For careers you say you went to be remembered for your art
Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange
Making life-size models of the velvet underground in clay
Oh, oh, I think you should go.
Make a cup of tea, and put a record on.
She's in a bad mood
But I won't fall for it
I believe all her lies
But I can't fall for it
He walked down a busy street
Staring solely at his feet
Clutching pictures of past lovers at his side
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I only know the third one. Come on Blimpy, illuminate the darkness!
Hey ejaydee and FP, and anyone else with a French connection. Isaac and I just met a woman at the park (with a grandson named Isaac) who was from Paris. I asked her how she ended up here and she said she came here because she was "Madly in love." I told her my name and she said she always wanted a granddaughter named Claire but she was glad to have one named Ella instead, because she was "madly in love" with Ella Fitzgerald. I liked her a lot. This marks the end of my pointless story about the French woman I met in the park.
I've got 1 and 2, but I'll leave them for the Blimpster! Off to Book group now, night!
The first one is Expectations by Belle and Sebastian from the album Tigemilk - which everyone should own - not owning it should be considered a crime...
Sorry - was I not supposed to give any answers????
I hope this story made sense to everybody else without a French connection. I, for one, understood every little nuance. One thing I don't understand is how there's all these Isaacs, but how many of them have older siblings called Abraham? I already know you missed the boat on that one Steenbeck. You can still name the third one Jacob. Or wait, shouldn't Isaac have a sibling called Ismael? I should stop here.
It's fine, toffeeboy, it was mostly a joke. And it is the glorious Expectations by Belle and Sebastian.
Ejaydee--it was an oddly old testament day at the park, with 2 Isaacs, a Saul, a Joel, a Jacob and an Eli, which sounds Old Testament, but I'm not sure it is. Isn't Abraham Isaac's father, though? Who is quite willing to do him in at the slightest godly provocation?
Oh dear, I'll get drummed off the group for this... they all read like blimmin' Lloyd Cole lyrics to me. [Straps colander to head and retreats to relative safety of No man's Land...]
Eli is biblical, probably from Elijah. And Abraham was Isaac's father indeed, but with his son Isaac and grandson Jacob, they form the three patriarchs. Abraham was this close to cutting Isaac open like a lamb. The same son it took him ages to have after first trying it with the servant, past 100 years old. His only son!
That whacky, fun-filled old testament!!
I have to admit I don't know that much about the bible, but part of the reason we named Isaac Isaac was because it means "he will laugh" And he does laugh!! All the time. He even giggles in his sleep. Also, of course there's Isaac Hayes and Isaak de Bankole and Sir Isaac Newton.
I was wondering which one of the three it was after. I read a big chink of the bible, there's definitely some stories in there, and if I read it now, I would understand much more, like the one about Onan, who gave his name to w@nking. That one passed right by my 13-14 year-old self.
Which is strange actually, because that would be the perfect age to pick up on these things, the bible is just too subtle.
When I was in Texas this March I went to an Easter party given by some of my daughter-in-law's relations, who are Mexican, and three of the kids were Caleb, Elijah and Joshua. (The girls however were entirely non-OT.)
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