You're like my favorite underwear

[vovat]

1. I previously hadn't listened to much that Liz Phair released after her third (and, in my opinion, best) album. I finally listened to her self-titled a few days ago, though, and I actually liked it. It really isn't that different from her earlier stuff either. It just has a very unrepresentative lead single.

2. I have the debut album by Sgt. Major, a band that includes two Young Fresh Fellows (one of whom was also a Fastback), but I've never seen them live. I don't think they play on this coast. I had a dream last night where I was seeing them, though, and their lead singer Carmella (who apparently hasn't actually been their lead singer in some time, but she was on the album; the woman in the dream didn't look anything like she did in the album photos, though) walked out into the audience and right on top of the people in it, who were all lying down. I think this is based on memories of when my old Tae Kwon Do instructor used to do that. They then took a break in the show to set up some tables. Later in the dream, I was arguing with bethje because I didn't want to go to some workshop. And I think there was something about preparations for a parade. Sometimes I wish my dreams would just follow a simple narrative structure.

3. One thing I've noticed about the kids these days is that, instead of saying that they're "going to the prom," they simply say they're "going to prom," totally omitting the definite article. When did this become acceptable? Or was it always acceptable, and I just didn't know because I was a social outcast who never even considered going to the event, whether or not it had the article? People say kids should go because they might end up regretting it if they don't, but I certainly haven't regretted it so far.

4. Another thing I don't regret is not having gone to any football games in college. I only mention this because rockinlibrarian did a survey (which I might do myself at some point in the future) where one of the questions asked about school mascots. At our school, the mascot used to be an Indian, but since people thought that was offensive, it didn't have a mascot for a while. Disregarding suggestions that the team should be the Fighting Squirrels or the Mighty Oaks, they eventually settled on...the bear. And what's even dumber is that the team was apparently still officially the Indians. Despite my general disregard for sports, I do think people need to show more creativity when coming up with nicknames and mascots. Somebody already used the bear, the wildcat, and the tiger. Can't you come up with something else? And along the same lines, why do some many towns have the same names? Isn't there an infinite number of potential proper nouns?

5. You might have heard that Harvey Korman died yesterday, at the age of 81. That made me wonder if anyone else remembers a short-lived show from the late eighties called The Nutt House, created by Mel Brooks, and starring Korman and other Brooks favorite Cloris Leachman. I remember watching it when I was in elementary school, but I wouldn't be too surprised if nobody else does.

Comments

Maybe it's regional

[travspence.livejournal.com]

I would never say "going to the prom." I always remember hearing it as "going to prom."

Re: Maybe it's regional

[arfies.livejournal.com]

I've heard it both ways, and never really thought about it before. But since "prom" is short for "promenade," which can be either a noun or a verb, either way works anyway.

Re: Maybe it's regional

[vovat.livejournal.com]

That's true. I never thought of it that way.

[arfies.livejournal.com]

Well, you know now that the new mascot is even dumber... "Crimson Hawks." I wanted the Fighting Squirrels, darnit!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

They're really Crimson Hawks now, instead of Indians or bears? How trite. Not that bears aren't also trite as far as mascots go.

[revme.livejournal.com]

1. I'm a big fan of both the S/T and "Somebody's Miracle". My favorite of hers might still be Exile, but they're all really, really good, so it's hard to really complain. The sad thing with Somebody's Miracle is that it seemed to be split about half-and-half with the older style stuff (including "Can't Get Out Of What I'm Into" which was from the Girlysound tapes I guess) and the really pop stuff -- but didn't seem to please either camp. Except me, but then I really liked both eras, so there you go.

2. I really should see Sgt. Major again -- I haven't seen them since they became Thee Sgt. Major III, the post-Carmella incarnation. I hope the new vocalist is as good as Carmella, though.

3. I'm pretty much always heard "going to prom" as well. Not that it ever came up for me. Though it'd be "going to the school dance" for lesser events. Again, not that it ever came up.

4. My college's logo/mascot/whatever were the Lutes; though they didn't seem to have an actual mascot or anything, because, um, what would it be? It was short for "lutheran", but, well, lutes, you know, stringed instruments. Neither of which really lends themselves to a doofy foam rubber costume. Though, I would like sort of the idea of the Foam Rubber Lutheran, just a big foam-rubber normal lookin' white-bread guy.

5. I don't remember that show and I remember ALL shows! Weird!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

1. I still haven't heard Somebody's Miracle, but I probably should check it out at some point. I do like "Can't Get Out of What I'm Into" pretty well. I think my main problem with "Why Can't I?" and other songs of that ilk isn't the poppiness so much as the vocal. I'm just used to hearing Liz sound kind of bored and pissed off, regardless of what she's actually singing about. But there are songs on the self-titled album where she uses the more traditional voice.

2. So did they get a new female lead vocalist, or what?

3. Never simply "going to school dance," then? :P

4. Have you ever seen the Dr. Seuss cartoon The Hoober-Bloob Highway? I have to imagine a lute mascot as looking like Hoober-Bloob's sidekick, who was a living stringed instrument of some sort, and that idea amuses me.

[revme.livejournal.com]

2. Yep! I don't remember her name, though.

4. I think I did a long, long time ago, but I think I vaguely remember what you're talkin' about. Man, it must have been like, 20 years or something, though.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

4. It's been a long time for me as well, but I watched it a bunch of times when I was a kid, because it was one of a few things that my grandmother had taped from a free week of the Disney Channel. (Remember when that was a premium channel, and showed stuff people might actually want to see, instead of endless marathons of The Suite Life with Zack & Cody?) I think A Boy Named Charlie Brown was also on that tape.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

I think Prom without the article is actually the old-fashioned way to say it. But maybe it is simply regional.

Oh yeah, I forgot that part, that it was never OFFICIALLY the bears, they just had a bear mascot while they were still inexplicably the Indians. I wonder if Cherokee is still their fight song? (I didn't go to the GAMES per se. I always timed it to go down at the END of the game and watch the Post-Game Show. Indiana's band is always more impressive than their football team anyway, AND if you get to the game late enough you get in free!)

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I think Prom without the article is actually the old-fashioned way to say it.

Ah, so it's a throwback, then? Interesting.

I wonder if Cherokee is still their fight song?

I don't know. Are there any songs about hawks? Probably, but I can't think of them offhand. I remember someone mentioning that, when they briefly considered becoming the Mighty Oaks, the band played "O Tannenbaum." I guess they didn't want to pay Tony Orlando the royalties for "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree." :P