A subgenre of the blues I really like is the ‘woman, you done me wrong’ song. I don’t know whether all these bad things could really have happened to all these blues players. It does seem that there are an awful lot of wrongdoing women out there. I suspect there might be a few wrongdoing men too!
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I was plugging into that system of imagery when I wrote, ‘I met her at the bottom of a well’. I thought that was a more interesting image than, say, ‘I met her on Bourbon Street’ or ‘I met her in a brothel in Paris’. I like to be direct but not necessarily literal.
Paul talking about Oh Woman, Oh Why in The Lyrics (emphasis mine)
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I'd somehow missed "I Lie Around" in my first run-through of Paul's discography, but, boy, that one's very Ram, isn't it? And probably belongs in any discussion of what Ram's songs have to say about Paul's state of mind at the time, even though it wasn't released until a couple of years later.
I mean:
It seems that I have no choice in the matter
Roll along wheel of fortune
As you roll along I stick around
Furthermore in the country
I will lay my burden down
and
Too long have I been the heart of the matter
All along I was only over-tired and overtaken
and
So long, bye bye, it was fun while it mattered (One can only imagine John's response to that.)
And if Ram itself has an undertone of "I don't need you anymore, I have Linda, and she's GREAT", then having Denny sing on this takes it up a notch: "now I have Linda AND new friends and bandmates, and we're having loads of fun together!!!" (see: the silly intro and outro bits).
The lyrics are a little clunky, but it's one of those cases where I can't decide if he was just stoned and too lazy to polish them up or if he's purposefully being slightly obscure. All the "furthermore"s sound like someone who's been reading a lot of legal paperwork. And I wonder if 'I lie around' is just meant literally or if it's about the fact that they were all spinning press narratives in 1970 and probably not always being incredibly truthful about them. I know Paul said later that he hated doing interviews in the early 70s because people would ask him if he was happy and he'd have to lie.
Anyway, that was a fun little song to discover, and another of Paul’s disgustingly catchy b-sides and throwaways.
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Okay okay pero Así es la Vida de Elefante, la rolita de Zoro cuando Sanji esta en WCI 👀👀👀🌱
NOOOO al pobre le robaron el novio, le rompieron el corazón y ahora esta en un bar en Wano sufriendo y ahogando sus penas
asdfkls eso me recordó que desde que vi WCI siempre me imagine a Sanji con GATA BAJO LA LLUVIAAAA así bien dramático
ASDFJSKA lo siento tenia que dibujar el ZoSan Angst con esas canciones ( Así es la vida - Gata Bajo la lluvia )
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back in the Superwholock days there was this post getting passed around my corner of tumblr about "teflon writing vs velcro writing," ostensibly as a nutshell summary of why fandom reacted so differently to Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies as Doctor Who showrunners: slick and polished and easier to admire (when done well) or coolly assess its flaws (when botched) than to get a grip on or pull apart & tinker with, vs. messy and prickly and grippy and tinkering-friendly and prone to getting its hooks in you whether or not you ever wanted that
and that's very funny to look back on with the distance of hindsight, because to this day--a full decade after peak Superwholock--RTD-era Who and Kripke-era SPN remain THE most insane, crazymaking, irreversible-brain-damage-inducing, "compelling in the way where they make me INCREDIBLY ANGRY and ITCHY TO FIX THEM because i am so stupid-invested that they still have me by the balls, even when my engagement is just picking apart the frustrations of how and why they SUCK" turbo-examples of velcro writing i have ever encountered in my LIFE
hell, they aren't even so much like velcro as they're like snagging the folds of a lace circle skirt on a whole branch of actual cockleburs and trying to wash the shrapnel out with fucking gorilla glue
.....and then there's BBC Sherlock. which was neither velcro writing nor teflon writing but an elaborate many-year con, targeted at the EXACT kinds of people who maintain a secret good Supernatural that lives in their heads, whose one neat trick was to bait its marks into collectively hallucinating a brilliant show so that Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss never had to put themselves to the trouble of writing one.
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HOLD ON I THINK I KNOW U FROM WATTPAD ???😭😭 also we share the same fandoms so we are now besties for life *mafia handshake*
?????WHO ARE YOU. HOW DO YOU KNOW ME FROM WATTPAD. WHAT???????
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I'll be honest
@dane-g-butterfly-fanatic Minato fr kicking Rikako out of the graveyard for the 10th time today:
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❤️ good night yall 💙
🤍 what a weekend it has been for us, even with football as well for the super wildcard weekend as well! Taylor, Travis and the chiefs beated the dolphins and move on to the divisional round. 🖤
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don't you just hate it when you watch a new movie or read a new book and come across this one character that just sweeps you off your feet and for the next six months-ish you are under their spell? almost like a trance? you dig up fanfiction, edits, listen to songs associated with them on repeat like a crazy person!
and one day this obsession suddenly disappears? they go just like they came? They don't even exist? Or perhaps they existed once in the past? You want to go to their era so bad or you want them to come to your era so bad- like why don't we have a time machine yet! Or inter-universe travel? Maybe they aren't real here but in some different universe they are doing their shenanigans? Being their magical self? Why can't I be in that universe instead?
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