The Monday Mashup is an experiment, designed to get my creative juices flowing. I get a random word and a random number, and I write a list based on that mashup. I’m not going to require myself to make the list perfect or expert–just requiring myself to do it consistently. At least for now.
This week’s mashup: Ten Kings
1. Kings of Leon: I know Sex on Fire was overplayed–but I love it madly anyway. It helps that I discovered it after it peaked in popularity. The Kings of Leon album, Only By The Night
2. Drink!: If you’re in college, or just looking for a clever way to binge drink with your friends, you might try Kings. I recommend it only in larger groups, lest you cross that fine line between “yay fun drinking games” and “getting far too close and personal with whatever toilet happens to be nearby.”
3. What’s in room 237? The Shining is a really scary movie. I’m told that it is also a really scary book, though I have to take others’ word on that, having not read it myself. But I do know that without Stephen King, we would have no iconic image of Jack Nicholson busting through the door in a murderous craze and announcing, “Heeeeere’s Johnny!” So thank you for that, Mr. King. And for scaring the bejeezus out of me via circus clown.
4. Ben E. King
5. I have a dream! Martin Luther King, Jr. No further explanation needed, yeah?
6. The Kings of Pop and Rock: Say what you will about their personal lives, but anyone who can make a choreographed boogie with the undead into a worldwide, enduring phenomenon or turn a bell-bottomed jumpsuit-with-cape ensemble into a symbol of Cool has some legendary prowess backing their eccentricity.
7. The Prince of Wales: Technically not a king yet, the heir to Great Britain’s throne, Prince Charles of Wales, nonetheless comes to mind when I think of “kings.”
8. Not my Big Wheel: I had a Big Wheel bike called a King Cobra when I was a child, and I thought it was awesome. But the actual King Cobra is pretty awesome as well. Did you know they grow to be 13 feet long and live for a couple of decades? Wowza.
9. Checkmate. Wikipedia refers to the king as the most important piece in a game of chess. I always referred to it as “the piece with the little cross thing on its head.” My title is significantly less regal.
10. Simba: Leave it to Disney to render the King of the Jungle a big ball of animated cuteness accompanied by the lilting melodies of an Elton John smash hit. I present The Lion King
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November 30, 2009 at 8:43 am
Those are some great kings you have there.
I’m thinking of
- King Arthur, blame it on the book I’m reading: Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley
- King peppermint, apparently typically Dutch
- toilet paper, thanks to an ancient commercial that went something like ‘king, emperor, admiral, [toilet paper] is used by all’.
* humming *
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you
*/humming*
Like your list.
I am thinking of King Arthur (because I have an undying love for the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table), King Arthur flour (because ’tis the season for baked goods), King Kong (even though the movie seems too scary for me so I have never watched it), and We Three Kings (because ’tis the season). Oh, and Hiro Boga’s concept of sovereignty – because the idea of kings (or queens) comes to mind whenever I think of it.
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Marissa:
Very cool idea for a post! I really enjoyed this top 10 list. I just purchased the Kings of Leon on Amazon MP3 for $3.99 yesterday. I like what I’ve heard from that band. Good to hear that its one of your go-to work bands. And I enjoyed the Stephen King It clip…I remember imitating that clown’s voice and freaking out some friends many years ago. Thanks for sharing this post!!
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