- incorrectly adding an extra "s" to the end of someone's name (e.g. "julia childs")
- overblown arrangements of "carol of the bells"
- also, most arrangements of "carol of the bells"
- especially the one by trans-siberian orchestra
- also, all songs by trans-siberian orchestra
- ugly sweater parties
- tupperware without lids
- the @ sign
- just spelling a word the way it sounds when you could easily look it up
- only having to dial like five numbers on a campus phone because the rest are put in automatically
- movie posters where the actors names are on top in big letters but they are listed from left to right in an order that is different than the order that the actors appear left to right in the artwork (ex. cutthroat island, every other movie poster).
- the way pitchfork and album reviews that imitate pitchfork use slashes to separate lyrical lines ("Boy! We can do much more together!/ It's not so impossible!")
- snowpocalypse is not a fucking word. it's called a blizzard.
- rewritten parody lyrics where they add extra syllables that don't scan
- couples sitting on the same side of a booth / table at a restaurant leaving the other side vacant
- biking on the sidewalk--like I am actually going to punch someone someday.
- songs where a singer embellishes the end of a verse in such a way that it leads into the next chorus, but instead of having one unbroken vocal track they just have another track of the singer singing the chorus like nothing happened--how are you supposed to sing along to this
- bands who release two different versions of the same song on the same album (e.g., george harrison "isn't it a pity"; wilco "outtasite outtamind")
- grocery store guacamole
- midi trumpet portrayed as if it were real trumpet in a video (ex. "it's gonna be a lovely day"; introduction to the play in "waiting for guffman")
- knots tied in plastic bags
- the word "friendsgiving"
- singing the guitar solo
- footnotes that extend over 2 pages
- a list of toppings on a pizza special but the toppings are on top of a red sauce pizza instead of being the only toppings on the pizza (e.g., preserved lemon and broccoli, fig and goat cheese)
- this thing on my work laptop where if I open an email in the wrong way the new mail icon doesn’t go away
- waltzes from the romantic era where the melody goes really high up in the right hand, always sounds like shite
dec 16 2009 ∞
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