Simon ,'Jaynestown'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Oh, that's indeed very clever! I love it when some translator gets to out-clever the original. Alas, my near-monolingual status means I don't get to appreciate it too often.
:: makes note to take off a year for total immersion Spanish sometime soon ::
I love it when some translator gets to out-clever the original.
I think translation is incredibly hard, so I really admire people who do a good job with it. Thank you Pulp Fiction subtitler, wherever you are!
Thank you Pulp Fiction subtitler.
"What do they call a Royale with Cheese?"
"A Royale with Cheese!"
Ha ha ha funny man.
That's even worse than the kids tuning into House after American Idol and asking, "What's that 'teenage wasteland' song?"
People calling it Teenage Wasteland irritates me at the molecular level. I'm sure of this.
How about a Creem/Asia supergroup reunion tour?
Cream != Creem
Cream didn't have Lester Bangs.
I'm a little appalled at some of the things I've read people in the blogosphere saying about Ike Turner, as if the only thing the man ever did was hit Tina and the whole invention of rock music thing was an afterthought. Nevertheless, this stunningly tasteless headline from the NY Post cracked me up: [link]