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"are you joking"

sort of. but even for them, do you have to say "landmine?" i think that is not helpful. it robs the words of potential as allegory or metaphor. it's like saying,

THIS SONG
IS ALL ABOUT WAR
WAR IS SUCH HELL
I DON'T FEEL WELL
WHERE ARE MY LEGS?
WHERE ARE MY ARMS?
YOU DID ME HARM.

Meh. I'm arguing for the sake of argument.

XPOST kevin: LOL in a really disruptive way.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

You have been EXCELSIORed.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha.

FWIW I don't really like lyric posts either (I can never remember lyrics anyway).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Honestly, I hardly ever read them. Like Laurel said. But it never occured to me that they shouldn't be posted. Hey, there's lot of stuff I don't read.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

you know what song has been stuck in my head all day? "meaningless" by magnetic fields. i've been muttering it all morning. i love that song but i can't remember the last time i heard it or why it would be in my head.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

gmail statuses on my screen right now:

"blank and pitiless as the sun"
"rainy days and mondays...."
"...."
"dark office"
"you'll understand when you're younger"
"collect a paycheck, accept your place and fade away...."
"we're alone at last"

on the whole, a little gloomy, except for kenan's and maybe jordan's.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah but my picture is the best of the bunch.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

You've reminded me -- I need a new gmail status message.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

well, i think mine is actually the best. (it's me in a small baseball helmet!)

who is in your pic?

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan and Jordan: GET PICTURES!

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

elias mcdaniel.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Done.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

awwwwwww. Who's a fuzzy wuzzy?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Beethoven is a fuzzy wuzzy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

someone give me some work to do. i mean some work that i actually want to do.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I changed my picture, too. Hoo boy, am I bored today.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Metallica lyrics are in the collective consciousness? I mean I know they are a popular band, but I always thought they were a niche band: I doubt that as many people know the words to Metallica's "One" as they do U2's "One," or Joan Osborne's "One of Us."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I just wrote a long blog post about "mom names."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I doubt that as many people know the words to Metallica's "One" as they do U2's "One," or Joan Osborne's "One of Us."

Judging by the demographic of me, I disagree.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, yeah, I might be wrong. I've never heard it, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

John's may be right. But I think that most of my peers (age-wise) would recognize "Exit light, enter night"

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, I was no fan during their heydays, but I recognize the following because, well, who doesn't:

"they call us problem child...we are the youth gone wild"

"muskrat suzie and muskrat sam..."

"girls girls girls"

"i'll be there for you/these five words i swear to you"

"when the children sing/let the new world begin" (maybe not this one)

"easy operator come a'knockin' at my door"

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, I know two of those.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

No, three. I just got the Bon Jovi.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I only really know the Skid Row and Motley Crue ones.

I learned to play drums by listening to Metallica.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I always thought they were a niche band: I doubt that as many people know the words to Metallica's "One" as they do U2's "One," or Joan Osborne's "One of Us."

http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0151020.html

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, so I looked all these up. We have: Skid Row, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, White Lion, Def Leppard, and... wait for it... The Captain and Tenille.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i totally knew all of those before reading kenans post. but that's because they were during my high school years. the prom song for my junior prom? skid roe (i prefer to think of them as fish eggs) "i remember you".

i did not attend.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Re: "One" vs. "One" vs. "One of Us" - I bet you're right, J., because I think Metallica's big with the Slavs and others worldwide who might not study the lyrics.

Re: Prom. I don't remember a single song from either prom. I remember the dinners beforehand and hanging out around Lake Calhoun, but that's it.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Those were my high school years, too, and I had long hair and wore Metallica t-shirts, but even *I* never learned the lyrics to "Pour Some Sugar On Me."

I don't remember much about Prom Night, either, as far as music is concerned. I remember I tried to get laid, but it didn't happen.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't try to get laid and I think the song was "A Whiter Shade of Pale".

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i know that the class song for mhs class of '91 was the devinyls "i touch myself". it was put to a revote after it won by a slight margin the first time around. it won in a landslide the second time around.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

And a niche band can still sell several million albums. Garth Brooks's No Fences has sold roughly the same number of copies as Metallica's self-titled, but obv caters to a certain demographic. ("Friends in Low Places" is the only song on that album that I know -- it's also one of maybe five country songs of the 1990s that I know.)

I think my Official Prom Song was "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel, as it probably was for hundreds of high schools in the ten years immediately following the release of Say Anything. I also remember dancing to the Macarena.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the class before us got "In Your Eyes."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

"don't you forget about me" was a pretty common one too. that's what my school had, anyway.

my prom was a total awkward waste of a hott dress, and i didn't even get a kiss.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Hot data on baby name trends on Ye Olde Blog, btw.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Our Prom there was "A Night of Religious Oppression".

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I went with this little punk rock girl as friends, and got my suit for $4.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I rented the tux, whole bit. Sparkly blue cumberbund and matching tie. I will never dress that way again as long as I live. It was a very special night.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

::sniff::

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

My mom's name is Estela. Only 1 L.

I didn't attend my proms. I don't know the themes or the songs. I wish I knew them.

I didn't get laid.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

But you make up for it now by being a big slut.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Probably truer than you meant it to be.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

sparkly blue cumberbund!

i got my dress for $20 from a thrift store. but it was awesome. except that the back seam split up to my lower back. so it was mended with staples, and thereafter wasn't particularly comfortable to wear.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Last nite we were supposed to have band practice and then hang out at the whirlaway but instead we skipped practice and I helped Ben assemble Ikea furniture.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I went with my best friend, who was basically my girlfriend for the latter half of high school, considering we went everywhere together and secretly fooled around, but for some silly reason we refused the label, which gave me license to talk about all the other girls I had crushes on, even though in retrospect it probably made her jealous (I was so dense I didn't understand why she got upset that I made out with Chris.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

My mom's name is Estela. Only 1 L.

There is an Estela on ILX with only one L. She is from Australia.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"Estella" would be pronounced es-TEY-a in Spanish. Thus, the single L.

My dad has always been of the opinion that she should add an L because it confuses so many Americans.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Two proms with two good friends - ones I didn't make a move on and who didn't make a move on me, though one of them (sassy) gave me her garter (or whatever the one part of it that goes around one thigh is called). The other one was sophisticated and Meryl Streep-like and talked about reading Colette, very old-school, and now she contacts the dead for a living. I found photos from our pre-prom dinner recently. I will scan one whenever I get the chance to scan the EZ-as-Michael-Mann-teen photo.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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