Don’t … Jewel
Don’t Be Sad … Dwight Yoakam
Don’t Believe The Hype … Public Enemy
Don’t Break the Heart … Mono Puff
Don’t Bring Me Down … Paul Shaffer
Don’t Cha (featuring Busta Rhymes) [Radio Edit] … The Pussycat Dolls & Busta Rhymes
Don’t Cha Stop … The Cars
Don’t Change Your Plans … Ben Folds Five
Don’t Come Around Here No More … Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Don’t Cross The River … America
Don’t Cry No Tears (Live) … Matthew Sweet
Don’t Do Me Like That … Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Don’t Dream It’s Over … Paul Shaffer
Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow … Frank Zappa
Don’t Ever Dance With Maria … Brave Combo
Don’t Fade Away … Dead Can Dance
Don’t Fear the Reaper … Sifl & Olly
Don’t Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy) … Ween
Don’t Give Up (w/Kate Bush) … Peter Gabriel
Don’t Go … Matthew Sweet
Don’t I Have the Right? … Mono Puff
Don’t Know How To Party … The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Don’t Know Why … Kostars
Don’t Know Why … Norah Jones
Don’t Know Why (Live/Leno) … Norah Jones
Don’t Laugh (I Love You) … Ween
Don’t Let’s Start … They Might Be Giants
Don’t Let’s Start (Demo Version) … They Might Be Giants
Don’t Let’s Start (Single Mix) … They Might Be Giants
Don’t Look Back … Luscious Jackson
Don’t Lose Your Mind … Miles Davis
Don’t Make Me Love You … Christina Aguilera
Don’t Marry Her … The Beautiful South
Don’t Panic … Coldplay
Don’t Ruin Our Happy Home … Randy Newman
Don’t Speak … No Doubt
Don’t Stand So Close To Me … The Police
Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86 … The Police
Don’t Stop … Fleetwood Mac
Don’t Stop Swaying … Sophie B. Hawkins
Don’t Stop The Dance … Bryan Ferry
Don’t Stop The Rock … Chemical Brothers
Don’t Stop To Watch The Wheels … The Doobie Brothers
Don’t Sweat It … Ween
Don’t Take Me Alive … Steely Dan
Don’t Take Me Alive (6/9/00, San Diego) … Steely Dan
Don’t Talk … 10,000 Maniacs
Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) … The Beach Boys
Don’t Tell Me … Blancmange
Don’t Think I’m Not … Kandi
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right … Bryan Ferry
Don’t Try To Explain … Keb’ Mo’
Don’t Want To Be A Part Of Your World … David Byrne
Don’t Want To Know … Bryan Ferry
Don’t Worry About The Government … Talking Heads
Don’t Worry Baby … The Beach Boys
Don’t Worry Baby … Los Lobos
Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing? … Frank Zappa
October 2005 Eighteen posts
Current iTunes Playlist: “Don’t”
Steely Dan Dictionary
I’ve really become attached to Steely Dan of late. And the site Steely Dan Dictionary has become a favorite, explicating such vagaries as “Black Cow” and “Muswellbrook” and “Cobalt Cigarettes” and “Kirschwasser” and “Mizar Five.”
I just love that I can get all the Steely Dan lyrics I want from SteelyDan.com.
We’ll jog with show folk on the sand
Drink kirschwasser from a shell
San Francisco show and tell
Well I should know by now
That it’s just a spasm
Like a Sunday in T.J.
That it’s cheap but it’s not free
That I’m not what I used to be
And that love’s not a game for three
It’s Sunday Morning.
You sure have changed since yesterday.
Without any warning.
Everyday is like Sunday.
Everyday is silent and grey.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday.
How long…
How long must we sing this song?
How long? how long…
Sunday Papers.
Read all about it!
Sunday papers.
Have a great day, you.
Talking Heads Superfan Thing
missewon sent me this link: Talking Heads DualDisc Brick:
The first complete artist catalog released on DualDisc! This specially packed boxed set contains all eight of Talking Heads’ studio albums, expanded and remastered as two-sided DualDiscs featuring audiophile DVD-A sound, rare and previously unreleased material, and video tracks. Packaging includes an outer white molded plastic box with raised song titles, housing eight individually packaged white jewel cases, each containing liner notes, rare photos, and song-inspired art pieces.
Formed in New York in the mid-’70s by David Byrne, Chris Franz, Tina Weymouth, and ex-Modern Lover Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads transcended their humble CBGB beginnings to become one of the most adventurous and influential bands of all time. Their visionary, polyrhythmic stew combined funk and punk with African beats, avant-garde minimalism, and pure pop. From their 1977 debut to their Brian Eno-produced classics to their 1988 swan song, Naked, Talking Heads consistently pushed creative boundaries while delivering smart radio hits like “Once In A Lifetime,” “Burning Down The House,” and “Wild Wild Life.” In 2002 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I have no idea how I would even play a DVD-A. But that’s definitely something I’d like to have in the distant future. Real distant.
