Thursday, July 29
Wednesday, July 28
Sunshine (read from the bottom up)... catch us all at www.catch.com.
Dimmer | Jul 28, 04 | 5:25 pm ET
"When I awoke, dear
I was mistaken"
should of course be:
"When I awakened,
I was mistaken".
Dimmer | Jul 28, 04 | 5:24 pm ET
You see the counter-point here? Right? In the chorus there is a plead not to "take my sunshine away", but we already know the sunshine is gone from the opening verse... damn fine writing.
Some asswipes have taken to using:
"You make me happy
When skies are grey"
rather than the original text, and that -totally- fucks up the intent of the line --- even if the sky -is- blue and birds are all singing a twitter and so on it does NOT matter because YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE! Y'see? Don't make me get into a pub brawl about this...
It is ok to drop the second "I" from "So I hung my head and (I) cried" - I'd prefer if you did. Big curly braces.
Dimmer | Jul 28, 04 | 5:19 pm ET
[i]"The other night dear
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
When I awoke, dear
I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried.
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are blue
You'll never know dear
How much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away."
Dimmer | Jul 28, 04 | 5:16 pm ET
Comments from the gallery on: 11 songs for which it took me a long time to figure out what they actually meant. in no particular order.
11. the police, "every breath you take." when i was a kid my friends and i thought this was such a sweet song. um, yeah, sweet sweet stalker man. right.
It's about oppression man - it's about stopping dictators from taking people and killing them. George got really PO'd when it got licensed to some deodorant company as an ad jingle. (I've never much liked the group, and his politics are sometimes a little too muddled, but I respect the desire to speak out in whatever way you can re. oppression. Go take a look at Amnesty International, sign up, write letters).
10. "you are my sunshine." man, when you listen to the full version, that is a really upsetting song.
Whenever my friend Roy and I got really fucked up drunk in college, we'd wander the streets of Paisley caterwailing this --- it is one of the saddest songs ever, and we just made it worse.
1. "darling clementine." why do people make little kids sing songs about a woman who's committed suicide? sheesh, that's fucked up.
Yeah, I mean, come on...
limechip | Jul 28, 04 | 5:08 pm ET
11 songs for which it took me a long time to figure out what they actually meant. in no particular order.
11. the police, "every breath you take." when i was a kid my friends and i thought this was such a sweet song. um, yeah, sweet sweet stalker man. right.
10. "you are my sunshine." man, when you listen to the full version, that is a really upsetting song.
9. U2, "the sweetest thing." the first few times i heard this i thought it was, well, sweet. then i listened to the words. i really don't understand how people use this as their wedding tune.
8. bruce springsteen, "born in the USA." i was in college when i listened to the words and figured out it wasn't a patriotic cheerleading for the USA. thus i was completely befuddled when, post-9/11, i heard that song EVERYWHERE. i guess people thought "you end up like a dog that's been beat too much till you spend half your life just covering up" was a good thing?
7. madonna, "papa don't preach." my sister and i used to fight over who would get to wear the outfit madonna had on in the video, a black bustier and black capri pants. considering we were 6 and 8 at the time, it was kind of a pointless conversation. then when i was 14 or so, the good ppl at VH1 let me in on the whole abortion thing.
6. rem, "losing my religion." no wait, i still don't know what that song's about.
5. simon and garfunkel, "mrs. robinson." i always thought this song was about a hooker. turns out it's about a religious cult.
4. rem, "orange crush." i thought it was a song about soda. in my defense i was only 10.
3. bob dylan, "rainy day women." i was always saying, no, wait, it's not about drugs, it's about rejection and suffering and the inevitability of love going horribly wrong. no, it turns out that "rainy day woman" is 60's slang for pot, and it really is about drugs.
2. u2, "in the name of love." that song is about martin luther king jr.? for real?
1. "darling clementine." why do people make little kids sing songs about a woman who's committed suicide? sheesh, that's fucked up.
"When I awoke, dear
I was mistaken"
should of course be:
"When I awakened,
I was mistaken".
Dimmer | Jul 28, 04 | 5:24 pm ET
You see the counter-point here? Right? In the chorus there is a plead not to "take my sunshine away", but we already know the sunshine is gone from the opening verse... damn fine writing.
Some asswipes have taken to using:
"You make me happy
When skies are grey"
rather than the original text, and that -totally- fucks up the intent of the line --- even if the sky -is- blue and birds are all singing a twitter and so on it does NOT matter because YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE! Y'see? Don't make me get into a pub brawl about this...
It is ok to drop the second "I" from "So I hung my head and (I) cried" - I'd prefer if you did. Big curly braces.
