Example:
"Would you like to swing on a star..."
I really wanted to, and then I had my chance. An extra dimensional super being known as The Little Prince flew by on his tethered flock of wild birds and scooped me up, taking me into deep space with him. A quizzical child to be sure, but seemingly quite dear. He showed me the loveliest star in all the universe and recalled that sweet line from an old song and I wept, stepped and then leapt for it.
However, when my hands touched the star's flickering tendrils they atomized instantly. The Little Prince hunkered down on a comet stopping a moment to get directions and then just laughed and laughed as the comet sped him away. There was no air in space to carry sound to me, but he was jerking around in way that looked like giggling anyway... or some kind of celebratory Hawaiian jitterbugging. The little knob. Operas of pain whistled through my cavern head but a second later I awoke back on Earth amidst the smell of me-bacon.
My career as a flautist is over now that my arms end in angry, carbonized stumps, so don’t question why I spit on sleeping stars whenever I get the chance. News of supernovae is the only thing that gets me to smile these days.
I know that was a terribly long example, but you should admire me. You have no idea how long that took me to type with my tongue.
One hundred men we'll test today
But only three win the Green Beret
I heard that song in 1966, 9 years later, I tried to join the army. That was the day I found out what I'd suspected for 2 years, and my stepfather, who always thought of himself as my biologic father, despite having a diabetic sister, NEVER even considered having me tested for being a diabetic.
Thank you Army, to Hell with you stepdad.
I got nothing, but....
Army sucks a bag of dicks anyway, man.
It's like being a janitor, and sometimes you shoot guns.
One hundred men we'll test today
But only three win the Green BeretI heard that song in 1966, 9 years later, I tried to join the army. That was the day I found out what I'd suspected for 2 years, and my stepfather, who always thought of himself as my biologic father, despite having a diabetic sister, NEVER even considered having me tested for being a diabetic.
Thank you Army, to Hell with you stepdad.
Ouch. Hell of a thing. :\
"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded..."
Age 14, I walked into my friend Tom's room to see his visiting ex best friend scooping up some of his toys, model racecars, and bragging about his skill. Apparently they'd been playing craps and this kid Danny was on something like a four game win streak. Double or nothing kept going against Tom. What's more, Danny only rolled four times and each time came up with natural sevens. Then he decided to keep a good thing going and went after Tom's D&D collection. I stepped in and demanded we be allowed to win everything back, only I get to use his dice. Danny protested until I told him I'd like to check his dice. Sure enough, his luck streak ended and we not only won Tom back all his stuff, we won the kid's loaded dice as well. That's my first and last successful story involving wagering on games of chance. ;)
He's King Midas with a Curse... He's King Midas in reverse..."
My additions to Forum Games always die so quickly. Like this one time when I posted a Lyrical Consequence Game...
Charge the common ground.
Every time I hear that line by Yes, I think of this one incident, totally uninspired by the song:
My boss and I, neither of which were electricians, and not in a union shop, were installing a 3 phase motor. He was doing the wiring hook up; mistook hot for ground, energized the case, blew the breaker, and ruined the new motor.
Charge the common ground.
Every time I hear that line by Yes, I think of this one incident, totally uninspired by the song:
My boss and I, neither of which were electricians, and not in a union shop, were installing a 3 phase motor. He was doing the wiring hook up; mistook hot for ground, energized the case, blew the breaker, and ruined the new motor.
Funny how the mind triggers discordant imagery from certain lyrics due to an association.
When I hear Alan Parsons, "Games people play in the middle of the night..." I always envision my friend's older brother driving around in the Bronx during his first year of college, because he mistook those lyrics for "Gimme boo-play in the middle of the night...", explaining that boo-play was French for sex. I'll never again be able to hear that song for its actual lyrics.
Misheard lyrics...well I thought that it was:
Mairsy dotes
and Dozydotes
an lidllamsyedivee
akiddleediveetoo
wooden shoe
for forever :)
Theres also a metal band from Japan called Loudness that we always made up the lyrics too before the internet told us what Minoru was really saying...so even now:
Shes Walt Disney
I know she'll never leave me
Dreams come true
She's a wall to me, fantasy!
Also I remember in about 6th grade the girl that ended up being our class president senior year telling us at the 'bad table' in art class, "You know that breathing noise in 'Rock n Roll Aint Noise Pollution' before he starts singing? Thats him taking a puff on a marijuana cigarette." She was dating an older guy and Im sure he hipped her to all kinds of things we had no clue about at the time.
Van Halen's "DOA" had them finding a 'dirty faced kid in a garbage can', so that became an inside joke: "Why was he in a garbagecan? Because he had a dirty face!"
Megadeths "A Tout Le Monde" and Janes Addictions intro to "Stop" made me check out foreign language dictionaries from the library. Also the bands Sepultura and Trust now that I think about it.
and a long time ago, Dee Snider's defense of "Under the Blade" made me write a letter to TIME magazine (never got printed, dammit).
Nomad, I was fortunate enough to call George Rhoads friend, a guy who seemed to own EVERY rock album ever made. And on each record you'd usually find a lyric sheet. We laughed aloud over Loudness' MZA lyrics and how audiences would shout MZA in a chant with them even though it all seemed to be gibberish. Truth be told, my Japanese is worse than their English. I know because I wrote and sang in Japanese for the Atomic Array Kazei-5 episode theme - it was a bubblegum crisis type song and I shifted my pitch to make me sound like a girl. Then again, that was the only Atomic Array theme we got a lot of requests to buy. Hmmm... maybe my poor lyrics in another language will make me a star.
MZA!
MZA!
Listening to a buncha Police, ever since I realized I now know firsthand what the Lyrics to Synchronicity II are about.
Y'know, it's heavy synth 80's stuff, but it really doesn't sound dated at all.
Listening to a buncha Police, ever since I realized I now know firsthand what the Lyrics to Synchronicity II are about.
Y'know, it's heavy synth 80's stuff, but it really doesn't sound dated at all.
Yeah, the Police were very very musical for a pop group... and very very musical doesn't usually date to a specific period (although there were fields of musicality to explore in the noodling of 70's classic rock, some of which could be considered pop rock). But now Sting used to sing in 4/4 while playing in 7/8 and dance in 3/4. Show off. ;)
I believe his name came from his days as a 16 year stand-up bass player. All the older jazz musicians were shocked that a kid that age knew and mastered so many songs that they called him The Sting. Something like that.
Only thing that comes to mind is that growing up, our babysitter would lead us in singing Ring Around The Rosie, with obvious consequences. She'd always follow that up with Let's Get It On.
That's funny. Can you even hear one song without thinking of the other anymore?
I thought the movie Falling Down was a porno.
<G> I can see that.
I think that film probably was a porno for some high strung types. ;)
I thought the movie Falling Down was a porno.<G> I can see that.
I think that film probably was a porno for some high strung types. ;)
I was making two seperate and unconnected points there. You may have walked away thinking I'd suggested you were high strung, which I couldn't possibly know unless I was watching a Snobicam.