Comments on: my morning jacket and the hidden perils of singalong lyrics http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/my-morning-jacket-and-the-hidden-perils-of-singalong-lyrics/ a cozy little den of iniquity inhabited by edward cowan Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: the national evil http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/my-morning-jacket-and-the-hidden-perils-of-singalong-lyrics/#comment-593 the national evil Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:29:48 +0000 http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/?p=528#comment-593 the boa or the fox? the boa or the fox?

]]> By: Bug http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/my-morning-jacket-and-the-hidden-perils-of-singalong-lyrics/#comment-574 Bug Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:17:35 +0000 http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/?p=528#comment-574 Wearing my white boa; the distractions around me did not matter. Let's just call it the Fabulous. Wearing my white boa; the distractions around me did not matter.

Let’s just call it the Fabulous.

]]> By: the national evil http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/my-morning-jacket-and-the-hidden-perils-of-singalong-lyrics/#comment-569 the national evil Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:24:17 +0000 http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/?p=528#comment-569 yes . . . evil knows and dreads the Glow. small flying robots with lasers should be dispatched to shoot the screens of any text-messager in a movie or concert venue. yes . . . evil knows and dreads the Glow. small flying robots with lasers should be dispatched to shoot the screens of any text-messager in a movie or concert venue.

]]> By: Jon http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/my-morning-jacket-and-the-hidden-perils-of-singalong-lyrics/#comment-552 Jon Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:27:10 +0000 http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/?p=528#comment-552 I was at the show and, I don't know if it was the acoustics of where my seat was or what, but I couldn't understand a god damn thing said or sung all night. I did happen to understand the term "HOTLANTA" however, and took a moment to roll my eyes all the way into the back of head (something about my hometown being referred to as "HOTLANTA" or "the A-T-L" that makes me wish my first language was...well, a different one). But seriously, I think that's the only word I understood all night. " Wah, wah, wah, broog, duh, wah, wah, HOTLANTA [crowd cheers] muh fah loog doo." Also worth noting: this is the first concert I've been to since high school that I didn't get boozed up. If I'd have waited in those lines, I would have missed three quarters of the show. Also, the guy next to me was text messaging for literally half the show, and while that shouldn't matter to me, it was mildly distracting to have that glow in my peripheral. I was at the show and, I don’t know if it was the acoustics of where my seat was or what, but I couldn’t understand a god damn thing said or sung all night. I did happen to understand the term “HOTLANTA” however, and took a moment to roll my eyes all the way into the back of head (something about my hometown being referred to as “HOTLANTA” or “the A-T-L” that makes me wish my first language was…well, a different one). But seriously, I think that’s the only word I understood all night. ” Wah, wah, wah, broog, duh, wah, wah, HOTLANTA [crowd cheers] muh fah loog doo.”

Also worth noting: this is the first concert I’ve been to since high school that I didn’t get boozed up. If I’d have waited in those lines, I would have missed three quarters of the show.

Also, the guy next to me was text messaging for literally half the show, and while that shouldn’t matter to me, it was mildly distracting to have that glow in my peripheral.

]]> By: victormv http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/my-morning-jacket-and-the-hidden-perils-of-singalong-lyrics/#comment-537 victormv Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:00:36 +0000 http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/?p=528#comment-537 Jesus was quite the sower. Almost everybody knows about Mary Magdalene, thanks to Dan Brown's timely celebrity tell-all (it's like <i>Weekly World News</i> without Bat Boy, and, well, "news"), and rumors have been flying hot and heavy about John, "the apostle Jesus loved" and whom the very Word of God itself attests laid his head upon the Lord's lap at the Last Supper (now <i>that's</i> what I call a Seder!) for at least the last millennium and a half. But, I have it direct from the <a href="http://www.audleystrange.com/apocalypse/index.html" rel="nofollow">alleged-scapegoat's mouth</a> that Jesus was also getting it on with "the black apostle" (children of the Seventies who like myself learned everything important about religion from Andrew Lloyd Webber know who I mean). But, alas, the Broadway drama queens got it all wrong! Turns out he was Jewish, and had a penchant for the mini-robe. All the same, you can see it right there for yourself, plain as day. Yeah, yeah, I can hear you now, "Next thing you'll be telling us, Betsy Ross and Harriet Tubman retired to a condo in Northampton, MA." But if you can't trust an eight year old demoness in a zoot-suit, who can you trust? Anyway, point is, two out of three of the dark holes Jesus was likely planting seed in didn't have a chance in hell, and as for Magdalene, didn't that line allegedly bring us W? And have something to do with giants and fish-gods from outer space? I might be remembering that wrong... Jesus was quite the sower. Almost everybody knows about Mary Magdalene, thanks to Dan Brown’s timely celebrity tell-all (it’s like Weekly World News without Bat Boy, and, well, “news”), and rumors have been flying hot and heavy about John, “the apostle Jesus loved” and whom the very Word of God itself attests laid his head upon the Lord’s lap at the Last Supper (now that’s what I call a Seder!) for at least the last millennium and a half. But, I have it direct from the alleged-scapegoat’s mouth that Jesus was also getting it on with “the black apostle” (children of the Seventies who like myself learned everything important about religion from Andrew Lloyd Webber know who I mean). But, alas, the Broadway drama queens got it all wrong! Turns out he was Jewish, and had a penchant for the mini-robe. All the same, you can see it right there for yourself, plain as day.

