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ziparumpazoo) wrote2011-09-15 02:09 pm
ziparumpazoo) wrote2011-09-15 02:09 pm
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better run, better run faster than my bullet
~One day I will actually listen to the lyrics of a song before I drive everyone around me nuts humming it. Problem is that it's catchy and I tend to gravitate towards the audio texture before the words. (there's a Britney Spears song - don't judge me - with a passage that starts out with the treble turned right off, then it fades in until it's equalized with the base that is just like candy to the audio parts of my brain... kind of like how catching the light hitting an object a certain way just takes my breath away and demands a photo be taken)
Or, you know, my husband telling me "You know that Mumford and Son's album, half the songs are about death, right?"
Um....
~Starting to get the hang of Tumblr. Sort of. Except for the part with the animated gifs that make my eyes cross and I can't find a way to make them stop moving. (I'm ADD enough without things flashing in my peripheral vision) I am getting too old for this internet thing...hey look! Shiny thing!
~My Fringe DVDs have crossed the border (which makes it sound like they snuck across in the dead of night and under threat of deportation). And my order from MEC is on its way. I love online tracking, except for the part where it's addictive and I keep hoping that if I hit refresh just one more time, TODAY will be the day that my packages will leave the distribution centers and show up in my mailbox.
~On Sunday, it was 29C. This morning it was -2C. With frost. Am currently wearing wool socks. (which I like, don't get me wrong). I'm just not ready for this insta-fall weather. And I can't find my ice scraper for my car.
~Celebrated our 10-year shacking up anniversary at the end of last month. I love living in a country that will legalize just about anything as long as they can figure out a way to get more taxes out of you.
Or, you know, my husband telling me "You know that Mumford and Son's album, half the songs are about death, right?"
Um....
~Starting to get the hang of Tumblr. Sort of. Except for the part with the animated gifs that make my eyes cross and I can't find a way to make them stop moving. (I'm ADD enough without things flashing in my peripheral vision) I am getting too old for this internet thing...hey look! Shiny thing!
~My Fringe DVDs have crossed the border (which makes it sound like they snuck across in the dead of night and under threat of deportation). And my order from MEC is on its way. I love online tracking, except for the part where it's addictive and I keep hoping that if I hit refresh just one more time, TODAY will be the day that my packages will leave the distribution centers and show up in my mailbox.
~On Sunday, it was 29C. This morning it was -2C. With frost. Am currently wearing wool socks. (which I like, don't get me wrong). I'm just not ready for this insta-fall weather. And I can't find my ice scraper for my car.
~Celebrated our 10-year shacking up anniversary at the end of last month. I love living in a country that will legalize just about anything as long as they can figure out a way to get more taxes out of you.
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Congrats on 10 years of shacking up!!!
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And thanks! I have no idea where the time went, just that I could really use new towels by now. ;)
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Not that the songs I usually listen to have lyrics like you describe, though.
But I've gotta ask, and sorry that it is you that I am asking now, but I have seen that a lot of times already in several online boards and I can't understand why everyone calls Britney Brittany. At first, I thought Brittany Spears was another famous singer whom I just don't happen to know, but apparenty we are talking about Britney here? How can those two names be confused?
I admit I also always wondered how any proper Stargate fan could not know that Janet's name was Fraiser and not Frasier. Or, worst I have seen, O'Niell *shudder*
I think I do have a spellchecking obsession. Sorry.
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Oh yeah, French songs are even worse because I have to concentrate on separating the lyrics from the music even more and sometimes I miss the slang references. It's maddening to realize when you're been singing a song wrong for years! ;)
why everyone calls Britney Brittany.
That would be my terrible typing today. *blushes* I think I've become too reliant on my phone's autocorrect and forget to pay attention unless there's a big red line underneath. Thanks for setting me straight. :)
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And yeah, as a child I also changed the English so that it sounded like German but of course did not make any sense ;)
Well, maybe in this case (and I am really sorry for correcting you) but I really have seen it so often, it can't always be only mistyping. I think some people really don't know.
(Commenting again just to show off my shiny new icon - got that hug in Birmingham back in May - fourth time I met him and I was rather happy that I did not have to travel so far to Vancouver for it like the last two times)
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That is a really great picture for an icon. Nice and clear.
