RWP

[arguchik]

READING: still working on rey chow's the protestant ethnic and the spirit of capitalism. i'm also reading a rather awful novel by marge piercy called the third child. it's one of those train wrecks of a book that keeps getting worse but you can't look away, can't stop reading. i'm sickly fascinated to see how it ends.

WEARING: jeans and a brown cozy turtleneck sweater. currently my feet are socked but not shod. i'm also wearing a sheet and a comforter, because i am snuggled up in bed next to a napping glaucon.

PLANNING: to drive glaucon to the airport early as fuck-all tomorrow morning. staying at his house tonight, but right now we're at my house (he's doing a load of laundry here because my roommates and i have our own machines into which we don't have to pump quarters). we ate at senor moose tonight with E and F. in the more immediate future, i'm going to look up some song lyrics to settle a dispute he and i are having (don't worry--we were smiling and it's all in fun)...

p.s. post lyrics research: i was right. but um...i had looked these lyrics up before, as i explained to him when he questioned the accuracy of my version, but he still didn't believe me. now i'm not one to say "i told you so," but... :-) fyi, we were in disagreement about the lyrics to the pixies' "here comes your man." the two lines in question: "out by the family stew" (he didn't believe "stew" was the correct word); and "big shake on the boxcar moving" (he thought the word was "shape").

hence, my other new icon: mongoose kicking cobra ass. ;-)

Comments

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

elvis EATS boats.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

well of course he does. that's why the song says so.

the question with the pixies' song is...what are they trying to say? rumor on the web is..."here comes your man" is about either the big SF earthquake from way back (during which the hobos, who were legendarily on their way to california--"the land that's falling down" of another line from the song--and felt the "big shake" while they rode in boxcars); or the A-bombing of nagasaki and hiroshima ("here comes your MAN" thus refers to "fat man," the name of one of the bombs, but where's "little boy" in the song?--in this case i have no idea what the boxcar represents). in my opinion, there's more to support the earthquake interpretation--the "fire breathing," i.e. the fire that followed the big quake; the "wind makes a palm stop blowing," and "i wait so long (so long, so long)", i.e. the eerie stillness before a quake that seems to last forever, and also the wait between the first wave and the aftershocks. in either case, i have no idea what the "family stew" is supposed to be.

if, hypothetically speaking, i were going to entertain myself by watching either firefly or babylon 5, which would you recommend?