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  • Nov. 29th, 2008 at 10:26 PM
iggy pop chairman of the bored
via [info]slash_girl, a soothing meme:


Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title.


Friends say it's fine. Friends say it's good

My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love.
We give to you a disc of gold that represents the dreams.
Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street.
Such a night is such a night.

Alas my love you do me wrong.
You shine the headlight straight into my eyes.
So messed up I want you here.
Tell the rabble to be quiet we anticipate a riot.
I must. I must not.

Ribbon of darkness over me since my true love walked out the door.
Brainstorming habitforming battle-warning weary winsome.
There's life underground.
Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?

It's of a brave young highwayman this story we will tell.
Please please please no more melodies. Please please please no more maladies.
I'm gonna find my baby before that sun goes down.
Went to a party, I danced all night.
When I was a child the days whispered by.
Baby don't do it. Don't you do it.
Your date has gone home.




T. Rex - 20th Century Boy

Sara Lov - My Body is a Cage
Happy Rhodes - Save our Souls
Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Dr. John - Such a Night
Loreena McKennitt - Greensleeves
Placebo - Teenage Angst
Iggy And the Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Jesus Christ Superstar (Soundtrack) - Hosanna
Toyah - Homecraft
Gordon Lightfoot - Ribbon of Darkness
Jethro Tull - Only Solitaire
Oingo Boingo - Just Another Day
Johnny Rivers - Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Brennon on the Moor
Fiona Apple - Please Please Please
Moby - Find My Baby
Marc Collin - Too Drunk to Fuck
Janis Ian - When I Was a Child
Band - Don't Do It
Mark Knopfler - El Macho



(I did skip foreign-language, duplicate artists, and instrumental tracks.)
  • Mood: mellow
  • Music:Johnny Cash - Tear Stained Letter

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[info]elizaeffect wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 03:47 am (UTC)
Heh, that worked well enough that I'm tempted to try it myself. :)
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[info]gailmom wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 03:49 am (UTC)
LOL what a fun meme! :)
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[info]tamnonlinear wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 04:29 am (UTC)
Alas my love you do me wrong.
You shine the headlight straight into my eyes.

That is a glorious combination.
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 04:30 am (UTC)
Hee. And the Iggy kind of knocks it out of the park.
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[info]callunav wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 05:39 am (UTC)
That was the one that got me, too. My own turned out eerily effective, to a large extent - things like, "Take my love, take my land / We are living for tomorrow."
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[info]stillnotbored wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 05:18 am (UTC)
That is awesome.

Tomorrow, when I'm awake, I will have to try that.
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[info]eyemage wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 05:42 am (UTC)
done
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[info]anachred wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 06:58 am (UTC)
I second the "tomorrow when I am awake" comment, except I am banished from the internet tomorrow. So I will keep it in mind until Monday, like the lame duck I seem to be.

But I love that second stanza...
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[info]jhetley wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 01:41 pm (UTC)
And yet again, proof of my out-of-it-ness. No music player . . .

Enjoying "Windwracked Stars".
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 01:44 pm (UTC)
Thank you.

There are free and handy music players available for both Windows and Apple. *g*
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[info]jhetley wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 01:48 pm (UTC)
Oh, I have iTunes right here on the iMac. But I don't use it. Is that worse?
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 01:49 pm (UTC)
merely evidence of encroaching mental inflexibility. *g*
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[info]jhetley wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 01:52 pm (UTC)
I keep looking around for the crank to wind it up . . .
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[info]tinyfroglet wrote:
Nov. 30th, 2008 05:07 pm (UTC)
Beautiful! Maybe I'll let myself do that to celebrate the end of EvIlWriMo.
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[info]elisem wrote:
Dec. 1st, 2008 02:51 am (UTC)
Heh. I have been committing those as well. Most of mine turn out to be murder ballads or really warped love songs. Some may be both.
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[info]bearsir wrote:
Dec. 4th, 2008 09:39 pm (UTC)
That'd get you into a half-dozen MFA programs, easy.
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