Yeah, yeah, I can hear you now, “Next thing you’ll be telling us, Betsy Ross and Harriet Tubman retired to a condo in Northampton, MA.” But if you can’t trust an eight year old demoness in a zoot-suit, who can you trust?

Anyway, point is, two out of three of the dark holes Jesus was likely planting seed in didn’t have a chance in hell, and as for Magdalene, didn’t that line allegedly bring us W? And have something to do with giants and fish-gods from outer space?

I might be remembering that wrong…

]]> By: the national evil http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/my-morning-jacket-and-the-hidden-perils-of-singalong-lyrics/#comment-536 the national evil Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:29:39 +0000 http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/?p=528#comment-536 whoa. jesus said that? maybe all he really ever wanted was an heir, but all the ladies he tried reproducing with proved barren . . . or at least, that's what he told them. cause it couldn't have been him, right? sonagod don't shoot no blanks! same thing happened to henry VIII. oh, and . . . WATCH OUT FOR THE ROCK! whoa. jesus said that? maybe all he really ever wanted was an heir, but all the ladies he tried reproducing with proved barren . . . or at least, that’s what he told them. cause it couldn’t have been him, right? sonagod don’t shoot no blanks!

same thing happened to henry VIII.

oh, and . . .

WATCH OUT FOR THE ROCK!

]]> By: victormv http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/my-morning-jacket-and-the-hidden-perils-of-singalong-lyrics/#comment-535 victormv Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:23:42 +0000 http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/?p=528#comment-535 Well, Evil, you really <I>must</I> introduce me to your friends, or at least "one" of them! But, ineffectual pick-up lines aside, and though I do know precisely the dynamic of which you speak (having had virtually the same experience at a PiL show back in '88 -- of course, minus the annoyance of cellphones) I do feel the need to play Devil's Advocate here (oh, savor the irony!). For sure, there have been many cases where even I, in my relative ignorance and innocence of youth, missed the whole point of everything while singing along. But, it does seem to me there were likely several young but honest-to-god innovators in that crowd, dressed like all the others and blindly singing along. It's a part of growing up -- reject traditional mores for those of your peer group, hopefully as a stepping stone before losing even that crutch and letting your true, unique voice and words rise up to arouse others. I kind of look at it this way -- artists spread their subversive messages like seed, and I do think Jesus had it right that most of the time, those seeds fall on barren ground. Every once in a while, if you're lucky, they take root and grow in a true innovator in their own right, but this always takes time, to say nothing of the right conditions. Hell, I'm only just now "getting" Quadrophenia, and the insight I just shared in part grew from that seed, planted over thirty years ago Well, Evil, you really must introduce me to your friends, or at least “one” of them!

But, ineffectual pick-up lines aside, and though I do know precisely the dynamic of which you speak (having had virtually the same experience at a PiL show back in ‘88 — of course, minus the annoyance of cellphones) I do feel the need to play Devil’s Advocate here (oh, savor the irony!).

For sure, there have been many cases where even I, in my relative ignorance and innocence of youth, missed the whole point of everything while singing along. But, it does seem to me there were likely several young but honest-to-god innovators in that crowd, dressed like all the others and blindly singing along. It’s a part of growing up — reject traditional mores for those of your peer group, hopefully as a stepping stone before losing even that crutch and letting your true, unique voice and words rise up to arouse others. I kind of look at it this way — artists spread their subversive messages like seed, and I do think Jesus had it right that most of the time, those seeds fall on barren ground. Every once in a while, if you’re lucky, they take root and grow in a true innovator in their own right, but this always takes time, to say nothing of the right conditions.

Hell, I’m only just now “getting” Quadrophenia, and the insight I just shared in part grew from that seed, planted over thirty years ago

]]> By: billyr http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/my-morning-jacket-and-the-hidden-perils-of-singalong-lyrics/#comment-534 billyr Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:30:26 +0000 http://thenationalevil.wordpress.com/?p=528#comment-534 GO ROCK!!!! BOO ASS-EATERS!!!! (except one. we all know who that is.) GO ROCK!!!! BOO ASS-EATERS!!!! (except one. we all know who that is.)

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