You know what? For what they have up right now? I don't hate it. Don't particularly like the first song, but I think the rest could easily grow on me. Robert Smith's and Franz Ferdinand had me at the first little bit.
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
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.
Daisy Jane - Feb 04, 2010 9:15:21 am PST #2440 of 6436
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Jon B. - Feb 04, 2010 9:20:43 am PST #2441 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Amanda Palmer has a new musical/theatrical project involving conjoined twins: [link]
juliana - Feb 04, 2010 9:33:31 am PST #2442 of 6436
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Amanda Palmer has a new musical/theatrical project involving conjoined twins: [link]
Eeeyah. Not involving conjoined twins, it's her and her collaborator impersonating conjoined twins who used to be in a circus. Which feels... icky... to me.
eta: Or, as one person on my flist called it, "revolting ablist bullshit". Which, I haven't articulated why my gut-response to the project is one of WTFSRSLY?, but given the long history of circuses and other attractions using conjoined twins/little people/whomever else that doesn't fit a body "norm" as sideshow freaks (and hell, the WWE uses a little person now as sort of a sideshow freak), I have a hard time liking the idea of this project. Maybe it'll be sensitive and awareness-raising and all of that fuzzy liberal shit that I like, but I fear it's more a case of "here's a cool idea, let's put it on stage". Which is maybe not giving AP and her all-star collaborators credit where credit's due, but that's what it feels like to me.
tommyrot - Feb 05, 2010 5:10:18 am PST #2443 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Random thought - could a song like "Don't Fear the Reaper" become a big hit today without controversy?
DavidS - Feb 05, 2010 6:35:31 am PST #2444 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Random thought - could a song like "Don't Fear the Reaper" become a big hit today without controversy?
Probably. There have always been variations on the suicide song that hit the top 40.
"Walk on the Wild Side" probably couldn't though.
tommyrot - Feb 05, 2010 6:51:01 am PST #2445 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Walk on the Wild Side" probably couldn't though.
Why not?
DavidS - Feb 05, 2010 7:06:35 am PST #2446 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"But she never lost her head/ even when she was giving head."
"Shaved her legs then he was a she..."
I don't know. Maybe those kind of lyrics are pretty tame compared to the average rap hit.
tommyrot - Feb 05, 2010 7:09:58 am PST #2447 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
See, I think those lyrics would have been more shocking when the song was released ('71-ish?) than now.
tommyrot - Feb 05, 2010 7:19:51 am PST #2448 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Another random question: Is the Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request a parody of Sgt. Pepper and/or the zeitgeist of the time?
juliana - Feb 05, 2010 7:23:45 am PST #2449 of 6436
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
But what about "And the colored girls go"? (re: Walk On The Wild Side)