News that one Carrie Underwood, who I think is from American Idol, will update jingles for Hershey's candies has me feeling old. "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't." This saying has lost all musical meaning for me, and giving it back some in a newfangled form threatens one of my favorite conversational non sequiturs. It is perfect inane banter. On the other hand, now that I'm reminiscing, I've got the Kit Kat jingle in my head; that one definitely needs to be improved or eradicated.
Watching MTV Europe we saw endless ads for ringtones. Granted I am not a big cellphone fan or user, but I'm pretty sure even if I was, I would not be overwhelmed by a need to buy ringtones. I have no desire to hear how bad a favorite song can sound when collapsed down into electronic gadgetry language. Hmmm, maybe not my true feelings. I created a ringtone. So fascinated was I by the freebie cellphone's ability to have music notes entered that I looked up the piano sheet music for two favorite classical tunes and entered them. We've got Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade tinkling out from the backpack. Of course, the phone is off most hours of the day. And I don't think spending $3 a pop to hear a favorite tune, classical or otherwise, is worth it. Learn to read music, people. Enter the tones yourself! So I'm showing myself to be judgmental and cheap. This is a banner day for me. :) Actually I'm just not a big fan of mindlessness and consumerism. Wait, are those codewords for judgmental and cheap? Or is it judgemental? As I sit here getting older, even spellings are changing.
Completing my codgerdom, I am also very not into text messaging. Since I have never done it, maybe I shouldn't be so definite in my opinion. But from what I've seen, it's all about cramming endless pointless comments into as small a space as possible, repeatedly. I have a rather low tolerance for ridiculous lingo and slang, and slang mixed with I-can't-spell-so-why-bother? abbreviations makes me a bit cranky. See, I'm not just feeling old, I'm acting it.
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That is so weird...we just watched a documentary on the making of Dark Side of the Moon (from which this song comes) and Roger Waters was explaining his ideas behind all the lyrics. Yes, the excerpt you note is quite appropriate.
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