New Vagueness

Post by **Sloth** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 6:10 pm

Saw the Proclaimers (of 'I would walk 500 miles...' ie new wave stalker song) last night at the Crocodile. They were good but it was not my cup of tea. They are nerdy new wave Scots who rock it out.

The just love to sing and wail on those guitars. They kept thanking IBM and Disney for making their lives so much better. IBM paid for a song in a commercial and Disney used a song in Shrek. Millions of dollars they never got from the pop singles. They were pretty funny and their scotch accents were really thick.

Anybody like them? They just seem so uncool and even daringly so. So when I thought of them as a 'new wave' folk band I got to think of 'new wave' and the French term that spawned it 'nouvelle vague'.

Nouvelel vague translated literally 'new vagueness' not 'new wave'. Why do we English speakers fuck so much latin-based beauty up so badly?

'New wave' is meaningless while 'new vagueness' sounds mysterious and cool like its supposed to be. I wanna move to another country.

marky · Post by **marky** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 6:28 am

I just never could stand that song about the 500 miles. I don't care if they're from Scotland or Timbuk 2. It's a shame, really.

Post by **Sloth** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:44 pm

"But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
To be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door"

Sounds like a stalker song to me.

But no really... the Proclaimers are a rare breed of nerds who rock. When they play you can tell they love it and know what they're doing.

Post by **Sloth** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:44 pm

Still I agree that they're not very good.

Post by **Sloth** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:45 pm

But granted I don't like very many things.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:14 am

yes but as a dj I know that at a wedding if you play Shout, Hey Ya, That Proclaimer song, that Chumbawama song- 'I get knocked down, I get up again, I drink a lager drink, I drink a cider drink', and Nevermind, you have everyone from grannies to 10-year-old kids shaking their groove thing, and it's all in good fun, dweebs like me dancing to hip hop and indie! see i dance too.

rabbit · Post by **rabbit** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:31 am

i need a dj

Post by **mccutcheon** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:43 am

I'll do it for free, as long as you fly me down there, let me crash on your floor and hit on the maid of honor. are you really getting married?

Sloth always said marriage equals death and I always said marriage is great. now he is married to a wondeful woman whom I love dearly. at the end of the cocaine nights she and I were always the last ones still up playing records, drinking beer, and snorting the carpet.

rabbit · Post by **rabbit** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:51 am

yes, im really getting married. I'll see what I can work out, I think that would be cool as hell to have you dj.

Maverick · Post by **Maverick** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:05 am

Congratulations! That photo is very Paxacidus, but I suggest forthe actual wedding photos that you hold a beer in one hand, your wife in the other, and have her hold a copy of McCutcheon's "Burnt Roof of Mouth". A nice added touch would be some pills sitting ona table next to you.

Seriously, congratulations and good luck to you and your sexy fiance

Post by **mccutcheon** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:27 am

I think the Mav man has a crush on your girl. so we know one guy who won't be invited. Even though Mav has a great woman of his own, who was just visiting me, by the way, and that Mav is very well behaved. better than me in fact. go figure.

really though, rabbit, you have done very well for yourself and all happiness to you and yours.

and I'd fucking love to DJ. I'll even pay $20o towards a ticket if you pick me and my gear up from the airport. When is the wedding?

Tommy Martyn · Post by **Tommy Martyn** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:49 am

Congratulations on your marriage. Here is a slice of Tommy advice for your wedding day......

At some point in the post ceremony festivities take your charming bride (Name?) to one side. Stand off away from the others and take in the whole scene together. Make a point of trying to remember everything that you see. Then plant a giant smacker on her. Many years later when you remember the occasion together you will be able to recall the same scene and the same kiss. Trust me it is a very cool thing to do.

Time to get back to being a miserable bastard.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 8:08 am

Hey terror of the Midwest you in Ohio yet?

rabbit · Post by **rabbit** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 8:20 pm

Thanks Tommy, Ill keep that in mind.

rabbit · Post by **rabbit** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:29 pm

ok mc, I'll let you know whats goin on as soon as I figure it out. Hopefully we can work something out. I'll keep you posted.