Stray Thursdayness
ASP.net, disgruntled clients, ungruntled clients, flooding, Blue Angels overhead, trips to hairdresser, ants that come and go, trashcans that need bringing in, job resignation, new free metal desk, SQL Server, OO PHP4, shopping carts, new MySQL databases, exporting JPEGs, lack of a whiteboard, couch-sleeping.
It’s a good day, but another busy one.
Rain & Varmints
It’s raining like a big dog out here.
Last night we had a flash flood of ants show up in the kitchen. Literally, one minute, no ants, and 10 minutes later they were making a beeline for the potted plants on the bartop above the sink.
Wait, can ants make a beeline?
Anyway, we dispatched the ants tout suite.
We keep getting eruptions of ants, for a while we had them coming up through the drain in the dishwasher! We poured vinegar down there, then later bleach, then more soap. Eventually they stopped. We’re pretty much sick of the ants. Though it could be worse — namely — mice or roaches. I suppose we’re lucky with regard to varmints.
But it’s raining again, I think it rained all night. It’s nice, though a bit chilly.
Busy lately. Not enough sleep. But things are pretty good. I should have news soon on some things. Not much news for now though.
For now, rain.
Lyrics of the Day
Lovely day today. Swap Meet in Goleta (just outside Santa Barbara), then a trip to Fry’s in Oxnard. Lovely day.
Lyrics of the day, via an ancient mix tape by my friend Erin:
Cemetery Gates, by The Smiths
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mineSo we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people all those lives
Where are they now?
With loves, with hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
Which seems so unfair
And I want to cry
Digital Archaeology: Favorites List, 1990s
A list I kept of stuff I liked. Why? Don’t ask me! I’m the 35 year old version of me. Now I do this sort of stuff on the website. Heck, why am I posting this here?
Well, it’s fun.
*Movies*
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
After Hours
Aliens
All The President’s Men
The Big Red One
The Birds
Blade Runner
Blow Out
The Blues Brothers
Body Double
Brazil
Breaking Away
Bringing Up Baby
Broadway Danny Rose
Chinatown
Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Dressed To Kill
Hannah & Her Sisters
Heaven
Home of the Brave
The Hustler
Jaws
Killing Fields
Lost In America
M*A*S*H
Mister Roberts
My Dinner With Andre
My Life as a Dog
Papillon
Patton
Platoon
Purple Rose Of Cairo
Raising Arizona
Rashomon
Rear Window
Repo Man
Roxanne
Seven Year Itch
Sleeper
Stalag 17
Star Wars Trilogy
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return Of The Jedi
The Sting
Stop Making Sense
Swimming To Cambodia
Take The Money And Run
Top Secret!
True Stories
2001: a space odyssey
2010: odyssey two
Wait Until Dark
Walk Proud
Witness*TV Shows*
Batman
The Bob Newhart Show
Connections
Day the Universe Changed
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Evening at the Improv
Frontline
The Frugal Gourmet
Hill Street Blues
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Jeopardy!
L.A. Law
ULate Night with David Letterman
Leave It To Beaver
McLaughlin Group
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
M*A*S*H
Max Headroom
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Moonlighting
Newhart
Night Court
Nova
This Old House
Perry Mason
Police Squad
St. Elsewhere
Saturday Night Live (in syndication)
Speed Racer
Star Blazers
Star Trek
Story of English
Soul Train
Tales from the Darkside
Taxi
Twilight Zone*Comic Books*
Batman: Year One
Concrete
Dark Knight
Elektra: Assassin
Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters
Lone Wolf and Cub
Mage: The Hero Discovered
Ronin
Swamp Thing
Tales of the Beanworld
Watchmen*Comedians*
Dan Aykroyd
Woody Allen
John Belushi
A. Whitney Brown
Bobcat Goldthwaith
Sam Kinison
David Letterman
Dennis Miller
Bob Newhart
Mort Sahl
Robin Williams
Stephen Wright*Artists (Comic & Otherwise)*
John Bolton
Berke Breathed
Art Crawford
Chris Greazel
Matt Groening
Larry Marder
David Mazzuchelli
Frank Miller
Patrick Nagel
Jackson Pollack
Robert Rauschenberg
James Rosenquist
Charles Russell
Bill Sienkewicz
Andy Warhol
Frank Lloyd Wright
Vincent Van Gogh