
*Italicize the ones you want to read.
*Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)

70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) 
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)