[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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