The Next Round of "Top Five."
I just can't get enough! I want to know more. Again.
Six Until Me presents ...
I'll provide the categories, you provide your Top Five. And I, as before, tip my hat to John Cusack in High Fidelity.
1. Top Five Songs I Can't Get Enough Of
2. Top Five Fantasy Jobs
3. Top Five Names for Our Network of Diabetes Bloggers.
4. Top Five Titles for the Book of My Life
5. Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake
I am looking forward to your responses.
Game on.
posted by Kerri. @ 11:14 AM
29 comments
29 Comments:
I'll go first:
Top Five Songs for Me Today
1. Leaders of the Free World - Elbow
2. Wake me up When September Ends - Green Day
3. Landslide - Smashing Pumpkins version
4. Insane - Damien Rice
5. Your Face - The Frames
Top Five Fantasy Jobs
1. Roadie for U2
2. Nanny for Jude Law
3. World Famous Author
4. PR Director for Joslin
5. Bird.
Top Five Names for Our Network of Diabetes Bloggers
1. The O.C. (Online Community)
2. D-Town
3. The Surreal Life : Endocrine Edition (Dee, this would work!)
4. Raiders of the Lost D
5. Let Them Eat Cake, Please
Top Five Titles for the Book of my Life
1. Six Until Me
(I guess I like this title above all others. Top One.)
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake
1. Because cake is delicious
2. To keep other people from eating cake
3. To treat a pesky low
4. A birthday party
5. To keep cake from eating you
My kids are napping - this looks like fun, so I'll give it a shot!
Top Five Songs (In no particular order)
1. Cool - Gwen Stefani (she makes me groove)
2. Enter Sandman - Metallica (a classic)
3. Surprise Symphony - Haydn (oh, many memories with that one!)
4. Jane - Barenaked Ladies (I love all their music - it was hard to come up with just one song)
5. Bad Day - Daniel Powter (ever have a bad day?)
Fantasy Job (again, in no particular order of preference)
1. Soap Opera Star (Oh the glam!)
2. Author (would never happen with this chick, but it would rock to do it).
3. Researcher that discovers the cure for Diabetes (need I say more?)
4. Pilot (to fly the open skies)
5. Executive Chef
Diabetes Blog Names
1. Sugar Babies
2. More to Me than "D"
3. Forever Chocolate (who doesn't love the stuff?)
4. Cure This!
5. hba1c Posse
Top 5 Book Titles
Have to agree with you on that one - Six Until Me is a great title.
Reasons for Cake.
1. Cake is good.
2. Brings you "up" when you are "down".
3. birthday party, wedding, anniversary, office party ....
4. Black Forest Cake is the BEST - cherries, chocolate, whipped cream - pure heaven!
5. JUST BECAUSE!!
Excellent! But what about titles for The Book of YOUR Life??
Top Five Songs for Me Today
1. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
2. Kelis - Sugar Honey Iced Tea
3. Jimi Tenor - Sugardaddy
4. Marvin Gaye - Flyin' High
5. Barry White - Low Rider
Top Five Fantasy Jobs
1. Reviewer for Guide Rouge Michelin
2. Quality Control at Godiva Chocolatier
3. Cake Tester at a French boulangerie
4. Willy Wonka
5. Professional mountain hiker and boulevardier
Top Five Names for Our Network of Diabetes Bloggers
1. Needles And Pins
2. Sugar Mamas (for the girls)
3. Sugar Daddys (for the boys)
4. Have Your Cake And Treat It
5. Sugarhill Gang
Top Five Titles for the Book of my Life
1. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Diabetes (fat chance!)
2. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Chocolate (more likely!)
3. Honeysuckle Rose (aaaaaah!)
4. You Gotta Work It!
5. How To Be Successfull And Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, Just Like Me-Me-Me!
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake
1. It's fantabulistic
2. It's almost as good as sex (who am I kidding, anyway?)
3. It's almost as good as a soft kiss from a girl you love (Yes, I'm a guy, and I love cakes as well as women :-)
4. You can lick it from your girlfriends naked stomach, and it'll taste even better (Champagne is a nice substitute) [boy, I'd better stop posting while drinking beer!]
