edit: You can't take the bombast from me.
Yeah. I love the fact that Jim Steinman's idea of a touching ballad is The Anvil Chorus. ("I! [clang] WOULD! [clang] DO! [clang] ANYTHING! [clang] FOR! [clang] LOOOOOOOVE!!!!!! [rain of metal]") I may be enjoying it ironically, but I cannot promise this.
I will also sing along with We Built This City, and when they sing "Marconi plays the mamba", I will wonder to myself whether they mean black or green. I also love Jessica Simpson's I Want To Love You Forever, but I'm pretty sure that I'm getting something different out of it than what Ms Simpson thinks she put in. Incidentally, I would support Mya changing "My Love Is Like Wo" to "My Love Is, Like, Whatever".
You know what also works? Speed.
I hear death makes those unsightly pounds just
melt
away.
And are we including holiday songs? Because, if so, then the award of worst song of all time (holiday and non-holiday, inclusive) goes to Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. Even the dogs barking Jingle Bells is better than that. Hell, even that song from Titanic is better than that.
I would mention "800 Pound Jesus", but any song that has me rolling around on the floor in convulsions by the end of the video clip has something going for it.
The worst of country can be fun though, where some songs are just bad and boring. I did refrain from posting anything by Billy Ray Cyrus. I think someone should order a nice funeral arrangement for me, based on that, alone.
Ah yes. "But don't you tell my liver, it never would forgive her. It might blow up and circumcise this man."
Or "Having my baby."
AGE OF CONSENT! AGE OF CONSENT!!
Cindy, surely someone has done a cover of "Ben"? You could dig that up.
I have an acoustic cover of "Ben" performed by Jon Stevens. Halfway through he just turns to someone and asks, "Was this about a rat?"
Octopus Woman Please Let Me Go
I love that he's so well-mannered about it. Of course, you have to with octopus women.
victory dance in celebration of my swiftness
Henceforth shall Teppy be known as Octopus Woman.
Dude. Nobody mentioned "You're The Reason The Kids Are Ugly"
As one who has never heard this song, I'm so glad that you were willing to step up.
I will wonder to myself whether they mean black or green.
Black mambas, of course. Now I want to go visit the Reptile House.
I hear death makes those unsightly pounds just melt away.
Also made every bit of niceness my sister had melt away. I prefer her now -- unaddicted, heavier, but with a slightly less of the nails-on-blackboard personality.
Though death = black, and black is supposed to be slimming.
billytea, I can't remember -- are you in Canberra? Because if you are, you need to attend the Earthly Delights historical dance group's Pirates of the Caribbean Costume Ball (scroll down that page a wee bit), to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Hee. It sounds like fun, but I live in Melbourne now. I'm originally
from
Canberra, though.
I love the fact that Jim Steinman's idea of a touching ballad is The Anvil Chorus
Well, there's strings-and-crooning touching, then there's heavy metal touching.
Well, there's strings-and-crooning touching, then there's heavy metal touching.
And then there's pounding on someone's chest and shouting, "LIVE, YOU BASTARD, LIVE!!!" For a broken fingernail.
Cash is a taunty pants. So are the Bitches. I came home to 260 posts and I figured everyone was squeeing over the buffistalet. Only to find out you're
still
mocking Jim Steinman. Wow, when we're on a roll, we're on a roll.
anything in the metro Seattle area that was mailed by Saturday should be here now.
You'd be surprised. I sent two separate checks in August to New York -- neither one got there.
Only to find out you're still mocking Jim Steinman.
I come not to praise the Steinman, but to bury him. In a gigantic crypt with its own smoke machine, decorated with statues and reliefs of guitar-playing werewolves and a choir of scantily-clad women wrenching power chords from the very fabric that is so conspicuously absent from their own apparel.
billytea, I can't remember -- are you in Canberra? Because if you are, you need to attend the Earthly Delights historical dance group's Pirates of the Caribbean Costume Ball (scroll down that page a wee bit), to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Hee. It sounds like fun, but I live in Melbourne now. I'm originally from Canberra, though.
Aha! I knew somehow Canberra was relevant in your CV.
And also -- BAH at your not being near the Talk Like a Pirate hoedown.
Watching the rerun of yesterday's TDS -- I just freaking LOVE JS.
Aha! I knew somehow Canberra was relevant in your CV.
Indeed it is. Loves me some Canberra.
And also -- BAH at your not being near the Talk Like a Pirate hoedown.
I know! What kind of a God etc. (A Pirate God! "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Yarr." Here endeth the lesion. Next week: God makes Adam and Eve walk the plank!)
