My mother chose "The Rose" for her funeral. Ryan now likes that song, and he calls it "Nai Nai Song", Nai Nai being Chinese for Grandma.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
billytea - Mar 10, 2012 12:27:35 pm PST #26137 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Jesse - Mar 10, 2012 12:32:51 pm PST #26138 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Bette Midler "The Rose"??
smonster - Mar 10, 2012 12:41:16 pm PST #26139 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2012 12:47:47 pm PST #26140 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've been to two second line funerals so far, one that had a drumming and singing session afterwards. I don't believe I could sustain that, but maybe I should make a list like Jesse, and see what I can work out. My friend in San Francisco doing music therapy (giving, not receiving, to be clear) might be able to hook me up. Let me ask him.
billytea - Mar 10, 2012 12:53:21 pm PST #26141 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Bette Midler "The Rose"??
That's the one.
Jesse - Mar 10, 2012 12:54:28 pm PST #26142 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Man, that song makes me cry regardless.
JZ - Mar 10, 2012 1:07:21 pm PST #26143 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, smonster, I love "In The Gloaming," although I like the harmonies between her and Jennifer Kimball as The Story even better. And, oh, their version of e.e. cummings's "love is more thicker than forget."
Jessica - Mar 10, 2012 1:13:03 pm PST #26144 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, and in SERIOUSLY BROOKLYN WHAT THE FUCK news, that rash I have may actually be German measles.
Fucking overprivileged ignorant anti-fucking-vaxxers.
(It could also just be a weird viral reaction to the antibiotics I was on last week, but apparently it looks just like "textbook German measles" Which she "really didn't expect to see!" So yay me, I'm so surprising, I get diseases we should have wiped out before I was born. Fortunately I was vaccinated as a baby, so I probably won't get anything worse than a rash because I do have some latent immunity. And thank fuck my kids are fully vaccinated with fancy modern vaccines that work better than the ones they were using in the 70s.)
Amy - Mar 10, 2012 1:16:32 pm PST #26145 of 30001
Because books.
Holy shit, Jessica. WTF is right.
And oh my god, I loved "The Rose" when it came out, and played my 45 until it was worn out.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2012 1:19:22 pm PST #26146 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So I asked R to play music at my funeral, and he's still having the freak out. I thought I'd deftly balanced it by offering to officiate at his wedding, but apparently I didn't bury the lede deep enough.