I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here  

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 § - May 10, 2007 6:43:43 am PDT #6556 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I really need to memorise the whole spoken bit on the front of Baby Got Back. More than once I've let the side down in recitals.

More often the "Let's Go Crazy" intro should come up--I'm word perfect on that one. Jesse, msbelle, remember in some bar in NY when it came on and we recited and JD, calling himself a Prince fan, DIDN'T KNOW IT VERBATIM???

Good times, good times.

I think whatever song you're referring to with the rose is outside my ken. It puts me instead of mind of Bon Jovi. It's not Bon Jovi, is it?


askye - May 10, 2007 6:47:07 am PDT #6557 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

Every Rose is Poison.

Bon Jovi is Wanted Dead or Alive, Livin' on a Prayer, etc. Thrusday night at Ginger's several of us were earwormed with Bon Jovi beause of American Idol and we ended up watching Bon Jovi videos thanks to youtube. And discussing hair bands and how the hair distracted from the musicianship.


§ ita § - May 10, 2007 6:50:39 am PDT #6558 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ah. I missed most of the hairbands. I got to North America in '87. Hairbands were sorely missing in exports across the pond. I don't feel much of a lack--I associate the new, trimmed JBJ with the Bon Jovi songs from the period that I can remember.


Liese S. - May 10, 2007 6:51:04 am PDT #6559 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

No, no, the hair made the musicianship. Everyone hatez on the hair. It was good hair. And makeup! Eyeliner on boys!


Daisy Jane - May 10, 2007 7:00:20 am PDT #6560 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

No, no, the hair made the musicianship. Everyone hatez on the hair. It was good hair. And makeup! Eyeliner on boys!

This. Pretty, pretty boys with makeup and leather pants and the hair and sleazy lyrics. Love!


§ ita § - May 10, 2007 7:00:24 am PDT #6561 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

makeup! Eyeliner on boys!

I spent the 80s in London. Absolutely positively no shortage of boys in eyeliner. Or full makeup either. And sometimes they wore suits!

But the music often stood on its own.


Daisy Jane - May 10, 2007 7:06:28 am PDT #6562 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

But the music often stood on its own.

And the hair band greats' don't? How can you deny the brilliance of Unskinny Bop or Once Bitten, Twice Shy? How about Girl Don't Go Away Mad (Girl, Just Go Away)?


Vortex - May 10, 2007 7:06:33 am PDT #6563 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I really need to memorise the whole spoken bit on the front of Baby Got Back. More than once I've let the side down in recitals.

oh. mah. god. Becky, look at her butt! It is so big! She looks like one of those rap guys' girlfriends. They only talk to her because she looks like a total prostitute.

I might be missing something in there


Pix - May 10, 2007 7:08:05 am PDT #6564 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

Three of the ninth-grade girls performed (in song and complete with a choreographed dance) all of "Baby Got Back" at one of the evening campfires last week. It was...disturbing. And oddly mesmerizing.


§ ita § - May 10, 2007 7:09:55 am PDT #6565 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But the music often stood on its own.

And the hair band greats' don't?

I was just going from this:

the hair made the musicianship

As for:

How can you deny the brilliance of Unskinny Bop or Once Bitten, Twice Shy? How about Girl Don't Go Away Mad (Girl, Just Go Away)?

I got nothing. Never having heard the songs.