5. A nice way to treat a low (but admittedly less fun than no. 4!)
Songs:
-Wake me up When September Ends - Green Day
-Switch - Will Smith
-Dreamgirl - Dave Matthews
-Don't Cha - The Pussycat Dolls ft Busta
-Gimme some more - Busta Rhymes
Jobs:
-Lawyer
-Judge
-Personal Chef for someone with an open mind
-Stay at home Dad
-What I am doing right now for a job
Names:
-Test Again
-The ODB (Online Diabetic Bloggers)(Extra points if you initially thought it was a Wu-Tang reference)
The otherones are better then any I could come up with. Except D-Town. That's Detroit.....my city.
Cake:
-Becuase it's there
-Gives me an excuse to test again
-Allows me to feed frosting to my wife.
-It's a celebration (wedding, b-day, etc)
-Uhh.....who needs a reason?
Yes, I skipped the book title thing. My life is far too imcomplete to figure that out yet.
Top Song: 1. BOMP, BOMP, BOMP ..looking so fine..BOMP...etc.
(Obviously I don't know the name and it's driving me nuts!!)
2.Amazed By You - Lonestar
3.White Wedding - Billy Idol
4.Dancing Queen - Aba
5.Pan Pipe Music
Top 5 Fantasy Jobs
1. 1st Baseman for the Boston Red Sox
2. Being the host of "The Amazing Race"
3. Being a preschool teacher
4. A professional bird watcher
5. Lady of Leisure
Top Two Names for D Blogger Network
1. Simply the Best
2. The Incredible Journey
Titles for the book of my life
1.I did it my way - finally
2.Laughter is good for the soul
3.Life with 3 great kids
4. It's never too late
5. Happiness comes when you least expect it.
Two reasons to eat cake
1.It satisfys the sweet tooth
2.It's just plain good.
Mother of Kerri
Top Five Songs for Me
1.Counting Crows - Mercury
2.Third Eye Blind - Narcolepsy
3.Flogging Molly - If I Ever Leave this World Alive
4.Guster - X-Ray Eyes
5. the spot that changes depending on the day :-)
Top Five Fantasy Jobs.
1. Chocolate Cake Taster (not gaining any weight)
2. Hammock tester
3. (I will take Kerri's Lead on this ok)Jude Law's Nanny
4. Tea Shop owner (coffee is over rated)
5. Candle Maker
( I am already Batman so that doesn't make the list)
Top Five Names for the Bloggers
hmmmm
Can I just vote for Let them Eat Cake, Please (see top Jobs)
Top Five Titles for the Book of My Life
1. The sayings I just can't get right
2. The words I have mispelled
- only have two!
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake.
1. I am a Cake tester
2. I want it
3. Because
4. Because
5. I WILL STAB YOU WITH MY FORK IF YOU TAKE MY CAKE!!!!!!!!!!
Batman, your book titles made me laugh so hard I can hardly type this reply...
Ah, ok, had a brain fart there - was thinking titles for YOUR book, not mine ... heh heh ... anyways, I cannot think of one that wouldn't take up the entire cover of the book ... you know ...
"How to stay sane when your kid is diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and you were up all night testing her and her sugars keep going out of whack, your husband decides to work from home, you feel like crap cause you didn't get any sleep last night, your 3 year old won't eat her dinner, your house looks like a pit, telemarketers keep harassing you and you really need a night out by yourself."
sound ok?? I could go on and on ... really, I could....!!
