Duh, that would be "mojo".

And here's the link to Pat Garrett, if you've never heard it.

OK, you can have this song title that I'm never going to use. "Evidence of a Glancing Blow".

oh, that's good. Keep 'em coming.

A day in the life of an American Rent-a-Fence.

I'll make you go the long way 'round

I might call this "Criminal Heroes"

for inspiration, music-wise, listen to as much My Morning Jacket as you can stand. That is all.

Half-price on all titles:

John Dillinger Double Feature
Dance of the Marzipan Pigs
You Don't Know The Half Of It
Might Could

i have a big big big crush on tift merritt.




that's almost germane.

Jann Arden is a great singer/songwriter. I'd never heard (of) her until I moved to Canada and still don't understand why she doesn't get much (if any) airplay in the States. Anyway, take a listen, there might be some inspiration there for you.

Break a leg!

Then there's the crucial bunny/Dylan connection:

Rabbit-Skin Pillbox Hat
Visions of Harvey
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Hoppin')
Temporary Like Peter Rabbit
Subterranean Rabbit Warren Blues
North Country Hare
Just Like Farmer McGregor's Blues
Buckets of Carrots
Lily, Rosemary, The Jack Of Hearts, And A Bunny

YOU've inspired ME miko! I'm gonna try this too. My album will be in a style of my own devising: ambient-death-hop. With some folk influences.

Here's a title for you: "A Strange Ache in my Fingernails"

Oh yeah, I've been trying for ages to come up with a song about a ptarmigan, but I can't quite get it right. I'd love to hear you make something of it.

This is a great idea, I make up lyrics with my son all the time. Not that ditties about poopy diapers are especially appropriate but the pace and rhythm is useful at least.

A song title I just came up with is "Six Flashes to Justice" or "Stay as a friend, go as an enemy".

As for inspiration, one of the most dangerous influences for me is Ennio Morricone. Whenever I listen to him it affects my playing for weeks. This may be a good or bad (or ugly) thing from your perspective. But for me it's never a bad thing.

More cowbell.

Potential song titles

Here's one i thought up for a poem I never wrote :"The properties of luck"

Names of songs I'd like to hear:

Three penguins and a trip to Las Vegas
Marching with the Anarchists
Green eyes, Black Heart
Last pill in the bottle.
Tourniquet
Transplant Patient #5
Will work for Ice Cream
The only time I killed a man
Doctors orders
We should never have gone to Coney Island
Revenge of the Fuck Buddies
The Power of Love (ha, ha)
The competition's started.
Shogun Shotgun
Thousand year stare.

I’ve had a stupid chorus to a non-existent song in my head all week, that goes “It’s as easy as losing a glove/It’s as easy as letting your love grow cold” which I imagine sung in an early Beatles-ey John&Paul harmony, and which I hope I can forget about now I’ve written it down.

I need 35 minutes or 10 songs,whichever comes first. If I could describe my ideal result, it would be "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" for the 21st century, by a girl who hasn't given up entirely.

Shit girl, you don't need any help!

Here are my fragments, though:

"While working she would not be asking herself whether she was happy or unhappy."

"...the darkness of his grammatical memory..."

"...the square root of her unknown..."

"We do not quibble for long over a sedative that works."

OK, so those are all from Sodom and Gomorrah by Proust. And some of them might be a touch heavy.

Also, read Harvest by Jean Giono (most recently published in English as Second Harvest.) Also, The Man Who Planted Trees.

Also, "My mother was a fish."

Also, re. Islamobashing and America (and with the award for the most prescient character name in all of fiction, at least as it applies to today, in this corner, weighing in with the heart of an ox and the hands of a surgeon, damned if you do and damned if you don't, the devil is in the details and the details are in the 17th century, muse to Melville, the Puritan's pugilist, the Quixotic of the Quakers, the conscience of the Colony, Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Gentle Boy.

This whole page.

Still no contact with trapped miners:
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Photos of moonshiner stills.

"She'd be a good woman if there was somebody there to shoot her every minute of the day."-A Good Man Is Hard to Find

"When women go wrong men go right after them."-Mae West

And, of course, the quintessentially American paintings of Mrs. Pants.

Aaah...you guys are good.

Believe it or not, this is working. I haven't picked up any of these fragments yet (but I will work with some over the weekend), but just declaring my intent here and then opening up to inspirations has already been productive.

I've got one song half written ("Women Drinking Whiskey"), and for another, I'm going to take some of the words from this first poem of Bonnie Parker's (who knew?) and set them to a melody. I sure hope nobody's done that before.

My thought right now is to work around a theme of rules and rule-breaking, outlaws, maturity/responsibility vs. impulsiveness, proper behavior for ladies, etc. I sure hope I can get this done; I'll share it if I do.