Snerffle Round Six!

[smeddley]

Okay, SnerffleShop isn't up yet (oh, how I fail in my goals) but I've started tallying the points, and I have to say... some of you are doing better than others! We've reached the halfway point, and if you want something like a large crocheted/knitted creature, you should have 350 points. The high scorer is currently sitting at 435. If you want to know your score and the breakdown (by round) I'll give it to you, and you can try to improve your score (though on the second try you'll only increase your score by half the overage, so if your original score was 60, then you give me a 90 answer, you end up with 75 points). Whining about your point balance (unless it is done very, very, very creatively) will result in a deduct in your point balance.

Anyway! On to the next round!

Recommend a song.

Highest points go to something I haven't heard before, but end up liking, and bonus points if it would make a good belly dance song. Negative points for 'It's a Small World' or 'Yellow Rose of Texas', which will just make me sinf poetry all day (because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, the carriage held but just ourselves...).

Comments

[elaran]

F*ck Me, Ray Bradbury - watch more funny videos

[elaran]

because if i have to have that damn song stuck in my head, so can everyone else?

[elaran]

also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPko-aXvJM

[smeddley]

Okay, Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury was AWESOME...

"I Would Do Anything For Love (but I won't do that)" is one of my favorite Meatloaf songs. That said, the video was weird and totally deserved sporking (I'd actually never seen the video - in my head, the video totally would have been some high school/college kids romance, I don't know why).

Full marks! :D

[valonia.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh, oh, on the basis that I just joined in the last round do I have 2 points, you know, for all that TG spam???

Ah, well, one of my favourite songs is by The Arctic Monkeys and is called Mardy Bum.
Not entirely sure whether you can belly dance to it though... Oh, lordy, I'm going to be on minus 5 million points now, aren't I?

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

You can go back and play previous rounds, you know - just click on the Snerfflebarglast tag and it should bring them all up. ;)

Each round has 100 points possible, and I decide on a whim how many people have earned based on... well, my whim. Probably shouldn't have graded on a Monday when I asn't feeling my best... O.o

I'll have to listen to the song to decide on your point value... hopefully it's on YouTube...

[valonia.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I'm off to play.... I want those iconses!!!

Ah, yes, Mardy bum is on YouTube. The Arctic Monkeys are from my part of the world and Mardy Bum means grumpy bum in the language of my youth! A good monday song:

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

That is a really cute song! :D Very catchy. Here we'd say 'grumpy butt', but English English is so much... it seems classier. Maybe because it's not our 'norm'. Or maybe it really is...

[valonia.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love the Artic Monkeys. They remind me of home and growing up in the north of England. I have the the same accent so my hubby laughs at me every time I say "mardy" or "bum" (or in fact anything because he is a southerner) because of this song.

Ooh, does this mean I'm no longer in the minus points? Actually, the beaver craft selection may have bombed me out... Oops! :)

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I will admit the beaver was not a high-point-value answer, though it did get you some points because it followed the whole 'Bum' rec and you know beaver is slang for... right? It put me in a 14-year-old snickering kind of mood for awhile, and that's worth something!

Pre-round 7 (which I haven't given points for, there's a limit to what I want to try to surf on my phone) you are sitting at just over 400 points. Not too shabby!

[valonia.livejournal.com]

HAHA! The beaver thing had me laughing for half an hour... a beaver and a bag. There are too many rude connotations for thought! And anyway, it, er, looked highly skilled.... No, you're right, it was pathetic. I liked it though! :0)

[40410.livejournal.com]

This is awesome. :D I like the Arctic Monkeys but I'd never run across this one before.

[valonia.livejournal.com]

Glad to spread some Arctic Monkeys joy. :)

[dancingleaf.livejournal.com]

just because I love to share music titles.

I performed to Jimmy Hafla & Darshan by Djinn in the last year.
My two best student choreographies are Nesatavo & Mission by Beats Antique.

The song the audience liked best on Saturday night... Habibi Ya Eini

My (steampunk sound) favourite that I am currently considering choreography for...but I have to do classic sound first (Qasr Al Shoq)

The Steam song by the Violet Tribe... AWESOME.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_z9fI8NcQ

also check out... Balkan Beat Box if you haven't already. We use their
Habibi Min Zaman for drills.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Very good suggestions, thanks!

[nakedblueninja.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna recommend many songs. Because I like the music.



It's french, but it's definitely a belly dance song.



:)

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Oooh, two great suggestions. Awesome! Thank you!

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

oooh.. Gonna have to dig around my iPod for this. However I would like to know my score up to this point as well.. So I can make sure I am able to earn something like a large crocheted/knitted creature :)

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

You are sitting on 400 points, I believe, so you're well on track! (That doesn't mean you get to slack, though!)

