song titles

"true cross toothpicks"
"the stone bridge of south Beaune"
"brine shrimp ballet"
"fluvial storm"
"pinhole pipes"
"reverse distance"
"shake hands with yourself"
"everyone is you and me"
"(i'm your/an) adjustable plaything"
"aeolian heart" (a heart whose song has no set melody or rythm, but rather, like the aeolian harp, takes its direction from the improvisation nature itself. it is not played by human hands, but by the wind. etc. etc.)

song title

"burning up in your atmosphere"

song titles

"devil in the dustbin"
"she wore my coat"
"sinking of the belgrano" (indirectly, a song about margaret thatcher, maybe part of the "presidents" album?)
"beeswax and clay"
"firefly lantern"

song titles

"cotton dream"
"rush to judgement"
"speed reader"

"real tears, false teeth" (album title)

song title / lyrics

untitled (song about a boy who has a bad hair day, but finds that all the girls suddenly are interested in him)

last night i was tossing and turning
i got up onto the wrong side of bed
my hair was in shambles, i can't explain why but
i parted it on the wrong side of my head

i stared at the mirror in horror
i didn't have time to repair
and the bus was about to depart
so i boarded, in spite of my part

i braced for an uproar of laughter
but instead it was hushed all around
i tried to act natural, walked down the aisle and
i sat in the seat i had found

and suddenly... susan is smiling
i see now that wendy is winking
and recently rachel is reaching
elizabeth seems to be thinking

why, sherri's unusually merry
and sara is staring inside me
and susie is whoosy around me
and liddy is giddy beside me

miranda's philandering glances
are boding quite well for my chances
and kate's unmistakable wolf-whistle's making me
shake, if you know what i mean

lollygagging's molly's quite keen
to hover around oh, so subtley
moreover mary is motioning to me
to sit with her and hold her hand...

(you get the idea, this is exhausting)

song titles

(more for the garbage man)
"you're trying to drive me crazy? (it's working)"
"barbacide"
"captain jack"
"dog leg left"

song title

"sheeplessness" (for garbage man album)

i thought of "sheepishly", and then i thought of "counting sheep", and "sleeplessess"

restless, insomniatic, your mind racing, no sheep to count, hence "sheeplessness" ... but also, being sheep-less, hence the antonyms of sheepish- Antonyms: arrogant, bold, not sorry, proud, unremorseful , ???

song titles

"i can't write your name"
. "but i can't write your name"
. "why can't i write your name?"
"deep sadness and simple beauty in perfect proportions" (album title?)

song titles

"a quick, cryptic triptych of fickle sickle licker trick kicks"
"bicycle bender"
"matin luther buttermilk"
"it's not his fault"
"i sign the checks"
"high on art"
"never window"
"so much for breakfast"
"around the corner"
"i can't write your name"
"obscure your true self from your mom"

song title / lyrics

"a gently flowing wrinkle"

ten years of smiling
has bought me this wrinkle
a fair price to pay for you, love

and not ten days of staring
at the place where you slept
could undo that whole decade of joy

for argus-eyed mothers
who're watching their children
are but happy to let them run free

bounding down hillsides
by the banks of the pond
shaded by verdant silk trees

song titles

for 'garbage man, garbage man'

'eggs and peppers'
'vinyl in the sun'
'land fill treasure map'
'tunnel to nowhere'
'vinification'

concept album

"garbage man, garbage man, what did you want to be?"

being a garbage man is a good job. good money, job security. you just have to be OK breaking some legs and disposing of bodies once in a while for the mafia. so a guy becomes a garbage man for the money & security, on his mom's insistence, and he ends up, over time, becoming entangled in a mafia world of drugs, money, contract killings, strippers, homemade wine, and excellent italian food at a local hole-in-the-wall resturant... and all the while he just wanted to be a disc jockey.

it would be all modern-rock-opera sounding music, intertwined with brief interludes of traditional italian mandolin 'godfather' kind of music, but also a recurring theme of 'earth angel'-esque 50's ballad moments, thrown in sharp contrast to the rock music... like the little interlude at the end of "seven and seven is" by love...

the traditional italian music is there to dramatize the mafia-moments in the story. it can also be overlayed with real-life sound effects, like the sound of the protagonist loading a gun, or uncorking wine, or starting his car...

the 50's music is there to dramatize his dreams, flashbacks, etc... he dreamt of being a disc jockey, it haunts him... eerily seeping into his mind at stressful moments... or maybe it forewarns him of something bad about to happen...

... or maybe it even drives him mad... it's the emerging, once-repressed memory of a teenage 50's-greaser rampage night moment where he killed someone...

maybe like his father disappeared when he was a kid, and no one knew where he went, they assume he had ran away because he had just gotten a draft notice or something... but in actuality he killed his own father when he was a young teen, and had repressed the memory!!! and as he, reluctantly at first, indulges in his violent nature as a mafia sgt. the memory starts to bubble-up. and what drives him mad is the
realization that his good-ol-days image of his teenage years (love of music, of DJ'ing.. the things he dreams about) are spoiled by his memory of this violent act against his own father...

recurring themes: family honor & betrayal, lost innocence

concept album

"let me clean"

A concept album about a repressed maid... or about a roaming mentally ill war vet bum who just wants to clean things, like storefronts and people's doors and cars, and but no one will let him, because he is dirty and homeless. but, keep in mind, this album is serious, and the story is a metaphor for society's treatment of the mentally ill, and the paradox of our definition of insanity... how once you're diagnosed and stigmatized, it's an impossible trap... you can never be remediated in the eyes of society... they never let you back in. they never let you clean.

song titles

"i've seen enough"
"follow me"
"you were fast asleep"
"gated love"

song titles

"it's a round world, but we're still flat"
"just shut up and drive"
"soaked"
"(let it ring once- then hang up) and i'll know it was you"

song titles

"eat this dust"
"you're probably a loser"
"if i had three wishes" (frank sinatra song title)
"i can't believe you"
"don't forget to get me a present"
"crazy pillow"
"i donated my hair, but they didn't want it"

song titles / lyrics

"i'll meet you in the midnight room"
"cookbook of revelation"
"born again birthday"

" the stars are reaching,
and john is preaching,
but no one knows,
that either glows."

song titles

"she left me for a dog"
"neutral hand"
"headstone typo"
"let me clean"
"this day shall die"
"on a bishop's knee"
"hangin' hill"

song lyrics

but you won't find me,
for i will be naked-
streaking across the universe

song title / lyrics

"i dare not wind my watch today"

i dare not wind my watch today,
instead i pray it stays its hand,
grinding time into suspense,
and hence, we'll never part again.

song title / lyrics

"the anatomy of a lie"

this is the anatomy of a lie-
face me, tell me, kiss me goodbye,
unsheathe the words, and tell me what's wrong,
we'll be kicking down doors all night long.

song titles

"that makes two"
"cold storage"
"it's all part of the plan"
"missteps" (or "ms. teps")
"i took a left at your heart (and now i'm lost)"
"angel in the outhouse"
"i'll show you"
"you'll never guess"
"use me sparingly"

band name

band name: "the umpteens"

song titles

"hide in the sink"
"he'll just give you bills"
"at the end of the bed"
"(a) one horse race"

song titles

"you should have had wings"
"do you think like me?"
"the lonely graves"
"who is next in line?'"
"weary of roses"
"one-eyed love"
"i'll wear a smile" (or "i'll wear your smile" - a hearfelt, but not too much so, ballad about how someone else's smile stays with you all day)