Well, it’s a question. When I was little I used to ask myself what Anne Murray would do…then it became Kate Jackson. Yeah, that’s how old I am!
In any case, men can do a lot worse than to ask themselves: What Would Tom Jones Do? Think about it: rudderless milquetoasts everywhere suddenly become assertive, seductive, sweaty, ice-cool, red hot, and Welsh-American-accented!
Stolen from the greatest magazine in the history of recorded thought, Spy, via the greatest blog based on blogging the best dead magazine in recorded thought in recorded thought, Ten Years Ago in Spy.
“What If the Brontë Sisters Had Been in a Heavy-Metal Band?”
“It is not enough to succeed. One’s friends must also fail.”
Oscar Wilde
who really knew what he was talking about.
All the Love in the World Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails
Watching all the insects march along
Seem to know just right where they belong
Smears of face reflecting in the crawl
Hiding in the crowd, I’m all alone
No one’s heard a single word I’ve said
They don’t sound as good outside my head
It looks as though the past is here to stay
I’ve become a million miles away
Why do you get all the love in the world? (x2)
All the jagged edges disappear
Colors all look brighter when you’re near
The stars are all afire in the sky
Sometimes I get so lonely I could…
Why do you get all the love in the world? (x4)
Why do you get all the love in the world? (x4)
Why do you get all the love in the world?
(repeated many times, as if you could ever repeat it enough)
Sometimes, there’s just no other words for it but “Baby Hewey-faced motherfuckers screwing over our country,” and no better messenger of the divine truth than Henry. Fucking. Rollins.
Selah.
Transcript coming soon. And yes, it must be admitted I got this from BoingBoing.