[lit-ideas] FW: FW: Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 19:27:12 -0400
Logging off now, but before I do, this is the paragraph that I think is
particularly in keeping with the Short People song. I'm posting it because
I doubt that most people will read the link.
Dean's followers take their obsession in another direction. They consider
Dean's death part of his allure: By dying young, he preserved himself in
amber, a Peter Pan in jeans and a red windbreaker. "Dean died before he
could fail, before he lost his hair or his boyish figure, before he grew
up," Donald Spoto writes in his admiring biography. Fair enough. But what
lurks behind the celebration of the star's unsullied youth is a fear that,
had he lived, Dean couldn't have topped what he'd accomplished by the age
of 24 and might even have tarnished those feats.
> [Original Message]
> From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: lit-ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/29/2005 7:19:17 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] FW: Re: Paying taxes for months on end
>
> Society is deep. Real deep. The irony is that I'll bet that people who
> read this link agree with it and think I'm the one who's strange.
>
> http://slate.msn.com/id/2119164
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> > [Original Message]
> > From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 5/29/2005 7:05:19 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
> >
> > I remember when this song was out. At the time my non-philosophical
self
> > didn't think much of it, rather liked it in fact. Today, decades
later, I
> > think that if I were standing on a bridge ready to jump, this song would
> > push me over the edge. It could not be more reflective of a world that
is
> > both superficial and hate filled.
> >
> > Still searching for meaning and finding ever less of it,
> > Andy Amago
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: 5/28/2005 11:14:33 PM
> > > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
> > >
> > >
> > > Judy Evans:
> > > > MG> Mike Geary
> > > > MG> with no reason to live
> > > >
> > > > you mean with no right to live? we don't got no right to.
> > >
> > >
> > > No, I mean as in Randy Newman's song: "Short People."
> > >
> > > Short People
> > > Randy Newman
> > >
> > >
> > > Short People got no reason
> > > Short People got no reason
> > > Short People got no reason
> > > To live
> > >
> > > They got little hands
> > > And little eyes
> > > And they walk around
> > > Tellin' great big lies
> > > They got little noses
> > > And tiny little teeth
> > > They wear platform shoes
> > > On their nasty little feet
> > >
> > > Well, I don't want no Short People
> > > Don't want no Short People
> > > Don't want no Short People
> > > Round here
> > >
> > > Short People are just the same
> > > As you and I
> > > (A Fool Such As I)
> > > All men are brothers
> > > Until the day they die
> > > (It's A Wonderful World)
> > >
> > > Short People got nobody
> > > Short People got nobody
> > > Short People got nobody
> > > To love
> > >
> > > They got little baby legs
> > > And they stand so low
> > > You got to pick 'em up
> > > Just to say hello
> > > They got little cars
> > > That got beep, beep, beep
> > > They got little voices
> > > Goin' peep, peep, peep
> > > They got grubby little fingers
> > > And dirty little minds
> > > They're gonna get you every time
> > > Well, I don't want no Short People
> > > Don't want no Short People
> > > Don't want no Short People
> > > 'Round here
> > >
> > > Mike Geary
> > > tall in the Seatte
> > > but stuck in the Memphis
> > > for the moment.
> > >
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