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greatest half japanese lyric

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maybe "peer pressure is bad/if yr friends are jerks/but mine are cool/so it's ok" (jad) or maybe "i hope nothing happens at the high school tonight/...i hope nobody breaks into the principal's office/& cut his chair with a razor blade/& spray painted motherfucker on his wall" (david)...tuff call!

― zarakov must die, Friday, 5 December 2003 07:32 (twenty years ago) link

i played drums for jad fair 1x! he shook my hand & said he really liked my drumming & stuff...it was a proud moment, you bet

― duane, Friday, 5 December 2003 07:33 (twenty years ago) link

sorry if i told that story before

― d, Friday, 5 December 2003 07:41 (twenty years ago) link

It was ten or so years ago, but I sorta remember the lyrics going something like...

Put on your dress of orange
We'll go buy a door hinge
I hope I don't make you cor-inge

Oh, Juanita...

(also, the entirety of "I Don't Want to Have Mono No More")

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:12 (twenty years ago) link

"it was so sad what happened to pete rose. after all he did for baseball, it's just not right." or something like that, on "Always".

― doug (doug), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:53 (twenty years ago) link

whats the one about going to all the celebs place's and having a "real cool time"?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:13 (twenty years ago) link

[Not HJ but Jad and the Pastels 'this could be the night]

You wanna know how an angel kisses... cool, real cool

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:15 (twenty years ago) link

"bubblegum popsicles ice cream and coke / it must be true that the world is a joke"

summertime - jad fair and daniel johnston

― pulpo, Friday, 5 December 2003 09:23 (twenty years ago) link

seven years pass...

have been having a hankering to listen to half japanese but i keep forgetting to do anything about it when i'm at a place where i can listen to music

i used to own "music to strip by" as a high-schooler and was kind of mystified by it but also loved it.

feel like a lot of the new wave of lo-fi bands owe a lot to half japanese, especially jad's singing

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link

david's got a pretty sweet guitar here

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Half_Japanese_Sxsw_2008.JPG/800px-Half_Japanese_Sxsw_2008.JPG

i think my best friend from middle school had the same guitar, ordered mail-order out of the sears catalog

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link

I just found Charmed Life in my car the other day and was listening to it again. It holds up really well. I still like the lyric about I've got a silver car, not painted silver, real silver!

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link

that's a good line, from "Miracles Can Happen".

there are so many great ones to choose from, but I gotta go with the one from "Bogue Millionaires/Cool Millionaires" where he says "and then I'm gonna go over to Margaux Hemingway's house... and I'm just gonna look at her, ya know?... whew, cool."

― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Jad Fair sounds like Greg Proops.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link


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