Earth Hour, Three Pop Minutes, Hold On A Second
Spent Earth Hour (well 15 minutes of it) with a candle, a roti bun and a digital cam (at ISO 1600):
in outward silence but with this repeating in my head:
and [CHEAT!*] a general urge to edit:
--- "with regular hand washing, clean, disinfect
and moisturize your hands, reduce germs
and protect hands for a longer period of time".
1. It was reported that the RP was the most successful participant of Earth Hour this year, with 650 cities participating and 611 Megawatt-hours saved. But one wouldn't know it, talking to my cousin, J. Pempe Luis, who said that Neighbor A... oh nevermind. It's much funnier when you're there yourself.
2.
London's Lucky Soul takes me back to the '60s, where I've never been. How fun. It's just what pop music is supposed to do. And as much as they deny being clever ("[y]our guts aren't clever"), well they are ---
Shady, shameless and hurtful,
The bitterest cream makes the best cocktail curdle and
Undream, all that you long for,
To throw it all down and retreat into a corner and cry...
"I want you so bad that it hurts,
I want you so bad that it burns right through."
Forever struck dumb, dum dum de do woah a woah
Struck dumb, dum dum de do woah...
Baby, I’ll not desert you,
When carrion crows argue envy is a virtue,
They bleed green. Don’t let your guard down,
The magic don’t touch when you curl into a small ball and cry...
"I want you so bad that it hurts,
I want you so bad that it burns right through."
Forever struck dumb, dum dum de doo woah a woah
Struck dumb, dum dum de doo woah a woah...
Lately, silent survival,
Has brilliant thoughts turning grey on arrival,
Like old gum: stretched out and worthless,
A literate thirst is a hearse when you can’t say the lines:
"I want you so bad that it hurts,
I want you so bad that it burns right through."
Forever struck dumb, dum dum de doo woah a woah…
Struck dumb, dum dum de doo woah a woah...
Line:
1 - Shady? Shameless? Hurtful? In a pop song?
2 - Bitterest? I love excess.
3 - "Undream..." Word invention is my favorite thing in the whole world, "...all that you long for..." Ouch.
4 - Ali's restraint is amazing on "cry".
5 - And her desperation here is utter.
6 - As here. In 4, 5 and 6 the impending doom-ish background vocals add necessary drama.
7, 8 - I love any resort to ooh-wahs.
9 - I want this promise made to me.
10 - I love when people turn all sciencey and geeky. Once in my second year in High School I kept raising my hand after I'd already recited in Biology. Ms. Dyguazo said, "Other hands?" Wow. That does happen in real life. And it happened to me. (So I love me? Well that's a given.)
11 - Good advice. In this verse there's a "pap-pap-pap" going on in the background also.
12 - Here Ali lets go on "cry". And then there's the (impending doom-ish) BVs again.
13, 14, 15, 16 - Please see 5, 6, 7, 8. More desperation.
17 - Not sure what to make of this, but.
18 - Any use of the word "brilliant" and I'm sold. Still waiting for that to appear on my pleadings, though. But one's got to strive for something.
19 - There's urgency again in "stretched out".
20 - I will be less literate and say I am one of those who cannot resist a British accent.
21, 22, 23, 24 - Please see 5, 6, 7, 8.
A full review of The Great Unwanted shall follow.
3. Okay my goal is to make things better one label at a time. Take heed.
Why:
1. One does not really wash her hands "regular(ly)", does she? Like, say, every 2 hours? It's more like, when the need arises.
2. To "reduce germs" and to "protect hands" already fall under "clean" and "disinfect". They may be done away with.
3. "(F)or a longer period of time" --- This conflicts with "regular hand washing" because one need not wash regularly if her hands were protected "for a longer period of time". In any case, since we've removed "regular", and since we've established that one ought wash her hands based on the circumstances, the phrase becomes unnecessary.
And so. Having been washing my hands obsessively for the last 3 years I haven't been sick majorly for a while. I guess then that it works. In this respect, this product is alright.
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Lucky Soul photo c/o http://www.elefant.com
*An afterthought, of course.
Saturday, 11 April 2009 03:49:23 by Annsley | Categories: Blockies, Music, Life in General, Stuff, Real Petty, All |
34 comments » 34 comments
I'll review Baby I'm Broke soonest.
And then you can do The Towering Inferno.
We can do this for quite a bit, really. Hahaha.
And pretty soon the whole record will have been reviewed.
As for yesterhour's The Plan, it will be damn exciting if that pans out. Methinks.
Oh, The Plan!!! That is something to look forward to, too. Who knows, you might get S Part II? Ha.
Anyway, do IT now! Posthaste. While there's still just 10 on there.
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