"England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humors."
-George Santayana in The British Character
Okay, George. You think England is weird? Well I lived in New York, the home of all that is loud, strange and downright crazy. Nowhere else do you find popular events called Motherfucker (R.I.P.) and socialites that look like (loveable) tranny freakshows. Yeah and thats just on the surface.
Our villages may be called East and West while yours are called Piddletrenthide and Crapstone (seriously), but I bet England's "weird" isn't as weird as it thinks it is.
So here's a challenge, England. Prove me wrong. Out-weird New York.
Assuming I don't forget, I want to keep the weird-off as a running theme. Who will be victorious??
For fun, some songs about my beloved nyc.
Ace Frehley - Back in the New York Groove
Cat Power - New York
New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
And of course...
The Magnetic Fields - The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
There are loads of amazing songs about London but that's a whole 'nother post...
-George Santayana in The British Character
Okay, George. You think England is weird? Well I lived in New York, the home of all that is loud, strange and downright crazy. Nowhere else do you find popular events called Motherfucker (R.I.P.) and socialites that look like (loveable) tranny freakshows. Yeah and thats just on the surface.
Our villages may be called East and West while yours are called Piddletrenthide and Crapstone (seriously), but I bet England's "weird" isn't as weird as it thinks it is.
So here's a challenge, England. Prove me wrong. Out-weird New York.
Assuming I don't forget, I want to keep the weird-off as a running theme. Who will be victorious??
For fun, some songs about my beloved nyc.
Ace Frehley - Back in the New York Groove
Cat Power - New York
New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
And of course...
The Magnetic Fields - The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
There are loads of amazing songs about London but that's a whole 'nother post...
2 comments:
Hey only you could make me enjoy listening to Ace Frehley's cheap treatise (he's the kiss guy right?).
Don't forget Amsterdam in a passive crazy kind of way.
Ha ha YES, that is the guy from kiss. You have to admit that this song is kind of great. I'm glad that those songs aren't being uploaded for nothing
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