I wanted to start this off with the other stuff, and reaching a crescendo with my meaningful soul touching words that you will want to come back to again and again.
I wanted to put in some unfinished sayings of old cliches. I call them, uh-hum, ‘Unfinished Old Cliches’ Thank you, thank you very much.
1. Curiosity killed the cat…..but he found out what he wanted to know.
2. If these walls could talk….no one would listen because they would be bored already with their yapping.
3. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch…but it is okay if you count your chicks, and anything else you get makes for a good breakfast.
4. You can’t have your cake and eat it too…unless you have a fork and then it is okay.
5. We will cross that bridge when we get to it…who said that you were coming along with me to that bridge anyway?
6. A bird in the bush is worth nothing, but two birds caught in your gun sight is almost dinner.
7. Killing two birds with one stone…yeah, if a bird passes out in the air and dies after seeing you kill his friend with the rock in the first place.
8. A shave and a haircut…two twenties, and a shave will cost extra.
I will finish with the words to a song that has baffled me for years. ‘MacArthur Park’. If you can explain these words I would be a very happy man.
‘…Someone left the cake out in the rain, I don’t think that I can take it, it took so long to make it, and I’ll never have that recipe again.’ That is either really deep, or someone was smoking a little somethin’, somethin’. But again if you can help me, I sure would appreciate it.
Okay, now my head hurts from thinking too much, I will get to the deep stuff later. Until then, goodnight everybody!
D.
According to Shiloh Noone, author of Seekers Guide To The Rhythm Of Yesteryear, Webb’s original lyrics mention that the cake was laced with hashish, but this was left out due to legalities.
Jimmy Webb (from Q magazine): “It’s clearly about a love affair ending, and the person singing it is using the cake and the rain as a metaphor for that. OK, it may be far out there, and a bit incomprehensible, but I wrote the song at a time in the late 1960s when surrealistic lyrics were the order of the day.”
Interesting song facts: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1875
LOL Thats funny.
Tom! You the man!
My wife calls me a music nerd!
If you are into music, I’ll be posting about Nick Laird-Clowes later today at http://tomsbytes.wordpress.com/.
Thomas-You are the man, the man meet The Doug. I always thought that it was a metaphor for a relationship, but I also thought that maybe it was a song about a baker that was sad after a birthday party in the park and they left that darn cake out again. It was the only recipe they had of the cake and now someone was wanting them to make the cake again. And then the songs picks up to a disco beat and everyone just dances and forgets all about the cake in the first place. That was more interesting to me.
I too am a music nerd. My friends would always ask me questions about music. That is the only thing they would trust I know about. I wish that they would have given a class on entertainment trivia, it would have been the only class I would have recieved a B- on.
Jimbo-Glad to make you laugh long distance. If you remember you are the one that gave me the idea about the curious cat. I think that it goes along well with your shivering like a cat in a certain situation southern phrase.
TD.
It’s posted. If you’re interested in Nick Drake, here’s a wiki about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake.