My pants are alive
with the sound of music…¹

While my pants were off galavanting about Spain, without an iPod in my pocket, the lovely and talented Rima tagged my pants for a meme. A pants meme.

The ensuing weeks of painstaking research (thankfully not pantstaining research), and the reunion of my iPod and my pants, have resulted in the following playlist of pants:

1. Photographic in my pants–(Depeche Mode. Seriously old school Depeche Mode.)
2. Shiawase (Happiness) in my pants– Puffy AmiYumi
3. Anchor in my pants–Trespassers William
4. Under the Milky Way in my pants–The Church
5. Crash in my pants–The Primitives
6. Chains of Love in my pants–Erasure
7. Trampoline in my pants–Calamine
8. Pilgrimage in my pants–Nine Inch Nails
9. Nutshell in my pants–Alice in Chains
10. Bizare Love Triangle in my pants–New Order
11. Pianos and Clocks in my pants–Aztec Camera
12. Protection in my pants–Massive Attack
13. The Ramblings of a Mad Man in my Pants–FSOL
14. Welcome to the Fold in my pants–Filter
15. Overflow in my pants–O Positive
16. Radio Silence in my pants–Thomas Dolby
17. The Postcard in my pants–Boris Grebenshikov
18. Island in the Sun in my pants–Weezer
19. Bamboleo in my pants–Gipsy Kings
20. Psychobabble in my pants–Frou Frou
21. Rockville in my pants–R.E.M.

And now I’m going to go all crazy with the tagging. I tag the pants of the last 10 blog-bearing people who left comments on my blog. (For those of you who left comments and don’t have blogs, why don’t you have blogs??) I’m also going to tag my friend jenny, just because I like to see what’s on her iPod.²

1. Painted Maypole
2. antropologa
3. magpie
4. Madame Meow
5. Mary G
6. Kyla
7. Holly
8. girlgriot
9. azahar
10. bon
11. jenny

If you want to join in, the game is played thusly: set your iPod to shuffle, and make a note of the songs that come up. Append the phrase “in my pants.” As many songs as you choose. If you have no iPod, come up with a list of songs of your choosing. If you have no pants, you may want to append instead the phrase “without pants.” Or you can write a 500-word essay discussing your current state of pantslessness.

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¹ Note that the post title song is not on my iPod. But the song, along with “Do a Deer in my pants,” has been stuck in my head. Perhaps I’ll leave it to your imagination what has been stuck in my pants.

² And because I wanted to go all the way up to 11.³

³ Because otherwise I wouldn’t have a good segue to mention going through airport security with a cucumber in my pants.⁴

⁴ Well, not my pants.