Some Mondays are bigger than others

[quesarah]

Don't ask me why I have the Smiths stuck in my head. It's not a condition that pleases me, in fact I'm doing everything I can to get them the hell outta there! Currently I'm listening to Maxwell and he's helping to evict them. Cross your fingers, cats.

Well I may have an idea-- last night I heard a cover of "Please Let Me Get What I Want." That's quite possibly the most self-pitying miserable little song ever written, and I don't understand why anyone would want to cover it. May as well just cover "I Know It's Over:" Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head... I know that similar themes are addressed in blues music, but you almost never run the risk of getting your ass kicked for listening to the blues. Crikey.

(See. I told you I'd been wanting to use "crikey." I finally gave in. Hopefully the urge will now pass.)

virginmartyr1 and I had no luck at the Border's this weekend. Apparently no one knows about college a capella groups. Super neato goodness. So I need to dig around to find any music. Lookit me dig. Dig, me, dig!

Comments

[king-ghidorah.livejournal.com]

I know that similar themes are addressed in blues music, but you almost never run the risk of getting your ass kicked for listening to the blues.

The Smiths do not have the blues. They are melancholy, but they do not have the blues.

The blues are about life. Pain, sorrow, loss, poverty, jail... sure all that sad stuff is important, and often confused with the core ethos of the blues. The blues instead happens to recognize key truths of buddhism, that life is inseparable from suffering, and that suffering comes from wanting what you can't (or just don't) have.

The Smiths seem to be more about whiny suburban angst. Ugh.

Besides, the Smiths were a buncha wimps. Bessie Smith woulda taken a razor to the lot of 'em, and then shot 'em all when they ran in fear. Then she would have had a drink and slept with a man who would then sleep with her best friend. The she'd cut him, too.

[wafflelips.livejournal.com]

::snort::

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Pretentious twat.

[wafflelips.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it's still kind of funny. The notion of Bessie Smith getting all over the Smiths.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I like this image better: a shaven-headed Bessie Smith garbed in saffron robes, sitting on the floor chanting.

Om, rama lama ding dong

Now THAT'S comedy!

[wafflelips.livejournal.com]

You are funny. This is one of the reasons I love you so much.