Two Dollars

When people on the street ask me for money, i usually give it. people have told me this is wrong and it encourages bad behaviour and the people who take the money are only going to use it for drugs or alcohol anyway. however, im pretty sure these people are less fortunate than me. i guess the money would be better used if given to a charitable organization that would help less fortunate people, but its hard to say no when they're standing in front of me. one thing tho, is i don't like the lying for some reason. i don't know if i'm being harsh, but i find it embarrassing for both involved. i know the money isn't for a bus ticket. is that the only valid reason someone can have for needing money? i don't mind if they're planning on spending it on drugs or alcohol. they're probably going to spend it on the same thing that i would have spent it on. anyway, i think i was going somewhere with this. i got one of those survey calls the other day from adelaide council and one of the questions was what could be done to make me enjoy the city more. i guess i could have said anything. like waterslides or free movies. or allow people to stand outside pubs and drink instead of having to sit down. but i didn't say any of those. i gave a suggestion which was perhaps a bit selfish. i said free public transport.

For No One

Another beatles post...whenever i hear 'For no one' i'll aways at some point start crying. i'm not writing this to explore or expose some sensitive side of my personality. i find it annoying. i have to make sure i don't hear it when in public or i'll be surrounded by people hugging me and saying things like 'don't worry, it'll be ok'. its weird, im fine with elanor rigby, yesterday and all the other soppy paul songs, but with this one i can't hold back.

ok, now i'll try to redeem some credibility by saying i'm off to listen to some interpol, just like the cool kids. i like the bit in pda that goes 'yoo hoo, yoo hoo'.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The basic plot of every Curb Your Enthusiasm episode I've seen is the same. Larry David does something to offend someone and then for some reason he will have to meet that person again and they will inevitably end up yelling obscenities at him while he stands and takes it. This not a criticism, I love the show. It has helped me enormously in my life. whenever I'm in a situation where someone is yelling or angry, I just imagine the theme tune to Curb Your Enthusiasm and the situation immediatly becomes humorous.

The only negative thing I have to say about Curb Your Enthusiasm is the amount of people who, after watching it, think they are like Larry David and should have a show about them. I know at least five. that may not seem like much, but taking into account the that i only know around 20 people and that only about a quarter of them have seen the show, i think the figure becomes more significant.

The Beatles

I might be a little late on this issue, but while walking to lunch today and singing 'from me to you' to myself, i looked up and noticed a girl staring at me. Her expression got me thinking. is 'from me to you' a song about oral sex? i imagine it was written from a male's perspective (john/paul) and directed towards a female and i know that by itself that doesn't instantly mean oral sex, but the lyrics give more clues..

for example:

If there’s anything that you want,
If there’s anything I can do,

that's fairly vague i know, it might be an offer to help move furniture. however, usually when someone offers oral sex to another person, they don't just come out and say it. it's more a thing you ease into.

Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you.

ok, so the offer is for something done with love. probably not helping to move furniture.

I've got arms that long to hold you and keep you by my side
I've got lips that long to kiss you and keep you satisfied, oooh.

these lines are the only lines in the song which demonstrate what is on offer. 'arms that long to hold you and keep you by my side', 'lips that long to kiss you' are all fairly specific examples, but 'keep you satisfied' remains vague. the only thing we know is that it's the lips doing the satifying and it's not kissing he's talking about because that has already been mentioned. i think the oooh at the end pretty much seals it. oral sex.

the only flaw i see in the theory is that oral sex is usually more tongue than lips. however, i believe the word tongue would have been left out for artistic reasons. the line 'i've got a tongue to keep you satisfied' isn't very poetic. anyway, if i'm wrong about all this, i'm intrigued as to know how someone can use lips to keep another person satisfied. perhaps talking.

perhaps disturbingly, i've heard when the song was played live, the line 'from me to you' was changed to 'from us to you'.

Sleep

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping. I'm not a particularly light sleeper, but if i wake up, i'll be awake for a long time, no matter how tired. the problem is when i wake up i keep thinking the same thing over and over. it's not very useful either. last night i kept thinking of the phrase 'it's not so bad its good, it's worse than so bad its good' and where i could apply the phrase. i thought about this for over an hour...

i saw an interview with andrew denton a long time ago where he said he had a problem where he would wake up at night, think of a great idea, but then would fall asleep again and forget about the idea in the morning..someone suggested to him that he keep a pen and paper beside his bed to write down the ideas when he thinks of them. he said he did this and when he woke up in the morning he found the paper had 'oh my god is that the time' written on it five times.