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Feb. 10th, 2006 11:23 am
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Greg sidled forward to some internal beat and pointed a finger at Brigid. "Some people try to pick up girls, they call them 'asshole,'" he said in a peculiar sing-songy chant. "This did not happen to ... Pablo Picasso! Why he could walk down the street, girls could not resist his stare." He turned and struck a rock-star pose, and said, "Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole!"

Brigid smirked. "Not like you," she said.

Greg bopped back and forth again. "Well the girls would turn the color of an a-va-ca-do, when he'd drive down the street in his El-do-ra-do. Why, he was only five-foot-three! Girls could not resist his stare!" He turned and struck another pose. "Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole!"

"Heh. Not in New York," Brigid said.

"Some people," said Greg, "try to pick up girls, they call them 'asshole.' This did-not-happen to Pablo Picasso! Why he could walk down the street, girls could not resist his stare."

Brigid nodded. "Subsequently, Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole."

"Not around here," agreed Greg.

"Not like you," said Brigid.

"Yeah, girls would turn the color of an avacado, when he'd drive down the street in his El Dorado. Why, he was only five-foot-three, but girls could not resist his stare. Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole!"

"Not like you," said Brigid.

"Yeah," said Greg, nodding thoughtfully. "He was really something."

-The Gneech

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Date: 2006-02-10 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kylet.livejournal.com
I'm not sure if this made more or less sense after scrolling down and seeing this was apparently based on a real song... @.@

Date: 2006-02-10 05:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Well I'd send you the song, but it would make you shrivel up into a hissing little black prune with claws. ;)

-The Gneech, not trying to convert anybody to his musical tastes!

Date: 2006-02-10 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kylet.livejournal.com
Yeah, I probably would XD

Not to mention I'm used to Picasso being pronounced like Pi-caw-so, which doesn't RHYME with asshole.

Date: 2006-02-10 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Well, it's not used as a rhyme, particularly...

-TG

Date: 2006-02-10 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kylet.livejournal.com
Really? Not knowing the song, that's how it looks like they're structuring it o.0

Date: 2006-02-11 12:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Well, only in the very loosest way, anyhow. They did rhyme "avacado" and "El Dorado," tho, so I can see what you mean.

-TG

Date: 2006-02-10 05:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurie-robey.livejournal.com
Ah, but do they know the lyrics to Secret Agent Man in Spanish?

Plate, shrimp. Plate of shrimp.

And remember, you'll find one in every car.

Date: 2006-02-10 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Mmm, pine-scented!

-TG

Date: 2006-02-10 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ccroft.livejournal.com
I like David Bowie's version of that song.

Date: 2006-02-10 05:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Ooooh, I'll have to look for that! Never heard it.

-TG

Date: 2006-02-10 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ccroft.livejournal.com
Should be fairly easy to find from your friendly local not-so-legal services - but if you have trouble, I can send you the mp3 :-)

Lemme know what you think of his cover when you hear it ;-)

Date: 2006-02-10 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] confusedoo.livejournal.com
You know though, I think there were plenty of people in chicago who called him an asshole after that gorilla sculpture he made for the city. I think that renders the song just a little innacurate. :-P

Date: 2006-02-10 05:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Hey, it's a song, they can only do so much. ;)

-TG

Date: 2006-02-10 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jim-ghote.livejournal.com
John Cale's version just rawks.

Date: 2006-02-10 07:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
I'll look for it!

-TG

Date: 2006-02-11 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jim-ghote.livejournal.com
Not sure it was re-issued on CD, but his "Guts" album is where I found it.
Cool cover art though, pre-dates Nash the Slash everybody's favorite mummified musician. :)

Date: 2006-02-10 06:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] punktiger.livejournal.com
Bah! It can't beat the real version by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.

::cranks up his Modern Lovers CD::

Date: 2006-02-10 07:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Wow, this song has more lives than I thought it did!

-TG

Date: 2006-02-10 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stargazer.livejournal.com
It's always nice when I check my friends page at work and find a fictionlet. They're exactly the right kind of bite-size lighthearted fun to relieve workaday blues. Thanks!

Date: 2006-02-10 07:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Glad you like it! :)

-TG

Date: 2006-02-10 07:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] larksilver.livejournal.com
Greg and Brigid dance to their own drummers, don't they?

Date: 2006-02-10 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Yup, they're both pretty darn weird, in their own different ways. :)

-TG

Date: 2006-02-10 09:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] larksilver.livejournal.com
I enjoy their stories, their little daily slices of life. I'm also kind of glad you missed my bad pun - but I know it's there, so I still get to have fun with it. muhahahaha.

oh. (cough). Sorry.

On weirdness: it's okay, we're all a little mad here.

Date: 2006-02-11 12:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
Hee. :) Well I'm glad you like it!

-TG

Date: 2006-02-11 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] exatron.livejournal.com
Brigid and Greg are actually normal by my standards.

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