Rococo Cocoa

• butternut squash soup
• the warm smell of cinnamon
• hot cider
• wassail, for that matter
• hot toddy, for that matter
• pockets of fireplace scent during a walk
  
• pumpkin cookies
• nutmeg
  
• the prevalence of orange in an outdoor palette
• long sleeves
• jack o' lanterns
• layering
• apple crisp
• the sound of drum brushes being appropriate in music
• light scarves and cardigans
• autumn.
  

So today I was looking for songs by Laura Love on my iPod and I discovered that I have 823 songs with the word, album, or artist including the word "love" in it. Since I never let things concerning my iPod rest, I decided to do a little math.

I have 13,169 songs total. This means if I calculate the percentage ("love" songs divided by all songs) then I get .0643177, or about 6.43%. That's a lot of love, considering everything you could possibly write about. My friend Carly has 1,343 "love" songs and 22,033 (Jesus!) songs total, which makes her love song percentage a pretty solid 6%.

Because I'm at work and bored to death, I decided to go a step further. "Love songs" don't necessarily have to have the word "love" in it, so I compiled a short list of words that are synonyms of love and how many are on my iPod:

• passion- 30 songs
  
• marry+marriage- 7+14=21
  
• heart- 247 (I mean, christ, people- can a brotha get some original lyrics?)
  
• romance- 10
  
• sex (generalizing)- 58
  
• erotic (again, generalizing)- 1 (can you guess which song this is?)

I of course went through and tacked on a "-1" for songs with more than one of these words in it, Frank Sinatra. Accounting for the Minuses, which were -52. So, 823+347-52. That leaves me with a total of 1,118 love related songs- of course, this is only by title, so I guess this would be uncreatively titled love related songs, right?

My iPod thusly has a 8.5% uncreatively titled love related song ratio. What does yours have?

In accordance with Hooray Ray.

These (famous) people were born today:

Harry Connick Jr. (41)
Ariana Richards (29)
Ben Lee (30)
Ludacris (31)
Elephant Man- The Rapper(33)
Richard Ashcroft (37)
Taraji P. Henson (38)
Moby (43)
Virginia Madsen (47)
Elizabeth Daily (46)
Kristy McNichol (46)
Scott Patterson (50)
Amy Madigan (58)
Brian De Palma (68)

Makes you wonder how one can celebrate a birthday today without offending anyone...

Me: I'm thinking of buying a Vivienne Westwood shirt
Carin: a mens top?

Really, people? Am I that gay now that it's not hard to believe I'd wear women's clothing? Although, that dress does look pretty nice on Hong up there...

[Picture from Bryanboy]

I found a blog this morning, we could grow up together, and the blogger's photographs make me want to move back to New York. Being in Manhattan in the summer is one of those rare experiences that is fantastic even if you have no money. Just walking around leaves you with memories as vivid as the image above, even if you don't have a camera.

Me: When life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold.

Andy: When life gives you lemons, you eat a miracle berry and then eat the lemon
Andy: It is delicious

Loree: omg that new nicholas cage movie... i have no idea what it's about because all I see is his bad toupee

Oh my sister...