Doing everything but writing

[resonant]

Feeling 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.

1. One of these days you're gonna rise up singing. Sam Cooke, "Summertime (and the Livin' Is Easy)," guessed by katallison
   
2. There were girls so full of summer, they couldn't sleep at night.
   
3. Well, I'll keep on moving. Things are bound to be improving. Jackson Browne, "These Days," guessed by silentfire
   
4. She's so fascinating that you're still there waiting when she comes back for the kill. Billy Joel, "Stiletto," guessed by silentfire
   
5. There's another dance. All you have to do is say yes.
   
6. And in his pocket is a portrait of the queen. Beatles, "Penny Lane," guessed by kat_denton
   
7. But we'll stay good, and they'll stay bad, and when they're dead I'll be so glad.
   
8. But your generation confesses before it transgresses.
   
9. The swan was in her movement and the morning in her smile.
   
10. I want a place to call my own where you have never been. Mary Chapin Carpenter, "Rhythm of the Blues," guessed by nestra
    
11. We were always looking for true love with our heads in the clouds, just a little off course. Suzy Bogguss, "Drive South," guessed by rhiannon_jehane
    
12. Or 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 by cawti
    
13. 'Did it take long to find me?' I asked the faithful light. Cat Stevens, "Moonshadow," guessed by silentfire
    
14. Their walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is 'Don't tread on me.' Grateful Dead, "Uncle John's Band," guessed by codyne
    
15. There was a bright light, a shattering of shop windows. Paul Simon, "The Boy in the Bubble," guessed by zebra363
    
16. Before us animosity will stand and decree that we speak not of love, only blasphemy.
    
17. Ain't no doubt in no one's mind that love's the finest thing around. James Taylor, "Carolina In My Mind," guessed by zebra363
    
18. I of course replied, 'Something here inside cannot be denied.' Platters, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," guessed by zebra363
    
19. Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. Dire Straits, "Industrial Disease," guessed by zebra363
    
20. And you know that you're gonna find me if you keep on drinking fast.
    
21. There's dirt in my mouth from kissing who I should not dare. Jann Arden, "Gasoline," guessed by julia_fractal
    
22. If you can't make your mind up, we'll never get started. Cake, "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps," guessed by sociofemme
    
23. Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know. REM, "Don't Go Back To Rockville," guessed by honkytonkgirl
    
24. You're breaking my heart, you're shaking my confidence daily. Simon & Garfunkel, "Cecelia," guessed by julia_fractal
    
25. She said, 'Tell me, are you a Christian, child?' Marc Cohn, "Walking in Memphis," guessed by anteco
    
26. One day the stream bore us so far away that we couldn't go back, so we thought we'd just stay.
    
27. We come fe give dem lyric. We come fe tease dem wid it.
    
28. Anyway, my eyes are not accustomed to this light. Statler Brothers, "Flowers on the Wall," guessed by sociofemme
    
29. When your property took the A train, I wonder where your manners went.
    
30. Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones. Emmylou Harris et al., "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby," guessed by ladysorka
    
31. I was there when you were a queen, and I'll be the last one there beside you.
    
32. I can't be no savage. I can't be no highwayman.
    
33. His hair was perfect. Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London," guessed by kat_denton
    
34. I got mortgages and homes, I got stiffness in the bones. Queen, "Fat Bottomed Girls," guessed by silentfire
    
35. Well, I told her, 'Don't get scared, 'cause you're gonna be spared.'
    
36. I don't write songs about girls any more. Have to write songs about women.
    
37. She say, 'Every stone a story, like a rosary.' Joan Osborne, "St. Teresa," guessed by nestra