Meme!

[muchabstracted]

Gacked from meghatronn.

Name the song/artist from the quoted line. Lines have been edited for inclusion in the next version of the SATs. For bonus points, provide a translation of the line back to its original form.

1. The Agelaius phoeniceus has chosen to exercise its vocal chords at the moment that the portion of Earth he inhabits is facing 180 degrees away from the sun.

2. The nonplussed head of state creates new arrangements of musical notes and words in pleasing harmonies for the purpose of praising the Almighty.

3. For each circadian rhythm, the Earth recommences, good meterological conditions or bad.

4. I only experience the sensation of saline on my tongue when I create a conjunction between my lips and the salty excretions from your eyes.

5. She puts compressed carbon on the undersides of the apparel protecting her lower appendages.

Technically, I should have another five, but I'm not going to.

In other news, Wicked was fun. The first half was pretty similar to the book, with the major exception of Fiyaro's character. The second half was very different. Enjoyable, and it fit the conventions of a musical much better than the book would have. I am pleased that the musical clearly considered the major relationship* to be the one between Glinda and Elphaba rather than the one between Elphaba and Sexy Male Dude, for two reasons. (1) My usual political sensibilities; ie, my belief that romantic relationships are over-explored and overemphasized while other kinds of relations are dismissed. (2) Glinda and Elphaba's relationship was just much more interesting in the musical, and far more fraught with tensions.*

*Not a slashy relationship. Not sexual tensions.

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

2. Leonard Cohen ("it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing hallelujah")

5. Paul Simon ("She's got diamonds on the soles of her shoes")

I feel that I know 3 but can't place it.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes. I will reveal three if no one gets it, which is more than likely.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

I never revealed # 3 to you. It was Gobo and Uncle Matt singing, in the first Fraggle Rock Episode Ever (which we saw) "Every day, the world begins again/Sunny skies and rain/Come and follow me..."

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Also, Glinda/Elphaba musicalverse is one of the largest femslash pairings out there, so ha.

Haven't seen the musical, though, and I understand its character dynamics are quite different from the book.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Weird. I didn't see it. I mean, it could be read into it, but it's not text or subtext, in my mind.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Sexy Male Dude might be less interesting, but he also suits Elphaba far better than Glinda ever could.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Fiddlesticks. Cranky celibacy suits Elphaba.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Celibacy wasn’t so bad. Lots of his heroes had been celibate. William of Ockham, Bede, Asser, Merlin. Well, there had been that thing with Nimue and nobody really knew about Bede, did they? Anyway.

(quoted from rosemaryandrue's most recent R/S story; which she immediately followed up with the following brainteaser: "It was all very well to be celibate if the person you wanted to be uncelibate with didn’t want to be uncelibate with you but if they were, for peculiar reasons of their own, actually unwilling to be celibate and pretending otherwise, then everything changed.")

[obopolsk.livejournal.com]

3. "Turn, Turn, Turn.." Maybe?

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Nope! An excellent guess, however.

It's a song that everyone in the world (practically) is much less likely to recognize. I'd be surprised if anyone got it.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

The answer to three is "Every day, the world begins again/Sunny skies and rain" from a song in Fraggle Rock. It was a little mean of me to put a Fraggle ROck song up there, since no one was going to get it, but I couldn't resist the translation.

[dushai.livejournal.com]

#1: "[red-winged] Blackbird singing in the dead of night..." -- Beatles.

#4: "I only taste the saline when I kiss away your tears." -- Duncan Sheik.


Still dunno 'bout #3, though. It's a bit more ambiguous than the others.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes.

It's actually not that #3 is more ambiguous -- it's that it's a less popular song. I'd be surprised if anyone got it. chanaleh might, but even then mainly through overexposure to the Brother.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

The answer to three is: "Every day, the world begins again,/Sunny sky and rain" from a song in Fraggle Rock. I liked the translation too much to not put it up, but I didn't think anyone would get it.

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I meant to tag along when Justin went to see Wicked in the hopes that some of his punk watchers-of-free-shows-on-MIT's-dime would be no-shows. Did you go with him?

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Yup! Sorry. But on the other hand, I don't think he knew if anyone didn't show up -- there wasn't a mass gathering o' folk beforehand.

[countessofgroan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ooh! I got 5! But, so did someone before me. =(

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

I still think that's impressive. I didn't get any of meghatronn's.