Dee’s Top 5 Songs (of the hour):
1. Not the Same: Ben Folds
2. Time of Inconvenience: Nanci Griffith
3. Axel F- Crazy Frog (only during the Herman Friday Night PJ Dance Party)
4. Long Time Comin’- Bruce Springsteen
5. Little Digger- Liz Phair
Dee’s Fantasy Jobs:
1 Baseball Play-by-Pay Announcer (with Jake doing “color commentary”)
2 Judge (hey, I’m more qualified than, uh, someone who is about to be on the Supreme Court).
3 DJ
4 Talk Show Host (OK, similar to DJ, but 5 is a lot of jobs
5 Cast Member of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” (Larry’s annoying neighbor?)
Names for Diabetes Blog Circle:
1. Circle D
2. Meet the Betes! (Sorry, going to see Sir Paul tomorrow night).
3. On Whims and Needles.
4. Poking Fun
5. Dia-Tribes
Books About my Life:
1. Six Until Dee
2. Mein Kampf
3. The 34 Year Old Virgin
4. Who Moved My Afrin?
5. A Boy Named Dee
Why Eat Cake?
1. So I can make the lame joke “Let Dee Eat Cake.”
2. Less filling, Tastes Great
3. Cake: A harder working pie
4. Cake isn’t Just for Breakfast Anymore.
5. OK, the secret is out.. I don’t like cake.
Top Five Songs for Me Today
1. U2 - The Fly
2. Nine Inch Nails - Only
3. AC/DC - Back in Black
4. Rustic Overtones - Combustible
5. Rage Against the Machine - Year of Tha Boomerang
Top Five Fantasy Jobs
1. Wine Taster
2. Luxury Sports Car Test Driver
3. Owner of a clothing company for tall women(6'+),because I am so sick of the grandma gear!
4. Hotel Critic
5. Master Brewer for Samuel Adams
Top Five Names for Our Network of Diabetes Bloggers
1. 3 or 4, how many shots?
2. Bolus This!
3. no idea...
Top Five Titles for the Book of my Life
1. Blond, Legs and Boots
2. If I knew then, what I know now...
3. If it didn't take 25 years...
4. Who would believe it?
5. The Cute Guys I Live With
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake
1. Because there is FROSTING!!!!
2. If it is yellow cake with white frosting, not the fluffy stuff, but the thick sugary stuff.
3. There is always a wine to go with the cake.
4. Always works when low.
5. Because they come shaped like Christmas Trees...
Top Five Songs I Can't Get Enough Of
1. Ever Changing Moods (Style Council)
2. What Do You Hear in these Sounds (Dar Williams)
3. Song for a Winter's Night (Sarah Mclachlen)
4. This Old Porch (Lyle Lovett)
5. New England (Billy Bragg)
Top Five Fantasy Jobs
1. VP of PR for Joslin
2. Celebrity Chef/Food Network TV host
3. Owner of a bookshop
4. Special Events Coordinator for the Red Sox
5. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
Top Five Titles for the Book of My Life
1. Unfinished
2. Tales of an Average White Girl
3. Can you Eat That?
4. I Wouldn't Take that Car in the Tunnel if I Were You (and other tales of Boston life)
5. You're Not From Here, Are You?
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake
1. A good true buttercream
2. What else in life is so luscious?
3. It's your birthday
4. It's your spouse's/ kid's/ mother's birthday
5. It's Matt Damon's Birthday (it is! October 8th! I looked it up!)
Top Five Songs for Me Today
1. Cheap Wine and Cigarettes -- Darkbuster
2. Flesh and Blood -- Johnny Cash
3. Jolene -- Dolly Parton
4. Dream a Little Dream -- Mamas and the Papas
5. Tangled up in Blue -- Bob Dylan
Top Five Fantasy Jobs
1. World Famous Author
2. Ringmaster
3. Executive Director for a major progressive non-profit
4. Vincent D'Onofrio's leading lady in any movie or TV show
5. Pilot
Top Five Names for Our Network of Diabetes Bloggers
1. Sugar me Timbers
2. Pirates of the D-Life
3. The Great Insulin Swindle
4. I am NOT diabetes
5. Gross. Mayonaise is Gross.
Top Five Titles for the Book of my Life
I haven't decided yet. I guess I need to live a little more first.
