Word!

I’m in a hurry up and wait mode. I hate this mode. At the moment, I have nothing to do. However, one word and I could suddenly be buried in tasks that need to be done immediately. So, here I sit. Needing something to do besides looking at my poor toe to see what color and size it is today, I turned on my other computer and decided to check out iTunes and see if there was anything new I couldn’t live without. And, I had a couple of bands I wanted to look up after the Vegoose festival.

Once I got into iTunes, there was a message saying an upgrade was available, so that killed some time. I can’t see too many changes, at least not to the player. As it was cycling through my library, I was catching glimpses of titles as they were flashing past and saw the word “break” appear a few times. Since I have broken things on my mind, I decided to check through my library for all songs with the words “Break” or “Broken” in the title. See what happens to me with too much time on my hands?

Here we go. As you might expect, most songs with the words “break” or “broken” also have the word “heart” near by. A couple of extras that showed up from my search also included the word “breakfast” as in Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Deep Blue Something and anything by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Aside from those, everything else was pretty obvious. Kind of a nice mix too, I guess. Maybe I should turn it into a playlist. Here are some of the songs for Break:

• Break My Stride- Matthew Wilder
• Daybreak- Barry Manilow
• Breaking the Habit- Linkin Park
• Headed for a Heartbreak- Winger
• Break it to Me Gently – Juice Newton
  
  

Here are some for Broken:

• How Can You Mend a Broken Heart – Al Green and also the Bee Gees. I love both versions.
• Broken Wings- Mr. Mister
• Edge of a Broken Heart- Vixen
• Broken Toy- Keane
• Broken Man- Paul Young

Once I had warmed up to this topic, I decided to try other searches to see what I might get. This time I was aiming for body parts. "Heart" was too easy (and it came back with no less than 87 songs), so I skipped that one. "Head" was more interesting, although not much shorter with 57 songs. "Eyes" came in at 27 songs, "Mouth" had 12, but I don’t understand how it came up with some of them. What does Burning Down the House by the Talking Heads have to do with the word mouth? Surely it isn’t intuitive enough to associate talking with your mouth? I did a search for "Talk" and got the answer. A different list.

I did a search on “hands” and came up with a pretty good (and short) list. Check it out:

• Cold Hands (Warm Heart)- Brendan Benson
• Hemorrage (In My Hands)- Fuel
• Look at Your Hands- George Michael
• Keep Your Hands to Yourself- The Georgia Satellites
• The Girl with the Weight of the World in her Hands- Indigo Girls
• I Can’t Get my Hands on You- The Jeff Healey Band
• Hands- The Raconteurs
• Handsome Man- Robbie Williams
• Too Much Time on my Hands- Styx
• Blood on my Hands- The Sundays
  

I seem to be without any songs with the words “legs” (Yes, I hate that song), but I do have some “booty” songs as long as I look it up the right way. Looking up the word “shake” for example gave me Shake your Booty by KC and the Sunshine band, Shake your Bon Bon, by Ricky Martin and Shake your Grove Thing by Peaches and Herb. May as well throw Shakira in there too, right? Her Hips Don’t Lie.

I had to get creative with feet too. Looking up “foot” only led me to my Gordon Lightfoot collection and remakes. Jealous? Yeah, I know. “Feet” gave me Head Over Feet by Alanis Morissette and Fall at Your Feet by Crowded House, “Heel” gave me Head over Heels by Tears for Fears, and finally, “Toe” gave me Head to Toe by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.

“You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around…” Oh sorry. Now you are going to have that song stuck in your head all day. Did I mention how bored I am?