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Something for the last week of poetry month: "The Most Beautiful Love Poem of All Time" by Hera Lindsay Bird is really something. She also has a name of which I am truly envious. (Hera Bird. Come on.) I must disclaim at this juncture that Hera is a v good friend of my flattie and I've met her a few times and like her a lot but this poem is really fucking great anyway. You might also like "The Memory of Light".

Also, I got a meme from

owlbeer which went something like:

1. Comment here to get a letter from me.
2. Post at least 5 songs beginning with that letter.
3. Give other people letters! It's the circle of music memes.

She gave me S and, uh, I picked 21 songs:

Passionate People Play Guitar w/Angst

Astronautalis - Story of my Life
I was raised by a pack of wolves,
nursed in our nations capital.
Taught to hunt and gather food,
and howl at the moon in the reflecting pool.

Tegan & Sara - Someday
They yell "move up" don't stand back here and wait like an animal at a farmer's gate
Am I food or am I free? so speak up!
This is your last chance my friend roll your windows down and take me in
Reach out, say what you're really about, are you coming here or not?
Are you coming out?

Glen Hansard - Say It to Me Now
And this mystery only leads to doubt
And I didn't understand when you reached out to take my hand
And if you have something to say, you better say it now

The Decemberists - The Sporting Life
But while I am lying here
Trying to fight the tears
I'll prove to crowd that I come out stronger
Though I think I might lie here a little longer

Ani DiFranco - Shameless
I better shut my mouth so I can think a minute
But I can't shut it now because there's something in it

Really Pretty Sweet

Dar Williams - Spring Street
This year April had a blizzard just to show she did not care
And the new dead leaves they made the trees look like children with grey hair
But I'll push myself up through the dirt and shake my petals free
I'm resolved to being bored and so resigned to bravery

Fly My Pretties - Singing in my Soul
Picking me up and down
Spinning me round and round
Light me up every time I am blue
I can hear you calling, calling my name

Brooke Fraser - Something in the Way She Moves
And I feel fine anytime he's around me now
And he's around me now almost all the time.
And if I'm well you can tell he's been with me now
And he's been with me now quite a long long time and I feel fine.

The Bits Before and After the Terrible Relationship

Jess Chambers - Stringing Me Along
Sugar, you know I think you're hot stuff
But you keep telling me that I'm not cool enough
But I'm trying to maintain, I'm painting my face
Making sure my hair's in place.

Bic Runga - She Left on a Monday
It's all like sinking
You're trying to stay afloat
Like a windblown paper boat
Over uncharted sea

Poe - Spanish Doll
A stranger in this world without you is all that I can be
All I know that's pure and clear you left it with me here

These Ones Actually Involve Bass or Amplification Or Something

Girl Talk - Steady Shock

The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
I tried my best to leave this all on your machine
But the persistent beat it sounded thin upon listening in
And that frankly will not fly, you will hear the shrillest highs
and lowest lows with the windows down when this is guiding you home

Melissa Etheridge - Secret Agent
Confessional lips, professional fingertips
It's a deception to perfection her exceptional hips

Metric - Stadium Love
Wanna make a bet we'll be neck and neck, taking off the gloves
Spider versus bat, tiger versus rat, owl versus dove.

It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing

Robbie Williams - Straighten Up and Fly Right
The buzzard told the monkey you are choking me
Release your hold and I will set you free.
The monkey looked the buzzard right there in the eye and said
Your story's so touching but it sounds just like a lie.

Nina Simone - Sinnerman
So I ran to the devil, he was waiting

Ella Fitzgerald - Something's Gotta Give
When an irrepressible smile such as yours
Warms an old implacable heart such as mine
Don't say no because I insist
Somewhere somehow someone's gonna be kissed.

Sort of Funny

Save Ferris - Support Your Local Ska Band
Support your local ska band even though it just may stink
Support it despite what the real musicians just might think
It's okay to lower standards in the name of a good cause
You can bend the rules for us this time and give us your applause

Weird Al Yankovic - The Saga Begins
And the Jedi I admired most
Met up with Darth Maul and now he's toast
I'm still here and he's a ghost
I guess I'll train this boy

Paul Simon - A Simple Desultory Phillippic
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed
That's the hand I use - well, never mind

Zip of the lot here.

Now I'm going to go back to my horrendous google spiral trying to figure out how good Jonathan Toews' French is. Since my French is a) actually French, lolQuebec and b) no longer good enough to do anything except occasionally read a news article, I have to rely on youtube comments and horrifying message boards. (Why do I want to know this? I don't know. I don't understand enough French to get anything interesting out of his French interviews, frankly Quebecois just sounds weird ... whatever. Amusingly enough reports range from "He speaks very good if not perfect Quebecois" to "he's okay but he has a weird accent" to "actually I think he has a French accent when he speaks English" [I think he's just super Canadian FWIW]. Why does this entertain me to know? IDEK.)