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Post by jk on Nov 18, 2022 14:43:06 GMT
"I'm narcissistic, look at me I'm a artist EBT Couldn't help the fact I'm starving for that MTV And a deal, but a 360 one at that But it'd be pretty shitty, I'd be sitting pretty where I'm at"
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Post by jk on Nov 21, 2022 20:38:14 GMT
"Pick up the phone I'm always home Call me anytime Just ring three-six-two-four, three-five-oh I lead a life of crime"
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Post by jk on Nov 24, 2022 9:58:20 GMT
"Sixty three, sixty three Beyond the gate, into eternity Sixty three, sixty three Set me free"
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Post by jk on Nov 28, 2022 11:15:13 GMT
"It's a sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, seventy-nine automobile"
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Post by jk on Dec 18, 2022 20:02:13 GMT
"Forget what I closed my eyes for Dreams so rich life so poor Forget what I closed my eyes for Three six five three six four"
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Post by jk on Dec 23, 2022 20:53:50 GMT
"Life is but a dream to me, I don't wanna wake up Thirty odd years without having my cake up So I'm about my paper 24/7, 365, 366 in a leap year I don't know why we here Since we gotta be here life is but a beach chair"
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Post by jk on Dec 27, 2022 11:34:51 GMT
Time for a spot of post-Christmas Day blather from jk…
Looking for a candidate for "three six seven" I discovered a suitable track by basketball hero and rapper Shaquille O’Neal. Called "I'm Outstanding", it seems no one has found a satisfactory transcription of the first couple of lines.
All variations I've seen derive from one of the following:
"I was born three six seven eighteen / With ?? ?? on the wisdom" "I was born three-six-seventy-two / I think it's on a Wednesday"
The first gets the numbers wrong (Shaq was born 6 March 1972) and the second gets the day wrong (it was a Monday). Oddly, anyone can look either of these things up to disqualify them, instead of blindly accepting whatever questionable stuff the internet shoves under their noses.
I checked it out over headphones and after many listens decided it had to be this:
"I was born three six seventy-two I think it's on the window" [An early pre-headphones listen yielded "The ticket's on the window"]
Maybe you hear it differently!
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 27, 2022 13:08:48 GMT
Ugh, the 90s (and 00s), when so many athletes--especially basketball players--released rap albums. None especially good ... though all better than professional wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage's attempt!
For what it's worth, I think he's saying:
I was born 3/6/72 I think it's on a Wednesday
(That it wasn't a Wednesday doesn't throw me here. My guess is he just tossed it off, either because he liked the sound of it, or he really thought it was on a Wednesday and didn't care enough to check. When I'm asked, I usually say I was born in the evening, "around dinnertime." But honestly that's an old memory of being told that ... I have no idea!)
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Post by jk on Dec 27, 2022 15:53:45 GMT
Ugh, the 90s (and 00s), when so many athletes--especially basketball players--released rap albums. None especially good ... though all better than professional wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage's attempt!
For what it's worth, I think he's saying:
I was born 3/6/72 I think it's on a Wednesday
(That it wasn't a Wednesday doesn't throw me here. My guess is he just tossed it off, either because he liked the sound of it, or he really thought it was on a Wednesday and didn't care enough to check. When I'm asked, I usually say I was born in the evening, "around dinnertime." But honestly that's an old memory of being told that ... I have no idea!)
Thanks for taking the time, Cap'n. Well... in either case, it has little to no effect on my already somewhat dodgy take on the number 367. I fear I must check out Randy Savage's album. Now there's a rapper's name if ever there was one.
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 27, 2022 16:01:46 GMT
I fear I must check out Randy Savage's album. Now there's a rapper's name if ever there was one. It's terrible--just terrible!--throughout, but of special note is "Perfect Friend," written for a fellow wrestler, Curt "Mr. Perfect" Hennig, who had just died of a drug overdose. A person should be more charitable than I am because of the good intentions, but it's really just awful. It also includes a "diss track" pointed at fellow wrestler Hulk Hogan.
Among my friends, it was quite a hit for a while. We were in our mid-to-late 20s when it came out (2003) and so these were characters we'd grown up watching 15-20 years prior. It was all just so surreal...almost making pro wrestling itself seem totally normal in comparison.
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Post by jk on Dec 27, 2022 18:40:53 GMT
I fear I must check out Randy Savage's album. Now there's a rapper's name if ever there was one. It's terrible--just terrible!--throughout, but of special note is "Perfect Friend," written for a fellow wrestler, Curt "Mr. Perfect" Hennig, who had just died of a drug overdose. A person should be more charitable than I am because of the good intentions, but it's really just awful. It also includes a "diss track" pointed at fellow wrestler Hulk Hogan.
Among my friends, it was quite a hit for a while. We were in our mid-to-late 20s when it came out (2003) and so these were characters we'd grown up watching 15-20 years prior. It was all just so surreal...almost making pro wrestling itself seem totally normal in comparison.
I can't remember who the wrestler in question was (it may come to me yet) but all of a sudden I found myself deep in conversation, on the long-defunct Capitol Board, with a poster called Rocking Surfer about American professional wrestling, something I know absolutely nothing about! Actually it was great fun -- it was about one wrestler in particular. This poster was eventually banned for not toeing the line but he was quite charming on this occasion. It's a funny old world, to be sure...
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 27, 2022 19:13:08 GMT
Professional wrestling is certainly a strange "sport." It's not entirely lacking in physical demands, and plenty of the wrestlers are great athletes--sometimes even (real) wrestlers--but obviously it's also at least 50% soap opera. As a kid, I loved it.
It didn't hurt that before it went fully national, Minneapolis was one of the main regional hubs. The AWA (American Wrestling Association), which at various times had some of the biggest stars of the late 70s through the mid 80s, was available on local TV. Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Jesse "the Body" Ventura, the Road Warriors, Big John Stud, and plenty of other big names were a part of it, though most of then moved to the emerging national powerhouse out of Connecticut, the WWF (which spawned primetime and weekend TV shows, cartoons, dolls, music videos, pay-per-view specials, etc.).
In hindsight what startles me is how many pro wrestlers die young. Rock stars have nothing on them in that respect.
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Post by jk on Dec 27, 2022 21:44:32 GMT
Professional wrestling is certainly a strange "sport." It's not entirely lacking in physical demands, and plenty of the wrestlers are great athletes--sometimes even (real) wrestlers--but obviously it's also at least 50% soap opera. As a kid, I loved it.
It didn't hurt that before it went fully national, Minneapolis was one of the main regional hubs. The AWA (American Wrestling Association), which at various times had some of the biggest stars of the late 70s through the mid 80s, was available on local TV. Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Jesse "the Body" Ventura, the Road Warriors, Big John Stud, and plenty of other big names were a part of it, though most of then moved to the emerging national powerhouse out of Connecticut, the WWF (which spawned primetime and weekend TV shows, cartoons, dolls, music videos, pay-per-view specials, etc.).
In hindsight what startles me is how many pro wrestlers die young. Rock stars have nothing on them in that respect.
Still haven't thought of that wrestler's name -- and I've been through a few lists. It must have had some other (musical?) association for me to get involved in that conversation at all!
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Post by jk on Jan 2, 2023 22:56:25 GMT
"My name is Joe but I'm driving this truck I’ve got my dog by my side, you know that’s enough I'm a lover, I'm a sharer, I always stay classy I've got a three sixty eight and on a two-fifty traffic"
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 2, 2023 23:41:38 GMT
Trusty Schoolhouse Rock comes up big again. (See 1:43 for the big moment.)
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