Compendium of lyrics that have spoken to me recently

The Knife-Bird from the CD 'The Knife'

If I was a bird I would fly high over the world
I'll comb your hair with my beak
If I was a bird I would count my time in pearls
Under my wings you'll find shelter
you'll breed bugs and keep me well fed
and I proclaim the reason why I'll have to fly
But you wanted me to be a girl without feathers
without urge then my wings quick disappeared and left was only fear
and I proclaim the reason why I'll have to fly

Scout Niblett-Drummer Boy from the CD 'I Am'
She has made a song from a fairy tale:

no one has yet succeeded in climbing the big glass mountain
"I know" said the drummer boy,"but my heart is stout and determined
and I long for adventure

Emily Haines-Our Hell from the CD 'Knives don't have your back'

Our hell is a good life
What I thought it was, it isn't now
What if what it was it isn't now?
We're moderate, we modernize
Til our hell is a good life
there's a bullet in the gun
I tried to save you but it can't be done

Long Blondes-Fulwood Babylon

People Think I'm Being Perverse on Purpose
...
Don't be a sycophant, don't hold my hand
It's hard enough getting someone to like you
And then you find out that they're nothing like you

And it's been a waste of time.
If you want to know who I am
watch me dance

Earth, Wind and Words

I've been away on vacation far from computers but not far from words, rock, sun, and dust.

Today I added new Idioms to Whirlword idiom site:

one gets a rise out of someone
it's a little rich for my blood
one goes the distance
one buys time

One buys time. This is how I think about my life. Rather than doing what I really want, I go to my more-than-full-time job and buy some more time for some future that may never come to pass. Still, perhaps that's what helps keep my interest in this fresh, a case of absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Unique Band from Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the liveliest places I've been. One of the indicators of that are the many great venues for live music (including Barbes) and the many great bands that call it home from Slavic Soul Party to Grizzly Bear, TV on the Radio, Joseph Arthur and Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah.
TV on the Radio has to be one of the freshest though with their vocals, lyrics, pacings, and even their images.
I'm intrigued by the image in the song Wash the Day:

Little flightless metal Birds
High above in limbless Tree
Echos from their tiny Box
Ring out into the atmosphere
Creating beauty inadvertently

and by the way the way the songs slowly fades ...

Zyprexa, another Drug in danger

According to N.Y. Time on Dec 17, 2006 the schizophrenia drug Zyprexa has some serious side-effects. Zyprexa joins Ambien and Vioxx as drugs recently in the public view due to some dangerous side-effects.
Not being a user of these drugs, what strikes me are the exceptionally catchy names of these drugs. There is a whole industry which has to do with naming new products, including drugs, cars, companies, and other things. Talk about a dream job for a word buff, with the possible ego-boosting side-effect of being a way to leave a mark on the world.
Recently I found the best reading material in my Doctor's office was a trade journal listing the names of drugs.
Some of my favorite names are (old and new):

Companies:
Xerox
Coca-cola
Panasonic
Pepsi
Zenith
Google
Utz

Drugs:
Novocain
Zoloft
Xalan
Effexor

How does one train for a job like this?
I leave for future discussion the catchy name of cars (like the Volkswagen Phaeton), musical groups (like Hope Blister or Smoosh) and their compositions (like I, Megaphone by Imogen Heap, musical instruments (like zither) places (like Tin-pan Alley), diseases (like Myocardial Infarction or Post Nasal Drip), jobs (like Chancellor of the Exchequer or Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or Grand Poobah) etc.