Doing everything but writing
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resonantFeeling wildly creative today, though unfortunately not in a literary sense. I did, however, make the black bean soup from this month's Cook's Illustrated, which is a work of art, not exaggerating one bit.
Then I Photoshopped up all the pages for a calendar of the kidlet's artwork to give the grandparents. Now I'm faced with the difficulty of printing said pages, double-sided and with the right art on the backs of the right pages and facing in the right direction, which for someone with my spatial disabilities is a project not unlike building the Eiffel Tower out of toothpicks; I expect to waste a lot of paper.
Meanwhile, since it's yet another post with no fiction content whatsoever, why not do the song lyrics meme?
Here's how it works.
1. Throw your playlist on shuffle.
2. Pick a line out of the first 20-30 songs with words to pop up (no matter how embarrassing or obscure.) Be sure to write down where they all came from somewhere, so you don't forget.
3. Toss the lines out to your flist, and time wasting fun is had by all!
Some of these are so obvious they're hardly even worth typing, and others are so obscure that I'll be surprised if anyone gets them.
Then I Photoshopped up all the pages for a calendar of the kidlet's artwork to give the grandparents. Now I'm faced with the difficulty of printing said pages, double-sided and with the right art on the backs of the right pages and facing in the right direction, which for someone with my spatial disabilities is a project not unlike building the Eiffel Tower out of toothpicks; I expect to waste a lot of paper.
Meanwhile, since it's yet another post with no fiction content whatsoever, why not do the song lyrics meme?
Here's how it works.
1. Throw your playlist on shuffle.
2. Pick a line out of the first 20-30 songs with words to pop up (no matter how embarrassing or obscure.) Be sure to write down where they all came from somewhere, so you don't forget.
3. Toss the lines out to your flist, and time wasting fun is had by all!
Some of these are so obvious they're hardly even worth typing, and others are so obscure that I'll be surprised if anyone gets them.
One of these days you're gonna rise up singing.Sam Cooke, "Summertime (and the Livin' Is Easy)," guessed by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
katallison- There were girls so full of summer, they couldn't sleep at night.
Well, I'll keep on moving. Things are bound to be improving.Jackson Browne, "These Days," guessed bysilentfireShe's so fascinating that you're still there waiting when she comes back for the kill.Billy Joel, "Stiletto," guessed bysilentfire- There's another dance. All you have to do is say yes.
And in his pocket is a portrait of the queen.Beatles, "Penny Lane," guessed bykat_denton- But we'll stay good, and they'll stay bad, and when they're dead I'll be so glad.
- But your generation confesses before it transgresses.
- The swan was in her movement and the morning in her smile.
I want a place to call my own where you have never been.Mary Chapin Carpenter, "Rhythm of the Blues," guessed bynestraWe were always looking for true love with our heads in the clouds, just a little off course.Suzy Bogguss, "Drive South," guessed byrhiannon_jehaneOr was it sailing on the sea wore your two fine legs right down to the knee?Maddy Prior and Tim Hart, "My Son John," guessed bycawti'Did it take long to find me?' I asked the faithful light.Cat Stevens, "Moonshadow," guessed bysilentfireTheir walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is 'Don't tread on me.'Grateful Dead, "Uncle John's Band," guessed bycodyneThere was a bright light, a shattering of shop windows.Paul Simon, "The Boy in the Bubble," guessed byzebra363- Before us animosity will stand and decree that we speak not of love, only blasphemy.
Ain't no doubt in no one's mind that love's the finest thing around.James Taylor, "Carolina In My Mind," guessed byzebra363I of course replied, 'Something here inside cannot be denied.'Platters, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," guessed byzebra363Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong.Dire Straits, "Industrial Disease," guessed byzebra363- And you know that you're gonna find me if you keep on drinking fast.
There's dirt in my mouth from kissing who I should not dare.Jann Arden, "Gasoline," guessed byjulia_fractalIf you can't make your mind up, we'll never get started.Cake, "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps," guessed bysociofemmeGoing where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know.REM, "Don't Go Back To Rockville," guessed byhonkytonkgirlYou're breaking my heart, you're shaking my confidence daily.Simon & Garfunkel, "Cecelia," guessed byjulia_fractalShe said, 'Tell me, are you a Christian, child?'Marc Cohn, "Walking in Memphis," guessed byanteco- One day the stream bore us so far away that we couldn't go back, so we thought we'd just stay.
- We come fe give dem lyric. We come fe tease dem wid it.
Anyway, my eyes are not accustomed to this light.Statler Brothers, "Flowers on the Wall," guessed bysociofemme- When your property took the A train, I wonder where your manners went.
Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones.Emmylou Harris et al., "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby," guessed byladysorka- I was there when you were a queen, and I'll be the last one there beside you.
- I can't be no savage. I can't be no highwayman.
His hair was perfect.Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London," guessed bykat_dentonI got mortgages and homes, I got stiffness in the bones.Queen, "Fat Bottomed Girls," guessed bysilentfire- Well, I told her, 'Don't get scared, 'cause you're gonna be spared.'
- I don't write songs about girls any more. Have to write songs about women.
She say, 'Every stone a story, like a rosary.'Joan Osborne, "St. Teresa," guessed bynestra
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Date: 12/16/04 02:41 am (UTC)This may be the only song out of all the memes that I know.
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Date: 12/16/04 02:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/16/04 02:49 am (UTC)You just made my night. I can never figure out these song lyrics.
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Date: 12/16/04 02:53 am (UTC)number 33 is "The Werewolves of London" Warren Zevon, I think
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Date: 12/16/04 02:53 am (UTC)#6: "Penny Lane", the Beatles
#21: "Gasoline", Jann Arden
#24: "Cecilia", Simon and Garfunkle
#25: "Walking in Memphis" (I figured it out before reading <lj user="anteco"'s comment, honest!) Time-wasting fun indeed.
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Date: 12/16/04 02:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/16/04 03:01 am (UTC)22: Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps; Cake
24: Cecilia, Simon and Garfunkel
28: Flowers on the Wall; Eric Heatherly (although his was a cover, I think...dunno who though.)
Hunh. Usually I only get three out of anyone's list. Great songs here! :)
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Date: 12/16/04 03:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 12/16/04 03:10 am (UTC)34. This is a Simon and Garfunkel tune too, isn't it (with Simon singing....)
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Date: 12/16/04 03:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 12/16/04 03:17 am (UTC)And #18 is going to drive me bugfuck, because I *know* it, I just can't place it, or quite recover the tune. Something by the Beatles, right? Gnarrr. I'm going to have to go Google it, before I go nuts.
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Date: 12/16/04 03:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 12/16/04 03:18 am (UTC)30 is from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby - I'm not sure who sings it though.
(Hi - I'm just a lurker passing through - I like your fic.)
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Date: 12/18/04 03:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/16/04 03:22 am (UTC)I'd guess "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess, but either I'm wrong or the lyric is "one of these mornings, you're gonna rise up singing."
I want a place to call my own where you have never been.
Um, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, "Rhythm of the Blues."
She say, 'Every stone a story, like a rosary.'
Joan Osborne, "St. Teresa." I remember you and I stepping into the same thread at Table Talk to defend Joan Osborne to people who only knew her from "One of Us."
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Date: 12/16/04 03:26 am (UTC)Hey, I sent you an e-mail offering you all sorts of music -- did you get it?
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Date: 12/16/04 03:45 am (UTC)I don't suppose you're interested in any Thomas Hardy novels?
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Date: 12/16/04 03:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/16/04 03:23 am (UTC)(17 is driving me crazy!)
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Date: 12/16/04 03:42 am (UTC)18 - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Bryan Ferry
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Date: 12/16/04 03:51 am (UTC)4. stiletto, billy joel
13. moonshadow, cat stevens
34. fat bottomed girls, queen
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Date: 12/16/04 04:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/16/04 06:39 am (UTC)Now, there's an excellent idea!!! The grandparents have been whining for years for a kidlet calendar, they want a calendar with seasonal pictures of the girls but since we don't have any, we haven't done it. But ARTWORK! Yes! That we have, piles and piles! Now I must find a blanco wall calendar, ick, it might be too late for it now :(
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Date: 12/18/04 03:21 am (UTC)(If you do it via printshop, call around and get quotes -- the prices vary amazingly.)
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Date: 12/16/04 11:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/16/04 06:28 pm (UTC)Weirdest thing -- when Suzy's version was getting a lot of play on country radio, I loved the song but could not shake the conviction that it had been written for a woman. There was just something in the lyrics, which I can't define, that made me say, "The 'you' in this song couldn't possibly be a man."
Learning that the song had been written by a guy cleared up a lot!
(I have this conviction about a lot of songs -- Joan Jett's "Little Liar," for instance, and Sixpence None The Richer's "Kiss Me," and Merrill Bainbridge's "Mouth" and "Under the Water" -- but usually I can find something in the lyrics to support it. There really wasn't anything obvious in "Drive South.")
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Date: 12/16/04 02:41 pm (UTC)You can't win a race with a cannonball
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Date: 12/18/04 03:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/18/04 03:44 pm (UTC)awww i love this song!
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