Comments on: 19: Death, Apparently

By: Momo Fali

Momo Fali — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:04:33 +0000

I planted a hydrangea seven years ago and it has never flowered. I keep saying I'll tear it out and plant a new one, but the leaves are beautiful so I never do it. But, now I really feel the need to tear that hydrangea out so that I can plant a new one just so I can watch the flowers die.

By: twolittlemagpies

twolittlemagpies — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:21:57 +0000

I'm happy to know I'm not alone in my emotional reaction to the Flaming Lips song. I love the whole "album".

By: brzeski

brzeski — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:22:42 +0000

The other day, I heard someone say something about an album, then say "well, you know what I mean, of course they don't release albums anymore"
and I thought Buh? They don't? What do they call them, then? "CDs"? That's just dumb. When cassette tapes came out, we still called them albums, didn't we?
I'm so confused. And in my confusion, I become stubborn – so albums it is and albums it shall remain. Goddammit.

By: shtickless2

shtickless2 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:42:18 +0000

Oh I just saw again the song you were talking about is not Yoshimi! Do you Realize is also a gorgeous song of course and I would think much more moving than a song about battling Pink Robots. Like I said, I was embarrassed!

By: shtickless2

shtickless2 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:39:10 +0000

Yoshimi battles the pink robot has literally choked me up! I couldn't believe it when I read that!
I remember the morning vividly. It was on the radio and my partner and I were driving into work when I was pregnant with my first son (who is now 5.5) I don't know what it was about the song that moved me so but I was choking back the tears. I was embarrassed! I kind of croaked out to my partner that if the baby was a girl I was going to call it Yoshimi...lucky he was a boy.
Other songs that have done it to me (trying to hold back the tears whilst driving) are Fee Fi by Hidden Cameras and Young Bride by Midlake.

Beautiful pictures of the flowers and very aptly described. I can almost smell the powderly scent of an old dearie.

By: Amy@Bitchin'WivesClub

Amy@Bitchin'WivesClub — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:43:09 +0000

I adore your evocative reference to Lillian Gish in describing your dying hydrangeas.... le sigh.

That song is gorgeous and I am popping over to NPR to take advantage of this. I wonder how their list will compare with the NEA's list of 100 best recordings they released in 2000.

Also: It is my first time here and I already love you because I love so many of the books in your LibraryThing. Not that I've had time to read most of them, but there are some key tomes that we agree on. And, c'mon, people who've actually gotten through the entirety of Infinite Jest are automatically part of some kind of club, right?

By: peevish

peevish — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:49:23 +0000

I'm so glad The Flaming Lips made the cut.

Thank you so much for your evocative salute to floral old-ladyhood. Now I know I will forever look at aging blossoms as Lillian Gishs, and sometimes as Lauren Bacalls.

While you're at it, could you give us a name to put to those jack-o-lanterns that sit out rotting well into December? (Frank Gorshin, maybe.) God, I love those things, too. In fact, I'm rewriting "Favorite Things" in my head right now.

By: holly

holly — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:34:19 +0000

Do You Realize is definitely one of the best songs in the last decade- so beautifully written. It's amazing.

I also have to go with album- I've always thought of it as referring to a compilation. And, Gina, my turntable is also ready to rock, but all of my albums are from high school. So, I'd be rocking out to like, the Scorpions, And Judas Priest. heh.

By: sherryberry

sherryberry — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:21:50 +0000

you had me at 10-inch….

By: Suzy

Suzy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:41:17 +0000

As usual, your words bowl me over. And as to 'album,' one of my friends was the President of a Warner Bros. division, putting songs into movies. He said album is still the correct word instead of CD's or any other words that are misplaced for the concept. An album refers to a compilation of songs. Period.