I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

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.


DavidS - Aug 05, 2005 8:30:53 am PDT #6039 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

tommyrot, is that the "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates; you've got a brand new key" song? I love that song, and have since I was little.

Cindy's a Melanie fan, eh?


§ ita § - Aug 05, 2005 8:31:12 am PDT #6040 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sounds like back door love, to me.

He's equal opportunity:

Uh, ah-oh-oh! I went downtown,
I saw Miss Brown;
She had brown sugar
All over her booga-wooga.

I think I might join the fun,
But I had to hit and run.


Jesse - Aug 05, 2005 8:31:13 am PDT #6041 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am still bitter about the Prom Committee political brou-ha-ha that led to my prom song NOT being "Let's Chill" by Guy. Seriously.


tommyrot - Aug 05, 2005 8:32:36 am PDT #6042 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

"I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola."

There's also, "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls / It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola."

Which you could interpret two ways too, I suppose - but then when you look at the song as a whole I think the conclusion is inescapable.

Well I'm not the world's most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine

and

Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man


Kate P. - Aug 05, 2005 8:32:36 am PDT #6043 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Holly Woodlawn, about whom "Walk on the Wild Side" was written, is the guest of honor at an event we're holding at my theatre in September. I'm kinda psyched to meet her.


Aims - Aug 05, 2005 8:32:39 am PDT #6044 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

What did you think it was about before? Or did you just never think about it? (I've missed song lyric double-entendres by not thinking about the lyrics.)

Never thought about it.


tommyrot - Aug 05, 2005 8:33:56 am PDT #6045 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

tommyrot, is that the "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates; you've got a brand new key" song?

Yep.

I just listened to it now (it's on my iPod). Fun.


Kate P. - Aug 05, 2005 8:34:02 am PDT #6046 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Also, I've never paid attention to the lyrics of "Brand New Key", but I had no idea it was about anything other than rollerskates and keys.


juliana - Aug 05, 2005 8:34:43 am PDT #6047 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

There was a HUGE scandal about our class trying to have "Nights In White Satin" by the Moody Blues as our prom theme, because the title was too sexual. @@


Aims - Aug 05, 2005 8:34:53 am PDT #6048 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

If it is about more than rollerskates and keys, it now makes sense that Rollergirl listened to it during her first romp with Dirk in Boogoe Nights.