Volume Three: The Life and Times of Tom Musial

Eagle-eyed readers of Tom Musial Dot Com may have noticed that my tagline (the small text in the header) changes each time you visit a new page in the site.

I’m too indecisive to simply choose a single tagline, so I’ve collected a variety of lyrics that describe me or which elicit laughter because they don’t describe me at all. (For example: #5 below).

Listed below are ten taglines from the current rotation. Have fun.

1. Do my thing with an ‘89 swing.
2. Caught up between being a father and a primadonna.
3. Take my picture by the pool, ’cause I’m the next big thing.
4. He’s not a man, he’s a lovin’ machine.
5. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face.
6. I can rock the microphone like Dorothy Hamill can skate.
7. You mean you forgot cranberries too?
8. I’m clean-cut and dapper; that’s what I’m about.
9. I’m bringing sexy back.
10. I’m back up in the game, running things to keep my swing

Although the Steelers seemed to have no answer to the Titan’s defensive line, we at Tom Musial Dot Com at least have the answers to our own lyrics quiz.

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… where “F” stands for “Figure out which song these lyrics are from.”

All lyrics today are from The Police. I’ve never thought of the Police as a particularly morose or introspective band, but these selected lyrics almost seem like they’re a lost Morrissey song.

1. Cheap tarts in a red light street
2. Don’t you have a lesson for us?
3. Put away your makeup
4. No-one’s jamming their transmission
5. Temptation, frustration
6. Our minds are deranged
7. I hope my legs don’t break
8. It’s the rhetoric of failure
9. Seems I’m not alone at being alone
10. Must I always be alone?
11. It avoids an awful lot of mess

No submissions for last week’s lyrics quiz. I guess none of the readers of Tom Musial Dot Com were in love in the early nineties. Or at least in love and listening to New Jack Slow Jamz.

Honorable mention goes to über-blogger and local (for now) comedian Ben Kenny for at least leaving a comment.

Answers after the link.

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Back in college in the early 1990s, one of my college classmates (a sweet young lady) asked me to make a cassette copy of my Bobby Brown Don’t be Cruel record album.

The album only took up side one of the cassette, so I made a mix tape of random songs on Side B.

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When I gave her the cassette, I said: “Don’t read anything into the songs on side B. They are just some songs I thought you would enjoy.”

Fast-forward to December 2008, and that sweet young lady and I are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary. Below are lyrics from that mix tape — you tell me if there was a theme there or not.

NOTE: if you were not listening to Rockin’ Ron The Nighttime Dog on WAMO’s “Quiet Storm” circa 1990, you will have a lot of trouble with this quiz.

1. I’ve been really tryin’, baby. Tryin’ to hold back this feelin’ for so long.
2. You’re the kind of lady that I want to be in my life.
3. I’m askin you baby: be with me, for a little while
4. No pressure from me baby, cause I want you and I need you and I love you.
5. I need you so much to keep giving me love.
6. If you don’t know how I feel for you, it’s time I let all feelings show.
7. I’ll treat you just like a queen and give you fine things.
8. Why don’t we just lay down, baby, and hold each other real, real close?
9. What I have to say is sealed with a kiss and a wedding ring.

A grammatical theme this week: All lyrics start with “I <verb>…”

1. I walk right through the door.
2. I watch you when you are sleeping.
3. I was every little hungry schoolgirl’s pride and joy
4. I am what I play
5. I can bust like a bubble
6. I thought I was in love a couple of times before
7. I don’t have a license, but I drive very well, officer
8. I can hear ‘em talking in the hallways
9. I wait for my cue and just listen
10. I used to read Word Up magazine

Here are 10 random lyrics taken from shuffling my iPod.

(Is that people are calling it now? “Shuffling your iPod?”)

Post responses to comments to gain the admiration of the TomMusial.com audience.

1. When we’re together it’s like hot coals in a fire
2. The media says: what kind of music is this for you dance to?
3. I hope you have found a friend
4. Not only for a cruise, not only for a day
5. Where you going with that mask I found?
6. I am no hero, that’s for sure
7. So much has happened in my life, since we parted.
8. An exit to eternal summer slacking
9. You’re a chicken mcnugget and I’m a Big Mac
10. She appears composed. So she is, I suppose.

Today’s theme: songs from Disney movies. Post your guesses to comments. Extra points for naming the movie.

1. He has a merry tune to toot.
2. I’ll think of a mermaid lagoon.
3. He found his aroma lacked a certain appeal
4. I’m especially good at expectorating!
5. Like a bolt out of the blue, fate steps in and sees you through
6. When you pick a pear, try to use the claw
7. I toot my flute and don’t give a hoot
8. I wanna see, wanna see ‘em dancin’
9. Next time gonna use a nom de plume
10. The gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam

This week, Cristina and Rave were able to identify nine of the songs and artists between them. Rave even offered some cultural commentary concerning the rockingest song of the 80s.

However, neither of them were able to identify the fiddle-playingest, overall-wearingest, tempo-changingest, sophomoric-joke-inspiringest, one-hit-wonderingest song of all time!

Click the link to see the answers.

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No clever intro this week. Just song lyrics.

(Although, honestly, is there ever really a clever intro?)

1. And so the conversation turned until the sun went down.
2. My thoughts, I confess, verge on dirty
3. In winter 1963, it felt like the world would freeze
4. I don’t feel tardy.
5. There’s this girl that’s been on my mind all the time
6. Its gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
7. His car is warm and dry
8. If there’s something weird and it don’t look good
9. Don’t be afraid to let them show
10. All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.