Thursday, November 30, 2006

New contest: Stranger Than Fiction Soundtrack

So you may recall that I enthusiastically adored the movie Stranger Than Fiction (previous post here). I had an in-depth conversation with my hairstylist gal yesterday about it whilst she snipped; she also loved a movie called "The Prestige"? Hadn't heard of it, but now I've Netflixed it. The effeminate gent (read: corset, ribbon around his neck, and more makeup than me on prom day) who owns the little salon was also going on and on about how fat Kate Winslet was (obviously he doesn't drive a Jaguar) but how he'd "do" Salma Hayek. It was an interesting conversation.

Anyways. All that to say that I now have a copy of the Stranger Than Fiction soundtrack (which was a very very good compilation) to give away to one of you lucky cats. PLUS you get an engraved travel mug, to use on your mind-numbing commute to your staid job.

Here's how I want to run it. In keeping with the plotline of the movie, in the comments I want you to tell me: If you were writing a book, what would the title be? That's it, just the title. Think about it and let's see what you got.

97 comments:

  1. Facial Failure: My Everyday Struggle to Grow a Mustache (and Sideburns) that Looks Neither Pervy nor Predatory

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  2. Slow American Journey

    (actual book i'm writing...american classic one day heather!)

    -chris joyce

    (Joycecb@Muohio.edu)

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  3. this is easy
    I have planned my autobiography for years... here it is...

    "I Hearby Decree..."

    :) jv

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  4. oops... spelled wrong

    "I Hereby Decree..."

    :) jv

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  5. Life Should be Lived at the Speed of Hugs

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  6. Perpetually Lost in Time and Space

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  7. Everything is Everything: Singing Pearl Jam Lullabies To My Baby Roo

    by Ian (imjohnso@willamette.edu)

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  8. Various Kinds of Germans.

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  9. Killing One Bird with Two Stones: The Story of Mispoken Life

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  10. In Eternity:
    Whot you wanna do?
    I dunno, what you wanna do?
    etc.

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  11. In Marriage No One Can Hear You Scream.

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  12. Please Try Again...and other Soda Cap wisdom

    jla25@hotmail.com

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  13. "Me So Horny" - A day In the Life of The 2 Live Crew

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  14. You're Going To End Up Working At Starbucks! and Other Responses I Receive When I Reveal I'm A Creative Writing Major

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  15. 'Yet Another Clever Title'

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  16. If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

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  17. Chasing moments of feeling alive...

    V.D.

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  18. Shit Happens! A Life Guided By The Wisdom of Bumper Stickers.

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  19. How I Almost Made The Perfect Decision Every Time, But Second Guessed My Way To Playing Poker With Satan

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  20. "Soul Striptease : Inside Out"

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  21. Is That All You Got?

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  22. "a life on roofs"

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  23. A Fresh Slice Of Bacon: and other things life would be incompleate without.

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  24. Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

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  25. "I Spilled Whiskey On The Jukebox"

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  26. How Pearl Jam Can Change Your Life

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  27. "It's only Ed...you can open the door"

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  28. She did what?
    My life with a manic depressive child.

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  29. Looking for Passion: Inquire Within

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  30. The Toilet Bowl Chronicles

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  31. Fix That Stranger

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  32. Stop Being A Fat Bastard - Frank's guide to losing weight.

    Followed by sequels -

    Stop being a lazy bastard
    Stop being a dumb bastard

    Frank

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  33. 'The Heavy Metal businessman' (or how the lives of rock stars can help you get to the top).

    Chapter 1 - Resilience - role model Lemmy.

    Chapter 2 - Self marketing - role model David Lee Roth

    Chapter 3 - Business ethics - role model Bono

    (you get he idea) - I have it mapped out in my head!

    Chris J Tottington, Nr Manchester UK.

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  34. Lies, or Something Worse

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  35. best of times - worst of times: the story of the life. (abridged)

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  36. Heaven, Hell, and Desert Roads




    -Mary Crook

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  37. It was the worst of times. It was the worst of times.

