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« Reply #30 on: January 29, 2004, 02:05:02 pm »
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You know, previous to this I hadn't connected "MacArthur Park" Harris and "Dumbledore" Harris. And now I can't deconnect them.


I'm sure that your aware that you're beloved R E M are also big Jimmy Webb fans.  I wouldn't be surprised if there's a cover version gathering dust in their archives.

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« Reply #31 on: January 29, 2004, 03:03:01 pm »
"Someone left the cake out in the rain... "

What is this originally from?  I only know it from the Brak song "I Love Ya Baby" as seen on Cartoon Planet.

Somebody left a cake, out in the rain... OH NOOOOOOO!
I was gonna eat that cake, but now I don't think I want any...
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« Reply #32 on: January 29, 2004, 03:43:10 pm »
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remember that one, old timers?


Oh man.  And I thought you were our FRIEND.  What can I find to play that will banish this from my head...
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« Reply #33 on: January 29, 2004, 04:22:50 pm »
"HAHA, you know that one song where it says things are ironic and they're not! IT'S FUNNY, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT IRONIC! Haha, rain isn't ironic!"
Remember that three year period that, whenever someone said that something was ironic, someone else would say that? God, those were golden years. Never before has one crappy song ruined a literary concept. Well, that song and the appendix to A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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« Reply #34 on: January 29, 2004, 04:38:56 pm »
Or just the entire body of "A Heartbreaking Work..."

Man, Eggars is so played out.  A whole bunch of McSweeneys people used to send stuff to Plagiarist.com to try to get me to publish what I believe to be the most inane, sophomoric tripe ever written.

They're like a black hole of funny - the jokes never get out, and it even sucks in some funny around them to make an entire anti-funny zone outside their offices.
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« Reply #35 on: January 29, 2004, 04:59:57 pm »
I thought Heartbreaking Work was fun when it came out; at least, unlike the current crop of hipster autobiographies, it wasn't him basically bragging about all the drugs he used to take. Suddenly, it seems every writer who's just too hip for words has put out a autobiographical novel, only they didn't have anything as interesting as having to raise a 7-year-old when they were 21 happen to them. So they just write about all the drugs they did, and how they got off of them.
Ha, and then You Shall Know...came out, and Eggers was proved to be MORTAL!
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« Reply #36 on: January 29, 2004, 06:37:16 pm »
I don't know if you meant to terrify me, Paul, but a R.E.M. "MacArthur Park" cover might actually be sort of interesting. I could at least put it next to my MP3 of William F. Burroughs doing "Star Me Kitten" as an intriguing novelty.
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« Reply #37 on: January 29, 2004, 06:43:25 pm »
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I don't know if you meant to terrify me, Paul, but a R.E.M. "MacArthur Park" cover might actually be sort of interesting.


I thought I made it pretty clear that I actually like the song.  Having it covered by the most excellent REM would be anything but terrifying.

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« Reply #38 on: January 29, 2004, 07:12:17 pm »
I used to have this great double CD of the Temptations and they had a version of 'MacArthur Park' too. Did Shatner ever do a dramatic reading/recording of it? It would be at least as good as his 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'...
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« Reply #39 on: January 29, 2004, 07:13:40 pm »
A copy of Shatner's "The Transformed Man" album is available to the first three people to PM me.

Man, that felt like a radio station promo.  Awesome.
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« Reply #40 on: January 29, 2004, 10:30:45 pm »
This offer is no longer on the table, as the requisite number have applied.

Thanks, and here's a Certificate of Participation to the rest of you.
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« Reply #41 on: February 01, 2004, 11:40:08 pm »
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William F. Burroughs doing "Star Me Kitten" as an intriguing novelty.


I'm so happy that that exists.  I've always found his version to be utterly charming.  Apparently "utterly charming" is an odd thing to say about Burroughs, but I'm inordinately fond of the guy.
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« Reply #42 on: February 02, 2004, 12:05:00 am »
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William F. Burroughs doing "Star Me Kitten" as an intriguing novelty.


I'm so happy that that exists.  I've always found his version to be utterly charming.  Apparently "utterly charming" is an odd thing to say about Burroughs, but I'm inordinately fond of the guy.

I think it's his voice. Or the preamble about how the technique was derived from Marlene Dietrich ("not one of my favorite people, but... that's where it came from"). That, and let's face it, "Star Me Kitten" always really wanted to be a spoken-word poem track, not an actual song.
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« Reply #43 on: February 02, 2004, 12:19:14 am »
Or at least not one with the vocals so low in the mix.
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« Reply #44 on: February 02, 2004, 05:39:38 pm »
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You know, previous to this I hadn't connected "MacArthur Park" Harris and "Dumbledore" Harris. And now I can't deconnect them.


Off topic: I have this problem with Hugo Weaving.  (Agent Elrond).  "Welcome to Rivendell...Mr. Anderson...the time of men...is over...

On topic: I hereby sumbit all of Muskrat Love:

Muskrat, muskrat candlelight
Doin' the town and doin' it right
In the evenin'
It's pretty pleasin'

Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug out in muskrat land
And they shimmy
And Sammy's so skinny

And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love

Nibbling on bacon, chewin' on cheese
Sammy says to Susie "Honey, would you please be my missus?"
And she say yes
With her kisses

And now he's ticklin' her fancy
Rubbin' her toes
Muzzle to muzzle, now anything goes
As they wriggle, and Sue starts to giggle

And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love

La da da da da ...

By the time the song ends, "muskrat" has completely ceased to be a word for me.  And the concept of muskrat love simply had to be drug-induced.  I find it disturbing that my earliest memoreis of this song involve my mother singing it as she washed dishes.
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