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake
1. Because we like to eat cake.
2. Because we are celebrating a happy occassion.
3. Because sometimes you've just got to say "to hell with it" and eat some cake.
4. Because if we don't eat it, that cake will haunt our dreams.
5. Because cake reminds us that we cannot always be perfect, and we do not have to be.
Top Five Songs for Me Today
1. Brown-eyed Girl-- Van Morrison (my brown-eyed daughter is lovin' that I'm playing - and singing - this all the time lately)
2. Baby Please Don't Go - Van Morrison
3 Moondance - Van Morrison
4. Gloria - Van Morrison (Yup, I'm on a bit of a Van kick this week...)
5. New Beginning - Tracy Chapman
Top Five Fantasy Jobs
1. Midwife
2. Full-time Artist
3. Writer
4. Chef
5. Independently-wealthy philanthropist
Top Five Names for Our Network of Diabetes Bloggers
1. D-Tour
2. Sugarland
3. The High-Low Gang
4. Dia-Lectic
5. The Dia-Logue
Top Five Titles for the Book of my Life
1. Third of Seven
2. Leaving New England
3. How the Hell did I get Here?
4. The "New Normal"
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake
1. Because it's just dang good!
2. ...unless, that is, it's Peach Vanilla
3. Because it reminds me of my mom (who made the best cakes ever!)
4. Because eating cake makes you happy.
songs:
1. ignorance is bliss - colonel claypool's bucket of bernie brains
2. cigaro - system of a down
3. the return of sathington whilloby - primus
4. piggy - oingo boingo/danny elfman
5. supreme people - blackalicious
jobs:
1. stuntman
2. skydiving instructor
3. pilot
4. bank robber
5. interpreter (with the stipulation that i don't have to work with sean penn)
names:
1. pancreas schmancreas
2. my friend made me come up with a name for her network of bloggers and i didn't even get a lousy t-shirt
3. the sweet sixteen (only works if there are 16 people, and at least five of them have to be sweet)
4. sugarcult
5. iron maiden
titles:
1. bored white kid with nothing else to do
2. lord of the dance
3. this place sucks
4. skate
5. how i get to be mayor using only the 5 nickels in my pocket and a can of orange shasta
cake:
1. because pie sucks
2. because it's got a cool frosting/flower thing on it that you can't resist putting in your mouth
3. sam adams' birthday
4. distracts from an otherwise depressing life of dressing up your cat
5. peer pressure
Iron Maiden? That one is so money.
hair.
leotards.
80's metal.
there may not be any clever diabetes related tie-in, but you know you always wanted to join them in a 3-hour arena rock show.
by the by, i was stoked to see darkbuster and rustic overtones on the lists. good job, girls.
John --
Are you a Dbuster fan? If so, I be we know each other...
Nicole
Oopss.. Wasn't finished.
My boyfriend is in a local punk band -- Mike from DB was in two bands with him (including the one that he's in now) before heading back and out on tour with the good ole' boys... They're in CA and then Vegas with DKM over the next few days... Lucky them!
Anyway -- if you've been out to DB shows, I bet we've at least run into one another...
Top Five Songs for Today:
1. Club Foot - Kasabian
2. Fall on Me - R.E.M.
3. Acquiesce - Oasis
4. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
5. Doorbell - White Stripes
Top Five Fantasy Jobs:
1. FBI Agent
2. Screenwriter
3. Larry Bird Historian
4. Messiah
5. TeleMundo Soap Star
Top Five Names of Diabetes Bloggers Network:
1. Sue Crose & Friends
2. The Cure
3. Maximum Pumpatude
4. Go Pats! (inside joke. sorry)
5. Pump Kin
Top Five Titles for the Book of My Life:
1. Sir Book of My Life
2. Mister Book of My Life
3. Doctor Book of My Life
4. Congressman Book of My Life
5. Pope Book of My Life
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake:
1. Because it is Saturday
2. Because starving kids in Africa can't, and I like to really rub that in sometimes.
3. Because I'll likely be going to hell for reason no. 2, so I may as well enjoy some cake now.
4. Because who ever thought that combining cheese and cake could be so delicious?
5. To make pie jealous.
nichole-
yep. i've only seen them live once (halloween show a couple years back with kicked in the head and big d), but 'a weakness for spirits' and '22 songs you'll never want to hear again' are favorites for me and my guitarist to listen to on the way to practice. good stuff.
