Random thoughts as I'm waking up

[telophase]

I have to say that I live for the moments over on little_details when the mod kutsuwamushi puts her jackboots on and stomps all over people the place. ♥♥ stompyboots!

Also, on a slightly but surprisingly not too incredibly different note, in the car this morning Rick James' "Superfreak" popped up in the iPod random rotation, and I got to thinking, as I often do, about this song, where the narrator calls this groupie super freaky because ... she has incense, wine, and candles at their assignation. He says "She's suck a kinky girl." I have obviously been reading fanfic far too long, since it strikes me as just about as vanilla as you can get although I suppose it depends entirely on what one does with said incense, wine, and candles.

There were a few more thoughts I had, but as I'm still in the process of waking up, they'll have to wait until my brain is engaged.

Comments

[cawingcrow.livejournal.com]

Heh, had to comment over there as my mother lives up to her Baltimore heritage and hons people all the time. It is generally used in a friendly context there.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:) If I'm in an argument of any sort and start pulling out the "hon," you can be damn sure I'm condescending to you. XD I think it's hardwired into me.

[cawingcrow.livejournal.com]

I have been known to call tygerr hon without really thinking about it, but luckily the Baltimore tradition has mostly bypassed me. Occasionally a friendly hon or babe will slip out at odd moments elsewhere, but I can't imagine ever using it condescendingly. It's just the Marylander in me, I guess. I have other words in my vocabulary when I'm in arguments, for better or worse. If anything I go icily polite and way more formal when I'm truly pissed off (or rabid vulgar trailer trash when the situation calls for it).

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time calling people by pet names,* but my cat is "sweetie". XD


* Well, I've got a very Southern-sounding "Boy!" that occasionally comes out.

[cawingcrow.livejournal.com]

Heh, atm my poor girl cat is still "sweetie" as I haven't found names for either of them, despite having them for over half a year now. I have a bad feeling their vet records will wind up saying "catboy" and "sweetie" if I don't get it together soon and find suitable names. And their vaccinations are due up, so I need to do it in the next few weeks.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My cat thinks her name is "Kitty" and will actually answer to it, but the vet techs don't seem to take me seriously when I suggest that they should change her name on the records.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Well, if "incense" is "euphemism for concealing smells of recreational pharmacuticals whose names will keep my song from getting airplay" he might have a point. I know some universities have banned it for that reason. And candles have manyseveral possible uses . . .

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think my point still stands, though, in that I don't think of, er Recreational Pharmaceuticals as especially kinky, especially after reading what's out there on the Net.

(When was the song released? The mid-80s? I think the '70s "freak" as a descriptor of someone into the alternative drug lifestyle was old by then. We certainly never used it, and I was in a fairly backwards area of the country when it came to slang. Hm.)

[m00nface.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen The 40-Year-Old Virgin? This girl is apparently "insane" because she decides to pleasure herself with a showerhead. That bit happens just after dealing with the main character's fumbling and awkwardness and while still being blonde, slim and gorgeous, and just before the main character leaves the room and begs his friends for help from the crazy girl.

Just to vaguely relate to the kinky/vanilla note...

[bluesira.livejournal.com]

I don't think that one thing is what made her freaky. I think it was the combination of all the smaller, less freaky things she took part in.

So maybe what the song really means by mentioning the candles and incense and wine is that she might be sensually-oriented and sexually-minded.

Did you know that when they were shooting that scene, the actress took a look at the shower head and said "The pressure's too low. This would never get somebody off."

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

My cat is "Darling" or "Baby" or "babes" :P