best distraction meme ever

[sab]

So what I'm doing is working on this mafia script and listening to my Zune on Shuffle All over here at Ground Work (hi Liz! I totally thought yesterday was Friday and that TODAY was Saturday, and, anyway, I'm a mess over here) and as a little treat to myself I'm jotting down a lyric from each song the Zune spits (unless I'm not paying attention or, somehow, working too hard to notice, in which case I might skip a song or two), and then we can all play that game that walkingshadow resurrected today.

Will continue listing lyrics here till I get bored, cold, or hungry, or until I finish these script notes -- whichever comes first. Um, heh.



1. the open palm of desire wants everything, wants everything
2. dry is good and wind is better
3. oh I miss her kitty stare
4. I was in a lifeboat designed for ten and ten only
5. the man from the magazine said I was on my way - CCR, "Lodi"
6. he's got enough money to bother somebody else - Regina Spektor, "Scarecrow and Fungus"
7. just got lost and slept right through the dawn
8. and he wraps his jacket across her shoulders and he falls in front of her and hugs her and holds her - Rickie Lee Jones, "We Belong Together"
9. and they be lining down the block just to watch what I got
10. let's grow old and die together, let's do it now - Ani Difranco, "The Waiting Song"
11. you sample concepts like hors d'oeuvres
12. she grew up in your backyard - John Prine, "Come Back To Us, Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard"
13. used to be one of the rotten ones and I liked you for that
14. those were days of roses, poetry and prose
15. ella fue la primer astronauta en el espacio exterior - Mecano, "Laika" and a fantastic song.
16. have a good life, do it for me, make me so proud
17. could have been a signpost, could have been a clock
18. you must be a football coach the way you got me playing the field
19. I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be violet sky
20. all the world held such elan
21. would our paths cross if every great loss had turned out our gain? - Poi Dog Pondering, "Thanksgiving"
22. to dust we're returning, from dust we begin
23. which is ridiculous 'cause witches they were persecuted
24. exchanging body heat in the passenger's seat
25. shoulda been different but it wasn't different
26. blew out your pilot light and made a wish
27. if you love me say I love you
28. squeeze her once when she isn't looking, get a squeeze back, that's fancy cookin'
29. I feel Judas in the long odds of the rackets on the corners
30. how the hell can a person go to work in the morning, come home in the evening and have nothing to say?

Ahh, fuck it. I'm goin' home, with this newly charged computer, to take the neighbor dog to the dogpark. Sing at me, y'all!

Comments

[nestra.livejournal.com]

2. dry is good and wind is better

"Sunny Came Home", Shawn Colvin.

9. and they be lining down the block just to watch what I got

Uh, Fergie, and it's possibly called "Fergelicious"? It's the one where they drive me nuts by misspelling "tasty", which does not have an E.

23. which is ridiculous 'cause witches they were persecuted

"I've Got a Theory", Once More With Feeling (Buffy).

30. how the hell can a person go to work in the morning, come home in the evening and have nothing to say?

"Angel from Montgomery", John Hiatt.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Seriously. T-A-S-T-E-E is not a word. But you're right as rain on everything, except that Angel From Montgomery is by John PRINE (not that there's no way that Hiatt did a cover, everyone does -- in fact, the cover I was listening to here was by Susan Tedeschi).

[twentyfivepast.livejournal.com]

Is 17 "One of These Things First", by Nick Drake?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

*nods* It sure is.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Damnit. I thought the version I had was Bonnie Raitt with John Hiatt, but it is in fact John Prine. I lose John-points.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Bonnie RAITT + JOHN Prine = JOHN RAITT = JOHN HIATT! I see what yer brain did, there. *g*

Yeah, the BR/JP duet is, like, the one that sets the bar; the original. What a good friggin' song, also.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

1 is Paul Simon's "Further to Fly."

25 is the Dixie Chicks, "There's Your Trouble."

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Truer words were never spoken.

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

3. nellie mckay - ding dong
7. the weepies - world spins madly on
13. broken social scene - anthems for a seventeen year old girl
20. jude - you mama you
23. the cast of buffy - i've got a theory (OH, XANDER)
26. they might be giants - twisting in the wind

a fantastic waste of time indeed!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Oh are you ever good at this game! Five for five; best. meme. ever.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

29. Citrus - The Hold Steady

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

\o/ \o/ \o/

(don't tell anyone, but i do kind of wish EVERY DAY were guess-the-song-by-the-lyrics! day.)

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

14. Martha - Tom Waits

[sloganeer.livejournal.com]

4. The Hip "Nautical Disaster"

[wearemany.livejournal.com]

19 is mika, "grace kelly." just got yr msg today, am emailing.

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

19. Mika - Grace Kelly
24. Panic! At the Disco - Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

It totally is. I think I got it from you. The Tragically Hip, yes?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Yep, I spoke to Punk yesterday, all is well. Hope Bridge School was as awesome as it sounded, you KNOW how much I want to kill you both for getting to see Tom Waits..."Do you know how often Tom Waits plays clubs? Tom Waits NEVER plays clubs!"

And in other Sorkinish news, did you notice that Peter Krause's wife on Dirty Sexy Money is named LISA???

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Yes, and yes!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

It really is, and what an awesome song. I've had kisses that make Judas seem sincere...

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Tom Waits. Also your OBWAT icon is AWESOME.

[lizlet.livejournal.com]

Hah. I sadly know what you mean. Damn this vague schedule. But if you want to coffee shop sometime this week that is not Wednesday, and we can figure out what day is which, please let me know. :)

Also. #16. :)

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Yes, #16 was for you. And...yes. Let's...something. I'll text or call. /so so confused by the world these days

[sloganeer.livejournal.com]

It very well could have been me, yes. I don't like to encourage the Canadian stereotype too much, but that song is one of my favourites.

[pene.livejournal.com]

I know that

#11 is Alanis - No Pressure Over Cappucino. Which I listened to and cried and cried some old days. Lovely.
#22 is Emmy Lou Harris with Bang the Drum Slowly
and #27 is Lyle "I would kiss him" Lovett with North Dakota one of the finest songs in the world

The icon is appropriate because it's called "look across the border"

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I do so heart that movie.

[zaneetas.livejournal.com]

28 -- Shapoopie, Shapoopie, Shapoopie -- the girl who's hard to get!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

That's a beautiful "look across the border" icon, and of course you know these songs. xxx

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I applaud my Zune's choice of music today.

[lizlet.livejournal.com]

Aw. I am sorry. The world is super-dumb lately, so it's no wonder you're confused by it.

Maybe Groundworks this afternoon? I have to pick up books for
reading, and I have to go to rehab, but there's a two hour chunk of time in the middle I need to fill...

[wearemany.livejournal.com]

of course her name is Lisa. and sometimes he's SO CASEY-like, much like sometimes rob lowe on brothers & sisters is SO SAM-like.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Oh and btw, #12 was John Prine *g*