the blog quebecois

A feature (read: gimmick) of this blog is the way I often name posts after songs, with a three-or-four-line snippet of the lyric from it. Sometimes it works well; other times I spend more time tracking down an appropriate song than I do writing the stupid post.

I'd like to boast that I have a prodigious memory for songs but that wouldn't be quite accurate. In fact I usually just do a search on sites like this or this for some word or theme that matches (however loosely) the entry.

So I run across a lot of songs that look like they might be useful in the future. I've started to keep a list of them and the relevant lyrics, and I'll probably migrate them into some sort of database eventually. Some are so weird that I doubt I'll ever find a use for them, like this offering by Ice Cube, "Ghetto Bird":

why, oh why must you swoop through the hood
like everybody from the hood is up to no good.
you think all the girls around here are trickin
up there lookin like superchicken

It would probably be ideal for something like the Subservient Chicken, if everybody and his brother hadn't already linked to it a year ago.