Monday Mashup #6: Ten Kings

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, is a frequent while-I’m-working listen.

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: One of those “Hey, I know that song!” artists, Ben E. King’s voice is front and center on many recognizable songs of yesteryear, such as Stand By Me and This Magic Moment.

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. Hakuna Matata!

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