According to the OED, the most commonly used noun in the English language is “time.” “Person” came in at #2. The method for figuring this out was for OED people to look on the internet at newspapers, blogs, fictions, and journals… Which doesn’t seem very scientific or accurate. Failing to take into account spoken language seems like it would be a big deal. Anyway, here’s a bbc article on it.
To Whom It May Concern:
I just opened up my bag of Starburst, and to my dismay, I only found four pink ones! This was, of course, very sad, since pink ones are my favorite. There were a total of 92 starburst in the bag, making a paltry 4.3% of the bag pink! Broken down further, 14.1% were yellow, 29.3% were red, and a whopping 52.2% were orange! Sad, indeed. What could possibly account for this disproportionate bag of starburst, I wonder? Oh well, I still like the red ones. 
Still Chewing,
-Matthew Good
I’ll post their response, assuming it’s worth posting, as soon as I hear back from them.
John Brittingham’s Mother loves my album.
yeah i’m a loser. But i’m Han Solo!!!
Your results:
You are Han Solo
| Han Solo |
| 69% |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi |
| 69% |
| Lando Calrissian |
| 68% |
| Luke Skywalker |
| 63% |
| Mace Windu |
| 63% |
| R2-D2 |
| 62% |
| Qui-Gon Jinn |
| 61% |
| Chewbacca |
| 58% |
| Boba Fett |
| 58% |
| Princess Leia |
| 57% |
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Even though you’ve been described as
reckless, selfish and cocky, you’re the
type of person others love to be around.
People like you because you’re a scoundrel.
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(This list displays the top 10 results out of a possible 21 characters)
Click here to take the Star Wars Personality Test
Just look at them.
You know you want to be a European Beard SUPERSTAR!!!
I saw something about this on the news about fine minutes ago. The blogging could not wait!!
“Phil Spector’s greatest idea was to create a whole mystery around himself, in which artists would sink. He was more an businessman than a producer, never touching the controls, leaving the engineers do that dirty work.
We don’t do the same job, I work in communion with the bands, without a gun.
-Nigel Godrich,
from this interview on greenplastic. A good read for anyone interested in the music biz. Nigel Godrich is my idol.
Another good quote from the article is:
“I remember asking Pavement on the phone: ‘Do you want me to make you sell a lot of records? Because it doesn’t look like your aim!’ And I was surprised to hear them say: ‘Sure, we wanna sell records.’ ‘Oh good, ‘cos I thought you only want to piss people off by messing up your songs!’
hahaha… Nobody wants their songs hidden in the biz, and that is a fact.
And another good one, which I sorta align myself with:
“Sometimes on [OK COMPUTER] I prove a total lack of professionalism, voluntarily plugging instruments any old how. The courage comes from Radiohead, a band that will never get out of fashion because they make the fashion. And when the others follow, they are already somewhere else, far away.”
which is sorta related to:
“My technique is to set the environment to make creative accidents easier. And then all I have to do is pick the right whim of fate.”
This is what I’m working towards. But the projects i’m involved in are always so rushed its hard to do it. The closest i’ve gotten is on the House stuff and my won projects, but my own projects don’t count because the whole point is for someone else to surprise you. If I know where I’m going I always get off there. Still, that’s where I’m going. Lack of proffessionalism. Happy accidents.
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”
- Hunter S. Thompson
“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw.
She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, ‘You mean they forget?’”
-Howard Ikemoto.
