"What are your goals?" "Uhhh. What's a goal?" "Uh, carpets. That can be your goal." "Perfect. I can be the queen of carpets." "I think you should be Czar. Czar of the carpets." "Yes, I have no realized my destiny: Czar of all Carpets." June 16, 2013

Song #166: La Vie Boheme- RENT

From the musical RENT, released January 25, 1996

"To days of inspiration/ playing hooky/ making something out of nothing/ the need to express/ to communicate/ to going against the grain/ going insane/ going mad/ to loving tension/ no pension/ to more than one dimension/ to starving for attention/ hating convention/ hating pretension  no to mention of course/ hating dear old mom and dad/ to riding your bike midday past the three piece suits/ to fruits/ to no absolutes/ to Absolut/ to choice/ to the Village Voice/ to any passing fad/ to being an us for once/ instead of a them/ la vie boheme...

/to handcrafted beers made in local breweries/ to yoga/ to yogurt/ to rice and beans and cheese/ to leather/ to dildos/ to curry vindaloo/ to huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou/ emotion/ devotion/ to causing a commotion/ creation/ vacation/ mucho masturbation/ compassion/ to fashion/ to passion when it's new/ to Sontag/ to Sondheim/ to anything taboo/ Ginsberg/ Dylan/ Cunningham and Cage/ Lenny Bruce/ Langston Hughes/ to the stage/ to Uta/ to Buddha/ Pablo Neruda too/ why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow/ to blow off auntie Em...

/bisexuals/ trisexuals/ homosapiens/ carinogens/ hallucinogens/ men/ Pee Wee Herman/ German wine/ turpentine/ Gertrude Stein/ Antonioni/ Bertolucci/ Kurosawa/ Carmina Burana/ to apathy/ to entropy/ to empathy/ ecstasy  Vaclav Havel/ The Sex Pistols/ 8BC/ to no shame/ never playing the fame game/ to marijuana/ to sodomy/ it's between God and me/ to S&M

"What's Captain Kirk's ship?" "The Millenium Falcon?" May 19, 2013

Song #138: This River is Wild- The Killers

From the album Sam's Town, released October 2, 2006

"But you always hold your head up high/ 'cause it's a long long long way down/ this town was meant for passing through but it ain't got nothing new/ now go and show them that the world stayed round/ but it's a long long long way down...

/sometimes I hate the line I walk/ I just want to show you what I know/ and catch you when the current lets you go/ or should I just get along with myself/ I never did get along with everybody else/ I've been trying hard to do what's right/ but you know I could stay here all night/ and watch the clouds fall from the sky"

"I'm basically eating a spinning puzzle." May 8, 2013

Song #127: Bad Kids- Black Lips

From the album Good Bad Not Evil, released September 11, 2007

"In class/ we are a minority/ got no/ respect for authority/ and won't/ play well with others/ and steal/ from all your mothers/ don't try/ to give us pills/ oh wait/ give us all the pills"

"If I put balloons in my shirt, I'd look like Elizabeth" May 1, 2013

Song #120: Kids- MGMT
From the album Time To Pretend, released January 22, 2008
"Control yourself/ take only what you need from it"

"I wish I could grow a beard." April 25, 2013

Song #114: This Is Fucking Ecstasy- Say Anything

From the album In Defense of the Genre, released October 23, 2007

"I'm sprinting yet I stride/ my satchel filled with files/ the secrets of the tribe/ the cameras follow me for miles/ born a slave in 1984/ discovered that my life is just a record they performed/ a maze where I was placed...

/they strapped me to the roof/ and cut right through me/ diggin' through my wounds/ I watched them hopelessly and shook/ where are my pills/ where is my former lover/ I've been betrayed by everyone I know"

"What is this, a cocktail?" January 25, 2013

Song #25: Admit It- Say Anything

From the album ...Is a Real Boy, released August 3, 2004

"I'm proud of my life/ and the things that I have done/ I'm proud of myself/ and the loner I've become/ you're free to whine/ it will not get you far/ I do just fine/ with my car and my guitar"