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proximoception) wrote2012-12-01 07:33 am
proximoception) wrote2012-12-01 07:33 am
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What are some things you like but tend not to admit liking out of fear you'll be castigated?
Usually when I ask this kind of question I go first as a gesture of hospitality. But here my naked motive is that I want to castigate someone. Will it be you or must a stranger suffer?
Relatedly, how fucking great a word is "castigate"? It's a shame it means castigate. Rather than casting a gate across a fence, which is maximum punk rock. Because we think of casting as an offhand gesture. To toss aside a gate requires great strength. As well as disdain for bystanders. Perhaps it is this that attracts me about the word and makes me want to castigate you.
I wrote this after finding out people tend to hate Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. I refuse to say whether I agree with them.
Anyone who reads this and does not respond runs a risk they can probably guess.
Usually when I ask this kind of question I go first as a gesture of hospitality. But here my naked motive is that I want to castigate someone. Will it be you or must a stranger suffer?
Relatedly, how fucking great a word is "castigate"? It's a shame it means castigate. Rather than casting a gate across a fence, which is maximum punk rock. Because we think of casting as an offhand gesture. To toss aside a gate requires great strength. As well as disdain for bystanders. Perhaps it is this that attracts me about the word and makes me want to castigate you.
I wrote this after finding out people tend to hate Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. I refuse to say whether I agree with them.
Anyone who reads this and does not respond runs a risk they can probably guess.
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ETA, actually I admit my horrific taste in music freely to watch people cringe and writhe.
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Though I can never hear his name without remembering an old Dana Carvey bit where he acts out the moment when Sting assumed his name. Giving him the voice and mannerisms of a Broadway English young male lead (e.g Oliver Twist from Oliver!): "Hey everybody! I'm Sting now!"
How bad can this taste be?
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Enigma's Return to Innocence stirs me way deeper than my T cells should let it.
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Dear god! When I was 17 years old, I translated "Fields of Gold" into French, because I felt that was the only way to express how beautiful I thought it was. "Fields of Gold" still tends to make me a little verklempt. I still actually like listening to most of my old Sting cassette tapes, really.
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Did you see the Ally McBeal Sting episode? Whose plot I can only bear to rehash here if you have not.
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