does your mom know who Englebert Humperdink was?
::weeps in shame::
Yes.
They have no funk. My mother is now trying to sing Petula Clark. She's never heard Brickhouse. George Clinton means nothing to her.
My parents are easy listening.
My love for me now / Ain't hard to explain / The Hero of Canton / The man they call...ME.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Dec 29, 2004 11:41:09 am PST #1352 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
shrift - Dec 29, 2004 11:58:59 am PST #1353 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am not yet suicidal enough to think about motoring in Rome, but we may see.
I consider driving in Lisbon also to be suicidal, although I suppose it's homicidal for natives, given the number of horrific car crashes and fatalities I saw while belted into the passenger seat.
sarameg - Dec 29, 2004 12:01:33 pm PST #1354 of 10002
Okay, see -- my mother just found out (YESTERDAY) that the Beatles may have done drugs (she wonders why it's not made a big deal of), and although she has heard of Rick James (unlike my father), she didn't know he was black.
falls over laughing
My parents have blind spots to other stuff.
Lee - Dec 29, 2004 12:12:08 pm PST #1355 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
They have no funk. My mother is now trying to sing Petula Clark. She's never heard Brickhouse. George Clinton means nothing to her.
And still, more with it than my parents, especially my father.
shrift - Dec 29, 2004 12:14:55 pm PST #1356 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
And still, more with it than my parents, especially my father.
My mother and father are funkless.
Thank god.
Kathy A - Dec 29, 2004 12:34:12 pm PST #1357 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Broadway marquees are dimming their lights for one minute tonight in homage to Jerry Orbach.
My father likes to listen to the Kingston Trio and Willie Nelson. He has no funk. My mother prefers Barbra Streisand and show tunes, but liked the laid-back mix CD of Poi Dog Pondering I burned for her, so she has some potential for smooth-jazz-like funk.
Hil R. - Dec 29, 2004 12:50:10 pm PST #1358 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
It's my husband's contention that S&G were destroyed mainly for being inhospitable to strangers.
This is the interpretation I learned in Hebrew school.
erikaj - Dec 29, 2004 12:59:54 pm PST #1359 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
My mom is pretty funky for a mom. She makes up for it though by treating google like my magic talent.
Jesse - Dec 29, 2004 1:02:19 pm PST #1360 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My parents have no funk, but a fair amount of pop culture awareness (see earlier reference to LL Cool J). Most of it is 10 years out of date, but they try.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 29, 2004 1:02:37 pm PST #1361 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My mother and father are funkless.
Thank god.
Amen. Happily, my parents are the one set of liberal socially-conscious democrats in the family, yet were born too soon to have joined the flower children and done anything remotely scandalous before old fogey-tude set in. It's the best of both worlds!