Flippant Friday: A most serious debate has been settled.

[sabotabby]

This being, of course, the matter of the papasan chair that, while clearly belonging to Miss L., was appropriated and collectivized for the masses* by Chairman Marinetti.








Apropos of nothing:

• Your eyes don't deceive you -- this is actually the best icon ever. Thanks, groovitude!
• I had "The Company Store" by Greg MacPherson running through my head all day, despite someone's efforts to earworm me with something else. Anyone ever heard that song? I can't stop humming it. I blame Chez Newfie.
• I found a hidden stash of Mao stuff, including what seemed to be a Mao valentine, on my way back from work today. They had a Little Red Book that was about the size of my pinkie. Squee!
• On a more somber note, my clever plan to ask Ward Churchill out for a beer tomorrow night has been foiled by the long arm of the law. He's back in court and can't leave the country.

And I'm still deathly ill. Ick.

* And when I say "masses," I am referring to the size of his bum.

Comments

[sabotabby]

This isn't the song you're thinking of, although I like that one too. This is an angry East Coast mining song, which is up there with sea shanties in terms of musical squee. I'm irritated that I can't find the CD it's on in any record store. (I know where to get it online, though, but I'm still not too into the online-ordering thing.)

We have clumps of fur all over the apartment. We really do need a Roomba.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

OMG, I love that song! Every time we go to visit my partner's parents in Scarberia, we walk through a tunnel at the Lawrence East station and she sings the whole song underground, with awesome booming acoustics.

Now it's stuck in my head, thanks.

[sabotabby]

I'm never up at Lawrence East, but if I ever am, I'll try to sing in the tunnels. Hee.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

Don't go out of your way. It's a miserable, underlit, dirty, oft-flooded concrete deathtrap. Rather like an Appalachian coalmine I would imagine.

The back entrance to the Spadina station is my favourite place to sing. Alas, I only know one opera song. "Corpus inimici, conspuo" (= "I spit on my enemy's body").

[kayt-arminta.livejournal.com]

16 Tonnes is the actual name of the song. I have the sheet music for it, since we sang it in choir. I love that song. I'm Caprinus's partner, BTW, the one that sings it in the tunnel at Lawrence East RT station. It's got more of a jazz beat, and was often sung by our highschool senior jazz choir.... though the original was much much slower, and not nearly as high energy to sing. It was one of the only songs where the tenors got to sing as lead. That, and Bashana Habaha (I know I just butchered the hebrew name for the song, but I don't have the sheet music handy). It was a rare treat for us to actually sing the song, instead of just supporting the soprano's.