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Sep. 13th, 2004 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darklunaI was doing a crossword last night, and one of the clues got "Africa" by Toto stuck in my head, and in a moment of blinding clarity that really ought to only happen with more important revelations, I realized that the lyric made much more sense as, and was more likely to be, "nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do," instead of, as my sister and I had thought and sung when we were small, the one involving "a hundred men on Mars."
As a child, I was never quite clear on what the hundred men on Mars had to do with the singer being taken away from the person he was singing to, but I wasn't sure what the rain in Africa had to do with that either, and put it down to artistic inscrutability.
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Had dinner with my buddy Bass-Playing Boy last night, and then walked around the Hill for a bit. It was really cool. We were in the part with the really huge houses. He had a vague idea of where Volunteer Park was and wanted to see it, and since ChefBoy used to live near it, my vague idea plus his actually got us there. It was getting dark, which made everything nicely shadowy and mysterious, and the water in the reservoir was indigo. We went up the tower and enjoyed the view, and the guy locking it up called out as we were coming down the endless stairs, and had to come let us out, as we had gone down the set of stairs where the gate was locked, and the guard guy said the lazy morning people never unlocked it.
Bass-Playing Boy was musing aloud on Seattle parks and mentioned the "Hunger Strike" video and Discovery Park during dinner. "Whenever they show Eddie," he said, "you think it's tall grass, 'cause the other guys are in tall grass, but it's not. For Eddie it's just regular grass."
Bwahahahahaha. :-D
As a child, I was never quite clear on what the hundred men on Mars had to do with the singer being taken away from the person he was singing to, but I wasn't sure what the rain in Africa had to do with that either, and put it down to artistic inscrutability.
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Had dinner with my buddy Bass-Playing Boy last night, and then walked around the Hill for a bit. It was really cool. We were in the part with the really huge houses. He had a vague idea of where Volunteer Park was and wanted to see it, and since ChefBoy used to live near it, my vague idea plus his actually got us there. It was getting dark, which made everything nicely shadowy and mysterious, and the water in the reservoir was indigo. We went up the tower and enjoyed the view, and the guy locking it up called out as we were coming down the endless stairs, and had to come let us out, as we had gone down the set of stairs where the gate was locked, and the guard guy said the lazy morning people never unlocked it.
Bass-Playing Boy was musing aloud on Seattle parks and mentioned the "Hunger Strike" video and Discovery Park during dinner. "Whenever they show Eddie," he said, "you think it's tall grass, 'cause the other guys are in tall grass, but it's not. For Eddie it's just regular grass."
Bwahahahahaha. :-D
