Kiss This Candle
The disciplines of my workplace being what they are, my co-worker and friend Victor found it necessary to send my a link to the video of Rick James' seminal masterpiece Super Freak.
(Those early videos were crude things, weren't they.) Another co-worker has the Super Freak intro as a ringtone on his (constantly ringing) cell phone, and I had not recognized it, so Victor corrected my ignorance. In my email reply, I admired one especially inventive lyric: "she's got intertwining candles." I thought the imagery brilliant, with a queasy decadence that perfectly matched that of the song. My amused friend shot back with a link to kissthisguy.com, for truly I had misheard the lyrics which say, "she's got incense, wine and candles." My mistake was one of those rare instances where the mishearing actually improves the song. Most mishearings are along the lines of the very famous Jimi Hendrix lyric "I kiss the sky" which so many (reasonably) mishear as "I kiss this guy." Follow the link and enjoy 15 minutes of fun.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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Hey, the links don't work again.
Oh well.
ELO: Hold on Tight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9hMXnUty6s
At 00:43 in, I hear "It's a long time to be gone" as, "Sail on time to Bayonne." At least in the car (kind of noisy).
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