10 new song ideas

Because I can't seem to get into songwriting mode at the moment, I have decided to come up with some ideas for writing song that might be useful when I get out of this uncreative patch.

1. Imagine you have been asked to write a James Bond theme.
2. Pick up one of those awful cheap magazines and choose a story at random.
3. Watch a great film, split it into its main "chapters" and write a verse on each.
4. Think about your friends -- who has got a story to tell at the moment? Tell it for them.
5. Write about something that frustrates you (Billy Bragg told me this, true fact!).
6. Think back to what you were doing 2/5/10 years ago. Write a song about how you feel about that time now.
7. Listen to some internet radio of a genre you would never touch. See if they do things differently and then work that into a new song of your own.
8. Everyone has bad songs in their archives somewhere. Resurrect a bad song, even reference the bad song or its topic, and write a new one now you are a better writer (this one comes with a warm fuzzy "closure" feeling too!).
9. Go to http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ and create a subject for your song.
10. Make a list of as many of your songs as you can think of. When you look at what themes there are, does it tell you anything? Are you too angry/soft/introspective? Can you squeeze a song out of that?
11. BONUS SUGGESTION: pick a random place on Google Maps, go and research it a bit on Wikipedia, and then write a song about it.

Well, I know this list isn't perfect but it's given me some hope that writing can still occur on some level, even if it's only as a precursor to actual songwriting!