Blender, you are DEAD to me!!! Ptiuu!
Mar. 9th, 2007 02:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetI can't quite sleep, and I blame the Headless French Maid in the next room. Well, that and I googled ghost stories for the area where I grew up earlier and *that* was a mistake. Not cause the stories I read scared me - but because I kinda zoned out and remembered the stories that used to freak me out - like Green Mansion and shit.
So, I'm too tired to really concentrate and too wired to rest and I'm just passively surfing, reading lists at Blender when I get to this page:
And while I haven't agreed with a lot of things they've said about, well, a lot of things - I am actually roused enough by this to post:
176. Murder (Or a Heart Attack)
Old 97's [1999]
Dallas songwriter knows love can be a cause of sudden death.
In a tender twang that's almost shy, Rhett Miller has sung lots of pretty broken-heart songs, and his best sounds like Neil Young skipping rope, and comes on a 1999 album Miller named Fight Songs because the songs are about love. Story: Girl sneaks out a window, boy sighs, searches for her, and leaves a door open in case girl wants to return. Boy realizes girl, on return, might want to kill him. Boy doesn't mind, sounds hopeful through his hurt.
Available on: Fight Songs
Um, maybe it is just me, but I thought is was obvious, indeed the absolute CHARM of the song, was the fact that it was a play on the whole "boy loses girl" conceit. Because, dudes - this song is about a cat. It is obviously a song about losing your cat. And that makes it even more heartbreaking than losing a lover in many many respects, but damn if Blender didn't miss the fucking point.
Do I have to do a lyric-by-lyric breakdown of this song?? DO I??
Fine then.
And the hole
In the screen is barely big enough for you
And not near enough for me to go
And the whole damn complicated
Situation could've been
Avoided if I'd only shut the window
Even metaphorically, I really hope he isn't talking about his significant other in these lines. Eww. I get classic guilt here - he didn't really notice there was a hole in the screen, but as any person who has ever spent anytime around a feline ever, that doesn't matter in hindsight. Poor man - he could have avoided it all if he'd only shut the window.
I want to give him a cookie. HOWEVER, if this is his lady? I want to smack him.
And I may be leavin' myself open
To a murder or a heart attack
But I'm leavin' the back door open
'Til you come back, 'til you come back
And I may be movin' myself closer
To a real untimely end
But I'm leavin' the back door open
'Til you come home again, 'til you come home again
Dude! He won't shut or lock his door until Fluffy comes home! I am awash in love for this adorable and sweet man in mourning. I mean - the hell Blender? Where do you get that if she comes back, she might kill him? Have you ever left your door open? It is A FREAKING SCARY WORLD out there, but that is just what you do until Sparky makes her way home.
And I told
The neighbors, I put pictures up
And handed out some flyers at the show
And the whole town speculating
Situation could've been
Avoided if I'd only shut the window
Why would he put pictures up in the neighborhood if his girlfriend walked out? Why would he hand out flyers? I mean - it is obvious, right? I'm not just under some strange delusion and am the only one listening to this song the way I am listening to it, right? Cause sometimes that happens. I'll admit it. I just -- even if the song is really about losing a lover and not a pet, I don't want to know it.
I just feel a certain online music magazine has missed the point. And I am almost asleep. And I really hope the Headless French Maid doesn't murder us all in our sleep.
But it won't be because I don't know where Sid is. But? If Sid got lost because there was a hole in my screen that I missed? I'd totally leave the back door open, Headless French Maids and Zodiac Killers notwithstanding. I am just saying.
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So, I'm too tired to really concentrate and too wired to rest and I'm just passively surfing, reading lists at Blender when I get to this page:
And while I haven't agreed with a lot of things they've said about, well, a lot of things - I am actually roused enough by this to post:
176. Murder (Or a Heart Attack)
Old 97's [1999]
Dallas songwriter knows love can be a cause of sudden death.
