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15_the_circle) wrote2007-07-06 02:25 pm
15_the_circle) wrote2007-07-06 02:25 pm
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Thursday: mellow yellow on 2nd Avenue
[OT from cottage renovations]
"I'm just mad about Saffron / she's just mad about me,
I'm just mad about Saffron / she's just mad about me.
they call me Mellow Yellow ..."
Donovan's lyrics never made any sense, but they didn't have to for the phrase to acquire a life of its own. somehow it seems to suit the shade of these day lilies. quite rightly.
(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)
2nd Avenue
Hemerocallis fulva
no subject
Beautiful shots, both of them!
electrical bananna, is going to be the very next phase
sorry, there's no antidote
I am so sorry.
that has to be one of the flat out stupidest tunes to ever get stuck in one's head. then, of course, the only way to get rid of it is with something even worse.
Re: sorry, there's no antidote
revenge!
EE leck TRIC al
ba NA na
it's GONna be a SUDDen CRAZE
EE leck TRIC al
ba NA na
Hemerocallis fulva
it's BOUND to be the VERY next PHASE ...
The battle of stupid songs ...
Tune-a by the cockeyed world in two
Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do
Beatniks and politics, nothing is new.
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view
the colour of time?
"who cares what games we choose?
little to wager and nothing to lose."
Re: the colour of time?
I looked up the words to that song. It's "the color of thyme" Wouldn't you know it!
give ME some time. I'll find another mystery tune.
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along with the parsley, sage and rosemary?
just wondering what your source was -- many disagree as to content and, well, more than quite a few performers and audience members (they were such a lovely audience) had excellent reasons for less-than-total-recall.
it's a wonderfully catchy tune, loved it when it first came out. but then it took a while for some of the context to make any sense: I was just a kid, that incense burned out long before the legend ever did.
years later, which by now also means years ago, I heard a radio interview with the lead vocalist on that cut. he said, in an account somewhat at variance with what's in wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense_and_peppermints), that the band had come together on the fly and it wasn't until they were in the studio that somebody came to the awful realisation that none of them could actually sing. oops. so he did the track and there he was, lead vocal on a no. 1 hit. he goes on to say that in trying to use this to impress chicks he had one little problem: none of them would believe him. oops.
so there you have it, two perspectives, either of which might be true. or both -- they're not inconsistent.
Richard Feynman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman) recounted a similar experience after the Second World War: nobody would believe he was a widower who had worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos.
with examples like those it's no wonder I never try to impress the young ladies. it can't be done.
Mystery Song .. slightly obscure. No googling allowed. Unless you give up.
When you wake up in the morning
Rub some sleep from your eye
Look inside your mirror
Comb your hair
Don't give vanity a second chance
No, no, no
Beauty's only skin deep
It goes just so far 'cause
re: Mystery Song .. slightly obscure. No googling allowed. Unless you give up.
that one started to throw me, if only because the second line was overlaid by one from the Cowboy junkies in 1992 ("To Live Is To Fly" on Black Eyed Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Eyed_Man)).
but OMG did you take that pic? where ever did you find her?
she's, like, completely unchanged (still crazy after all these years).
I don't believe she was my younger Alaskan niece's namesake (actually I know how and why she wasn't, but that's another story).
Give Me Just A Little More Time to
exhumefind another ...Re: Mystery Song .. slightly obscure. No googling allowed. Unless you give up.
“still crazy after all these years” (don’t know what comes next here … )
“give me just a little more time” and our love will surely grow.
You’re good! Did I miss any?
I love that you use the acronym OMG. Do you also indulge in LOL? It’s okay, we’re allowed because the rules are if you’ve been a chatter on the internet for more than 10 years, you can LOL, OMG and even LMAO, all you want.
Yes, I found Ms. Vamp at a thrift store. She was irresistible. The song comes from a Jefferson Airplane album called Bark. You’d recognize Grace’s voice as she sings, “You’re only pretty as you feel
Only pretty as you feel inside”
I uploaded it for you listening pleasure. A very wonderful song off a classic album. I mailed the album to a friend in New York who had the means of making the sound digital. But you'll still hear the scratching sounds of a needle across the vinyl.
please stand by ...
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> Did I miss any?
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just one, but no doubt you'll find it while saying goodbye to the yellow brick road.
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> Do you also indulge in LOL?
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well, actually, no. one has to draw the line somewhere.
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> you'll still hear the scratching sounds
> of a needle across the vinyl.
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and that's exactly as it should be.
my older sister was the one who was more into the Jefferson Airplane thing, to be expected of one who went to Berkeley. but around a year ago I mentally titled this image (http://www.livejournal.com/~15_the_circle/65998.html) crown of creation though what was stuck in my head at the time was the phrase, not the tune.
next catchy stupid song will probably not happen 'til tomorrow for the simple reason that it will take that long for another one to get ineluctably stuck in my head. thank heavens for Grace, though: your upload was just the thing to clear out the scent of that incense and those peppermints :)