Thu 7 Sep 2006
In the spirit of reciprocal links, Izzy gave us Who Are the Real Girls from Daniel Amos and I respond with Mall all Over the World. Both of which I saw performed in concert 22 years ago. I am not bragging, but who could forget.
Mannequin left!
Mannequin right!
Do the mannequin day and night
Elevator up, Escalate down
It spreads like the blob
It swallows your town
Which is almost as good as Randy Stonehill’s Stop the World I Wanna Get Off
From memory because I can’t find it online and my tape is busted:
Stop the world
I wanna get off
This is too weird for me…..
Stop the world
I wanna get off
I just got to find a planet
That is interested in sanitydododdoodoodooddodo
It really is a pretty good song
Which reminds me of Wordsworth:
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. -Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Maybe a guitar lick would help the old guy.
I should get to bed. It is 10:00 pm and you will rarely find me at the computer of an evening. I get giddy at about 8:30 pm.
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Great poetry, all three :-).
I once saw the Beach Boys in concert, when I was in high school, and they were getting long-in-the-tooth even then. At the time I was in Oregon and I never dreamed I would be a California girl, and raising three California girls of my own. I don’t think we are the types of California girls they had in mind. I think Daniel Amos asks some good questions in that song of his. Mebbe I’ll have to listen to it…
Comment by Carmon (September 8, 2006 @ 1:27 am )
That Randy Stonehill tape/cd would make a great gift for someone ear and dear to your heart….hint, hint.
Comment by Tim (September 8, 2006 @ 5:39 am )
As corny as that music was, at least it didn’t come with apocolyptic bass, or lyrics composed of 3-5 words repeated over and over again, mainly Freak, Po-Po, Jail, and Booty. Or a world class strip tease-music video, in retrospect, and in total humor, give me the beach boys. Timmay
Comment by Timothy (September 8, 2006 @ 6:46 am )
Oh wow…Daniel Amos is/are still around? Cool! When I was a teenager I used to babysit for my cousin and her husband was a DA fan. I’d put “Shotgun Angel” on the turntable and dance around the living room carrying one colicky baby and entertaining a wild toddler.
I saw DA in concert sometime in the late 70s or early 80s. Absolutely LOVED “Mary Baker Eddy”…”we might have believed her if her teeth hadn’t rotted out!”
Thanks for the nostalgia!
Comment by Elizabeth (September 8, 2006 @ 7:56 am )
“we might have believed her if her teeth hadn’t rotted out!” I love it!
Speaking of Mary Baker Eddy, did you know there is a hymn by her in our (older) Trinity Hymnal? “Master, the Tempest is Raging” is the title. Some of you may be familiar with it. Apparently before her downfall (and rotted teeth)…
Comment by Linda (September 8, 2006 @ 11:04 am )