The first song that came up was Nemesis. I thought it was appropriate since it's pretty much a party tune about being a body and doing body stuff. Apologia pro postmortem. You know how soldiers have a theme song they play to get psyched up before they head out? This was mine.
Timo on Once In A Lifetime: It's very confusing when you wake up, toch? Who am I? What am I? What have I done? My God...... (yes I get it timo you can lower your remaining piece of eyebrow now) .....but this confusion sits on a false bottom. You can break through this falsehood, to see in a clear way what you were then and what you are now are not different. Same as it ever was.
Me on Back In Black: Another gimme. Every body knows how Bon Scott walked into the recording studio two months after he died with the words to Back In Black written on his arm. "Then he mounted up shanks pony, leaving just his words behind."
Timo on Beautiful Day: Only bodies can see the world correctly because the background noise is gone. That's why they put telescopes in space, you know. (has he been using the internet?) What we see looking back at the human world is first, food, but it is beautiful food. There is beauty there. Even in the destruction of tuna fleets and oil fields. Until you see this, you are stuck in your hunger, going nowhere. Because you do love the human world, even if you don't know it. You are like this (he interweaves his fingers). We can see this when we learn to know what we used to feel. (jesus. now i know he's been practicing. the first part is literally true. i used to spend whole nights watching traffic lights change. i think he stole the last part from me. i've always mentally switched those words in the song about knowing and feeling. feeling fails all the time. you don't have to be a body to know that. knowing is more reliable. what you don't feel, you can know. That's good enough in any case and better in most.)
Me on Bittersweet Symphony: First of all, have you seen the video? (of course he hasn't) Pale skin, thousand yard bug eyed stare, greasy leather rocker jacket, bumping into people? Someone just woke up feelin' funny. And it is true that when you wake up, one of the first things you notice is the dark, oceanic mental silence. That constant chittering self-commentary made up of what you imagine other people are thinking is just gone. The airwaves are clean and nobody's singing to you. And the Glimmer Twins connection makes this the first recorded case of body-on-body lawsuit.
[Here, Timo asked for a "mulligan" on Hey Venus, which I take it means "bail". When I asked him why, he got all blinky and said he didn't have anything to add. I didn't want him to sprain his eyelids so I let him reshuffle.]
Timo on Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love: He is talking about something that is not love but has the same function or shape. Fitting the same receptor as something else that has rotted away. I think this is not far from liefdenken.
Me on Golden Brown: Drugs work. Or not. But you don't have to believe in them or meditate on them. No religion would have kept me in the pink this long.
Timo then pulled this song which we both decided was the logical end of this, or any, debate.
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