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sunnyskywalker

SF anthologies and wacky times in Antwerp

Apr 08, 2009 20:03

Wackiness of the Day: hundreds of people in an Antwerp train station dance along to "Doe, a Deer" from The Sound of Music. I assume that they choreographed this beforehand, because I don't think half of Antwerp is part of the Classic Musical Borg ( Read more... )

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baleanoptera April 9 2009, 18:08:49 UTC

*...a female deer, Ray - a drop of golden sun, Me- a song..* Oh drat! I blame the people of Antwerp, but must admit that the song is damn catchy.

sunnyskywalker April 15 2009, 03:03:51 UTC

There must be something in the water there.

I can usually only get catchy songs out of my head with other catchy songs, but there are some places you can't sing "The Internet Is For Porn" out loud to do so...

plasticinecupid April 11 2009, 08:21:23 UTC

LOL. That's a lot of people dancing. I wonder... why?

Interesting point about "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," which I agree isn't Gaiman's finest. I think it got attention b/c it's the kind of thing that can be anthologized with a million other mildly sf for boys things.

As for boy aliens, there's always Starman and The Man Who Fell to Earth (aka David Bowie: the Alien Who Makes Women Pee Their Pants). Those don't quite capture the alien feeling I get from real men, though (unlike how the Gaiman story is designed to relate how teenage boys feel about real girls ( ... )

sunnyskywalker April 15 2009, 03:14:24 UTC

It must be a massive sociological experiment. "How would people in a train station react if suddenly a bunch of seemingly-ordinary people started singing and dancing as if life actually worked like musicals? To a classic musical number? Can we get a grant for this?"

Hm, yes, I thought those Bowie roles came across more as "men who happen to be aliens" than "men ARE aliens," but I haven't seen them recently enough to be sure.

I also have a point where my understanding of men breaks down, despite knowing several of them that I really "get" in most ways and reading tons of male-authored, male-POV stuff. I wonder if it has to do with the things they experience so much differently - like, not getting catcalled by random cars full of teenage boys, for instance, and getting treated differently by doctors (do they ever call 20-year-old men "sweetpea"? I doubt it), and that sort of thing. It's like... living in parallel universes or something. You just wouldn't quite get the person who grew up in a world where Mexico won the Mexican-American ( ... )