Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
Maybe I'm the strange one, but the #1 song in my hell is Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World."
I'm also surprised that the discussion hasn't gotten around to "You Light Up My Life," which is too schlock even for me.
Also, agree with Amy on Dolly Parton. Dolly is a very talented singer who has no pretensions to being anything other than who she is. Her kind of cheery authenticity makes it easy to forgive a lot.
Sibling incest is squicky to me, but parent-child incest has a ton of power issues making my squick response even worse.
My sister (a teenager in the 70s) had a piano book with both "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" and "One Tin Soldier" in it. Both got a lot of play.
I think you're right, Fred Pete. It's the authenticity within the fakeness that makes it manageable. It's interesting though because Joan Rivers is no shrinking violet about admitting to her plasticity.
Maybe it's the difference between faux urbane and faux country?
re: theatre performances with no way to leave? Oh, I'd find a way to leave if I needed to. If you think you have to keep your audience captive, you're on very shaky footing. The middle-aged female bladder knows no social constraint.
YAY Maria!!!
I'm also surprised that the discussion hasn't gotten around to "You Light Up My Life," which is too schlock even for me.
Oh, good god. That was a terrible time to be alive.
Maybe it's the difference between faux urbane and faux country?
Personally, I think it's just that Dolly seems like a sweetheart, and Joan Rivers like a bitter old bitch who's not as funny as she thinks she is.
Maria! That's excellent! Congratulations! (Now you can move to PA, right? Right?!)
Dolly got my everlasting admiration when she joked(?) about coming in third in a drag queen competition.
Congrats Maria!
Congratulations, Maria!