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Random iPod second-line poetry

dietsch — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:34:58 +0000

I think it was December
She couldn’t ever sing any better
And lies in the meadow with her hands tied behind her back

Don’t you feel like breaking out
If you want to fly, push your doubts aside
I will follow you into the sun
That is all that I can do
Like I’m talking through the wires of a telephone

But I’ve known many who would gladly swim to get to where you are
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you
I am sorry to tell you it never gets better or worse*

It’ll come clear
But his brain was in his ass
In the drunk tank
And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes

*the second line of, yes, This Is Hell by Elvis Costello. This song is stalking me.

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dietsch — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:21:12 +0000

15 shuffled songs from my iPod:

Cold, Cold Heart, Hank Williams
Hang Wire, Pixies
Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand, The Who
Turkish Song of the Damned, The Pogues
Metropolis, The Pogues
Arizona, The Constantines
Ride Me Down Easy, Waylon Jennings
I Remember Nothing, Joy Division
Honky Tonk Heroes, Waylon Jennings
Coming In From the Cold, The Delgados
Half As Much, Hank Williams
This Is Hell, Elvis Costello
It’s A Beautiful Day, Pizzicato Five
Martha, Tom Waits
A Singer of Songs, Johnny Cash

Couple thoughts: Who the hell are the Constantines? So that’s what the Delgados sound like. I think I’m one of the last people in New York to hear them. And, oh great, it’s the return of the “This Is Hell” mind virus. Sigh.

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dietsch — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:45:03 +0000

In honor of the ShufflePlay Game, the next 15 shuffled songs on my iPod:

Lalaland, Sea Ray
Twist the Knife, Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
El Camino, Goh Nakamura
Let Me Get up on It, Tom Waits
Glow Girl, The Who
Teenage, Tribeca
Names, Cat Power
Like a Prayer, Junkie Brewster
Just So (Pepito Remix), Dealership
Havalina, Pixies
Dream, Douglas Heart
Allison, Pixies
Slow Rollin’ Low, Waylon Jennings
Interzone, Joy Division
Whip the Blankets, Neko Case & Her Boyfriends

Barry Ritholtz, at the IPac blog, makes the case that shuffle is the new radio. From my own experiences, I can see what he’s saying. I love loading up new music (from band sites, music blogs, or iTunes) onto my iPod and just playing them at random.

Random iPod first-line poetry

dietsch — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:53:08 +0000

You are light-tasting
Open up your ribcage
I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack

Her head is in a bitter way
Past three o’clock
Standing on the corner with the low-down blues

Oceans lay between us and the things we think we need
The ragman draws circles up and down the block
The worms crawl in

Well my time went so quickly
The island it is silent now

His heart organ was where it should be
Waiting for the big fall
Don’t you worry about me
There’s a man going ’round taking names

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dietsch — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:06:51 +0000