Could believe for all the world that you're my precious little girl

[cosmolinguist]

Today was Bring "Rock" Music to Class Day in intro to music.

Despite both evil_grapefruit and stealthmunchkin telling me I should've brought a Stealth Munchkin song, I didn't have any of those on CD, so I had to settle for "Don't Let's Start" by They Maybe Giants (as my professor called them). I really like that song, it has immediate appeal but only gets more interesting to me when I actually figure out what they're saying and what kinds of things are going on musically. And it got played on MTV, despite being weird, back when MTV was still cool sometimes.

The best part, though, may have been that our professor brought soda and cookies for us. So I grabbed my handful of cookies and can of Pepsi and was just going back to my desk when the can slipped through my fingers and I had just enough time to think, Damn, it'll get all shaken up and I'll have to wait a while before I can open it before it hit the corner between the floor and the wall and hissed and started spraying soda everywhere like a fire hose. I grabbed the can, bubbling and foaming like a little volcano, and ran out of the room so I wouldn't get too much (more) on the carpet. I threw the can in the garbage (which made it start hissing again) and washed the soda off my hand. There's still some on my sleeve and my pants leg, but I just think that gives me some character. I got another soda, picked up my cookies--only one of which had crumbled when I dropped them on the floor, which I don't even remember doing--and took my snack back to my desk, carefully.

The professor laughed at me. Yes, not only am I the girl who knows what happens to Cat Stevens (she asked, when someone played one of his songs, and it was an easy question for me to answer since I'd just had a conversation about him a couple days ago), but I'm also a font of zany slapstick. I am, therefore, unimpeachably cool.

Comments

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

We all already knew you were unimpeachably cool. But don't forget who And is that yet another thing I should add to the rapidly growing list of things-we've-talked-about-that-then-came-up-unrelatedly? Are you *sure* you don't secretly control the world using mental powers?

[cosmolinguist]

Don't forget who what? :-) How am I suposed to remember if you can't remember to finish your sentence?

[kalieris.livejournal.com]

You handled that with style, Holly. : ) I love how those things always happen when you have a nice, big audience. -g-

Helga

[gentleman-lech.livejournal.com]

I am, therefore, unimpeachably cool.

You have a great gift for stating the obvious. :)

[orgash.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhh yes, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens is--much like the Prince of Minnesota--has taken back his famous name, and is once again, Cat Stevens...

Somewhere, somehow, someday, a Buddhist Monk will come up with the saying, "Everything that was is again."

[karaksindru.livejournal.com]

Toward the end of January, I watched Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns with a friend, and had Don't Let's Start stuck in my head for a little over a week afterward ...

So, thanks, for putting it right back in there. ;P

D world destruction / Over and overture / N do I need / Apostrophe T need this torture?