# Your favorite songs, poems, movies, etc, about doing nothing, being nothing...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 31, 2002, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-poems-movies-etc-about-doing-nothing-being-nothing/126411 "2002-08-31T04:47:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-poems-movies-etc-about-doing-nothing-being-nothing/126411/21 "2002-09-03T06:39:36Z")

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the Eels - [Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor](http://3speed.beautifulfreak.org/lyrics/Electro-Shock%20Blues/elizabeth%20on%20the%20bathroom%20floor.txt)

Can’t think of anything else right offhand.

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**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-poems-movies-etc-about-doing-nothing-being-nothing/126411/22 "2002-09-03T15:05:02Z")

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_[I’m Only Sleeping](http://www.geocities.com/dsmurashev.geo/songs/Im_Only_Sleeping.htm)_, by The Beatles.

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**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-poems-movies-etc-about-doing-nothing-being-nothing/126411/23 "2002-09-03T19:10:16Z")

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Wallace Stevens’ [“The Snowman”](http://stripe.colorado.edu/~morristo/snowman.html) –

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> …the listener, who listens in the snow,  
> And, nothing himself, beholds  
> Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

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**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-poems-movies-etc-about-doing-nothing-being-nothing/126411/24 "2002-09-04T00:32:31Z")

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Oly  
sorry I didn’t get back to you earlier. I think I get it. However your mistake was probably participating in a thread I started. They tend to fizzle out quicker than a firecracker in a bucket of water. (If I could come up with a more colorful analogy that would be a step in the right direction.)

🙂

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