[FoRK] Open Arms

Stephen D. Williams <sdw at lig.net> on Thu Jan 17 03:21:32 PST 2008

Aren't memories of underage nudity and sex now illegal?

sdw

Dave Long wrote:
>> Did you not have proper music in America then? :P
>
> Set and setting, man.  There is music that one appreciates because 
> it's good, and then there's music that one appreciates because of the 
> good times one had when it happened to be playing.  The french have a 
> word for songs like "Open Arms" -- un slow -- and, as such, it falls 
> squarely into the latter category.  Now, unlike Jeff and Russell, I 
> myself didn't have a license in the early 80's, and was in fact many 
> years[0] away from even a permit, but at least I was at an age[1] 
> where slow dances generally meant that I wound up with breasts[2] in 
> my face, so not only won't I apologize for having a certain 
> sentimentality for Journey, but Mr. Perry even gets my thanks, for the 
> mammaries.
>
> -Dave
>
> [0] ok, "many" doesn't seem like very many at all now, but it 
> certainly did then!
> [1] and, apropos the skipping thread, even treated to an extended run 
> of these circumstances.
> [2] such as they were -- but recall also what [0] has to say about the 
> subjective nature of experience.
>
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