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

I won't slack but i'm not much good when it comes to music since I don't really care about it.

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

The Kris Kris Allen cover of Falling Slowly along with the Glen Hansard original

Major Tom covered by Shiny Toy Guns
Sinnerman from the Thomas Crown Affair soundtrack
In from the Outside by Chris Trapper

I'm guessing I am too late but I will at least fulfill my part in taking part.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Nah, I haven't graded yet, and if you finish up AND post with a bellydancing icon to steal dancingleaf's points, you might just get your Sackboy AND doughnut... ;)

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

I still need to play catch up on this.

Songs. Hm.

Double Trouble on the Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban soundtrack. I mean, Something wicked this way comes in song form? Dude.

The Mob Song from Beauty and the Beast (Disney version). Nothing like a mob, right?

Can I add to this later? I have to go to work now, so I don't have time to finish...

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you have until the end of the contest to add (or change, or update) any of your answers to any of the rounds. No pressure. ;)

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there's a particular reason I can't seem to edit my entry...

But in other news, an addition. I fucking love this song. It never fails to make me grin like a crazy person.

[cazrolime.livejournal.com]

I have realised that I don't know what kind of music you like. :| LET'S THROW SOME STUFF OUT THERE. I've been on a mid-20th-century kick for the last fifteen hundred years, so let's go right ahead and rec some of my favourites as well as other odd songs I've favourited on youtube.

Rosemary Clooney singing Hey There (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_Gj51Uk6k) is pretty badass, and the bit where she answers herself is oddly adorable. And her rendition of Sway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzaLEC7kDdE) is slow but steady and yet still makes me want to dance around my room, which is quite a feat since I'm usually of the opinion that faster is always better.

Eileen Barton's If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1gfZwejPv8) is the CHEESIEST THING YOU WILL EVER LISTEN TO. And it's impossible to listen to without grinning. Believe me. I've tried. IMPOSSIBLE. Ditto: How Do You Like Your Eggs In The Morning? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpBhQKwm2rY) by Dean Martin and Helen O'Connell.

Butcher Pete (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-q9iR80YU0) is the most fun it's possible for a song to be. I can't resist a song that's one long tongue-in-cheek innuendo.

Everybody's Talkin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzEY6ZqkuE) by Harry Nilsson is one of my favourite songs ever. I loved it when I was a kid and now it has the link to general childhood summers which makes it never not awesome. Helps that it's a good song, too. It's one of those ones that I assume everybody knows already, though I'm not sure if that's just me failing to separate my brain from the world's.

Blatantly flouting the "recommend a song" thing, I must demand that you listen to ALL REGINA SPEKTOR EVER. Here are Us (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzrC72Xv6pE), Fidelity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigqKfLWjvM), Samson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62rfWxs6a8) and Hero (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOQ3R3MNcv8) to get you started. Her songs and her voice are just the most beautiful things.

Taking a sudden turn into synthville, Imogen Heap's Hide And Seek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4OLQB7ON9w) is a gorgeously heartbreaking song.

Ludo's song Lake Pontchartrain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BRKoNNMJQ) has had me hooked for a while now. There are sea monsters and things.

You need to watch the video to OK Go's This Too Shall Pass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w). The song is rad, but it's the video that makes it extra awesome. My friend linked this video when some sad stuff was going down and it legitimately made things happy for a while. The video is like a Saturday morning kids' gameshow crossed with a giant game of Mousetrap. It will lift your soul and make your day and maybe even do your washing up. Go watch it.

Hang on.

[cazrolime.livejournal.com]

You hung on? Good!

I've tracked down some Tom Lehrer. It would be remiss of me not to link you to Tom Lehrer, whether he's Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY), or reassuring us that We Will All Go Together When We Go (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs). He has a tonne of awesome songs, but one of my favourites is Elements (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwlzwGMMwc), even though I don't stand a hope in hell of being able to sing along to it all the way.

I listen to a lot of music. :|

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

The elements song was in an episode of NCIS! :D

If you like that one, are you an Animaniacs fan? I can sing Wakko's America (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAII411eqPg), The Presidents (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvy0wRLD5s8&feature=related), and, most impressively (I think) Yakko's World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc&feature=related). These aren't the best recordings, I have the actual CDs... :/ But you get the idea!

[cazrolime.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that being able to sing all of Yakko's World elevates you to the status of a minor deity.

(I love that song. :D I'd not heard America or The Presidents, though. Oh Animaniacs, you have the best songs.)

[cryssoleil.livejournal.com]

It may not be your taste... but I can picture a coooooooool belly dance to this song....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svOCL3gHWHI

and yes... a throw back... kinda like yellow rose of texax... but FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!!!! I wanna dance to this song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfORU_DKp0w
(listen to it load)

[cryssoleil.livejournal.com]

I mean loud.... >.>