Wednesday, April 2, 2014

SKApril!

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
King Apparatus, "Michael & Anne" from Marbles (T.L.A.M.)

Skammentary: In a Real Can of Yams songs, "Riot Grrl," I did rhyme the word "skank" with the word "skank," but this was an intentional play on the word's two meanings. "I want a girl who likes to skank,/I want a girl who's not a skank." The first "skank" refers to the dance, the second "skank" refers to sexual promiscuity. Not all that clever, but amusing enough to your author. I really, really like "Michael & Anne"—I would not have chosen it as today's R.D.B.S.O.T.D.: SKApril if I didn't—but I have to shake my head at the lyrics of the song's chorus:

"Michael and Anne are thinking it up,
A story to tell when the cops show up.
Michael and Anne are thinking it up,
A story to tell when the cops show up…"

Also, I am ridiculously proud at this year's innovation, the recasting of commentary as "skammentary."

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