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May 4, 2007 1:59 AM

here's either way too much stuff on my mind or not enough. Either way, I can't come up with a good topic, so I'll come up with a lame one. After recent events, I made what I think is a pretty awesome mix CD. The songs on it reflect my extant state of mind. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to do one of those things where I quote the song and you guys name the song. Maybe it'll be lame, who knows.

Anyway, here goes:

1. "Now from his pocket quickly flashes, the crayon on the wall it slashes, deep upon the advertising, a single word--a poem composed of four letters."

2. "There's nothing here to run from because everybody here's got somebody to lean on."
tRJ, you did not disappoint. Good going. "Don't Panic" by Coldplay.

3. "All at once you look across a crowded room to see the way that light attaches to a girl."
tRJ again--"A Long December" by the Counting Crows.

4. "I swam upon the devil's lake but never, never, never, never--I'll never make the same mistake."

5. "Well your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you."
tRJ once more. "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley. An extra point for correctly identifying the particular artist. I guess I'm pretty predictable. But, to be fair, Leonard Cohen can't sing to save his life and Rufus Wainwright blows.

6. "Treated you like a rusty blade, a throwaway from an open grave. Cut you loose from a chaingang and let you go."
tRJ--awesome. "Nobody's Fault but My Own" by Beck.

7. "Dead man lying by the side of the road with the daylight in his eyes."

8. "Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain."

There you go.



3 Comments


TheExpat said:

Okay, ready!

1. "P-O-O-P" by Freddy and the Fifth-Graders

2. "Sausage Fest in a Golden Gate Park Restroom" by Manhole

3. "She's Got Modular Skin Grafts" by The Bright Shiney Objects

4. "Daytrippin' at Cheney's Ranch" by Moderate Right

5. "Naughty Time" from Spank-off Melodies for Creepy Clergymen Vol. 3

6. "3rd Grade Graduation" by The Melodramatics

7. and 8. Some lyrics Billy Corgan allegedly wrote on a sheet of 2-ply sheet of Quilted Northern before the 1996 Grammy Awards. After actually winning a Grammy, instead of following up on these ideas, he took the next week off from the studio to engage in self-flagellation.

All right! Did I win???

May 4, 2007 3:12 AM



tRJ said:

2. Coldplay, "Don't Panic"
3. Counting Crows, "Long December"
5. This is "Hallelujah", which could be by any number of people. I am guessing you have the Jeff Buckley version.
6. Beck, "Nobody's Fault But My Own"

May 4, 2007 8:26 AM



RPM said:

4. "The Wind" by Cat Stevens

7. "Don't Let it Bring You Down" by Neil Young, not Annie Lenox, please say it's so.

May 6, 2007 6:00 PM



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