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PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:11 pm 
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You know like offices or shops or whatever.

I had to nip out just a few minutes ago and I walked past a scuzzy bookies shop and the song coming out the doorway was 'I.G.Y' by Donald Fagen. That's so out of place it just about fried my mind, man.

But since only about four people here actually know what 'I.G.Y' sounds like perhaps a better example would be the first time I ever signed on the dole and the background music on the Social Security office was 'White Riot' by the The Clash.

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Muzak 'Shoplifters of the World' in a grocery store in Brussels.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:16 pm 
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there's this used bookstore in cleveland called 'the $2 bookstore'
(actually, i think he raised his prices. so it might be 'the $3 bookstore' now.)

it's just this big store full of tons of old books. and everytime i've gone, the only person working there is this tall, lanky older gentleman with longer hair. i assume he's the owner from some of the things he's said about the place.

anyway, the last time i was in there with my friend...and we were getting lost in the dusty books and he turns the stereo on. BLARING iron maiden.

it was so loud in there. and really kinda creepy anyway. it was such an odd bookstore visit. but really rather amused me.

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2 things come to mind, both while in Germany (of course).

1. Old downtown part of Nuremburg, which is super-quaint with cobblestones, castle, only taxis and pedestrians, etc. Roommate and I are walking around and find a little italian resturaunt for dinner. Guy behind the bar looks like Tom Cruise in Born On The 4th Of July, with a beat-up vietnam-era jacket, mustache, and a headband, and is blaring AC/DC... the WHOLE TIME we're there, which is over an hour. Nothing but old-school AC/DC, at top volume. And he wasn't american.

2. Movie theater in Freiburg, far southwestern tip of Germany. It's cold and raining, so I decide to watch Titanic in german to kill time.... LOTS of time. I buy a ticket, and walk in to an empty theater. I pick a seat dead-center and wait. After 10 minutes, a couple in their late 60's or so walks in, and sits directly next to me. In an empty theater. I start getting wierded out, and look closer at my ticket, and it turns out that they give you a seat number, and that I had sat down in exactly the right seat, row and everything. Which makes some sense, because I was in the center, which is where they start selling from I guess. Anyway, I'm sitting uncomfortably close to these two older people when "Bobby Brown Goes Down" by Frank Zappa comes on the stereo. "She got my balls in a vice, but she left the d_ck / I think it's still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick" etc. My face was beet-red. I got up and moved one seat over and stifled the laughter as best I was able.

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I've heard Haircut 100 "Pelican West" played at the laundromat.

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In the 1970's President Ford had a PUBLIC dance with Queen Elizabeth at the White House – an eyebrow-raising event in and of itself.

What makes it even more amazing/embarrasing is the song that they danced to:
"Lady Is A Tramp"

Yep.
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Look it up.

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Wendy's - pick one, they all play weird combinations of music. One time it was Christian rock. Another time it was oldies. Another time it was traditional Chinese music (try eating your nuggets to that.) I've heard pretty much every type of music at Wendy's, none of it particularly mainstream. It's always an exciting proposition to find out what possibly exotic culture's music we're going to be exposed to.

Yeah, I eat at Wendy's too often . . . I just love finger foods.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 7:58 pm 
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konstantinl Wrote:
You know like offices or shops or whatever.

I had to nip out just a few minutes ago and I walked past a scuzzy bookies shop and the song coming out the doorway was 'I.G.Y' by Donald Fagen. That's so out of place it just about fried my mind, man.

But since only about four people here actually know what 'I.G.Y' sounds like perhaps a better example would be the first time I ever signed on the dole and the background music on the Social Security office was 'White Riot' by the The Clash.


"I.G.Y." was the anomalous Fagen soft-rock hit in the States, so there's plenty of Muzak play here. Though the only people I know who know what the song means are people I told the meaning to.


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