Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Here you all are, talking about your Plimsouls, and your X, and your Robert A. Heinlein...and here I am, with my Linda Ronstadt, and my Warren Zevon, and my Raymond Chandler...and I'm feeling left out.
Sad, really. Proof that my generation has passed me by totally...and I'm not even 30.
Awww Largo, Warren Zevon co-wrote songs with Carl Hiassen which is pretty noir. Not to mention "Lawyers, Guns & Money."
Warren Zevon co-wrote songs with Carl Hiassen
It must've been for his later albums. So far, I own just his self-titled album and Excitable Boy. That's only two, but in the year (or so) since I first purchased them, I don't think even one day goes by w/o my playing them, oh, three times through, apiece.
ETA: The only other times when I played a particular artist's music so much? Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon.
And when I'm not playing Zevon? Linda Ronstadt. And when I'm not playing Ronstadt? Jackson Browne.
Strange for an Okie boy to be so into the '70's, So-Cal "Mellow Mafia" scene, isn't it? Quick, someone stop me 'fore I buy an Eagles CD! Oops. Too late.
Dude. I was so totally listening to Jackson Browne today in my car. Which, I suppose, doesn't make today all that much different from any other day.
I thought it was a formality.
Any formality that includes spooning gramps is just WRONG.
But it was implied that it was a symbolic formality. Not spooning. Sleeping in the same bed. And? the character left as soon as grandpaw fell asleep.
Heinlein wasn't advocating you sleep with a future husband's grandpaw, he was showing that the social structure of the society in the book had a different take on marrage.
I acknowledge your squick, though. IRL? Squicky. In fiction, not so squicky. At least for me.
Dude. I was so totally listening to Jackson Browne today in my car.
Please. Tell me it was Late for the Sky. And even if it wasn't, tell me, anyway.
I don't think even one day goes by w/o my playing them, oh, three times through, apiece.
"She put me through some changes lord / just like a Waring blender."
Yeah, he hooked up with Hiaasen later in his career.
Oh, no way. Out of all the Zevon songs to quote, David, you would quote my favorite ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me"). I don't know if this makes me sound square (and frankly, I don't care), but you rock.
Tell me it was Late for the Sky.
HA. Yes, in fact, LftS was on there. I have most of the first five albums on my mini iPod. Then I skip ahead to I'm Alive. I kind of pretend he didn't release any music during the 80s.
but you rock.
Well, if you insist.