When culture gets overinflated, yet refuses to pop, I want to be there with the needle. Enlightened cynics of the world unite! Express your love or hatred of things from the sacred to the mundane.
By the way, there's a good chance any podcast you listen to may have language not suitable for children. If you don't want to take a chance on hearing the occasional f-bomb, don't listen.
Nick Hornby's words and Ben Folds' music and performance... wow!
I've seen Ben Folds live about 8 times and play a bunch of his tunes whenever I get around to gigging. While I would be more than happy with Ben writing his own lyrics for this, how can you knock the pairing. Haven't been this excited about a CD in a while.
I can't wait until this drops in September.
So I love the music of Ben Folds. I especially love the song Zak and Sara. And I suspect that anyone who put as much time into this video as they did must love the song too.
"Sarah spelled without an H was getting bored on a Peavey Amp in 1984."
I've driven through Effingham several times to and from PHX and made the Effing joke many times in the process. I kinda dug that Ben thought the same kinda thing and committed it to CD. The only place I drove through that actually inspired me to write a song was Batchawana Bay, Ontario, because the only thing I could think for the next hour was "Betcha wanna go to Batchawana Bay".
Ben Folds has an Acapella CD coming out of vocal groups from mostly US colleges and universities doing some of his solo work and stuff from Ben Folds Five. I'll fire up a few of my favs over the next few days.
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Ben Folds - The Bitch Went Nuts
(The answer you seek my son only poses more questions.
Ask many women why relationship has failed.
Each woman offer unique reason for demise.
One woman may say, "man could not commit."
Or, "man is douche, and is now free to make love to himself instead."
Another woman may say, "man had changed,"
or even, "man no longer satisfactory lover."
But my son, ask many men same question all over the world, "why has
relationship failed?" Each man, each time, will give same, simple
answer.)
The bitch went nuts.
She stabbed my basketball.
And the speakers to my stereo.
She called me 'cunt'
But nothing prepared me for
what I found when I came home.
Oh and I made my own bed. I lie in it.
You lie in yours. You lie, you lie, in yours.
But they want more, they're at my door with torches. Please leave me
alone, you know. Just shut it. Just shut it. Just shut it.
The bitch went nuts.
She photoshopped my face
onto every boy who'd done her wrong.
And as she burned I telepathically into the brains of all her embittered rooms.
Oh, now, now they want more. They're at my door with torches. Scores,
and scores, and scores to settle with themselves.
You would have thought I'd scorned them all.
They've got a doll of me, they're burnin', they're burnin', they're
burnin', they're burnin', they're burnin' their own memories.
Why do they all go?
Why do they all go?
The bitch went nuts, y'all.
But everyone said she might.
Holy fucking shit.
Seriously now.
Now they want more. They're at my door with torches.
Scores and scores.
You would have thought I'd scorned them all.
They've got a doll of me, they're burnin'.
Why do they all go?
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