Where Do You Go To, My Lovely?

Tonight I'm going out with my sister. Now, when I plan to go on a social outing with anyone, I always like to have a secret stash of knock-knock jokes, anecdotes, and get-to-know-you questions (like, "would you rather cut off your own toe or own finger?) just to keep the conversation-ball rolling.

Tonight, if we run out of things to say, I am going to regale my sister with the story behind the Brad Paisely music video, "He Put That Bottle to His Head and Pulled the Trigger".

First, I will have to tell her that this is not a special gun that looks like a bottle. No, that would be kinda cool. We might have to stop by the Gun Shop and look at one of those Bottle Guns. Instead, the title is using a metaphor for a man who is drinking himself to death- and not in one sitting, but over several years. So, for that reason, it's kind of a shitty metaphor. Shooting yourself- fast. Destroying your liver- slow.

Then, I will tell her that Allison Krause sings back-up and she will say, "I like her." Then, I will tell her that Rick Schroeder is in it and she will say, "Ooh, I used to have a crush on him when I was four."

Then I will have to explain why I watched that whole video and why I had time to think about it.

That should take nine minutes. In fact, I will probably have this little conversation trick up my sleeve in case I see anyone in the next week and the conversation lulls. Ahh, I always feel safer with a story and a stash of knock-knock jokes.

Comments

[cheek]

I think it's a great metaphor precisely because guns are fast and drinking is slow. It makes the long term effect dramatic in the same way the short term effect is and allows our present-oriented minds to wrap around cause and effect relationships that take years instead of minutes or days.

Good idea on the conversation lube, but if you see me, I'll already have read the story here. Now what will we talk about?

[Kristen]

Touche!

Muhammad Yunus?

[cheekfam]

All I've got to say is "me, neither."

[cheek]

Wangari Maathai?

[Kristen]

That's it! Whatever happened to good old American names like Neruda?

*And cheekfam, it's a good thing you put that comma in there. Otherwise I might have thought you were rambling insensibly. Which of course you never would. But if you were here, I would politely insist that you chose.

[kinsey]

oh yeah, well i watched this entire video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQ2sy1Rv7Q) . . . i dare you to watch the whole thing.