That thing you do

[cosmolinguist]

So Andrew and I are sleepy and decide to go to bed. We cuddle a bit and say cute things to each other, and then settle down to actually go to sleep. And right then for some reason we started talking about the movie That Thing You Do!, and eventually he was trying to tell me about the band that had actually sung that song in the movie. 'They're a famous band,' he said. 'I think the name starts with a W.'

'Really,' I said.

'Yeah,' he said. 'But it's not Wilco.'

I giggled.

'Or Weezer.'

'Weezer? Why on earth would it be Weezer?'

'I'm just saying,' he said. Next he added, 'And it's not Apples in Stereo.' Trying to be helpful, I suppose.

This is getting just silly. 'What? And that doesn't even start with a W!'

'And it's not the Wondermints.'

'Of course it's not the Wondermints! Why would it be?'

'Well, they do lots of different styles. And they did a '60s powerpop song for a '90s comedy film.' (He likes to remind me that the Wondermints did the theme song for the first Austin Powers movie, even though I don't remember the song (or even the movie, really).) 'And it would've been for a band called the Wonders, see.'

But then he said, 'Maybe it starts with an M.'

'An M?!'

'Well, an M is like a W, just upside down, you know...'

It was around this point that I decided I wasn't sleepy anymore and he was going to drive me crazy, so we came downstairs to investigate.

Soon I hear him shouting from the next room 'Fountains of Wayne!' I started laughing. 'See, it sounds like Apples in Stereo!'

'It does not! How--'

'First you have a noun, ending in S. Then...a little word. Then, a word starting wtih W, like Wilco!'

I just laughed at him.

He wandered around the kitchen as I was writing this, saying things like, 'Really, though, you must see how this works!' and 'Don't blame me if my brain doesn't work!'

Comments

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Who couldn't even remember she'd seen the film in the forst place? Hmm?
Anyway, it works. It makes sense.

[cosmolinguist]

I have seen it, in the first place. But not the forst place.

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Well, the Forst place is the best place to see it.

[karaksindru.livejournal.com]

I think we're going to need to get you two in the same place as me ... if only so we can all be silly together. :P

[cosmolinguist]

That is an excellent idea. Best I ever heard, I think.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

They're the 'Stacey's Mom' band, right?

[cosmolinguist]

I'd forgotten all about that--I loathe that song, but the evil grapefruit likes it--but yes, you're right.

[dawgdays.livejournal.com]

You traveled all the way to England, for this?

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I insult her, too.

This is what 'mushy' icons are made for.

[tragicallyjulia.livejournal.com]

You guys are so cute! Thad and I are going to have a tough time keeping up with your cute/silly factor. ;-P
Oh, and I may have to add him just because he's seen you naked. ;-D

[cosmolinguist]

Mushy?! Hey, I resent that remark.

I'm like this with all my friends. :-)

You have a very nice cute/silly icon; I do not. But then, you might need one, and I do not, as I'm not cute and silly.

You should add him, though; he was cool even before he saw me naked.

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but *after* I saw you naked I wasn't cool, more hot and sweaty.

[cosmolinguist]

You're hot anyway. :-D

[kalieris.livejournal.com]

You two are awfully cute.

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Where do you get off calling me cute? I'm dark and mysterious and could do you a lot of damage

[cosmolinguist]

'Awful' being the operative word there.

[paninogirl.livejournal.com]

That used to be my favorite movie. It's still one I enjoy immensely.

That's crazy that you found out which band did their music. I wonder if it says on my soundtrack...

You two need to stop being cute. Some people are trying to be happily single here. ;)

Some people are trying to be happily single here.

[dracole.livejournal.com]

*rubs your back*
That's right! You tell them girl. ;p

Re: Some people are trying to be happily single here.

[paninogirl.livejournal.com]

::laughs::

You're just creeping up on everyone's LJs to give me back rubs, aren't you? :)

Re: Some people are trying to be happily single here.

[dracole.livejournal.com]

LMAO

*looks around*

Oh my god, I am, aren't I? Hee, hee, didn't realize.
*sigh*
Oh well, if you prefer I save the back rubs just for your LJ, I can. What ever you desire, my Chicken Little.
*bows to your greatness*

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

We're both happily single too. Just happily single together.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Yes, but being single and having lots of happy sex with somebody else is a very different way of being single than the 'sitting in your basement, typing on Eljay and not having had sex since November' type of single

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Is that like the 'sitting in the kitchen, typing on Eljay and not having had sex since September' way I was single til last week, or more like the 'sitting in the kitchen, typing on Eljay and not having had sex since October' way I was single last year?
Or is it more like the 'sitting in the kitchen, typing on Eljay and not having had sex' way I was single the year before?
Anyway, who used the word 'lots'? ;)

[paninogirl.livejournal.com]

That's cool. I just can't do what you two are doing. I easily become emotionally connected to people, preventing me from being physically close to someone with no strings attached.

I have no problem with those that do, though...just as long as both parties involved are on the same page.

[stealthmunchkin.livejournal.com]

Actually, I doubt you'd find two people *more* emotionally connected than Holly and myself. I love her very much.

Don't tell her I said that though, I'm trying to pretend I don't like her ;)