They say money can't buy love, but love can't buy a damn thing.

[raybear]

Oh, Joey Crack. You're such a hopeless romantic.

This morning I decided that Koffee Brown's "After Party" is the sweetest and most wholesome let's-go-home-and-fuck song. I listened to it three times while dancing in the foyer and eating a bowl of honeycomb cereal. Speaking of wholesome.

Funny how certain songs will come out and I will absolutely completely unequivacolly hate them, changing the channel on the radio or television dial immediatement when I hear the opening strains. Then months or years later the song is my new best friend. We all have our Nelly Furtados and sometimes Nelly Furtado is my Nelly Furtado. Though in this case it's Koffee Brown. They remind me of people I went to high school with performing at the step show. It warms my non-icy heart.

Anyway, I mention this song because I forgot it's the origin of another entry in Raybear lexicon: Tell your boys good-night. Trouble is, I'm having a hard time describing it. The literal meaning is when you meet someone at the club and you leave early to go home with them -- it's the last thing you say before walking out the door and waiting from them to follow you out. However, I use this phrase in bigger contexts as well, with a general intent of saying it's time to go, or it's time to move on. I also use the phrase to indicate I've interacted with a person who I want to say the phrase to (or have the phrase said to me). For example, while standing in the clerk's office this morning with Roberto and pointing out all the cute clerks, I just shook my head while staring at my favorite and said, "daaaamn....tell your boys good-night."

It has wide usage potential. Much like "don't block the box". Or "it's buttermilk -- go!" Or "I can get behind that."

Sometimes I wonder how the hell anyone understands what the fck I'm talking about. I think I just have a good tone in my delivery, so even if you don't explicitly what I'm talking about, you can pick it up based on context.

Comments

[bigfatmama.livejournal.com]

your journal is so entertaining. i love it.

help me, i've been away. it's buttermilk -- go! huh? help mommy understand.

tell your boys goodnight is fabulous. i'm stealing it.

It's buttermilk -- go!

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, you didn't miss anything. I've never actually explained "it's buttermilk - go" on my journal because it's hard to explain, even in person. But it comes from an SNL skit where Phil Hartman is guest-starring and is in a skit with the new cast playing this bizarre hardcore acting coach giving lessons to Molly Shannon and will Ferrell and them. He turns to Molly and says "what's your weakness?!?!" and she says "props!" so he asks what she has prepared, and she says a scene involving talking on the phone and drinking. She starts to to do the scene when he yells "STOP", looks at her, then says "what are you drinking?" and she says "water." then he says "it's buttermilk -- GO!" and she redoes the scene making this funny face when taking a swig of pretend buttermilk.

It's definitely something that sounds funnier when said aloud. Or if you've been to weird drama classes.

so there you go!! :)