I Want To Do It With You
by Ian W. Parker on November 6, 2008
[Source: McSweeney's Internet Tendency]
Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed Into Single Sentences
A handful of my favorites from the list:
The White Stripes, “My Doorbell”Using metaphor, I want to do it with you.- – - -
Duran Duran, “Rio”I’d love to do that chick dancing on the sand.- – - -
Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind”The Man is currently doing it to you.- – - -
Elvis Presley, “Jailhouse Rock”Incarcerated men will on occasion do it with each other.- – - -
Meat Loaf, “I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”Hey! You won’t believe what this one chick said while I was doing it with her!
2 comments
Hysterical, Ian. And, since I’m here, I own plenty of John Williams myself. Dude is da bomb. Maybe not Beethoven or Mozart, but right up there with the best of the others.
by Writer Dad on Friday, 7 November 2008 at 09:08 #
Writer Dad: I am such a dork for classical music. My soul mate, not so much. But we both love a good ballet, and we’ve got an opera (Grapes of Wrath) coming up in November here in Pittsburgh. It should be an interesting, modern one.
Part of the reason I like John Williams is that he shows that modern composers can be as good as classical ones, and that the music can be just as memorable, if not more so for our time.
by Ian W. Parker on Friday, 7 November 2008 at 14:42 #