band names

band name: "the nosegays"
"the mile high roses"

pen name / solo artist name: "Tremor Underfoot"

song title / lyrics

"the tenuous walls of the hourglass"

here we go again, from infinity to infinity,
my darling, Perestroika, my quondam bride.
your closed planar curves have zero crossings,
so don't temp me with those erstwhile eyes

these compliments are a sharp friend of my arm
at the thought of your sometimes sighs,
that moth-eaten gaze, the crumbling cries
and the scarcity of an anterior tide

in such a curve i cannot confide,
a regrettable sympathy strike-
inequivalent braids of an unsimilar splice,
for when are two knots alike?

the are no corrections
for our self-intersections
at this smoothly immersed line

(for "the unblemished young face of harlow shapley")

song titles

"i will do my very best to comfort you"
"you're not perfect"
"mindf*ck daisies"
"you know what's best for me"

lyrics

"you say i can't see the forest for the trees;
but you're not the one stuck in an oil drum
underground, six feet down in
a landfill just outside of town"

song titles

"the world's cleanest closet"
"daisy and pam try valium"
"stare down at the three-way stop"
"shhh, i'm coloring"

"It'd be hard to moonwalk in the rain."
"i'll burn your kiss"
"paint me the color of oops"
"the star that gave too much"

"can't you see i'm bleeding green?"
"but she just can't part with her wavy navy"
"hold my hand, like a dental hygenist in candyland"
"can we not land in the sticky stew?"

"completing our retreat, we meet again beneath the sheets"
"a stove can't be unkind"
"i think my sink is gay"
"brotherhood of the worm"

"discarded guitar string cathedral"
"crosstown bus to canaan"
"where angel blood can never flow"
"holiest secretions"

"sinister interloper designs"
"i think you fail to appreciate the fact that i have magical powers"
"a year on the floor"
"you again"

"Anatomy of Thunder" or "an act of thunder"
“Mirror, Mirror, By Janie’s Horses”
"Different shades of flummoxed"
“Out at Sea from All Fear”

“The Sun Shines Out From His Shirt Sleeves”
“Daddy Wore a Shawl”
"Ejaculating Wind"
"Reborn, Becky Complexity"

"on a bed of whispers"
or
"rest your weary heart on a bed of whispers"
"sleeping soundly on a bed of whispers"
"your hatchlings shiver in a bed of whispers"

song titles

"the choir of darkness" or "a chorus of shadows"
"blind man's cannons"
"encyclopedic kiss"
"lunch clique beatdown"

"my pride coin slot is jammed"
"pinball in my heart"
"skee ball groom"
"you really weren't adopted”

"you ride and i'll run"
"angel by default"
"i changed my lucky number from one to two (for you)"
"heaven cries for my thighs"

"find me unplugged in the morning"
"let my heart blink"
"swallow a lonely dawn with me"
"if that's not how you feel, click here"

"the truth has been too kind"
"my hot embrace"
"she's so sad at the sight of salt"
"she begged for sunbeams"

"the weeping willows brain trust"
"the comfort of a twisted melody"
"beside my x-ray bride"
"trap door prize"

"the nobel prize for whispers"
"the sin of editing"
"just hang on”
“testicle junction”

“genitallia mouse trap”
"paging Manny Clinkenbreath”
"found her at the hundred year floodline"
"the king of context"

"allison, temporarily"
"i brewed a coffee nursery rhyme"
"my sister's sticky situation"
"tears of triumph at the train table"

song titles

"another black spot for the jungle gym doyen" or "black spot for the
sandbox doyenne"
"all hell breaks loose at the skunk lineup"
"just keep in mind, my plows are my plows"

"What Door Did You Come Through?"
"Where the Mist Dominion Travels Through a Light"
"Then You Taught Me To Fly Like a Bird"

"Exist to Divide"
"Save this Face"
"Why Yes, He's My Man-Child"

"Perpetual Crouch"
"Now I Cede"
"Life is So Fine on the solid Side of the Line"

"Surely I Musn't Be Dreaming"
"That which breathes extra-linear"
"Tumor gulch"

"Stained-glass atmosphere"
"Nightmare theme"
"Where Has It Gotten You?"

