I have time to write software today for the first time in a while — which is well because we need it. While I was working, Radio Paradise (commercial-free semi-hip music for middle-aged white people) played William Shatner’s cover of Pulp’s Common People, and it made me so nuts I had to go out and find a clip.
Glad I did, because this mash-up is just perfect. I grew up in a grimy industrial town in downstate Illinois, way over on the wrong side of the tracks. I was lucky to have school teachers who were old enough to have pre-dated the unionization of compulsory illiteracy — but that just means I know how to tell you to go have safe sex with yourself in all the best dead languages. If you’ve never bought a steak without weighing the cost, this song is for you.
Teri Lussier says:
I <3 you, Greg Swann.
December 30, 2009 — 2:41 pm
Greg Swann says:
> I <3 you, Greg Swann.
I knew you’d like that. Have I never inflicted Tom Waits’ The Heart of Saturday Night on you? Even despite yourself, you’ll feel like it was written on the brick-cobbled streets of Dayton.
December 30, 2009 — 8:09 pm
Thomas Johnson says:
Here’s to an uncommon new decade for us all!
December 30, 2009 — 2:51 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Here’s to an uncommon new decade for us all!
I’m for that. I’d like to have a clear vision of the finish line by 2020. (Sorry about that, Chief.)
December 30, 2009 — 8:12 pm
Teri Lussier says:
>Have I never inflicted Tom Waits’ The Heart of Saturday Night on you?
Why yes, yes you have. But Waits doesn’t make me laugh, he makes me cry. I can do that on my own…
December 31, 2009 — 5:39 am