Sorry, I wasn’t very clear. I was talking about the actual lyrics in the chorus. I thought the waiting for the go part was waiting for the boat.
It also works with O Fotuna, from Carmina Burana.
They’re showing on Hulu all the time these days, and will probably pull it after everyone has bought. their trick-or-treat candy for the year. Funnily enough, it’s only this year that I’ve seen the part with the tortoise.
ETA: and now, watching the original, I see that the one on Hulu only has the tortoise and the owl. And the kid’s disgusted grimace.
I don’t know how I managed to not realize this. I must have seen the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” at least a dozen times.
The young man playing Boo Radley is Bobby Duvall in his first movie role.
Yesterday I could hear I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues playing in the background while I was at work. At some point I noticed that the harmonica sounds an awful lot like Stevie Wonder. Checked wiki, it’s him.
To the best of my knowledge, I wasn’t aware of that before yesterday, which is odd, since it’s so distinctly Stevie.
And the musician playing the piano in the opening of the movie to Elmer Bernstein’s score is John Williams. (not that you could have realized it without reading it somewhere)
Gary Lewis’ song Everybody Loves A Clown is self-contradictory.
Everybody loves a clown, so why don’t you?
It should be:
Very nearly everybody loves a clown…
or
Many, if not most people love a clown…
or
Everybody would love a clown were it not for you…
Discuss.
I despise clowns.
lenny? ok thats a new one
Is that a nod to Evelyn Glennie?
Right. All shanties are in 6/8 time (feels like a ship rocking back and forth); the Gilligans’ Island theme is in 4/4.
I was watching A Hard Day’s Night earlier, and Paul’s fictional grandfather is fair game as it’s a fictionalized version of the real Beatles, but there’s a line where he says, “Mom thought the travel would do him good.” Do they really have to make Paul pretend his mother is still alive for the sake of that character?
You must have missed this thread:
I did indeed.
The protagonist of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” is Maxwell Edison. Edison always refers to Thomas Edison, but it took me to now to realize that Maxwell is the father of thermodynamics James Clerk Maxwell.
So “Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine” is a giveaway that our merry murderer is not some gangland thug but the smartest guy around.
But Joan isn’t. I never knew the first line until I just looked it up. “Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical science in the home”
'Pataphysics is a “philosophy” of science invented by French writer Alfred Jarry intended to be a parody of science. Difficult to be simply defined or pinned down, it has been described as the “science of imaginary solutions”.
Gobsmacked me. Who knew McCartney was capable of references this deep and apposite?
… also a nice sideswipe at the quality of home-based schooling…
He’s a pretty well-read dude. “Jenny Wren” is a Dickens reference, and he managed to work a “peradventure” into the lyrics on the same album (Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, an excellent record).
And perhaps more relevantly, the guy who developed the complete classical (including relativistic, decades before Einstein) description of electromagnetism. He deserves to be better remembered-- It’s a tragedy that the fourth-greatest physicist in all of history was eclipsed so soon after by the third-greatest.
TIL that the word is “pataphysical,” which I had never heard before today, not “metaphysical,” which is what I have heard since 1969.
Yes, “metaphysical science” makes no sense, especially when connected with “test tubes,” but I thought that was just McCartney being whimsical. Of course, it doesn’t seem as though pataphysical science would have much need for test tubes, either.
But how old is he? He is a student, apparently a college student, but being made to "She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away
So he waits behind
Writing fifty times I must not be so, uh oh oh" sound liek High School os less?