I stole this from Kristina

OK, so Kristina had this great idea on her blog where you post the first line of the first random 15 songs to play on your MP3 player, and see who can be the first to name the songs--no googling the lyrics allowed. I know my taste in music is not exactly in the mainstream nor caught up with the times, so this should be interesting. I'll italicize these when people get them...assuming someone besides Colin and Jen are reading, anyways...

1. "Another Friday night with contraband, waiting for my plane to land"
(yeah, that's probably pretty obscure)

2. "Chill out, what'cha yellin' for, lay back, it's all been done before."
(Ooh, an easy one)
Kristina picks this one off like the sniper she is. Avril Lavigne-Complicated


3. "Well I wonder what it's like to be the rainmaker."
(Too easy!)
Kristina with two! Matchbox-20 - Real World

4. "Can you feel I'm not like you anymore? I can't see, I can't breathe."
Nicole gets this one. Godsmack - Bad Religion

5. "I've paid my dues time after time, I've done my sentence, but committed no crime."
The only classic rock song on the list, picked off by Kristina. Queen - We are the Champions

6. "The main attraction distraction, got you number than number than numb."
Nicole strikes again! RATM - No Shelter. Not one of RATM's lead tracks, I'm impressed.

7. "Memories consume like opening the wounds, I'm picking me apart again."
(Maybe I'm more mainstream than I'm giving myself credit for?)
Nicole gets three: Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit

8. "Cybererotic head explode, information overload, and I just can't take anymore."

9. "Tell me another story, tell me another story, everyone has stories, they bore me, they bore me..."

10. "So, I'm nothing, you took something from me, now you've disappeared."

11. "New York, 3 o'clock at night, no sleep, God I must be tired."
(Good luck with that one)

12. "Of late it's harder just to go outside, to leave this deadspace with hatred so alive."

13. "Question me about my bruises? He's the one who wins and I'm the one who always loses."
(This surprisingly talented band broke up before "making it." Good luck.)

14. "There's this little girl and I think she's so fine, And I'm not giving up until she is mine."
(speaking of not removing the embarrassing ones...lol)
Kyle strikes down Mest - What's the Dilio?

15. "Shake your body like me girl, Shake it all the time"
(This one used to drive my old roommate nuts...)

Politics of Race Maturing in America?

Well, perhaps that is too profound a conclusion to reach based on the relatively trivial and short-lived controversy that Representative McKinney drummed up last week. But, as a friend pointed out to me in property class the other day, it is a relief when someone inappropriately plays the race card, and gets absolutely nowhere with it, despite the complicity of the media in helping her try to make a security incident a racial issue. It wasn't that long ago that Chicago's own 'Reverend' Jesse Jackson was able to make headway in the defense of a number of students caught on videotape in an act of mob violence by claiming that the defendants were being discriminated against because of their race. It's nice to know that America is apparently maturing to the point that we can tell meritorious allegations of racism from the cheap shots that would otherwise damage the credibility of actual victims of racial discrimination.