"Formica Chicken"
"It's an Island"
"Shadow Suit"

"Contemplating Meaninglessness"
"An Investment in Gutters"
"No, But Really, I Know, I Know"

"Quality Waste Crushers"
"God's Comb-Over"
"Yes, She's My Web-Footed Mama"

"Elliptical Fence"
"Then My Life Shattered Into Fragments"
"Locust Yearbook"

"Chim-Chimmery, Chum, Chum, Chum-arrrooo"
"But I Didn't Even Eat Corn"
"Forget It Completely (Or File it Away)"

"Lung Propped Up with a Stick"
"'S' As in 'Snake'"
"Put on Your Unicorn Slacks"

"Creatures of Logic"
"I Heard You the First Time"
"In Violet Hotels"

"Holy Moth Mother"
"I Plead Despondency"
"Come In So I Can Hear You"

"Sarasota Happenstance"
"Green and White Jewels"
"Catatonic Waltz"

"Pretend its Not Tomorrow"
"We Will Walk Together"
"Sonorous and Vine"

"i slept in the bottle"
"the sinkhole sirens"
"the halfway harpies"

"lord of all three"
"even though you're not my type"
"blind man's gallery"

"the illustrated metallica bible"
"dave mustaine active wear"
"thurston moore, less claypool"

"secretly sad"
"this close to Slash" (ballad)
"i wish her nothing but happiness, and many magnanimous meter maids"

"mad coin drop"
"when the champagne of night comes on"
"i'll be gone, gone, gone"

"(pull the) ferris wheel bone pully"
"doctor, level with me"
"skewed coordinates"

"when she was small, she grew frowns"
"fire's underbelly"
"flicker, flicker"

"the tyranny of white space"
"pigeon pajamas"
"garden of frowns" or "frown garden"

"pumpernickel girl"
"the undeniable heroics of sweat mop boy"
"coming clean with my pet ghost"

song title

"there is a universe in my car" or "the universe in my car"

song titles / lyrics

"my nuclei"
"forwards and backwards"
"water climbs a rope"

"i lay out my feelings
like an assortment of pies,
but you hardly notice,
you're polishing knives"

song title / lyrics

"you can't sweep up tears"

standing in the foyer
over tears of mine
a constellation on the floor
resurrects the wood's old shine

they cannot be uprooted
to this, i must resign
cuz tears cast in a dustpan
are just pathetic brine

cuz you can't sweep up tears
no you can't sweep up tears
if you can't sweep up tears
then they will never die

song titles

"atom bomb dreams" or "a-bomb dreamin' "
"in the android nursery"
"don't be alarmed- this is a hug"

"my surrender: take one"
"saying-things experiments"
"i'm going to sleep at sunset"
"hearts do not grow"

"the band that wouldn't leave"
"soprano dawn"
"bathed in alto light"
"zero-gravity lover"

song titles

"why can't you just give me your codes?"
"your transistors are hot for me"
"don't go and cool your jets"

"introverted autopsy"
"blueprint for ruin"
"excavate your memory"

"dry bones are the driftwood of love"
"supermarket cashier goodwill burn rate"
"louis and clark were no match for my crack"

"cumulus fortress"
"slave to the drips"
"when it's time to name the animals (i'll name each one for you)"

"jasper came by"
"sunny ball"
"no, no, no, no, no, no, no"

"crotch eclipse"
"pass the ass"
"...and then he hit on me"

"lost in a box of charms"
"you fail to see the megaphone connection"
"wham, bam, taunt a lamb"

song title / lyrics

"pitchfork clicks"

pitchfork clicks,
pitchfork clicks,
you sound my name
with pitchfork clicks

i hear you tapping on the walls
your morse code dance drives me insane
and so i quirm, and nature calls,
ecxept i can't get off this plane

pitchfork clicks,
pitchfork clicks,
you fill my mind
with pitchfork clicks

pitchfork clicks,
pitchfork clicks,
you fill my life
with pitchfork clicks

song title / lyrics

"happy birthday"

happy birthday
phantom friend
vapor kisses
empty hands
i'll smear your name
and eat alone
and mark your grave
with a herring bone

song titles

"nuclear war (in my pants)"
"(don't make me drink) yesterday's juice"
"butterfly cartwheel"
"the violet flame"
"can she read?"

