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24 February 2011

What your favorite classic rock band says about you.

post by: not_on_display at: 18:45 | 21 comments

I can do exactly 1.5 pullups? Strangely accurate.

posted by gaspode 24 February | 19:12

Boston and Fleetwood Mac are so far off, they aren't even ironically funny. Deep Purple is dead on though.

posted by Ardiril 24 February | 19:41

Your garage is full of failed versions of your stereo/barbecue hybrid.

How on earth did they know?

posted by dg 24 February | 19:44

Lies. I can't even do one pull-up.

posted by chrismear 24 February | 19:50

I just so don't get McSweeney's.

posted by arse_hat 24 February | 19:53

Hah!

posted by richat 24 February | 20:35

"Yes: Your ideal partner would be into both tantric sex and fat guys."

That's not funny, that's eerily true.

But my #2 favorite is Steely Dan and I have never either snorted cocaine nor owned a copy of Remembrance of Things Past. I suspect by that pointed the author was getting impatient to finish the damned thing. But I salute him in avoiding any jokes about Canada, Libertarianism, Mark Twain or castrati for Rush.

And I'm still kinda creeped out about Yes. Did I mention I live just down the road from Jon Anderson? And (in the other direction) from where Jack LaLanne lived?

posted by oneswellfoop 24 February | 21:06

My high score is not on a DigDug machine somewhere, but there is a home movie of me, earning the largest laugh in the 9th grade play, popping up from behind a sofa and chirping "Dig!Dug!" in a hospital gown. The play was something about kids addicted to videogames, taking over an asylum. no seriously and we didn't write it ourselves.

(i don't get McSweeney's either)

posted by crush-onastick 24 February | 21:14

Cream: You know a guy who knows a guy who worked on Star Wars.

This is true, in a way. I know a guy who worked on the Strategic Defense Initiative at Boein

Be right back. Someone at the door.

posted by Kronos_to_Earth 24 February | 21:16

The Grateful Dead: Your stories about the seventies make your daughter's roommates at Tufts very uncomfortable.

posted by jason's_planet 24 February | 21:31

No Queen? Quick, somebody tell me inaccurate things about me based on my adoration of Queen! I feel sad and alone.

posted by galadriel 24 February | 23:52

I thought the David Bowie one would be: You are gay, which would have been true.

posted by serazin 25 February | 00:15

Queen: You have killed a man.

and a couple other groups it missed...

Devo: You are not men.

Sparks: Your name is Mickey Mouse.

Cheap Trick: Your mommy's all right.

This is why I'll never sell anything to McSweeney's

posted by oneswellfoop 25 February | 03:47

I do not have both long hair and a sunburned scalp. But I have sustained several alcohol-related injuries, although I do not recall now whether or not sheetrock was involved.

posted by Senyar 25 February | 04:14

David Bowie is not a "band." David Bowie is part god, part alien and all awesome. Also awesome? DigDug.

posted by jrossi4r 25 February | 09:54

There is nothing wrong with having a favorite rune.

posted by jessamyn 25 February | 11:45

Hm, the only people I have encountered that had favourite runes were neo-nazis. A quick google has taught me that the rune grafiti that you'd see on viaducts etc was of the othala. Apparently not just used by Dutch neo nazis.

I didn't find Golden Earring in that list. That's not good.

posted by jouke 25 February | 11:58

Queen: You have killed a man.

Surely that's more Johnny Cash? :) Sure, he's not classic *rock* per se, but.

I know several Runic alphabets, used to use them for "code" in high school, but have no actual favorite rune...

posted by galadriel 25 February | 13:20

I'm still not sure what "unventilated" means but I sure like painting rooms without windows, it makes it easier to paint and it smells soooooo good.

posted by not_on_display 25 February | 14:31

T-Rex: No matter how much you clean, there will always be trace amounts of glitter on your stove and blender.

This is embarrassingly accurate (Glitter gets fucking everywhere)

posted by The Whelk 26 February | 13:03

I read this list yesterday, started humming "Telegram Sam" as I walked into the bathroom... and saw a speck of red glitter on my cheekbone.

posted by Elsa 26 February | 14:31

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