31_days theme list for May, annotated
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petroniaProcrastinating from designing the SSBB May cover. XD Why not? Original post here.
The ones without attribution I made up; mostly wordplay that's been knocking about inside my head for a while.
May 1: between the click of the light and the start of the dream
from "No Cars Go", by The Arcade Fire.
May 2: one by one the nights will fall
from "Je chante pour passer le temps", by Louis Aragon. The full verse is:
We have made lights from the moon
For our palaces and our statues
What matters that they kill us now
One by one the nights will fall
China established a Commune
We have made lights from the moon
May 3: e la chiamano estate!
E la chiamano estate / questa estate / senza te? - "And they call it summer / what summer / without you?" Song by Martino Bruno.
May 4: a heavenly stench
a misremembered George Sand quote, re Chopin's compositions: "ça pue le ciel".
May 5: put on your red shoes and dance the blues
from "Let's Dance", by David Bowie.
May 6: metempsychotic break
May 7: would that I had discovered you, like America
from "Come un'america", by Gianmaria Testa.
May 8: sun and ice
title of a track (and eponymous 12" single) by The Field.
May 9: I'm like, you're like, he's like, she's like
the translation of the track titles of Ricardo Villalobos' "Ichso". XD
May 10: the understudy
a novel by Elia Kazan.
May 11: all other perils and misfortunes of the sea
standard marine insurance clause. XD The earliest full formulation is: "[...] they are of the Seas, Men of War, Fire, Enemies, Pirates, Rovers, Thieves, Jettizons, Letters of Mart and Countermart, Surprisals, Takings at Sea, Arrests, Restraints and Detainments of all Kings, Princes and People, of what nation, condition or quality soever, Barratry of the Master and Mariners and of all other like Perils, Losses, Misfortunes [...]".
May 12: his early adventures
May 13: angel food
May 14: a city wall and a trampoline
from "Read My Mind", by The Killers.
May 15: je te dis vous
title of a song (and eponymous album) by Patricia Kaas.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
canis_m suggests I translate this "I call thee you" (Modern English has lost the distinction between formal and familiar address).
May 16: we share our mother's health
title of a song by The Knife.
May 17: heart wrecker, heart wrecker, make me delight
from "Stay", by David Bowie.
May 18: a laboratory for thought experiments
May 19: der Tod und das Mädchen
a painting by Hans Baldung Grien, a poem by Matthias Claudius, a string quartet by Franz Schubert, a film by Roman Polanski.
May 20: ROI
in commercial jargon: return on investment.
May 21: the chocolate revolution begins
from Chocolate Revolution, by Tawara Machi: 男ではなくて 大人の返事する 君にチョコレート革命起こす - "You answer not as a man, but an adult; against you I declare a chocolate revolution."
May 22: onomatopoe(t)ic
May 23: I will put Chaos into fourteen lines
a poem by Edna St.Vincent Millay.
May 24: blue, like an orange
from "La terre est bleue..." by Paul Eluard.
May 25: force majeure
insurance, again.
May 26: blood and love without the rhetoric
"They're hardly divisible, sir - well, I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory - they're all blood, you see." -from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard.
May 27: speaking of Cao Cao
the Chinese expression that corresponds to "speak of the devil..."
May 28: Casanova in Hell
title of a song by the Pet Shop Boys.
May 29: blow out the candle, I will burn again tomorrow
from "Inside and Out", by Feist (it's a Bee Gees cover).
May 30: there is a crack in everything (that's how the light gets in)
from "Anthem", by Leonard Cohen.
May 31: I'd rather leave while I'm in love
title of a song by Dusty Springfield.
The ones without attribution I made up; mostly wordplay that's been knocking about inside my head for a while.
May 1: between the click of the light and the start of the dream
from "No Cars Go", by The Arcade Fire.
May 2: one by one the nights will fall
from "Je chante pour passer le temps", by Louis Aragon. The full verse is:
We have made lights from the moon
For our palaces and our statues
What matters that they kill us now
One by one the nights will fall
China established a Commune
We have made lights from the moon
May 3: e la chiamano estate!
E la chiamano estate / questa estate / senza te? - "And they call it summer / what summer / without you?" Song by Martino Bruno.
May 4: a heavenly stench
a misremembered George Sand quote, re Chopin's compositions: "ça pue le ciel".
May 5: put on your red shoes and dance the blues
from "Let's Dance", by David Bowie.
May 6: metempsychotic break
May 7: would that I had discovered you, like America
from "Come un'america", by Gianmaria Testa.
May 8: sun and ice
title of a track (and eponymous 12" single) by The Field.
May 9: I'm like, you're like, he's like, she's like
the translation of the track titles of Ricardo Villalobos' "Ichso". XD
May 10: the understudy
a novel by Elia Kazan.
May 11: all other perils and misfortunes of the sea
standard marine insurance clause. XD The earliest full formulation is: "[...] they are of the Seas, Men of War, Fire, Enemies, Pirates, Rovers, Thieves, Jettizons, Letters of Mart and Countermart, Surprisals, Takings at Sea, Arrests, Restraints and Detainments of all Kings, Princes and People, of what nation, condition or quality soever, Barratry of the Master and Mariners and of all other like Perils, Losses, Misfortunes [...]".
May 12: his early adventures
May 13: angel food
May 14: a city wall and a trampoline
from "Read My Mind", by The Killers.
May 15: je te dis vous
title of a song (and eponymous album) by Patricia Kaas.
canis_m suggests I translate this "I call thee you" (Modern English has lost the distinction between formal and familiar address).May 16: we share our mother's health
title of a song by The Knife.
May 17: heart wrecker, heart wrecker, make me delight
from "Stay", by David Bowie.
May 18: a laboratory for thought experiments
May 19: der Tod und das Mädchen
a painting by Hans Baldung Grien, a poem by Matthias Claudius, a string quartet by Franz Schubert, a film by Roman Polanski.
May 20: ROI
in commercial jargon: return on investment.
May 21: the chocolate revolution begins
from Chocolate Revolution, by Tawara Machi: 男ではなくて 大人の返事する 君にチョコレート革命起こす - "You answer not as a man, but an adult; against you I declare a chocolate revolution."
May 22: onomatopoe(t)ic
May 23: I will put Chaos into fourteen lines
a poem by Edna St.Vincent Millay.
May 24: blue, like an orange
from "La terre est bleue..." by Paul Eluard.
May 25: force majeure
insurance, again.
May 26: blood and love without the rhetoric
"They're hardly divisible, sir - well, I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory - they're all blood, you see." -from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard.
May 27: speaking of Cao Cao
the Chinese expression that corresponds to "speak of the devil..."
May 28: Casanova in Hell
title of a song by the Pet Shop Boys.
May 29: blow out the candle, I will burn again tomorrow
from "Inside and Out", by Feist (it's a Bee Gees cover).
May 30: there is a crack in everything (that's how the light gets in)
from "Anthem", by Leonard Cohen.
May 31: I'd rather leave while I'm in love
title of a song by Dusty Springfield.
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Date: 2007-04-30 04:33 am (UTC)...XD
I read "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines" for the first time like, two or three weeks ago. It sort of left me in a state of "dalkjfsdlkfajsdk;l" and I don't know why.
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Date: 2007-04-30 05:28 pm (UTC)"Vincent" Millay is one of my favorite poets! Is/was amazing all around.
blood and love without the rhetoric
Date: 2007-05-04 04:09 pm (UTC)Michelle
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