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I suppose this is the follow-up to yesterday's spam novel. Courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
Jean Redpath & Abby Newton, "Faraway Tom"
Black Tape for a Blue Girl, "Knock Three Times"
Tim Buckley, "I Must Have Been Blind"
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, "Rattlesnakes"
Human Sexual Response, "House of Atreus"
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, "My Wife and My Dead Wife"
New Order, "The Perfect Kiss"
Iron and Wine, "Faded from the Winter"
Jawbox, "Absenter"
PJ Harvey, "Before Departure"
The Extra Glenns, "Ultra Violet"
Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight, "At First She Starts"
Aimee Mann, "Save Me"
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "By the Way"
The Mountain Goats, "Peacocks"
The Decemberists, "Odalisque"
Nirvana, "About a Girl"
David Bowie, "Five Years"
Elysian Fields, "Mermaid"
Tori Amos, "Glory of the 80s"
The Clash, "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A."
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.
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.
Jean Redpath & Abby Newton, "Faraway Tom"
Black Tape for a Blue Girl, "Knock Three Times"
Tim Buckley, "I Must Have Been Blind"
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, "Rattlesnakes"
Human Sexual Response, "House of Atreus"
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, "My Wife and My Dead Wife"
New Order, "The Perfect Kiss"
Iron and Wine, "Faded from the Winter"
Jawbox, "Absenter"
PJ Harvey, "Before Departure"
The Extra Glenns, "Ultra Violet"
Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight, "At First She Starts"
Aimee Mann, "Save Me"
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "By the Way"
The Mountain Goats, "Peacocks"
The Decemberists, "Odalisque"
Nirvana, "About a Girl"
David Bowie, "Five Years"
Elysian Fields, "Mermaid"
Tori Amos, "Glory of the 80s"
The Clash, "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A."
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.
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Oh, I am definitely seeing it from the start now.
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If you wish to do a movie night, I'd be happy to bring my copy along (assuming I can find it.)
Watching without commercial breaks is more important for that movie, I think, than many.
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Let me talk
Watching without commercial breaks is more important for that movie, I think, than many.
I hate commercials. There's a reason about the only channel I watch is TCM.
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If you see it before me, let me know what you think!
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Also he has a main gauche trowel.
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I think I discovered him with State and Main (2000); he's been wonderful in everything I've seen him in since, but I haven't seen anything near his complete filmography. Do you have favorites you'd recommend?
Also he has a main gauche trowel.
That is awesome.
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Aren't the pattern-recognition capabilities of the human brain great?
Must go try!
I await the results!
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Yes! That's what I was thinking. How we can read this and make connections, create stories and relations.
Of course it helps that you have a ton of lyrically interesting music.
I do want to try once the kids get off to school.
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I liked "Hark! What was that, sir? / Call forth my powers, my soul, and dare." There are any number of operas that could contain that sentiment.
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I'd be curious.
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In other news, I caught the last three-quarters of Mystery Men (1999)
Your description makes me curious to see see this film. Anything you'd compare to The Tick strikes me as something worth the seeing.
Of course, I'm pretty much hopeless at actually seeing movies, so it may be a long time before I get round to it.
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Either weed them out or use their titles.
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Hmm, using the titles is an interesting thought. Thanks!
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... the fifth line is pretty cool, too.
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Welcome!
... the fifth line is pretty cool, too.
I posted "House of Atreus" as part of this summer's classical mix, so if the links have expired (as I expect by now), let me know and I'll send you that one, if you like.
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If it's got a pretty tune, I'd be interested! If it's too dissonant, maybe not....
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It's sort of chantlike, actually . . .
Human Sexual Response, "House of Atreus"
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Thanks!
The Oresteia is my favorite set of Greek tragedies.
--okay, but lest I get done for a poser, I have to confess to only having read them and a few by Sophocles--and in translation....but still, I loved them.
...and maybe one or another by Euripides. It was freshman year of college...
Mystery Men
I had to smile. Hank Azaria was a draw for him, too.
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Yay.