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I took this from [livejournal.com profile] skuldchan. And if you want to laugh at all of my weeaboo music, you can blow me sideways.

THE RULES:
Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line (or first and second line if it's completely impossible) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone posts the next line correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own!

1. 一人ぼっち 恐れずに 生きようと 夢見てた
2. Estuans interius ira vehementi [livejournal.com profile] wohdin
3. Let me take you on a trip around the world and back
4. Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?[livejournal.com profile] traykor
5. I had visions, I was in them, I was looking into the mirror
6. Come over here and kiss me all night long
7. イルミネ-ション 真下に見下ろし
8. I ain't happy, I'm feelin' glad[livejournal.com profile] traykor
9. Summer don't know me no more
10. White clouds float in the bright blue sky
11. 熱くなった銀のメタリックハート [livejournal.com profile] wohdin
12. In the town where I was born[livejournal.com profile] traykor
13. Oh baby, baby, how was I supposed to know (bonus points if you guess who did the cover)[livejournal.com profile] traykor
14. とびっきりの笑顔で [livejournal.com profile] wohdin
15. ヤッパッパアヤッパッパアイーシャンテン
16. Out here in the fields I fight for my meals
17. I never meant to be so bad to you
18. Now I face out, I hold out[livejournal.com profile] darkenedwings
19. It's the dark night of my soul
20. 風が 寄せた 言葉に [livejournal.com profile] wohdin

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When the light rail doors opened this morning, a guy who was stepping out as I was stepping in said "There's nowhere to sit down in there." There were at least five open seats, not having come from people who just vacated, but the catch was that they were all next to somebody else. Nobody was standing in the aisles.

Would somebody from Boston, or San Francisco, or New York, say that there's "nowhere to sit" on the subway if it meant you had to sit next to somebody else? Or would that situation be called spacious?

I admit that I have the same tendencies. I am extremely introverted, dislike people getting in my space, and, if I can swing it, I get a seat as isolated as possible. Honestly, I'm afraid somebody will start a random conversation, and I won't be able to read. If the ride is short enough, I'll stand rather than sit next to a stranger. That is me, though. It is hard to tell how much of that is me being me, or how much of that is me being spoiled on an Arizonan/Texan concept of personal space.

Maybe this isn't a phenomenon you see much in larger cities where public transit is more ubiquitous and crowded. You'd have to tell me. I don't think Phoenicians are used to crowds, or having a lack of space. Everything about Phoenix sprawls.

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Date: 2011-02-22 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] payapayapapaya.livejournal.com
I always think to myself that there's 'nowhere to sit' if there isn't a completely vacant bench available- I have the same introverted tendencies you mentioned, though, to the point that some days I'll wander along the entire length of a train if there's a chance of finding a bench to myself, or just wait for an emptier bus.

Never heard anyone up in SF- or down here in LA, for that matter- voice the same concern aloud, but I doubt it's all that uncommon. It's just that sitting on crowded vehicles ends up being a necessity, more often than not, so you have to grin and bear it.

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Date: 2011-02-23 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
I guess everybody thinks it's unpleasant when you're crowded in. It's the concept of there being "nowhere to sit" that is strange to me.

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Date: 2011-02-22 11:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] traykor.livejournal.com
When I rode the NY subway every seat filled.

4. You've been out riding fences
8.I've got sunshine in a bag
12. lived a man who sailed to sea
13. that something wasn't right here (Glee perhaps?)

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Date: 2011-02-23 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
Marilyn Manson

All correct, though!

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Date: 2011-02-23 12:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] essandem.livejournal.com
Personally, I've never minded sitting next to someone else when I get on BART. I place having a seat on transit above all else because that's the only way I can read comfortably and I'm sensory overload über alles when it comes to taking public tranportation.

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Date: 2011-02-23 10:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
BART just makes me feel like my head's going to explode and I'm going to vomit, unless I take a lot of meclizine.

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Date: 2011-02-24 12:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] essandem.livejournal.com
I guess I'm just used to it, having lived here most of my life.

16. I get my back into my living.
Edited Date: 2011-02-24 12:33 am (UTC)

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Date: 2011-02-23 02:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkenedwings.livejournal.com
18. Now I face out, I hold out

This is "Reach Out to the Truth" from P4...?

I'm about the same as you when it comes to public transit. I only voluntarily sit next to another person if there's no isolated seat available and the ride is long. I've noticed a lot of Berkeley kids who are the same way, too, and very few who aren't. Maybe it's all the students who aren't used to public transit or big cities.

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Date: 2011-02-23 10:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
Yeah, it is. I don't really know the next words either ;/

I think most people have those tendencies. It's the fact that somebody said "there's nowhere to sit", rather than "this situation is far from ideal, but I can sit down".

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Date: 2011-02-23 03:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wohdin.livejournal.com
ahahahah

2. ARNIE ROTH SEPHIROTH!
8. that one song by the gorillaz oh wait someone else already got it
11. totally Driver's Heart
14. asu he no yuuki?
20. sup FFX, suteki da ne (only reason I know this one was because I was learning the kanji in it yesterday rofl)

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Date: 2011-02-23 03:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wohdin.livejournal.com
fuck I am a weaboo

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Date: 2011-02-23 10:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com
Holy shit, all right!

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Date: 2011-02-24 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pofo.livejournal.com
16. I get my back into my living. I don't need to fight, to prove I'm right. I don't need to be forgiven. (but do you know the origin of the title of the song?)

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Date: 2011-02-24 10:22 pm (UTC)
ext_47255: (Default)
From: [identity profile] elfmagecin.livejournal.com
5: to see a little bit clearer the rottenness and evil in me

To the rest of your post, I think that you have something with the Phoenix mindset on personal space. Believe it or not, but I am the same way as well among strangers. I have an anxiety disorder that is triggered when overly crowded by people that I have not let in in my personal bubble.
I agree that Phoenicians are not used to having their personal space invaded, unless they welcome it. It is hard to welcome it on a bus when you are surrounded by an eclectic mass of strangers that don't know you, likely don't care, and either don't respect personal space or are just like you and that anxiety is only ten fold and trapped in a box, thick enough to suffocate even the most emotionally dense or the least empathic of people.

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Date: 2011-02-26 09:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fabula-umbrae.livejournal.com
I have no problems with other people on the bus. Then again for a year I had to take a bus to school that was standing room only if you were lucky and managed to get ON the bus. I do tend to sit on my own when I can but when I can't I still sit wherever. Then again I'm closer to the type of person who will start odd conversations with strangers soooooo... yeah.

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