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substitute ([personal profile] substitute) wrote2006-12-31 04:09 pm

No New Year

No list no resolution no recap no first lines no photoessay no best of no worst of no top stories no looks back no wife no horse no mustache.

Instead, a song about a new year's party I attended fifteen or so years ago:

Ferdinand - 31 (mp3)

[identity profile] florence-craye.livejournal.com 2007-01-01 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
"No wife, no horse, no mustache..." I thought I was the only one who'd seen Flirtation Walk. Although, perhaps you haven't and it's just a coincidence coming from your use of that old phrase.

[identity profile] porcinea.livejournal.com 2007-01-01 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
It's also in _The Illuminatus Chronicles_, by Robert Anton Wilson.

[identity profile] florence-craye.livejournal.com 2007-01-01 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting! The disparate places these phrases end up.

[identity profile] porcinea.livejournal.com 2007-01-01 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the movie pointer, by the way. I really must check it out. I'm a huge Dick Powell fan. (And Ruby Keeler's not half bad herself.)

[identity profile] florence-craye.livejournal.com 2007-01-01 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I'm glad to give a musical tip anytime. It's a sweet little film (no dancing from Ruby, though- a shame!) with Dick as his cheeky cutest singing "Aloha Oi" as he wins Ruby's heart. That's my favorite bit of the film, and it has several other delightful songs. Ruby Keeler is that rare someone who endears herself to the audience due to her lack of stage presence, except when she dances. She's quite an original. I think she's swell.

[identity profile] porcinea.livejournal.com 2007-01-01 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
no soap radio.

[identity profile] besskeloid.livejournal.com 2007-01-01 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
No list no resolution no recap no first lines no photoessay no best of no worst of no top stories no looks back no wife no horse no mustache.

That's not how the middle of 'Turning Japanese' goes.

[identity profile] substitute.livejournal.com 2007-01-01 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
And it's true, everyone DOES treat me like a cyclone ranger.

[identity profile] hweimei.livejournal.com 2007-01-01 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
French Canadian Bean Soup.