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The funny thing is, I remember back in 2006, the very first con ever with him, and we all were so nervous and did not know whether it was even allowed to touch him. Now he is much more relaxed and almost everyone got such a hug, it was just natural.
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Yay for 10-years! COngrats!
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Thank you very much. :) Funny... it all started because I made a bet about Sam Carter being way more kickass than B'Elanna Torres and had to bring over my VHS tapes to prove it. lol.
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Thank goodness they don't sing them at school, although they have been known to hum them. I think it's the whole British accent thing. They're afraid to sound funny in front of their little friends.
Anyway, I always know when they have finally become an older teen when they realize what the songs are about.
"Wow, Mom!" my son said one day as I was driving him home from hockey. "I'd never realized it, but every one of these songs is either about murder, or it's a happy little f*ing song!"
"And let's not forget the drinking!" I added cheerfully.
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But the moment that your post brought to mind first?
My little sister, then eight, wandering around the house singing "Tonight's the night, gonna be alright!",in her best pre-pubescent Rod Stewart imitation and my friend asking "Ummmm... does she know, or does your mom know that's about losing virginity?" My sister heard it on the radio, apparently, because it wasn't in my collection.
I allowed as it was about as clear to her as it had been clear to me at the same age that "Run for your life, if you can, little girl. Hide your head in the sand, little girl. Catch you with another man, little girl, that's the end, little girl!" by the Beatles was about stalkerish and overly-possessive love. At eight I thought it was simply about passionate and romantic love. Besides it was sung to a little girl. Had to be good, right?
It's a miracle that we all grew up to be so normal...
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My four year old son has become hooked on Roxette (they played here live a while earlier this year and I dug out my old CDs!)and he now wonders around singing Sleeping in My Car. My explanation of why someone is undressing someone else in the car, and what making love is, have been a bit weak :/
Congrats on 10 years!
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Oh man, that was another one that I never *really* listened to but played all the time. I guess it says a lot about the general population that these songs become popular despite the content.
The big one around the house right now is Katy Perry's Last Friday Night... except the 4yo thinks the words are something like "....skimpy fishing in the park, eating chicken in the dark, last Friday night..." I'm not in a rush to correct him.
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"And let's not forget the drinking!" I added cheerfully.
Ha ha ha. I love how you're so blatantly frank with them. We don't censor the music we play at home either. Better to hear things like that at home and feel comfortable discussing it than to turn it into something they feel they should hide when they hear it elsewhere. Besides, what's shocking for one generation is passe for the next. ;)
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I feel fine about Steeleye Span's songs around my kids. These are, for the most part, folk songs. They teach. When they listen to the "happy little f*ing songs" they are also absorbing the message that casual unprotected sex leads to a terrible burden, and that burden falls disproportionately on the female. When they hear the drinking songs, they also absorb the message that drunk people can do stupid things, and they put that together with the fact that I have always said that I personally don't drink because of a strong history of alcoholism in my family which makes drinking playing with fire, and the fact that I sing along with gusto. My son went off to college, found that most of his classmates drank and smoked pot to excess, and he would cheerfully accompany them, have a grand time with them, and drive them all home safely, still sober and unstoned. Co-incidence? Probably not, although he always has been a sensible and mellow kid. I'm really proud that several of his friends changed their own habits when they saw that he didn't miss out on the fun, in spite of missing out on (most of) the chemicals.
The murder songs are a little harder to defend, although it makes me feel a little more comfortable as they move from their small Vermont town (pop. c. 925) where the sense of community and safety is strong, out into the big world and colleges near big cities, that they have absorbed a sense of stranger danger, and an understanding that there are dangerous people with impure motives out there. Their first inclination is to feel that the people around them want to help and look after their welfare, because that's the way it is back home, and they've found that their contemporaries look at them like they are nuts to have thought that beyond the age of 6. Thus far though - knock wood - they've been pretty canny and cautious in their dealings with the wider world.
And, yeah, lest you worry, I know that there are dangerous people in small towns too. We do teach stranger danger. But in a small town, it's also pretty easy to keep a very close eye on where they are and what they're doing. If your kid needs a ride to get to a friend's house, and there isn't a neighborhood they can be turned loose in to hang out with their friends, and outings and get-togethers have to be planned in advance as a result, the parents get a great deal more oversight and control.
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