Reverse Dictionary:
I have recently covered great online applications like rhyming dictionaries and thesaurus.com. But Jeff Caylor contacted me about this great OneLook Reverse Dictionary.

According to the site:

OneLook lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the “Find words” button. (Keep it short to get the best results.) In most cases you’ll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first.
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Mike Doughty on writing songs for his upcoming album:

I have the list of songs which are awesome, and then I have a bunch of tunes that are essentially life support systems for killer lines. I extract the lines and plug them into a new tune, but that tune ends up sounding kind of flat. Sometimes I come up with a tune that’s utterly stuffed, like a Stars on 45 cavalcade of homeless killer lines, and it just sounds bizarre. A drag queen lipsynching the 11 o’clock number of a Broadway standard.

“Is it soup yet?” is something Sekou Sundiata used to say in the poetry classes I took with him at the New School. We’d cut, revise, cut–he was pretty merciless, especially to a bunch of artsy college kids to whom every word was precious. Is it soup yet?

Maybe it’s soup. Let’s go. (Link)