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So desperately trying to work . . . failing so badly . . .
Another chill day, which is actually kind of nice--very satisfying to warm up with some tea after a cold morning out. I've always felt that there is more comfort in warming up when cold than there is in cooling off when hot. On a cold day, one can pile on layer after layer of blankets and sweaters and things, or crawl into bed and heap one's entire wardrobe over the covers, and there are no limits to the additions of warmth that one can have. When hot, on the other hand, there are only so many layers of clothing that one can take off before there is nakedness, which comes with its own set of problems (and pleasantries, but that is neither here nor there).
No, my only real objection to the cold is the stiffening of my creaky old fingertips as I force them to move across the keyboard.
Now, in what I hope will be my last act of procrastination for at least the next twenty minutes, a meme redux. I've noticed that the song meme has been going around once more--
[When I first started seeing memes in the journals I read, I looked up the origin of the word "meme." It is, in the loosest sense, a piece of information that replicates among minds, analogous to a gene. It occurs to me that it is more specifically analogous to a viral gene, in that some particularly dynamic LiveJournal memes tend to mutate with rapidity, appearing in slightly different forms across different journals, and that some will cycle out of the general population for a while before coming back around in force. If the analogy holds, some mega-meme is going to pop up any day now, like the Singapore Flu, and infect millions of journals, wreaking havoc wherever it goes.
Come to think of it, what did cause that massive LiveJournal outage . . . ?]
--so I decided to post it again. Over the last several days, whenever I was waiting at the computer, I would add another song from my list. The result: I've doubled its size! Mwah ha ha! Also, only one song per artist, nothing duplicated from the last time I did this, and a couple of foreign language songs. You're all smart enough to deal with the tweaks.
Glory and rewards to the winner, if I can think of anything good. Everyone else gets mocking, derisive laughter.
1. "The muezzin was a' standing / On the radiator grille . . . "
2. "Can't go on . . . all I have in life is gone . . . "
3. "A mháithair mhín ó, cuir na roithléan go dtí mé . . . "
4. "Does enchantment pour, out of ev'ry door?"
5. "Android sex have little dicks / Martians don’t give me the kicks . . . "
6. "Two lives I have / One life I live, one life I dream . . . "
7. "You will believe in me / And I will never be ignored . . . "
8. "There's nothing wrong with me lovin' you . . . "
9. "Drift gently into mental illness . . . "
10. "I can turn and walk away, or I can fire the gun / Staring at the sky, staring at the sun . . . "
11. "Other arms reach out to me / Other eyes smile tenderly . . . "
12. "I play my music in the sun . . . "
13. "She broke your throne, she cut your hair . . . "
14. "They would climb a high dune / They would pray to the moon . . . "
15. "Make love until the morning comes . . . "
16. "Won't you teach me how to love and learn?"
17. "We got two more minutes and we gonna cut to what you need . . . "
18. "My head keeps spinnin' / I go to sleep and keep grinnin' . . . "
19. "You are all I long for, all I worship and adore . . . "
20. "The more I give to you, the more I die . . . "
21. "I don't mind you coming here, and wasting all my time . . . "
22. "Now my hands are bleeding and my knees are raw . . . "
23. "Set me free / Feel the need in me . . . "
24. "Horses run with polished shield / Fight those bastards till they yield . . . "
25. "I'll build us back together at heart . . . "
26. "You can beat him, you can cheat him, you can treat him bad . . . "
27. "Love might bring us back together . . . "
28. "One shining light will still remain . . . "
29. "I want to dive into your ocean / Is it raining with you?"
30. "I confess I watch your mouth move, baby, when you're speaking . . . "
31. "All the time, you know she's smilin'; you'll be on your knees tomorrow [far too many great lyrics in this song--so difficult to choose] . . . "
32. "Fingertips have memories / Mine can't forget the curves of your body . . . "
33. "I left my body lying somewhere in the sands of time . . . "
34. "Drowning past regrets / In tea and cigarettes . . . "
35. "And I take over, 'cause I'm no loser . . . "
36. "So baby come on, I mean it desperately . . . "
37. "I was your sorry-ever-after . . . "
38. "My Ma gave birth and we were checking it out . . . "
39. "When you dance with me, boy, I know you feel my need, boy . . ."
40. "To share a kiss the devil has known . . . "
41. "My finger's on the kill switch . . . "
42. "Won't you walk up and down my spine? / It makes me feel strangely alive . . . "
43. "And then a man called our exchange / But didn't want to leave his name . . . "
44. "As we danced in the night, remember / How the stars stole the night away . . . "
45. "Un coup je passe / Un coup je casse . . . "
46. "Every day a new disguise / Every night a Halloween . . . "
47. "Your answer was goodbye, and there was even postage due . . . "
48. "There's the promise of the future in the creaking of the floor . . . "
49. "The kind of eyes that hypnotize me through . . . "
50. "So he walked through the rain and he walked through the mud / 'Till he came to a place called The Bucket Of Blood . . . "
51. "You're still hooked on cellophane / Killing time with gin and lime . . . "
52. "The monsters make me hide . . . perhaps i'll eat myself alive . . . "
53. "Why can't we brothers protect one another?"
54. "Who's the cat who won't cop out, when there's danger all about?"
55. "Her plane takes off from Baltimore / And touches down on Bourbon Street . . . "
56. "I'm dancing in the shadows of life / And death is all around me tonight . . . "
57. "I know you really want to tell me good-bye / I know you really want to be your own girl . . . "
58. "I'm open . . . to falling from grace . . . "
59. "Comme ça, vous m'avez trahi comme ça . . . "
60. "These changing years / They add to your confusion . . . "
Enjoy (I hope).
