The ‘listening’ thing was a little, uh, culturally recondite. At least he hasn’t referenced an episode scene from That Girl.
Billmon, please whip out one of those heroic exegeses on the ‘new economy.’
Not that I think you’re a jukebox of blogs, you know.
Posted by: slothrop | Feb 8 2005 20:58 utc | 1
You didn’t watch Monty Python? 😉
I love the references to that special sociopathic sort of hail-fellow-and-well-met modern man…
Not a jukebox perhaps, nor certainly even a man with a tambourine:
“Drop your silver in my tambourine
Help a poor man fill his pretty dream
Give me pennies I’ll take anything
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine
Watch the jingle jangle start to chime
Reflections of the music that is mine
When you drop a coin you’ll hear it sing
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine
Drop a dime before I walk away
Any song you want I’ll gladly play
Money feeds my music machine
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine” – The Lemon Pipers
I suppose you had to be there, same era. 😉
I loved both the “1984” and Monty Python comparisons…
Carry on.
Posted by: Kate_Storm | Feb 8 2005 21:31 utc | 2
Thanks Billmon – you always hit the nail right on.
Hard to stay sane watching them in a close mental loop.
billmon — watch out that you don’t veer too close to dennis miller’s old “look how may arcane references I can prop my act up with” schtick… let’s not go through the whole turn off, tune out thing again. it’s all water off a duckspeaker’s back. we need real ammo, man.
Posted by: b real | Feb 8 2005 21:57 utc | 4