Rocket ([info]febrile) wrote,
  • Mood: chipper
  • Music: The Pride Of Oklahoma '98 - Boomer Sooner
I got a good night's sleep last night and am feeling much, much better today. To use a conceit usually shared with my roommate Tim, Yo no soy marinero; soy capitan.

Well golly gee, in yesterday's contest of Bob Dylan or Weird Al?, everybody got it right. Kudos to [info]penlyon for catching the palindromatic quality of the Weird Al song, the palindromatically-named "Bob." The Dylan verse is from "Visions of Johanna," one of my favorite songs ever written (and yes, ye Dylan disparagers, the "Jeeze, I can't find my knees" line probably sounds exactly how you imagine it sounding). Per [info]insidian's request, the second round goes

First Set
Try to run, but my feet have been nailed to the floor
Then a midget pushes me through a revolving door
And I'm back in the very same place I was before

Second Set
The waitress he was handsome
He wore a powder blue cape
I ordered some suzette, I said
"Could you please make that crepe"

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[info]insidian

November 19 2003, 15:54:01 UTC 8 years ago

Actually, I got it wrong yesterday.
Am loser. Also not a huge follower of either musician, though I appreciate their respective musics.

But this is great.

Since the second set mentions food, I will say that one is Al's.
And the first set is Bob's.

Watch me be horribly, horribly wrong.

[info]tbone

November 20 2003, 20:01:20 UTC 8 years ago

Watch me be horribly, horribly wrong.

Oh, I'm watching! The first is very much vintage Al from his Even Worse CD.

[info]brandyc

November 19 2003, 16:14:31 UTC 8 years ago

maaaybe

MMMMMM, see I'm ideal because I like both passably well, so I have little knowledge of lyrics...
The first is Dylan, second Al?

[info]humpingbears

November 19 2003, 16:18:14 UTC 8 years ago

Now, see, I'm going to be different and say the first is Al and the second is Bob. I can much more see Bob mentioning crepes than midgets, but maybe I am wrong. Let me know.

[info]amojojo

November 19 2003, 16:24:56 UTC 8 years ago

fun times, fun times

Second set is Bob, from Bringing It All Back Home. I have a hard time with titles, but I think this is "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream."

[info]amojojo

November 19 2003, 16:37:11 UTC 8 years ago

Er, should I stop answering these? If you cut-tag the lyrics, you can see the comments before you reply, so maybe I shouldn't answer, at least like this...

[info]off_coloratura

November 19 2003, 18:01:53 UTC 8 years ago

The first is Weird Al, Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White.

[info]stretchling

November 20 2003, 06:13:45 UTC 8 years ago

The second set is from the first Bob Dylan song I ever liked. I got "Bringing It All Back Home" as a gift from my hippie uncle. It took me a year to like it. I'm glad I gave it several second chances. The first I don't recognize, though through process of elimination, it must be Weird Al, although it does sound a bit like "Ballad of a Thin Man."
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