In a tender twang that's almost shy, Rhett Miller has sung lots of pretty broken-heart songs, and his best sounds like Neil Young skipping rope, and comes on a 1999 album Miller named Fight Songs because the songs are about love. Story: Girl sneaks out a window, boy sighs, searches for her, and leaves a door open in case girl wants to return. Boy realizes girl, on return, might want to kill him. Boy doesn't mind, sounds hopeful through his hurt.
Available on: Fight Songs
Um, maybe it is just me, but I thought is was obvious, indeed the absolute CHARM of the song, was the fact that it was a play on the whole "boy loses girl" conceit. Because, dudes - this song is about a cat. It is obviously a song about losing your cat. And that makes it even more heartbreaking than losing a lover in many many respects, but damn if Blender didn't miss the fucking point.
Do I have to do a lyric-by-lyric breakdown of this song?? DO I??
Fine then.
And the hole
In the screen is barely big enough for you
And not near enough for me to go
And the whole damn complicated
Situation could've been
Avoided if I'd only shut the window
Even metaphorically, I really hope he isn't talking about his significant other in these lines. Eww. I get classic guilt here - he didn't really notice there was a hole in the screen, but as any person who has ever spent anytime around a feline ever, that doesn't matter in hindsight. Poor man - he could have avoided it all if he'd only shut the window.
I want to give him a cookie. HOWEVER, if this is his lady? I want to smack him.
And I may be leavin' myself open
To a murder or a heart attack
But I'm leavin' the back door open
'Til you come back, 'til you come back
And I may be movin' myself closer
To a real untimely end
But I'm leavin' the back door open
'Til you come home again, 'til you come home again
Dude! He won't shut or lock his door until Fluffy comes home! I am awash in love for this adorable and sweet man in mourning. I mean - the hell Blender? Where do you get that if she comes back, she might kill him? Have you ever left your door open? It is A FREAKING SCARY WORLD out there, but that is just what you do until Sparky makes her way home.
And I told
The neighbors, I put pictures up
And handed out some flyers at the show
And the whole town speculating
Situation could've been
Avoided if I'd only shut the window
Why would he put pictures up in the neighborhood if his girlfriend walked out? Why would he hand out flyers? I mean - it is obvious, right? I'm not just under some strange delusion and am the only one listening to this song the way I am listening to it, right? Cause sometimes that happens. I'll admit it. I just -- even if the song is really about losing a lover and not a pet, I don't want to know it.
I just feel a certain online music magazine has missed the point. And I am almost asleep. And I really hope the Headless French Maid doesn't murder us all in our sleep.
But it won't be because I don't know where Sid is. But? If Sid got lost because there was a hole in my screen that I missed? I'd totally leave the back door open, Headless French Maids and Zodiac Killers notwithstanding. I am just saying.
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Date: 2007-03-09 08:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-09 08:13 am (UTC)And yes, I get the 'cat' rather than the 'psychotic girlfriend' message from that song. Call me an optimist.
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Date: 2007-03-09 08:24 am (UTC)I'd call that writer metaphor-challenged. Or, maybe he's such a div, his girlfriends have kicked holes in the screen and fled in the middle of the night. Which is just this side of chewing off your own limb to get away.
It could happen! *g*
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Date: 2007-03-09 11:02 am (UTC)Nice doggy!
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Date: 2007-03-09 02:36 pm (UTC)Also: hee! that song! I put that song on a mix for you! ::beams::
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Date: 2007-03-09 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-03-10 05:09 am (UTC)He's not literally passing out flyers about his girlfriend. That's just his emotional state about losing her and not being willing to believe that she's gone for good. Like, it's not that she's gonna kill him, but he's going to leave the doors and windows to his heart open for her, hoping she'll come back, and if that leaves him vulnerable to all manner of hurt even unto death, so be it. Sorry, you may have to smack him.
Um, but... ::reads part where you don't want to know if it's...:: Yeah, um, so, it's not about a relationship. Fluffy, come home!
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Date: 2007-03-19 12:35 am (UTC)