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| From | kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Sweet Caroline |
| Date | Fri, 8 Oct 2004 07:21:05 -0700 (PDT) |
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now wait just a cotton pickin minute people - i'm
almost positive that movie was set in Minnesota. Sure,
maybe Greg S. has the northern wisconsin right, but
isn't the whole deal - the snow plowing of 8 feet of
snow, the strangely wholesome Fargo-ness of it all -
does that not just cry out "twin cities" to you all?
and re: Sweet Caroline - whilst at karaoke a few weeks
back, i too wondered what cultural phenom caused
EVERY...SINGLE...PERSON in the bar to shout out,
during the part of the chorus just after "..never
seemed so good" the chant, "SO GOOD! SO GOOD! SO
GOOD!" quite akin to the "GET LAID! GET F$CKED!" part
of Mony Mony. Speculation at my table was that it came
from that movie as well, but no one could specifically
remember if that was actually IN the movie or not.
curious.
on the other hand, music as a social beast is always a
little peculiar...eg, there was a bar in my college
town that, for years and years, played "American Pie"
at midnight as a singalong, and years' worth of
underage drinkin' college sophomores who'd never heard
a classic rock song in all their born days would
suddenly be bustin out their best Don McLean...until
that bar closed, and reopened as a slightly hipper
"modern" rock bar, where, it was reported to me, they
dispensed with "American Pie" but now did the exact
same thing with "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
that always just struck me as so weird, i dunno.
anyway, apropos of nothing, there's also this rockband
dude at karaoke who favors those faux-operatic
thrash-metal songs to oversing along to (when he
starts up, my friend Robin intones, "You will never
understand his pain, Kelly"), but when he sings any
Neil Diamond he sounds *exactly* like him. And also a
little like Ethel Merman.
--kelly
--- Beth2459@aol.com wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Wait, I saw this movie too -- doesn't it take
> place in New England? It
> > might have to do with the Sox connection.
=====
arma non servant modum
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