Dimmer | Jul 28, 04 | 5:19 pm ET
[i]"The other night dear
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
When I awoke, dear
I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried.
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are blue
You'll never know dear
How much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away."
Dimmer | Jul 28, 04 | 5:16 pm ET
Comments from the gallery on: 11 songs for which it took me a long time to figure out what they actually meant. in no particular order.
11. the police, "every breath you take." when i was a kid my friends and i thought this was such a sweet song. um, yeah, sweet sweet stalker man. right.
It's about oppression man - it's about stopping dictators from taking people and killing them. George got really PO'd when it got licensed to some deodorant company as an ad jingle. (I've never much liked the group, and his politics are sometimes a little too muddled, but I respect the desire to speak out in whatever way you can re. oppression. Go take a look at Amnesty International, sign up, write letters).
10. "you are my sunshine." man, when you listen to the full version, that is a really upsetting song.
Whenever my friend Roy and I got really fucked up drunk in college, we'd wander the streets of Paisley caterwailing this --- it is one of the saddest songs ever, and we just made it worse.
1. "darling clementine." why do people make little kids sing songs about a woman who's committed suicide? sheesh, that's fucked up.
Yeah, I mean, come on...
limechip | Jul 28, 04 | 5:08 pm ET
11 songs for which it took me a long time to figure out what they actually meant. in no particular order.
11. the police, "every breath you take." when i was a kid my friends and i thought this was such a sweet song. um, yeah, sweet sweet stalker man. right.
10. "you are my sunshine." man, when you listen to the full version, that is a really upsetting song.
9. U2, "the sweetest thing." the first few times i heard this i thought it was, well, sweet. then i listened to the words. i really don't understand how people use this as their wedding tune.
8. bruce springsteen, "born in the USA." i was in college when i listened to the words and figured out it wasn't a patriotic cheerleading for the USA. thus i was completely befuddled when, post-9/11, i heard that song EVERYWHERE. i guess people thought "you end up like a dog that's been beat too much till you spend half your life just covering up" was a good thing?
7. madonna, "papa don't preach." my sister and i used to fight over who would get to wear the outfit madonna had on in the video, a black bustier and black capri pants. considering we were 6 and 8 at the time, it was kind of a pointless conversation. then when i was 14 or so, the good ppl at VH1 let me in on the whole abortion thing.
6. rem, "losing my religion." no wait, i still don't know what that song's about.
5. simon and garfunkel, "mrs. robinson." i always thought this song was about a hooker. turns out it's about a religious cult.
4. rem, "orange crush." i thought it was a song about soda. in my defense i was only 10.
3. bob dylan, "rainy day women." i was always saying, no, wait, it's not about drugs, it's about rejection and suffering and the inevitability of love going horribly wrong. no, it turns out that "rainy day woman" is 60's slang for pot, and it really is about drugs.
2. u2, "in the name of love." that song is about martin luther king jr.? for real?
1. "darling clementine." why do people make little kids sing songs about a woman who's committed suicide? sheesh, that's fucked up.
Dang
So, anyway, my back was giving me some bother this morning, and it got worse as the day went on. "Fuck what is wrong with my back?" I wondered, but not aloud as there's no-one else here to hear me say it. Then I noticed that my left fist (the up-cutter) was a tad twingy as well. This made no sense.
So I called my drinkin' buddy from last night, and I now know:
- he kicked me "against" a fence --- note not "through" a fence, just against it. That it collapsed under my momentum is apparently a matter for me the the property owner to discuss.
- the big fucking huge guard dog that was -behind- said fence cannot put up a good defense against south-paw and pants crapping Dave. I hope I only frightened it (as it did me).
- Wendy, the hot looking barmaid, totally needs to keep stopping to keep her hands off me - at least while her husband is out of town...
Next week: I go to the Hoover Dam and say cuss words...
So I called my drinkin' buddy from last night, and I now know:
- he kicked me "against" a fence --- note not "through" a fence, just against it. That it collapsed under my momentum is apparently a matter for me the the property owner to discuss.
- the big fucking huge guard dog that was -behind- said fence cannot put up a good defense against south-paw and pants crapping Dave. I hope I only frightened it (as it did me).
- Wendy, the hot looking barmaid, totally needs to keep stopping to keep her hands off me - at least while her husband is out of town...
Next week: I go to the Hoover Dam and say cuss words...
Thursday, July 22
Quiz
I'm a generally unfuckwitted, liberal, not-too-generous, not-too-selfish, seizure-inducingly boring spod!
What are you?
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