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Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high...

My summer vacation starts today (9:35 pm Aug. 4th, to be most precice).

I plan to laze around, post more than is healthy, hit the beach and pool a few times (yes, to check out the ladies), and generally enjoy the next two weeks of paid vacation.

What are your vacation plans?

Work.

EDIT: Nice Sublime reference, by the way. Listening to that tune now in fact.

Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high...

My summer vacation starts today (9:35 pm Aug. 4th, to be most precice).

I plan to laze around, post more than is healthy, hit the beach and pool a few times (yes, to check out the ladies), and generally enjoy the next two weeks of paid vacation.

What are your vacation plans?

10 days of portugal sun, sea and sand with a few friends are coming up. Have fun with yours

vacation started about a month ago thanks to being at uni - had a couple of weeks of working and doing nothing, then a week in Holland and a week getting wasted & recording music at a friend's. now i'm back on the work and doing nothing plan for the rest of the hols. sadly all my friends are either staying at uni or otherwise unavailable, meaning i only have my parents for company (and NS :fluffle: ). this was ok but now its reallly starting to suck ass :headbang:

Your daddy's rich,
And your mamma's good-lookin'
So hush, pretty baby,
Don't you cry ...

We've already had our big vacation for this year: driving from Cleveland to Las Vegas and, taking a slightly different route, back again. Saw the Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon among other things. On September 1, we leave for a week to visit my family in Minnesota.

Work.

EDIT: Nice Sublime reference, by the way. Listening to that tune now in fact.
I cry for my generation.

Sublime song took that melody and those lyrics from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. If that junkie from that band had lived to be 100 he wouldn't have come withing shooting distance of creating anything as lasting as Gershwin's worst tune.

Work.

EDIT: Nice Sublime reference, by the way. Listening to that tune now in fact.

And if you're up on my other posted concern you'll understand:
"Hush little baby, don't you cry"

I cry for my generation.

Sublime song took that melody and those lyrics from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. If that junkie from that band had lived to be 100 he wouldn't have come withing shooting distance of creating anything as lasting as Gershwin's worst tune.


OK, you can laugh at me now - wasn't he talking about Porgy and Bess??? (I know I was...)

OK, you can laugh at me now - wasn't he talking about Porgy and Bess??? (I know I was...)
Well, I THINK he was referring to the band Sublime, which had a hit song in the late 90s that used the part of the melody and lyrics of "Summertime" in its chorus.

I cry for my generation.

Sublime song took that melody and those lyrics from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. If that junkie from that band had lived to be 100 he wouldn't have come withing shooting distance of creating anything as lasting as Gershwin's worst tune.
Umm... what? Reading the lyrics, it seems like it has some pretty specific stuff in there. The internet, in its infinite wisdom, doesn't seem to be furnishing the songwriter's names either, which is an amusing oversight. I'm not particularly crazy about Sublime either, so it's not like I can check it in a CD jacket.

By the way, while there are tons of versions of that song, the finest version I've heard was by the woman who sings and plays clarinet in front of the cathedral in the French Quarter in New Orleans. I can't recall her name but if you are ever in New Orleans during the summer stop by, put a bill in her money bucket and she will be happy to sing it and play it for you.

Your daddy's rich,
And your mamma's good-lookin'
So hush, pretty baby,
Don't you cry ...

Does that not seem weird to anyone? I mean, why would the baby care that his mama was good lookin'? I can understand him wanting to know that his daddy's rich, since that means someday he'll get his hands on the loot, but that's not the case with his mother's hot body. I assume. Maybe it's a subtle reference to Freud's Oedipus Complex theory.

Well, technically I get 5 months holidays from uni, but I work part time, so I don't really have holidays per se...

Umm... what? Reading the lyrics, it seems like it has some pretty specific stuff in there. The internet, in its infinite wisdom, doesn't seem to be furnishing the songwriter's names either, which is an amusing oversight. I'm not particularly crazy about Sublime either, so it's not like I can check it in a CD jacket.
I don't know, actually. The original is called "Summertime". It's from Porgy and Bess, which is an opera, and the song is sort of a jazz vocalist standard. If you have access to the internet, you should find the version by Ella Fitzgerald. It's a very lovely tune and evokes a lazy hot summer day as good as any song I have ever heard.

Does that not seem weird to anyone? I mean, why would the baby care that his mama was good lookin'? I can understand him wanting to know that his daddy's rich, since that means someday he'll get his hands on the loot, but that's not the case with his mother's hot body. I assume. Maybe it's a subtle reference to Freud's Oedipus Complex theory.
i'm not sure, but I think that is supposed to mean that he's lucky.

Your daddy's rich,
And your mamma's good-lookin'
So hush, pretty baby,
Don't you cry ...

I think I heard a version of that song that went "Your daddy's rich...and your mother is a bitch."

I can't remember who did it.

EDIT - Ah, it might have been the Pixies.

I get four months off for Summer, but...

...It's really no different from any other part of the year. So, so boring.

I get four months off for Summer, but...

...It's really no different from any other part of the year. So, so boring.
I swear I could kill you. I long for the days I could have every day off during the summer to go swimming, hang out in the park, read books, watch tv, etc. Youth is wasted on the young.

Work.

EDIT: Nice Sublime reference, by the way. Listening to that tune now in fact.
Actually it's a George Gershwin reference.

Holidays: for wimps indeed! MU you are h@rdc0r3!

Work.

EDIT: Nice Sublime reference, by the way. Listening to that tune now in fact.


God I miss Bradley, I often wonder what music would be like if he were alive today.


:(

I get four months off for Summer, but...

...It's really no different from any other part of the year. So, so boring.
How is your life so boring? You live in a big city - there is always something to do? If anything you should devote yourself to charity work.

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth living."

bump.

Summer hols for me started on 22nd July officially and go on until 6th September - yay!!

I stopped at the beginning of June and restart in September. So, that's 3 months.

4 weeks leave, I'll be in France on the first of September.

Well, I THINK he was referring to the band Sublime, which had a hit song in the late 90s that used the part of the melody and lyrics of "Summertime" in its chorus.

That would explain why I missed the band reference and assumed he was saying my post was sublime in the sense of impressive. :)
(I filed for divorce from most popular US music back around the time I moved to Japan in the early 1990s. Now if I could only get that restraining order on most J-pop....)