It's at a prick factory (also known as the Dept. of the Attorney General). It's only 4 months work but I could use just about anything at the mo. ESPECIALLY SINCE I AM BROKE FROM GETTING CLOTHES.[/QUOTE]
Good luck!
Hahaha. I have an interview for a 6 mnth job on 6th January.
Angeline · Member since
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Has anyone ever heard 'A Case of You' by Joni Mitchell?
I love it so much. On-going argument with my friend as to whether the lyric 'I could drink a case of you and still be on my feet' is a compliment or a subtle insult. I think the latter - even a whole case of wine (as a metaphor for him) doesn't have her drunk; it's not working like it should. I love how she's referring to wine, but 'a case of you' also sounds like a bad flu which fits with the troubled nature of the song.
God she's so fecking clever. Her intonation and stressing and timing gives so much meaning to her lyrics. Like in 'Little Green' she repeats the line 'sometimes there'll be sorrow' throughout the song but in the last line she holds the final syllable of 'sorrow' for about 20 secs - because she is always sorrowful at having to give up her child.
Phew...rant over.
Joni, you are amazing!
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Love, love, love that song. KD Lang did a beautiful cover as well on the lovely album 'Hymns of the 49th Parallel'. I side with your friend that that lyric is not a negative sentiment - it seems to me to be an expression of strength and surrender all at once, of an almost involuntary connection with someone who you know intimately but can't quite solve. It's an utterly brilliant line, and like all brilliant lines lends itself to mulitple interpretations. Like Freddie said, 'if you see it, it's there'. Some trivia: I was on a dating site once - I think it was plentyoffish - and the administrators had put together a list of the dumbest/weirdest taglines people put on their profiles for members enjoyment. 'I could drink a case of you and still be on my feet' was listed in the top 10. They clearly had never heard the song and had no sense of where the sentiment came from. I wrote them to explain, but don't know if they ever did anything about it because online dating is generally a horror show and I fled shortly after that.
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I'm so pleased you've heard it. Well I think the other interpretation too. Hell I think them all. It's so beautiful isn't it. I can't believe that line is in the top 10 anything on a dating site, never mind that ridiculous 'dumbest/weirdest' list.
As for me if a stranger said that to me, I'd be on my way to being sold on them.
GratefulFan · Member since
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I'm so pleased you've heard it. Well I think the other interpretation too. Hell I think them all. It's so beautiful isn't it. I can't believe that line is in the top 10 anything on a dating site, never mind that ridiculous 'dumbest/weirdest' list.
As for me if a stranger said that to me, I'd be on my way to being sold on them.
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Being that I'm a total email packrat, I was actually able to locate my February 6, 2008 (lame!) message to [url=mailto:jtracy@onlinedatingmagazine.com]jtracy@onlinedatingmagazine.com[/url]. I said:
[i]Just saw this buried in your Strangest Header lists...
"I could drink a case of you... and still I'd be on my feet."
Just thought your staff might be interested to know that that is actually a lyric from a great Joni Mitchell song. So not so strange perhaps...perhaps a beacon of sorts to fellow music lovers...
Anyway, as I said, just thought you might be interested. Thanks for a great site. :)
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I lied. It really wasn't a great site. Here is the list I complained about...
Greatful fan, i love the list! :) Choo choo! Lmao!
Zebonka and Angeline, best of luck in the interviews! Hope both go really really well, and that the work will be enjoyable/endurable.
Yara · Member since
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In XXI century you have alternative.... [/QUOTE]
NEW YEAR IN OUR MOTHER UKRAINE.
How are you going to celebrate the coming of the new year?
I'm so diving in the Dniepr.
Yara · Member since
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It's at a prick factory (also known as the Dept. of the Attorney General). It's only 4 months work but I could use just about anything at the mo. ESPECIALLY SINCE I AM BROKE FROM GETTING CLOTHES.
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You spent all the money you had on clothes?
Now, THIS IS SOMETHING I RESPECT.
I do the same. The rest goes for buying eletronics, especially PlayStation 3 stuff.
No matter how tired I am, PlayStation is always there as my best buddy. It never complains. It's always working and always offering me new stuff to play with.
"Oh, you should save some money for your retirement".
SCREW RETIREMENT. I wanna be dead by then.
john bodega · Member since
They're nice clothes and all (I made my brother in law help me pick it all out because I'm hopeless) but like ... even though it's a government job, it is at the very bottom - surely I'm going to be overdressed :O I will feel like a right pillock!
dragon-fly · Member since
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In XXI century you have alternative....
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NEW YEAR IN OUR MOTHER UKRAINE.
How are you going to celebrate the coming of the new year?
I'm so diving in the Dniepr.
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Hi, Yara!
Celebrate? Nah, nothing special.... Ukraine in general- oh, yes, it'll be a whole lotta of drinking etc...
I sharpen my teeth - I'm gonna tear it up...
'Cause next year MUST be different; BETTER- not such a disaster like this one.
Are you coming over here? You never asked me about the books- I remember my promise.
About the clothing thing- I must be the only female who hates fashion and dislikes shopping.
I spend my money on CDs, books, silver and creative stuff.... and then some clothes if I need it.
john bodega · Member since
I don't want to speak out of turn but FUCK ME DRUNK look at the backup singers when Brian is singing Headlong at Brixton!!!!!! faaaark, bouncy bouncy!!!!!! [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]
Angeline · Member since
I've had a broken heart for ages. Time to let go, it's really just self-indulgence.
john bodega · Member since
It is! Do so! Be free!
GratefulFan · Member since
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I don't want to speak out of turn but FUCK ME DRUNK look at the backup singers when Brian is singing Headlong at Brixton!!!!!! faaaark, bouncy bouncy!!!!!!
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Poor Brian must have endured an avalanche of inquiries from the music press about whether he was concerned that all that female flesh would detract from his artistry on that extraordinarily common song. Or not.
Bumped into this video while checking out the Brixton stuff. Vintage Brian May & Paul Rodgers:
