tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post6035532578518041715..comments2024-03-28T00:23:01.632-04:00Comments on Lem's Levity: KLEM FMTrooper Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-35486890908559090852016-11-20T14:02:43.193-05:002016-11-20T14:02:43.193-05:00Yes..it's so well done.Yes..it's so well done.deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305989647913371151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-1306638191328405112016-11-20T13:49:47.375-05:002016-11-20T13:49:47.375-05:00Using your clues, I found thisUsing your clues, I found <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOjETlSufwo" rel="nofollow">this</a>chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-59658692734968873442016-11-20T13:28:30.915-05:002016-11-20T13:28:30.915-05:00no, youtube state farm commercial couch...
I don&...no, youtube state farm commercial couch...<br /><br />I don't know much about DM...just love some of their songs.deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305989647913371151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-45004602027838790752016-11-20T13:23:13.356-05:002016-11-20T13:23:13.356-05:00Deborah, your first link doesn't work. Is the ...Deborah, your first link doesn't work. Is the second one the same? <br /><br />The Dropkick Murphy's are another example of a band who blew their cool getting political. What is it about a modicum of fame that drives them to do that stuff? chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-62943378495263844752016-11-20T13:19:26.593-05:002016-11-20T13:19:26.593-05:00The song has has an element of what I'd call (...The song has has an element of what I'd call (for lack of a better term) "inter-generational comeuppance." I saw this once before years ago while living in Switzerland and travelling in France. I was in a tiny delicatessen outside of Versailles. It was lunchtime and very busy. I had taken the time to teach myself enough French to get along, being aware of how English never cuts it with the French. Others in front of me had struggled to order in English, and the woman behind the counter obliged, but with the rolling eyes thing. Right after I had ordered (in French), an older woman began ordering her grocery list <i>in Italian</i>. The younger woman dutifully obliged without expression and spoke not one word in return. Now perhaps the older woman was a local and the younger one knew her; perhaps the younger woman was Italian herself- I never did find that out. What I came away thinking with a smile was that the older woman had just laid some linguistic superiority of her own onto the younger one: <b>I'm speaking the language closer to the mother tongue so you just hush and take it.</b> That's what I wanted to believe anyways.chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-5447099468567296922016-11-20T13:10:06.448-05:002016-11-20T13:10:06.448-05:00this too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG7VjS4...this too:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG7VjS4odZE<br /><br />sorry, creating a link is excruciating on this touch screen.deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305989647913371151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-11676990319756163762016-11-20T13:06:30.668-05:002016-11-20T13:06:30.668-05:00Old Man is one of my favorite NY song.
OT but you...Old Man is one of my favorite NY song.<br /><br />OT but you remind me of two clever State Farm insurance commercial..here's one..<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOjETlSufw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOjETlSufwo</a><br /><br /><br />deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305989647913371151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-24012924396591154262016-11-20T13:00:08.049-05:002016-11-20T13:00:08.049-05:00Another thing I like about MacGowan's lyrics i...Another thing I like about MacGowan's lyrics is the way he hints at other songs on the same album: The war horror rhymes with the narrative in "Waltzing Matilda"; the rovin' rhymes with the "roving young fella" in "I'm A Man You Don't Meet Everyday"; the canal rhymes with the filthy canal in "Dirty Old Town."chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-62024408059589519032016-11-20T12:52:49.430-05:002016-11-20T12:52:49.430-05:00I take strange comfort in the fact that Shane MacG...I take strange comfort in the fact that Shane MacGowan has outlived all these other rockers. At one time he was everyone's favorite pick in the deathpool. His voice is as close to a scream of pain as a voice can be and still be musical. His voice and his looks work for him. Someone pretty and mellifluous could never deliver those lines with so much authority........Bibi Anderson was asked to explain her role in Bergman's movie, Persona. She said words to the effect "What the fuck do I know. I'm just an actress".......I like Shane's explanation off the song's meaning, and I like his confusion too........The meaning of life is elusive and just out of reach,by if we try hard enough we can come up with a fathomable explanation. Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07837540030934495651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-12558965671955728092016-11-20T11:26:12.903-05:002016-11-20T11:26:12.903-05:00Well said chickelit. For a long time I misheard t...Well said chickelit. For a long time I misheard the refrain in the Johnny Cash song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss_KyPfM1es" rel="nofollow">Sam Hall </a> as "damn your ass" when it was actually "damn your eyes". I still took something away from the song but that one word makes a world of difference. Johnny Cash got it right even if my ears didn't. It's disappointing that The Pogues didn't reach a little deeper.Dad Boneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03172007701510004771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-78820741960252721392016-11-20T08:17:26.765-05:002016-11-20T08:17:26.765-05:00I paid attention to the quote where Mr. MacGowan d...I paid attention to the quote where Mr. MacGowan describes the song and I'm glad I did. Sounds like a great thing to write a song about. I wish people would think about music (and things in general) more in terms like that. A story that resonates with what it feels like to come to grips with your own understanding of things, one of those things being yourself. <br /><br />Many years ago I took a sociology elective and there was a quote in one of the texts that made a big impression. I tried to find it on the internet but that was a fail. IIRC, it had something to do with the beginnings of the Ghost Dance and Quanah Parker, and it might have been him explaining that he will no longer wage war because he's come to realize that his problems are personal, not political.<br /><br />Maybe the reason I can't find it on the internet is I never got it right to begin with.Eric the Fruit Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11003976042428037836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-29494090491064841242016-11-19T23:14:22.190-05:002016-11-19T23:14:22.190-05:00Great commentary.
I read the lyrics, then when t...Great commentary. <br /><br />I read the lyrics, then when the video started and people were blindfolded on the train, I stopped listening. Scrolled down and saw "Utter rubbish" *ding* na-a-a-a-a-a-i-l-e-d it. <br /><br />When you say he's hard to look at these days I expected the worse, worser than worse. He's actually<a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/344513261583678737/68d3aa8d4da9e455cf58bba351f61a90_400x400.jpeg" rel="nofollow"> improved from this.</a> Cleaned himself up, he did. <br /><br />And he's better off than the old man in a wheelchair I encountered outside tonight. Now, that old man had it rough. Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-75390112078147834922016-11-19T20:46:04.790-05:002016-11-19T20:46:04.790-05:00Shane MacGowan is still alive somehow. But like Sh...Shane MacGowan is <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3373797/It-Christmas-Eve-babe-s-no-fairytale-Pogues-Shane-MacGowan-struggles-lunch-crutches-old-mate-Bono-hits-streets-Dublin-busking-session.html" rel="nofollow">still alive somehow</a>. But like Shelley Duvall, he's hard to look at these days.chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.com