"wood and water"
"rubbing steel"
"(when) gardens sing in green"

"under the throne" or "underneath the throne"
"the king's shadow"

"my latest extinction"
"wine list hand wringing"
"victims of my distinctive blinking"
"a sharpshooter's shoeshine for a shilling"
"revenge of the pens"

"dog walking dilemma"
"dog walking dichotomy"
"dog walking economy"

"your first excretion may be your last"
"drop-dead gorge"
"stuck in a sea of sidewalk chewing gum- just another day for micromouse"

song lyric / title

"unlike me, the asteroids have all the space they need"

(song title or maybe just a refrain for the astronomer concept album'the unblemished young face of harlow shapley'.)

lyrics

all night i listen to god, reading softly,
then he turns the page and it's the dawn.
he inserts a giant bookmark of bright blue sky,
so here i lie, and patiently await another lullaby

concept album / song titles

Ed has an idea for a concept album about a sick, f'ed up Olympics. One sport/song is called "Synchronized Suicide"

"water polio"
"bloody scalp discus"
"the needle bath long jump"

"the high bar gallows"
"bloody stump hurdles"
"broken glass splash contest"

song titles

"i pray to scary jesus"
"scared eros"
"drinking alone at a table for four"
"remember, god can check your voicemail"

"that's no way to treat a glove"
"the ain't no correction fluid for my ink fix"
"underwater scrabble"
"pitch a tent in heaven and it rains in hell"

"my dog is having a problem"
"the forgotten goddess petting zoo"
"i just hailed a cab for the queen bee"
"it's a gland thang" or "marching gland"

"i just talked to a bang"
"defy the cookie crust"
"a fresh coat of arms"
“they wrote me up for falcon neglect”

"be mindful of mr molitov"
"there's a whole other world in the bucket"
"a necessary disobedience"
"mysterious signals from 1000 light years away"

"look at what we made"
"table veins"
"thinking man's blood"
"mr sandman on ice"

song title / concept

"sandman on the rocks"

go into a bar and ask for a sandman on the rocks and he'll grab a glass with ice and go out to the front door of the bar where the flowerpot-filled-with-sand ashtray sits by the door. he fills it with sand and an old cigarette butt. he brings it back and hands it to you at the bar. you look at it and you say him, "just put it on my tab".

song title / concept

"dripping with dripping with dripping with smiles"

sick, strung out, sickly-looking dancers with painful metal apparatus attached to their faces that force their aching, cracking, stretched-open lips, from which saliva helplessly drips, drips, drips... nervously glancing at hair-trigger guards who force them on stage at gunpoint, barely audible music leaks from an ancient speaker system, the dance begins and the sounds of shuffling feet, cracking joins, wheezing breaths, and weary moans nearly drowns out the melody as the dancers begin their agonizing waltz of sorrow.

song title / concept

"doctor dictionary"

...about a lonely, shy, underemployed Ph.D., a little disturbed, who spends many nights, all night on a bus, circling around the city, staying on the bus through the whole route over and over as people get off and on... and all the while just sits and reads a worn-out old paperback dictionary, quietly whispering each entry, and intermittently looking up and out the window to see the world go by... lulled by the hum of the motor, the comforting feeling of more-or-less constant motion, the comfortable seat towards the back with a good view of everyone going in and out, and the odd contentment brought on by the anonymous comings and goings of strangers...