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smokingbootOK,it's official. I need help.
See, I don't regard myself as a weepy woman not really, even during those most regular of feminine experiences...I get murderous, not fragile. I knew something was wrong last night when I was honestly feeling Renaldo's pain at being unable to continue the match; actually I should have been sorry for those poor Dutch players; the poor devils were hitting the deck every minute and a half - must have been one hell of a sniper somewhere in that crowd.
My undue sympathy came as a bit of a surprise to me, but not as bizarre as my sudden response to a video clip I saw just now. Anyone remember the song 'Starlight' by the Superman Lovers? The video tells the story of an animated rat and his potato headed friend who make a record. It bums out on their home world, but certain aliens love it and come to take Rat and Potatohead to a new cosmic home. Unfortunately the aliens are werry werry small and their spaceship is to scale, so they take Rat to a glorious jacuzzi in the sky and leave Potatohead behind. There is a point where Potatohead weeps and Rat's lips quiver...and suddenly tears were in my own eyes at the thought of poor abandoned Potatohead. It all seemed so unjust...
I couldn't watch it and came up here instead.
Yes it has been a stressful week, but this is out of control even for me. Empathy for plasticene is not a useful superpower. Anyone want some spare hormones?
See, I don't regard myself as a weepy woman not really, even during those most regular of feminine experiences...I get murderous, not fragile. I knew something was wrong last night when I was honestly feeling Renaldo's pain at being unable to continue the match; actually I should have been sorry for those poor Dutch players; the poor devils were hitting the deck every minute and a half - must have been one hell of a sniper somewhere in that crowd.
My undue sympathy came as a bit of a surprise to me, but not as bizarre as my sudden response to a video clip I saw just now. Anyone remember the song 'Starlight' by the Superman Lovers? The video tells the story of an animated rat and his potato headed friend who make a record. It bums out on their home world, but certain aliens love it and come to take Rat and Potatohead to a new cosmic home. Unfortunately the aliens are werry werry small and their spaceship is to scale, so they take Rat to a glorious jacuzzi in the sky and leave Potatohead behind. There is a point where Potatohead weeps and Rat's lips quiver...and suddenly tears were in my own eyes at the thought of poor abandoned Potatohead. It all seemed so unjust...
I couldn't watch it and came up here instead.
Yes it has been a stressful week, but this is out of control even for me. Empathy for plasticene is not a useful superpower. Anyone want some spare hormones?
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Date: 2006-06-27 01:17 pm (UTC)Some things just press the buttons, bypassing logic altogether
Berber's adagio for strings pulls up an image of a burned world that never fails to leave me howling with purely third hand despair, and The JCB Song well, I have my own reasons for getting slightly wobbly when that comes up on the randomiser.
We'll be heading up to your neck of the woods this weekend, are you around sunday evening that we might deliver hugs in person rather than by electronic proxy ?
Grim irony
Date: 2006-06-27 01:45 pm (UTC)Re: Grim irony
Date: 2006-06-27 03:02 pm (UTC)Art' still in the smoke on Monday ?
Re: Grim irony
Date: 2006-06-29 10:05 am (UTC)