You've been telling me you're a genius since you were seventeen

[raybear]

[Poll #853810]

Comments

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

Re: overplayed songs, I love all of the above. The Beatles pull ahead of the pack because I can play that opening riff in my head at any given moment, and frequently do. Also I've never ever confused it with anything else.

Memoirs feel dishy, particularly when it's the memoir of someone active in a political or artistic movement one is familiar with. Like when I read Tales of the Lavendar Menace and it was like gossiping with a cranky second-wave lesbian who was still bitter. In fact, that's exactly what it was. It also made me hope that when I finally got out of high school my queer community would be a tad bigger. Alas. But just as dishy, so I guess it balances out. This reminds me how much I miss working in a library. But that's another story.

commercials

[louche.livejournal.com]

dude did you totally see that stupid car commercial with the new young pony club's song in it? i am SO mad about it.

Re: commercials

[raybear.livejournal.com]

i actually don't watch tv enough (that's not on DVD) to have it happen, but i just read in entertainment weekly that an Of Montreal song i love is in an Outback Steakhouse commercial. ugh!

Re: commercials

[louche.livejournal.com]

i saw the new young ponys one in two different hotel rooms. it hurt. bad.

outback steakhouse! sweet jesus!

[twostepsfwd.livejournal.com]

Only finely minced sour pickles belong in tuna salad. And dill, lots of dill.

since you asked...

[riverafire.livejournal.com]

I wouldnt't even know about Nick Drake if not for a VW commercial, so for that I am thankful. My heart did sink, however, when I heard, "Vehicle" being used in a GM commercial.
I think "Spirit in The Sky" is just an all around fun song to sing along with, if only for its contradictions. I love the line, "I'm not a sinner, I've never sinned," because it is sooo wrong. Everytime I hear I recite in my mind, "for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Of course I don't believe a lick of that smack. It amuses me greatly though.
I like to add a small minced clove of fresh garlic to my tuna salad, and sometimes some curry powder if I am not sharing with The Kids.
I am so disinterested in all the brouhaha over the adoption thing. Madonna hasn't been worth listening to since, "Like a Prayer."

Re: since you asked...

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I have some embarassment about discovering music through things like commercials, but I think it's easier to deal with, because you adapt the music to yourself. It's harder when a song that is personal and sacred appears in something so.....gauche. Ha!!

I like Spirit in the Sky too. You should check out the wikipedia article because they talk about how the songwriter didn't intend for it to be "christian rock". And I love singing songs about sin and grace! Even though I'm not a christian anymore!

I make egg salad with more mustard than mayo, then nutritional yeast and curry powder added and it's delicious.

Re: since you asked...

[riverafire.livejournal.com]

not a big fan of egg salad, but curry and parsley are great in deviled eggs. spirit in the sky and devilled eggs in the same paragraph makes me grin.

things that make you go hmmm...

[riverafire.livejournal.com]

now that I think of it, is it kind of weird that I like devilled eggs and not egg salad? they are kind of the same thing really. One is just mashed up. I never thought of that until right now. *runs off to give egg salad another chance*

Re: since you asked...

[raybear.livejournal.com]

oh man, i love deviled eggs. i realized that i pretty much make my egg salad to taste just like deviled eggs.

i have two dozen eggs in my fridge. i think i know what i'm having for lunch tomorrow.

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

I think the best opening guitar riff is the Fleetwood Mac one that's also a Destiny's Child song.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like she's singing: whooo, baby, whooo....whooooooooo.

That song doesn't apply to this poll because it is not overplayed or cliched. It is brilliant.

also, I had a whole discussion with foxcoxy about it in the car and how Stevie Nicks appeared in the Bootylicious video, so that made it Okay.

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

Je ne regrette rien is in the new ebay commercial. It doesn't even make sense!

[wearemany.livejournal.com]

i only took this poll because i like answering that my issue with tuna salad is political. of course it's none of the above and simply a matter of taste. (also that many people put mustard in it in hidden ways, which makes my mouth explode.) i suppose that all taste is political, all politics is taste, so it's all just the same.

and i like ALL those guitar riffs. and you.

jet blue is starting long beach/chicago service with MEGA cheap fares for the new year. just so you know.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

i thought it was a good way to sum up not eating tuna because you hate it or because you're vegetarian.

you HAVE to choose!!!! ok, maybe not.

and that is good info to know. too bad it's not starting with thanksgiving, but i won't turn down more trips to L.A. in 2007. in fact, maybe that should be my new year's slogan.

xo

[anjibobanji.livejournal.com]

oh i misunderstood your memoirs question. i love them, i like hearing about failures a lot, i like the details of living, one of my favorite was stephen sondheim's, he went to therapy because he had blocked out memories of his mom, he didn't have any, and they discovered together that he didn't block them out, she was not there at all. stuff like that, i want to know. i'm a stalker. xoxo.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

the memoirs question was intentionally vague. i once read the entire authorized biography of dusty springfield (written by a friend of hers) which was horribly written and painfully structured but i was drinking up all the tiny bits of gossip and moments of behind the scenes humanity. and i like reading the letters/journals of writers or artists to help study their processes. i'm not universally opposed to all memoirs, but i am sick of everyone writing one about everything and landing on the bestseller list and i don't exactly know what the larger point is and what it means about our larger culture and society. especially if it's at the expense of the denigration of novels and the power of storytelling in general to show truth.

also, you get extra bonus points for picking steely dan. xo

[anjibobanji.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, i don't read the bestselling ones, except running with scissors and dry, and dry was terrific. i like ones that talk about work, or marriage, like rosemary clooney's was good, when someone's personality comes across.

i had a conversation with matthew years ago about talk shows and confessing everything and this conversation reminds me of that, one guess, it is easier to confess as if by telling you have changed yourself than to change, be better, do the work to grow.

another idea, that there has been such a lock on whose voices get heard and how that everyone's story seems relevant and somehow important.

i do think there is something that is being reinforced, lets link it with reality television. there is a thesis in here somewhere baby.

eh, no. but back to homework.

[iamthesphinx.livejournal.com]

Now I want some tuna salad. Hrm...only...aw...three hours...to lunch...