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  38. Parallelogram reminds me of Snuffaluffagus

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  39. 'Of Annah, And All That She Holds'

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  40. I doubt you're gonna pick me for this...cos i live out of the U.S. but i am gonna give it a shot still...

    "weow"

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  41. Rebel Without a Clue

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  42. "she was a georgia peach, I got a beard like honest abe, and I'm not buying in to the weatherman's hype"


    I just wanna say that I personally think that "I spilled whiskey on the jukebox" should win.

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  43. "It's Supposed to Look Like That..."

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  44. ... abd tgeb u dued,

    Which, if I put my fingers on the correct keys would read...

    ... and then I died.


    sillyboob@hotmail.com

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  45. Missionary Kids Gone Bad

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  46. Perchance to Dream

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  47. "Waiting For My Real Life To Begin" with a nod to Colin Hay for the song by the same name.

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  48. Excellency in in being Ordinary

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  49. Everything's Gonna Be Pretty OK

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  50. My book would be titled:

    "Life and How to Live It"

    My apologies to R.E.M. and Michael Stipe.

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  51. Drinking Dr. Pepper Through Your Nose is Possible: Even if Convincing Your Parents it was Your Cousin's Idea Isn't

    [oldwordsnewslang@gmail.com]

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  52. The Faces I've Seen


    bennymikula@yahoo.com

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  53. Eternity is time enough for Love

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  54. All go to Eternity - where will you be?

    http://www.thebiblesite.org/

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  55. Music,Time and Menthol Cigarettes

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  56. confessions of a junior varsity all-star

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  57. They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me.

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  58. The title of the book would be:

    Oh! How We Used To Run!

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  59. Strange Condition

    of course, in reference to greatest Yorn of all.

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  60. I would call it, "Start Me a Bar Chord Band," which is a line in a song by Korby Lenker.

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  61. I would call it, "Start Me a Bar Chord Band," which is a line in a song by Korby Lenker.

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  62. Why Would You Want to Read About Me?

    psych1027@yahoo.com

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  63. Born in Kansas, Raised in Misery

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  64. LOve your blog. Found it while looking for roller skating songs...excellent list, btw.

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  65. Nice blog, lovely posts.
    Title of the book :
    "I should write poems"

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  66. "Me Knowing the Truth, I Cannot Concur"

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  67. I would call it:
    "Cursed With Genius: Why You've Never Heard Of Me and What You Can Learn from That"


    But if i were in a bookstore and saw all of these books on a shelf, I would read this one: "How I Almost Made The Perfect Decision Every Time, But Second Guessed My Way To Playing Poker With Satan ".

    i love the blog, Heather. Keep it up.

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  68. vegetables with love

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  69. Instructions on How to Cope With Seemingly Meaningful Coincidences

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  70. "My childhood dream was to be a butcher, today I'm a vegetarian"

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  71. Walking Sideways To Avoid The Rain.


    Finn x

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  72. "I've Relized Too Late"

    dulevukicevic

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  73. Oooh, am I too late? My books will be Stiff Peaks and Generous Topping, one a baking cookbook and the other my memoir, but which is which is yet to be determined.

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  74. Leeches in Will Wheaton's Underpants.

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  75. Any Sort of German Will Do;
    a novella inspired by Matt's seminal masterpiece: Various Kinds of Germans


    s.e.orourke@gmail.com

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  76. As per a conversation I had with a co-worker the other day:

    "That's The Last Time I Try To Corrupt A Naive, Closeted Boy From The Midwest: A Memoir"

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  77. Sentimental Litter

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  78. Damn, this is a lot of entries.

    But the title of my book would be "Welcome To The Family Of Rock"

    A lyrical quote from my favorite band and of course the subject of the book I want to write.

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  79. Meridan Lost at Sea

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  80. i know the contest is over, but i just want to say "107th comment, mofo!"

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  81. My Life of Regret or Nuts!

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