My Newest Procrastination Technique

[One of my favorite parts of performing this ritual called my online diary is making titles for the entries. I've always thought I was on the good side of clever in thinking them up. But a spin thru my archives reveals that I’ve entitled an awful lot of my entries with song lyrics. Yes, I have better things to do on a Saturday morning, but here is a list of every artist from whose work (either a song lyric or an album title) I’ve borrowed for a diary entry title. Any artists who have made more than one appearance are noted as having done so. The list doesn't include commercial jingles, but does include TV show theme songs. Besides cementing my music-taste-froze-in-1990 reputation, I’m sure a psychologist would have a field day with the list.]

[Soft Cell, Gloria Loring & Al Jarreau, Blondie, Bananarama, R.E.M., Al Jolson, Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols, Crowded House, R.E.M. (again), Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bobby “Boris” Pickett, Eurythmics, Shirley Ellis, U2, Debbie Gibson, Robert Palmer, Bow Wow Wow, Men Without Hats, The Beatles, LL Cool J, Duran Duran, Elton John, The Beach Boys, Devo, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Loverboy, A Flock of Seagulls, The Go-Go’s (two entries in a row), the cast of Hair, Tom Petty, Mary’s Danish, Al Green, whoever sang the theme song to Laverne and Shirley, Trio, The Village People, Dire Straits (actually Sting appearing in a D.S. song), The Go-Go’s (a 3rd time), The Beastie Boys, Mozart, Soul II Soul, Mel and Kim, The Smiths, Green Day, Madonna, Queen, the cast of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical episode "Once More, With Feeling," They Might Be Giants, Lesley Ann Warren in Victor, Victoria, Culture Club, Duran Duran (again), Bananarama (again), Billy Bragg, Lil Kim, Pink, ABBA, The Smiths (again), Morrissey (variations on the same song three entries in a row), The B-52’s, Depeche Mode, Little Eva, Siouxsie & the Banshees (again), Moby, Iggy Pop, Pat Benatar, Janis Joplin, The Afternoon Delights, The B-52’s (again), Styx, The Normal, Barbra Streisand, Queen (again), Adam Ant, Smashing Pumpkins, Elvis Presley, The Go-Go’s (a 4th time), RuPaul (actually LaWanda Page appearing in a RuPaul track), whoever sang the theme song to Gilligan’s Island, Bow Wow Wow (again), Julie Brown, Bing Crosby, Adina Howard, Living Colour, Devo (again), Culture Club (again), Pet Shop Boys, Aretha Franklin, Dead or Alive, the cast of Wicked, Blur, Frankie Valli, Dead or Alive (again), Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick, Spandau Ballet, Voice of the Beehive, Elvis Costello, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel, Joni Mitchell, Oingo Boingo, The B-52’s (a 3rd time), The Smiths (a 3rd time), The Smiths (a 4th time), Charlene, Danny Elfman, Nine Inch Nails, New Order, Kylie Minogue.]

[Plus, the following entries' titles aren't associated with a particular artist:
“Repeat The Sounding Joy” from “Joy To The World”;
“Go Tell It On the Mountain…Or Not” from the traditional spiritual;
“Land of the 'Fraid, Home of the %$#@'d,” borrowing from “The Star-Spangled Banner”;
“IRAC-ing in a Winter Wonderland” from the Christmas carol;
“Three French Hens” from “The Twelve Days of Christmas”;
“Unlike the Grand Old Duke Of York, I Never Had 10,000 Men” from the traditional “The Grand Old Duke of York”;
“Down in the Valley, or Totally Fake Fur,” from the traditional “DITV.”]

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