Another chill day, which is actually kind of nice--very satisfying to warm up with some tea after a cold morning out. I've always felt that there is more comfort in warming up when cold than there is in cooling off when hot. On a cold day, one can pile on layer after layer of blankets and sweaters and things, or crawl into bed and heap one's entire wardrobe over the covers, and there are no limits to the additions of warmth that one can have. When hot, on the other hand, there are only so many layers of clothing that one can take off before there is nakedness, which comes with its own set of problems (and pleasantries, but that is neither here nor there).
No, my only real objection to the cold is the stiffening of my creaky old fingertips as I force them to move across the keyboard.
Now, in what I hope will be my last act of procrastination for at least the next twenty minutes, a meme redux. I've noticed that the song meme has been going around once more--
[When I first started seeing memes in the journals I read, I looked up the origin of the word "meme." It is, in the loosest sense, a piece of information that replicates among minds, analogous to a gene. It occurs to me that it is more specifically analogous to a viral gene, in that some particularly dynamic LiveJournal memes tend to mutate with rapidity, appearing in slightly different forms across different journals, and that some will cycle out of the general population for a while before coming back around in force. If the analogy holds, some mega-meme is going to pop up any day now, like the Singapore Flu, and infect millions of journals, wreaking havoc wherever it goes.
Come to think of it, what did cause that massive LiveJournal outage . . . ?]
--so I decided to post it again. Over the last several days, whenever I was waiting at the computer, I would add another song from my list. The result: I've doubled its size! Mwah ha ha! Also, only one song per artist, nothing duplicated from the last time I did this, and a couple of foreign language songs. You're all smart enough to deal with the tweaks.
Glory and rewards to the winner, if I can think of anything good. Everyone else gets mocking, derisive laughter.
1. "The muezzin was a' standing / On the radiator grille . . . "
2. "Can't go on . . . all I have in life is gone . . . "
3. "A mháithair mhín ó, cuir na roithléan go dtí mé . . . "
4. "Does enchantment pour, out of ev'ry door?"
5. "Android sex have little dicks / Martians don’t give me the kicks . . . "
6. "Two lives I have / One life I live, one life I dream . . . "
7. "You will believe in me / And I will never be ignored . . . "
8. "There's nothing wrong with me lovin' you . . . "
9. "Drift gently into mental illness . . . "
10. "I can turn and walk away, or I can fire the gun / Staring at the sky, staring at the sun . . . "
11. "Other arms reach out to me / Other eyes smile tenderly . . . "
12. "I play my music in the sun . . . "
13. "She broke your throne, she cut your hair . . . "
14. "They would climb a high dune / They would pray to the moon . . . "
15. "Make love until the morning comes . . . "
16. "Won't you teach me how to love and learn?"
17. "We got two more minutes and we gonna cut to what you need . . . "
18. "My head keeps spinnin' / I go to sleep and keep grinnin' . . . "
19. "You are all I long for, all I worship and adore . . . "
20. "The more I give to you, the more I die . . . "
21. "I don't mind you coming here, and wasting all my time . . . "
22. "Now my hands are bleeding and my knees are raw . . . "
23. "Set me free / Feel the need in me . . . "
24. "Horses run with polished shield / Fight those bastards till they yield . . . "
25. "I'll build us back together at heart . . . "
26. "You can beat him, you can cheat him, you can treat him bad . . . "
27. "Love might bring us back together . . . "
28. "One shining light will still remain . . . "
29. "I want to dive into your ocean / Is it raining with you?"
30. "I confess I watch your mouth move, baby, when you're speaking . . . "
31. "All the time, you know she's smilin'; you'll be on your knees tomorrow [far too many great lyrics in this song--so difficult to choose] . . . "
32. "Fingertips have memories / Mine can't forget the curves of your body . . . "
33. "I left my body lying somewhere in the sands of time . . . "
34. "Drowning past regrets / In tea and cigarettes . . . "
35. "And I take over, 'cause I'm no loser . . . "
36. "So baby come on, I mean it desperately . . . "
37. "I was your sorry-ever-after . . . "
38. "My Ma gave birth and we were checking it out . . . "
39. "When you dance with me, boy, I know you feel my need, boy . . ."
40. "To share a kiss the devil has known . . . "
41. "My finger's on the kill switch . . . "
42. "Won't you walk up and down my spine? / It makes me feel strangely alive . . . "
43. "And then a man called our exchange / But didn't want to leave his name . . . "
44. "As we danced in the night, remember / How the stars stole the night away . . . "
45. "Un coup je passe / Un coup je casse . . . "
46. "Every day a new disguise / Every night a Halloween . . . "
47. "Your answer was goodbye, and there was even postage due . . . "
48. "There's the promise of the future in the creaking of the floor . . . "
49. "The kind of eyes that hypnotize me through . . . "
50. "So he walked through the rain and he walked through the mud / 'Till he came to a place called The Bucket Of Blood . . . "
51. "You're still hooked on cellophane / Killing time with gin and lime . . . "
52. "The monsters make me hide . . . perhaps i'll eat myself alive . . . "
53. "Why can't we brothers protect one another?"
54. "Who's the cat who won't cop out, when there's danger all about?"
55. "Her plane takes off from Baltimore / And touches down on Bourbon Street . . . "
56. "I'm dancing in the shadows of life / And death is all around me tonight . . . "
57. "I know you really want to tell me good-bye / I know you really want to be your own girl . . . "
58. "I'm open . . . to falling from grace . . . "
59. "Comme ça, vous m'avez trahi comme ça . . . "
60. "These changing years / They add to your confusion . . . "
Enjoy (I hope).