And all of my lines have been stolen

I suppose this is the follow-up to yesterday's spam novel. Courtesy of the_red_shoes, the found-art song meme: Put your media 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 is the title. Without further ado—

Yankee Soldier

When the calendar brings in the cuckoo
Autumn leaves blowing across my floor
Here I am believing words again

Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
Death is in the deck of cards I lay on the table
My wife lies in a chair and peels a pear
I stood there beside myself
Daddy's ghost behind you
Entropy's in

Farewell, my friends
Down on the Gulf Coast where they rock and roll
First she starts and then she's startled
You look like the perfect fit

Standing in line to see the show tonight
I hear them squeal
They've come to find you, Odalisque
I need an easy friend
Pushing through the market square
Remember how you found me?
I took a taxi from L.A. to Venus in 1985

You could probably throw another meme into the mix by challenging your friendlist to guess the component songs, but I'm just posting them beneath the cut. I like how the second verse came out. Now if I could just get Erik Lindgren to set it to music.

( I began to wonder when their dials began to crack. )

In other news, I caught the last three-quarters of Mystery Men (1999) on television, I suspect heavily edited to accomodate what felt like eight-minute commercial breaks; it is nonetheless a movie I'd really like to see entire, and not just because it contains Hank Azaria, Geoffrey Rush, William H. Macy, Paul Reubens, Greg Kinnear, and Eddie Izzard. I haven't seen its particular species of deadpan weird since The Tick; I haven't yet read Flaming Carrot Comics, but it's on the list. Unsurprisingly, there's a case to be made that the most balanced character in the story is the one played by Tom Waits.