Re: Read Closely

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That's just way too long to watch closely.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-23-19 5:26 PM
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Why is there a door in a live new year's eve performance?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-23-19 6:08 PM
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Her behavior is concerning. She's pumping on the floor (in the apartment hallway?) at his door at a late hour. She might not be in a sound state of mind. She then threatens him with the expiration of her license. Will she no longer be capable of loving him, if she ever was? Will she only have hate in her heart? Is she trying to move fast, before a license expiry "in the midnight hour?" Calling for "more, more, more" so brazenly at that time, especially after the racket in the hallway, could lead to a call over a noise violation precisely when she should be lying low.

And that's not even speaking of her relentless support of the Lost Cause. She claims to "not like slavery," but this seems to only be a concern when she is enslaved--can she even show empathy for others, with her love license expiring?


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 05-23-19 6:18 PM
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I am open to the possibility that Billy Idol is not a reliable narrator.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 05-23-19 6:21 PM
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That's why idolatry is frowned on.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-23-19 6:22 PM
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Also, I admit I didn't watch the whole thing through, but I didn't see anything like was is described in 3.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-23-19 6:23 PM
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I'm working off the lyrics.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 05-23-19 7:00 PM
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I keep forgetting that nobody everybody keeps the sound off on their computer permanently.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-23-19 7:01 PM
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He lives in his own heaven
Collects it to go from the seven eleven
Well he's out all night to collect a fare
Just so long, just so long, it don't mess up his hair

I'm having a difficult time parsing these lyrics. What is the "it" that he collects?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 6:02 AM
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The clap.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 6:03 AM
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I feel we have to give some measure of respect for Mr. Idol, because the lyrics do indicate that he was aware of the historical origin of the phrase.

This is in contrast to Eddie Money's "Peace in Our Time".


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 6:26 AM
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To say nothing of Carly Rae Jepsen's "The Will to Power."


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 7:00 AM
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I love finding out the bizarre lyrics to songs I've heard thousands of times.

Has anyone wondered what on earth the Bee Gees are saying just before the chorus of "Stayin' Alive"? Would it surprise you to learn that it's "We can try to understand / The New York Times' effect on man"? I learned that in a trivia contest a few months ago.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 7:01 AM
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Huh. I thought it was something like "The New York Times has got our man."


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 7:03 AM
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They foresaw David Brooks.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 7:03 AM
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I always figured Billy Idol would wind up as a Las Vegas lounge act, a staged slightly "wilder" version of the one Bill Murray used to play on SNL.


Posted by: No Longer Middle Aged Man | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 7:48 AM
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I always figured he'd finish as a Tory MP for Milton Keynes.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 7:51 AM
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18

Better than a UKIP MP like Morrisey.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 1:37 PM
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18: holy shit, I guess this dropped three days ago? Unlike a lot of people I have no sentimental attachment to him as an artist, but even by "random famous person" standards that sucks.


Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 2:25 PM
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Maybe if you hear that Hitler was a vegetarian often enough, you just get inured?


Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 2:26 PM
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I'm still going to continue eating meat and not being fascist.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 2:54 PM
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Speaking of World War II and not eating much meat, none of the reports I've seen about the home front in WWII Britain mention all the farting, but science says such a diet leads to a '"remarkable" increase in flatulence.'


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 2:59 PM
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Nobody was really speaking of anything like that at all, of course. It's just something I remembered from yesterday because of my habit of reading Wikipedia while eating lunch.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-24-19 3:00 PM
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