Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Modern Day Mantras

Here I am. Sitting in a tin can. OM. David Bowie, “Space Oddity” (Especially appropriate if practicing in a spaceship, car, or trailer)

I got weight on my shoulders. And things. On my mind. OM. (Beastie Boys, “The Move”)

I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. OM. (Radiohead, “Creep”)

Breathe. Keep Breathing. OM. (Radiohead, “Exit Music For a Film)

I feel it all. OM. (Feist, “I Feel it All”)

My mind is filled with radio cures. Electronic surgical words. OM. (Wilco, “Radio Cures”)

Change is hard. I should know. OM. (She & Him, “Change is Hard”)

Hold me. OM. (Weezer, “Hold Me”)

I’m only a woman. Of flesh and bone. (Rilo Kiley, “I Never”)

This tornado loves you. (Repeat 3 times) OM. (Neko Case, “This Tornado Loves You”)

I don’t want nothing if I have to fake it. OM. (Lucinda Williams, “I Lost It”)

Come with me to the sea of love. OM. (Cat Power’s version, “Sea of Love”)

Everything I think I know is just static on the radio. OM. (Jim White & Aimee Mann, “Static on the Radio”)

5 comments:

Lisa said...

yea!!! atheists were praying full of sarcasm. OM--regina spektor

FrenchToast said...

2 guys for every girl OM--Peaches

wait...

alain said...

Say Mr. Officer, if you come to take her... then that means one of us, gunna end up in a stretcher. OM! (Citizen Cope, "Pablo Picasso")

FrenchToast said...

hold on hold on hold on- OM! neko case "hold on"

some things you do for money, and other things for fun, but the things you do for love are gonna come back to you one by one -- OM ! the mountain goats, "love love love"

this game is fun!

Unknown said...

I'm not here; this isn't happening. OM Radiohead