Gino: (to me and David, who were having a discussion about Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which is a favorite band of ours) "What are you talking about?"

David: "My new favorite band."

Gino: "Who, is it you?"

David: (taken aback somewhat) "No. I'm not even a band. I'm a musician."

Me: "I'm my own band!"

"I'm a lunatic! Come on, say it with me!"

~ Becky's new catchphrase

Me: In the immortal words of Ozzie Osbourne, she "introduced them to their minds".

Stephanie: *laughs* Now Ozzie Osbourne can't say anything.

Me: You're right...

(A friend named Stephanie and I were discussing Yoko Ono and what part she had to play in the Beatles' breakup. Then the conversation turned to Black Sabbath. I was quoting "Sweet Leaf", by the way.)

Novemberists

Me: Hey...what's a "Novemberist"?
Sasha: A what?
Me: *gets out a legal pad with a very long song written on it* Here. "See Novemberists in the street." What's a Novemberist?
Sasha: What's this?
Me: A song I wrote. Except I have no idea what a Novemberist is. What's a Novemberist?
Sasha: Well, I know what a Decemberist is.
Me: Yeah! The Decemberists! So, you've given their music a listen to?
Sasha: No.
Me: Ah...it's weird, 'cause I have no idea what a Novemberist is, even though I wrote this song. *reconsidering* Actually...I was on meletonin when I wrote this anyway.
Sasha: Meletonin?
Me: Yeah. There was meletonin in my brain.
Sasha: *gives me genuinely surprised look* How did THAT get in there?

Becky: "Bonnie, what's your favorite band?"

Me: "Eh, probably Pink Floyd."

Becky: "Why? What do they sing about?"

Me: (making sure my answer is carefully chosen because my mother is within earshot) "Sad stuff...but it didn't always have to be that way! They used to sing about happy stuff! Like cats! And gnomes! And bikes!"

Becky: "GNOMES?"

Mum: "Bikes?"

Me: "Yeah, bikes."

Mum: "D'you mean motor-bikes, or the kind of bikes you pedal?"

Me: "Normal bikes. The kind you ride on the sidewalk. The kind I have."

Mum: (looks at me with a strange look that suggests I knew more than she thought) "Oh..."

(Taken from an interesting conversation with my sister and later my mum regarding the nature of Pink Floyd.)

"I hate my stinkin'-ferret school work! I hate this stinkin'-ferret work! Oh, stinkin'-ferret. It's my new explative. D'you like it?"

~ Me

"If you like something more than hamburger buns...that says a lot about the thing you like."

~ Me

"Hey! I just made up the greatest song lyric ever! 'Harvey, Harvey, Harvey the Wonder Hamster!'"

~ My friend Jayden, while we were acting like lunatics and trying to talk music

"Hey, you could kill yourself with my lightsabre!"

~ Me to two friends who were performing part of a Shakespeare play for me (in which someone kills herself)

"Oy vey, what do I say? Stick it in me hat an' call it a day!"

~ Taken directly from the lyrics of "Sarn Sasha", a song by Pippin Sparks (aka ME!)

"It was the last dying echo of a desperate cry for help that was never made and thus never heard."

~ Me about one of my songs

"I'm shameless, but I'm not that shameless."

~ Nikki

Me: Matthew, what kind of animal is this? *holds out Jude the hamster*
Matthew: *thinks* Jude!
Me: No, that's his name. What kind of animal is Jude?
Matthew: A PET!
Me: What KIND of pet?
Becky: A ham -
Me: A hamster!
Matthew: He's a Judie-Jude!

(Trying to teach my 2-year old cousin what kind of animal my hamster Jude is.)

"You know, when I look at the moon, I think of toenail clippings."

(Uncle Gary, upon looking at the moon as a white sliver.)

"Too many people don't know what they're doing."

"These happy homes do not look so happy."

(My sister Becky, while driving through the desert on holiday and seeing a few houses. Nobody said happy homes, however, until she did.)

Me: Hey Joy, remember that one band you like, the *whispers* "Naked Ladies"?
Joy: Yeah...
Me: Well, I have a solution! The song you like is appropriate, right?
Joy: Yeah.
Me: Well, just call the band "The Ladies". Like, "The Stones" or something...
Joy: But they're all boys.
Me: So what? I like a band called Queen, and they're all guys too!
Joy: ...But they all have pierced ears!
Me: ....I like Queen....

(Me talking to a friend, Joy, about a band apparently called the Barenaked Ladies which she is hesitant to listen to due to their name.)

Today's random quote:

"Nothing is so fun as spending a lazy Sunday's afternoon with your best friend and doing nothing but loitering, talking, sharing lunch and looking at pictures of Queen while chanting, 'Pretty, pretty, shiny, shiny!'"

(Yes, that really happened.)