What I do sometimes in a state of NAK

My friends page has been unusually quiet over the past few days. Granted, I have one Friend in Europe and one in a state of Moving, so that cuts the list back by two regular posters. So instead of having things to read when I'm sitting here with a baby on my lap looking for something I can DO with a baby on my lap, I worked on a couple good ol' Livejournal games that had appeared on my Friends page over the past couple weeks. That's how LONG it took to work on them actually, because A) I was often typing one-handed, and B)though I was whiling away time, I was whiling away VERY SHORT BITS of time at a time.

But the first one I HAD, just HAD to do... um, again... because unwittingly my new Friend marisa724 posted it just the other week in her journal. And hey, like I need the excuse. You got it. It's....

The Magnificent-Though-Much-Maligned Guess-the-Lyric Game!!!!

Since Marisa did just the first lines, and since just first lines seemed to work so much better last time we played, first lines it is again, although there were times I would have picked other, cooler lines instead. Still, must give y'all a fighting chance. Maybe with the people who have friended me since the last time we played, they'll be more people who are willing to take the guesses.

And yes, I do give points for guessing. 2 for each correct title, one for each correct artist (3 points possible per song!), and partial points for guesses at genre, decade, and other information, like "Ooo, I swear I know this, it's really fast and the next part goes something like..." Assuming you're not totally off.
So here are thirty random songs played by my computer on shuffle over the course of-- how long it took me to actually listen to thirty songs:

1. "Let me take you to the movies, let me take you to the show..."
2 "Say [title] and you'll be free..."
3. "I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told..."
4 "I think I'm gonna be sad, I think it's today..."
5 "Ground control to Major Tom..."
6 "Come on and dance. Come on and dance. Let's make some romance"
7 "And I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say..."
8 "You say the hill's too steep to climb..."
9 "Move yourself: you always live your life never thinking of the future"
10 "Hello, is there anybody in there?"
11 "Some folks are born made to wave the flag..."
12 "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day..."
13 "Well, justa look at that girl with the lights coming up in her eyes.'
14 "You make me weep and wanna die"
15 "Holding you close undisturbed before a fire"
16 Okay I am skipping this one because the first line is the title and the rest of the lines are unintelligible. It was Zeppelin, "NObody's fault but mine."
Instead, I'll replace it with this other song that has nothing to do with it except that it happens to be the song that's on right now: "All is quiet on [title]." I wonder if that's enough.
17 "Now I've been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come"
18 "[title],out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old..."
19 "I never knew how complete love could be, til she kissed me and said baby, please, [title]"
20 "To lead a better life, I need my love to be here."
21 "One morning I woke up and I knew that you were really gone."
22 "Well I built me a raft and she's ready for floatin'"
23 "Every day she takes a morning bath, she wets her hair"
24 "Because you're sweet and lovely, girl, I love you"
25 "Well I heard some people talking just the other day, and they said you were gonna put me on the shelf."
26 "Well no one told me about her, the way she lied"
27 "Leave your cares behind. Come with us and find..." Dudes, I bet you can at least name the genre.
28 "They put a parking lot on a piece of land Where the supermarket used to stand."
29 "'There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the Joker to the Thief."
30 "A man walks down the street; he says, 'why am I soft in the middle, now?'"

Artists that are repeated: 2,4,20,and 24, with 23 by a former group member; 30 is by a former member of 3; 8,10,12, and 18 are all by one which has been grossly underrepresented in this game in the past--oo, and only one of them is somewhat obscure this time, the others are among their most well-known; 15 and 21, though unfortunately in the past no one on my friends list has EVER seemed to know any songs by this group even though they're relatively famous. The group is. 15 is pretty not famous, unless you know the group, but like I said, no one here seems to. Angie does, dangit. She loves them even more than I do. Angie needs to get on LiveJournal. Especially since she quit MySpace. Anyway.

So seriously, do some guessing. I only do this because I care.

Okay, then there was this little survey I found on vovat's page...I think. It's been awhile. And considering how unserious I took most of the survey, you might wonder why I bothered. But that's because I'm just that psycho about surveys.
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It's hot in here, and I know it's cooler in Sammy's room because I put the fan on in there-- and I was just in there-- but I keep thinking I need to keep checking on him to make sure he's not overhot. I'm paranoid about overheating him. Although i never get close. When he was just a few weeks old he kept screaming because he was overCOLD and I never did figure it out. Jason did, luckily. Well anyway.