I can't get this out of my head
Mar. 20th, 2003 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanI know it's not what the song is about. But everything I see or touch or hear has undertones of irony, unintended triple meaning, grinning or mocking or just occasionally looking hopeful.
"He thought he was the King of America
Where they pour Coca-Cola just like vintage wine
Now I try hard not to become hysterical
But I'm not sure if I am laughing or crying
I wish that I could press a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurting feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
It was a fine idea at the time
Now it's a brilliant mistake"
That's Elvis Costello's "Brilliant Mistake"
And really, I can't get it out of my head. When I can, the Oyster Band's "All We Wanted" is happy to come in instead. That one's been in there since the election. All that way, we've come all that way for this.
Horrors unfold every day, all the time; the thing about war, at least as waged by us, is that some people are gleeful about it. I'll be gleeful myself shortly, if planes are still flying and Eric gets home safely from San Francisco. But that won't help anybody on either side in Iraq.
Pamela
"He thought he was the King of America
Where they pour Coca-Cola just like vintage wine
Now I try hard not to become hysterical
But I'm not sure if I am laughing or crying
I wish that I could press a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurting feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
It was a fine idea at the time
Now it's a brilliant mistake"
That's Elvis Costello's "Brilliant Mistake"
And really, I can't get it out of my head. When I can, the Oyster Band's "All We Wanted" is happy to come in instead. That one's been in there since the election. All that way, we've come all that way for this.
Horrors unfold every day, all the time; the thing about war, at least as waged by us, is that some people are gleeful about it. I'll be gleeful myself shortly, if planes are still flying and Eric gets home safely from San Francisco. But that won't help anybody on either side in Iraq.
Pamela
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Date: 2003-03-20 11:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-20 12:37 pm (UTC)MKK
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Date: 2003-03-20 02:48 pm (UTC)Pamela
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Date: 2003-03-20 02:48 pm (UTC)Pamela
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Date: 2003-03-20 03:20 pm (UTC)I must remember to play the tape of EC hosting David Letterman's show for you. During the interviews he was being rather sweetly not-quite-comfortable and not political at all, just chatting with Eddie Izzard about cross-dressing and whatnot -- and it was nice, but, really, who are you and what have you done with Elvis Costello? And then suddenly, after introducing himself as the musical guest ("all the women want to be his pal and all the lads want to sleep with him") he launched into "What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding?" and then went to commercial by screaming "We'll be back after these capitalist messages!" It was sublime.
R.
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Date: 2003-03-21 05:38 am (UTC)I got on the plane, I sat around Amesterdam's Schiphol airport, and then I came home. It was uneventful, it was fine. Eric will get home.
K. [though it's so easy to fret, I know]
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Date: 2003-03-21 01:21 pm (UTC)But it was just a boulevard of broken dreams.
And yes, by all means let us watch that show.
Pamela
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Date: 2003-03-21 01:22 pm (UTC)I was worried about you guys too. "Bruce and Karen are IN France" I kept saying, though by then undoubtedly you were in Germany. I'm glad it all worked out.
Eric did get home. His plane was late, but that happens all the time without terrorists.
Pamela
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Date: 2003-03-21 01:42 pm (UTC)B