Top Five Songs I Can't Get Enough Of
1. I left my wallet in el segundo - atribe called quest
2. Yellow- Coldplay
3. Purple Rain - Prince
4. Mr. Roboto - Styx
5. Like a prayer - Madonna
Top Five Fantasy Jobs
1. Scientist
2. Architect
3. art Gallery owner
4. rock star
5. a wiggle
Top Five Names for Our Network of Diabetes Bloggers.
1. Basal E's
2. Chocolate eaters anonymous
3. Sugar free lattes
4. The pumplogs
5. Pumpadelics
Top Five Titles for the Book of My Life
1. Chaotic -
2. The Chronicles - My life of chronic gas
3. Sugar or Bust!
4. My knee hurts
5. True life - I'm a gamer
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake
1. It makes me happy
2. Full of sugar
3. I like it
4. I want it
5. sugar low
Top Five Songs I Can't Get Enough Of
1. Anything Counting Crows (love them! :) )
2. Bright Lights- Matchbox 20
3. Because of You- Kelly Clarkson
4. Home-Michael Buble
5. Bent- Matchbox 20
Top Five Fantasy Jobs
1. Diabetes Educator
2. Dietician
3. Counselor
4. Teacher
5. Singer
Top Five Names for Our Network of Diabetes Bloggers.
1. Diabetics 'R Us
2. Sweet as Sugar
3. Sweetie Pies
4. Finger Pricks and Needle Sticks
5. Diabetics Rock :)
Top Five Titles for the Book of My Life
1. Confessions of a Diabetic
2. My life or lack there of...
3. Life as I know it
4. Ups and Downs
5. Why Me
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake
1. Icing :)
2. Icing :)
3. Icing :)
4. Icing :)
5. Oh yeah, did I say, Icing? :)
Excellent, John. The band is great -- but the guys are also just really nice folks. They have actually worked with me on a couple of benefit shows -- one for the Barton Center for Diabetes Ed.
What is the name of your band?
When is the next contest
Not sure when the next installment of Top Five will be, but I'm big into the interactive postings... stay tuned!
nichole-
rapskalion. it's spelled with a k because we started out as a ska band, and there's one 'l' missing because we don't know how to spell.
That's too much for me to tackle at once, so let me just start somewhere.... IF, and I repeat, IF I can actually trust my Top 25 Most Played List on my iPod, then the TOP 5 Songs for Me Today includes...
1. Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Yellow - Coldplay
3. Island in the Sun - Weezer
4. To Love the Language - Harry Connick, Jr.
5. Soma - The Strokes
More on other lists to follow...
Top Five Songs I Can't Get Enough Of
1. Rhapsody In Blue - George Gershwin
2. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson
3. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
4. Island In The Sun - Weezer
5. One Particular Harbour - Jimmy Buffett
Top Five Fantasy Jobs
1. Editor for The New Yorker/Fancy Schmancy magazine/publisher
2. Professional Student
3. Chef
4. Restaurant reviewer
5. Arbiter of good taste, spelling and grammar.
Top Five Names for Our Network of Diabetes Bloggers.
1. Yes, She/He Really Can Eat That.
2. Where's The F*cking Cure?
3. Test Strips, Meters and Pokers, Oh My.
4. Strip-o-rama
5. Got Islets?
Top Five Titles for the Book of My Life
1. I'm Sorry, What?
2. Notes From A Sleep-Deprived Parent
3. This So-Called Life (I think that might be taken though)
4. Wake Me When It's Over
5. So Much Chocolate, So Little Time
Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake
1. Because
2. Because
3. Because
4. Because
5. Because
To Kerri's Mother - You'd be a better first baseman than Kevin Millar was this year. I love Kevin but ouch....
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