lol surm
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
i just tried listening to graceland but was so embarrassed about it when my boyfriend walked in the room that i had to turn it off
this is just terrible
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
this thread title is slowly driving me insane btw
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
it's really the m@rris$a m@rchant-y condescending "I'm sorry" that puts it over the top
― Neanderthal, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
haha i dont know have you ever taken a big trip after a life change? i ended up being very over-share-y with strangers, and all did was graduate from college, not divorce anyone
otm this is totally a thing― g++ (gbx), Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:11 PM (4 minutes ago)
. . . with canadian trucker ladies
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
the thread title should be changed to hello sb my old friend.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
hush
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
― estela, Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
otm
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
max talking about having a 'life change' made me thought he was menopausal for a sec
― Autism Alamac (some dude), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ApuDOB0eMd0/SQIdqPyREBI/AAAAAAAAAZo/E15mT-eb7Z8/s320/4653_elderly_menopause_woman_having_a_hot_flash.jpg
― Neanderthal, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
still think it sounds like the kinda challoping you'd hear from an idiot teenager with a hand on her hip holding forth next to her locker
or like my mom getting defensive about not liking rap music or w/e
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
i made myself a paul simon playlist and went for a walk listening to it btw ty this thread
― horseshoe, Sunday, August 7, 2011 8:34 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
link?
― ice cr?m, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
spotify me
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
We're so sorry, Uncle Alamac
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
― surm, Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:07 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i admit for a while graceland was considered a guilty pleasure to me, but ive liked this album since i was ten y/o so weve been through a lot together
― ice cr?m, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
that might also be why I'm kinda w/e about aeros colonialist misgivings---I was jamming this as a kid, what is a colonialism anyway n/m who cares
― g++ (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
personally, I was much more concerned about the fact that Chevy Chase was in the video
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
which was awesome, naturally
― golf n stuff (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
silver lining
― surm, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
I was jamming this as a kid, what is a colonialism anyway n/m who cares
― g++ (gbx), Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:37 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha i actually vaguely recall said lefty protestations at the time of release, then later i stared posting to ilx
― ice cr?m, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
I don't like the idea that people who aren't adolescents make records. Adolescents make the best records. Except for Paul Simon. Except for Graceland. He's hit a new plateau there, but he's writing to his own age group. Graceland is something new. That song to his son is just as good as "Blue Suede Shoes": "Before you were born dude when life was great." That's just as good as "Blue Suede Shoes," and that is a new dimension.
Joe Strummer interviewed by Richard Cromelin for the Los Angeles Times on January 31, 1988[8]
― ice cr?m, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
hahah!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
And when I wear that starry crownI won't be wanting anymore
theres the part in 'slip slidin' away' where he sings of a man who wore his passion for his woman as a thorny crown that i really love! but i think that whole song is really great
lol @ joe strummer too btw
― Lamp, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
can i just list the songs on my playlist?
late in the eveningdazzling blueyou can call me alpeace like a riveroldsomething so rightthe obvious childhearts and bonesamerican tuneparanoia bluesslip slidin' awaythat was your mothermy little towncongratulationsgone at lastso beautiful or so whatthink too much (b)
nb: it is hard when listening to a song off the self-titled or graceland not to want to listen to the whole album.
joe strummer otm. paul simon songs about his kids are the best.
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
slip slidin' away is a perfect song
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes i sing st judy's comet to my little dog when he's sleepy.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
aw!
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
trust you to like that.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
haha i have been known to *get something in my eye* when that song comes on
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
i saw paul simon and edie brickell once, not sure if they were married yet but i remember thinking they are very well matched height-wise
― buzza, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
i once saw paul simon rescue a special needs child who had fallen down a well--he brushed it off and said, "all in a day's work. does anybody here play the pan flute?"
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
paul simon invented ilx in "the dangling conversation"
― chief content officer (m coleman), Monday, 8 August 2011 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
oh man I'll praise Simon when he's good but I hate me some "Slip Slidin Away"
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 8 August 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
:(
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
think too much (b) can't believe you picked b over a. when i was seventeen, me and the girls from st. augustine, up in the mezzanine, thinkin bout god yeah
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 8 August 2011 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
maybe i think too much
haha i'm sorry i love them both!
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
i think he was twelve going on thirteen, though. not seventeen.
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
the sort of cheerfully mournful "she comes back to tell me shes gone" and the over-indignant "as if i didnt know that/as if i didnt know my own bed" and then that gorgeous pause that drifts off into the heartbreaking "as if id never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead"
― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkif someone said those things to me at a gas station i'd be a little overwhelmed
― horseshoe, Monday, 8 August 2011 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinki'd be intrigued but alert.
― estela, Monday, 8 August 2011
this was good
some good things in this ill-titled thread
― the pinefox, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:22 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know Horseshoe was a woman till a minute ago
― the pinefox, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:24 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, this thread is still going strong. Guess I hit a nerve. Sorry if some were offended. We all have our preferences.
― Alamac, Monday, 8 August 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Just full of apologies.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 August 2011 11:38 (twelve years ago) link
some ppl's preferences are appalling, though, is the thing
― a chaos of crevasses at cape crozier (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 12:05 (twelve years ago) link
Alamac how you gon create a thread then scurry away while it explodes
― Neanderthal, Monday, 8 August 2011 12:08 (twelve years ago) link
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, August 8, 2011 12:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
whoa what
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 August 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
Not scurrying away, just working, sleeping, etc.
― Alamac, Monday, 8 August 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know Horseshoe was a woman till a minute ago― the pinefox, Monday, August 8, 2011 9:24 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
― the pinefox, Monday, August 8, 2011 9:24 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
whoa me too
― sarahel hath no fury (history mayne), Monday, 8 August 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
thats some sixth sense shit huh
― max, Monday, 8 August 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
love slip slidin away
*nears destination*
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Monday, 8 August 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
Reminds me, gotta go over to that Jazz album poll and campaign for Destination... Out!
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link