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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 10, 2010 4:12:40 GMT
I'm afraid i stumbled onto a rather disturbing revelation recently....having a 5 year old girl calling the shots in my home and car, I listen to an inordinate amount of dreck produced by Walt Disney and his cocaine addled, campy, horrible minions....I know far too much about ALL the princesses in the Disney canon and could debate, at length, the relative merits of Mulan, Jasmine, Tiana, Aurora or any of the other wretched role models thrust upon the little girls ( and some little boys...you know who you are) of the world....all with myriad opportunities to buy, buy, buy till Walt has turned you over, perhaps on a machine in a theme park designed to do so, and get his sick hands on your last pennies to add to his stash. But you know what?....All the princesses have songs...and all the songs share a basic storyline of exotic locales, mysterious strangers, unrequited love, dreams and fantasies, often too good to be true....I now present to you: 'BUDAPEST' a song that would fit, ruffles and cotton panties, right into a Disney movie or Disney Princess CD song collection.....let's see...how old was Ian's daughter in 1986?
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 10, 2010 7:52:28 GMT
I see where your coming from it's like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman a disneyesque run of the mill story of a beautiful unblemished prostitute meeting a rich handsome man who saves her from herself. ;D
There's good ideas here for a new thread about what may have influenced a particular Tull song - maybe one to chew over in the coming autumnal "Weathercock" months?
Ps The Little Mermaid is a bit of a fiesty girl with attitude ...and then goes on to marry the handsome .........blah blah
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 10, 2010 15:48:13 GMT
We went to sing along 'Little mermaid ' in the predominantly gay male 'Castro' district of SF...man was that something...hundreds of grown men, dressed as princesses, tiara and all, sobbing with joy and recognition when the princess explained to her father she just wanted to be able to love someone from a different world in a different way. I think I was the only man in the place who needed to read the song lyrics on the screen...everyone else, daughter included, already knew them by heart.
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 10, 2010 17:31:26 GMT
We went to sing along 'Little mermaid ' in the predominantly gay male 'Castro' district of SF...man was that something...hundreds of grown men, dressed as princesses, tiara and all, sobbing with joy and recognition when the princess explained to her father she just wanted to be able to love someone from a different world in a different way OMG please say you've got pics ;D I would have loved to have been there. I don't know if it's true or not but Billy Connolly says that he decided to live in LA when he was sitting in traffic there one day and saw a man dressed as Christ carrying a cross on his shoulders walking down the highway and nobody batted an eyelid. He said "this is the place for me"
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 10, 2010 20:50:06 GMT
sorry...truly on of those 'you had to be there' occurences....here in SF every man can live like a queen.
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 13, 2010 8:28:31 GMT
What about a book of Tull Fairytales? very cleverly aimed at older children and adults.
Pussywillow - a teenage fairy facing the challenges of adulthood and her first love.
SFTW - obvious HH - obvious Weathercock - a tired old weathercock facing yet another winter and all he really needs is a coat of rust preventer and a fresh outlook on life.
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 13, 2010 14:16:22 GMT
not to mention teenage Brick....misunderstood and considered thick...and the songs about mean parents (1000 mothers, Son, Wind-Up)...always a topic of interest amongst early readers.
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