14 thoughts on “It’s Friday, Friday”

1. Zack 22 March 2011 at 11:18 am

   How did The Cure not make the “Friday” list?

   youtube link
2. michael Post author22 March 2011 at 11:21 am

   They did, but I couldn’t embed the official video, so I threw up a screen cap and linked it.
3. michael Post author22 March 2011 at 11:22 am

   I’m editing it now with your link.
4. michael Post author22 March 2011 at 11:22 am

   oops – yours doesn’t link either – I’m pulling it out.
5. Bobby 22 March 2011 at 11:48 am

   Bless you for this, Michael.
6. Elena Brohmer 22 March 2011 at 2:39 pm

   Well done. I definitely feel better.
7. sharolyn 22 March 2011 at 10:16 pm

   God bless you. Palate cleansed.

   I was expecting “Saturday In The Park”, and yet the Cat Stevens is was a nice surprise.

   I’ve actually pondered the use of calendar time in lyrics, mainly because James Taylor has songs entitled “Valentine’s Day”, “September Grass”, and “October Road”. Is there a benefit in being this specific?

   (He also has Walking Man, Frozen Man, and Handy Man… as well as specific locations such as Carolina, Mexico, and Belfast to Boston… but now I’m getting to a pretty distant topic from your original post.)
8. michael Post author23 March 2011 at 8:18 am

   I think it is a useful device, to name months or places or days of the week. It taps into our latent identification of those places.

   On the David Bowie song, Thursday is the perfect metaphor for feeling stretched out, past the start but not at the end, middle life feeling.
9. michael Post author23 March 2011 at 9:15 pm

   “Partying, Partying,’” she sings again, now in detached self-narration.

   “Yeah!” reply her friends, and then the sequence is repeated to evoke the grand progenitor of all American music, the call and response of a Negro spiritual, harkening back to our nation’s great unhealing wound, slavery itself.

   Are these not slaves of a kind? Are they not trapped here? Is consumerism not just another form of forced labor? In an age of harvested data and biological determinism there is no will and so no freedom of it—only constant manipulation of the pleasure principle, the bleary throbbing of overtaxed dopamine centers.

   Read the rest here. It’s … awesome.
10. michael Post author23 March 2011 at 9:31 pm

    I just can’t look away from this trainwreck. Here’s the acoustic version.
11. michael Post author24 March 2011 at 10:41 am

    And a bad lip-reading version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaKaGwch0U
12. sharolyn 24 March 2011 at 10:45 am

    Public service announcement: In case you don’t make it to 1:24 of the acoustic version, she forgets the words. Oh, how I love to hate this song.
13. sharolyn 24 March 2011 at 1:10 pm

    How did that author get from “Yeah” to slavery in one sentence?!
14. michael Post author24 March 2011 at 8:14 pm

    That’s how we academics roll!

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